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tuff 1, that ,give it all back , Mmmmmmm :biggrin: strart afresh :thumbup1: ithink

 

Trouble is there are that many robbing beggars who steal my timber . I thought sod it and gave it all away . Start again think I will look into it for next year . Going to see how my log splitters doing as I havent used it for a year . We used to hire it out and offer splitting the wood for the customer after a big removal . Oh just remembered its got a puncture .:lol:

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get doing it yr self .extra dosh :thumbup:

 

Its only 'extra' if it makes you more money than what you would normally make with your existing set up.

 

I wouldn't turn away a days tree work to process and deliver out firewood, made from arb waste.

 

However, I would consider it in a 'safety net' situation if I ran out of tree jobs.

 

Everyone's set ups different and there's only so many hours in the day.

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I started doing firewood this year on a larger scale as so many people were asking about it last winter.

Not being a tree surgeon and not having my own yard I decided to buy in some timber and rent a yard on a nearby farm ........ if I sell my firewood for anything less than £100 per cube it wouldn't be worth doing!

There are lots of customers out there looking for firewood and the industry couldn't be sustained by tree surgery waste/arisings and so it needs other people doing it on more of a commercial basis (a bit like myself)

I reckon anyone selling decent firewood for less than £80-£100 per cube is selling it too cheap - regardless of where the wood has come from

I know there are geographical variations but I don't believe there should be such huge differences

I also know of a bloke in north wales selling hardwood at £85 for a 2cube trailer load - and he's buying it in at £40/T, probably not even making enough to cover the delivery costs!

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Well I'm gonna put my prices up. I thought £150 was too cheap.........So what that it's arisings from another job. The fact is it belongs to you and you've sat on it for a year or so and then you split it to size and deliver it to the door.....Best part of half a day!! Its gotta be worth more. £180 in future. Possibly £200.

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Well I'm gonna put my prices up. I thought £150 was too cheap.........So what that it's arisings from another job. The fact is it belongs to you and you've sat on it for a year or so and then you split it to size and deliver it to the door.....Best part of half a day!! Its gotta be worth more. £180 in future. Possibly £200.

 

Go for it Mick, if you can get it, thats great!! :thumbup::thumbup: If you start high you can always come down a little if they whinge about price!!

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Funny thing is you don't see Energy companies selling their energy for what they can get away with depending on where you are! They have fixed prices and various tariffs for you as a customer to choose from.

As firewood producers we are in competition with them to some degree and as an industry should, I believe, be trying to sell quality firewood at a similar price throughout the land!

Petrol and diesel doesn't vary that much up and down the country on the whole, it's all fuel which ever way you look at it.

Went to a business seminar once and was told (according to research) if you put prices up by 10% you can afford to lose 25% customers and make the same profit. By lowering prices by 10% you would need to generate 50% more business in order to make the same profit.

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Funny thing is you don't see Energy companies selling their energy for what they can get away with depending on where you are! They have fixed prices and various tariffs for you as a customer to choose from.

As firewood producers we are in competition with them to some degree and as an industry should, I believe, be trying to sell quality firewood at a similar price throughout the land!

Petrol and diesel doesn't vary that much up and down the country on the whole, it's all fuel which ever way you look at it.

Went to a business seminar once and was told (according to research) if you put prices up by 10% you can afford to lose 25% customers and make the same profit. By lowering prices by 10% you would need to generate 50% more business in order to make the same profit.

 

Most other forms of energy are piped or cabled in. If you live in an area where housing and cost of living is high you need to charge more as you cant commute 100 miles with a load of logs. If you deliver to knightsbridge in London it will cost more than a small village in the highlands. I am not going to bust a gut so a millionaire yuppy can have cheap fuel. If you sit down and realisticly cost out wood production into logs it dont look great.

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