How are your stocks holding up?

[arboriculturist]

9 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Yes Euro were straight with us saying they have to supply their big customers first. Plenty to get on with here anyway but hope they can get around getting us some loads in the not too distant future.

Do you by any chance know of / use alternative suppliers from time to time to minimise the risk of having all your eggs in one basket? - a bit like KFC have !

[Woodworks]

2 hours ago, arboriculturist said:

Do you by any chance know of / use alternative suppliers from time to time to minimise the risk of having all your eggs in one basket? - a bit like KFC have !

I have a few other contacts but not tied them and was using Euro as they were proving the most reliable. Like to buy straight from an estate when possible 

[andy cobb]

Down to about last 16 ton of really dry ( sub20 % ) billets, but ran a few that we processed in September through the processor just to see what they were like and syc was coming out about 22 and ash about 29.

hopefully will have enough dry stock but thinking that if next years billets are mid 20% at the end of the stack they should be even drier at the beginning of the stack having had a bit longer to dry.

 

should add that the timber we billeted in September had been sat on a windy hillside for 8 months, unfortunately we don't have a magical machine that drys while it splits!

[MattyF]

Yes Euro were straight with us saying they have to supply their big customers first. Plenty to get on with here anyway but hope they can get around getting us some loads in the not too distant future.

Euro seem to be straighter than the F.C when buying timber, FC have dropped us right in as we where buying 300+tonne a year from them and they made all these promises saying they will always have timber for us to be told last month they have none and there will be none in the future either ... not a good moment , record timber price sales in keilder have happened over the last few weeks and there are big buyers seriously short , I can see it all imploding.

[Chalgravesteve]

I'm fairly small scale (about £40K sales a year) We serve the local market within 15 miles radius.

Own kiln, so we split, dry it in kiln for a week and sell it. Repeat as often as necessary. Was going quiet (for a week) and its gone nuts again. We create stock in the summer and by this stage of the season we can keep up with demand.