Roadside price of larch chipwood

[muldonach]

J - I recently talked to 2 of the harvesting companies - larch logs at 3.1-3.7 £55/65 tonne delivered locally in SW Scotland

 

Also if you are looking to maximise the load on your forwarder can you fill the back end transversely as opposed to longitudonally

Edited June 16, 2018 by muldonach
missed a bit

[Big J]

The landowner wants to retain ownership of the timber, so I wouldn't be selling it myself. I have however been asked to put in a price to fell and extract per tonne. 

So the site is as follows. A 1.2 hectare block with 18 year old hybrid larch. Site is quite flat and dry, but is second rotation, so a bit stumpy. The previous crop stumps are more or less rotted though. 

 

The extraction route is where I have a USP. It's a soft, mossy, grassy glade. Minimum extraction route is 400m, with it being 700m to the far side of the stand. There are a couple of soft spots where I'd want to mat a bit of brash, even with my mini forwarder and tracks on. Larger machines would have absolutely no chance of getting in or out. 

 

The trees are an average of about 0.15-0.3 cubic metres, with some smaller and some around 0.5 cube. Planted at 1.9m spacings, unthinned and it's a clearfell. Some 3000 trees to come down.

 

If you were pricing this job, what would you be thinking of per tonne to fell and extract? I have a price in my head. 

[nemcc]

£35-£40 per tonne(cube if ownervous to keep timber) felled and extracted.

Midlands area 

[Big J]

3 hours ago, nemcc said:

£35-£40 per tonne(cube if ownervous to keep timber) felled and extracted.

Midlands area 

 

That's actually a little higher than I'd thought. I've pitched it at £32/tonne so they should bite my hand off for that. 

 

If it was thinning, I'd ask for a bit more but give that it's a clearfell and a flat site, I should be able to make a decent profit at £32. 

 

Thanks for the input. It's much appreciated.