Market for oversized hardwood firewood?

[spuddog0507]

16 hours ago, Big J said:

That's madness. 

 

I remember about 5 years ago, the estate where I used to live sold off all their piles of crappy oversized hardwood for £25/t.

 

Prices have certainly gone up, but I think that they are possibly highest with you in the north west.

5 years ago i was buying in 25 tonne loads of part seasoned hardwood for £45 tonne today its £70 + had a haulier ring me about 12mth ago ish offering a full load of ash for £87 tonne Madness yes if your buying but a bit of a bonus if your selling, and the way i see it is it wont be long before the price of fire wood makes gas & oil look cheap for heating,

[swinny]

I take it we are still talking 2.5m lenghs here? 

 

Lot less value for arb wood?

[The avantgardener]

7 hours ago, MattyF said:

I had euro forest offering £60 a tonne for a site we where on last year , land agent put us in and we where paying £20 standing but he knew that we would not leave it looking like Mordor.
Would of loved to of known why they wanted the wood so badly.

That’s because they have a massive penalty clause attached to the bio mass supply contract.

[Woodworks]

Shut up you lot.

 

Naa it's more or less worthless. I can give you some beer money for it Jonathan

[spuddog0507]

On 16/02/2019 at 16:19, Big J said:

I've got a job coming up at the end of next month on a shooting estate wanting to tidy up their various fallen trees. Near Honiton.

 

There will be a couple hundred tonnes of oversized hardwood firewood. Some of it might be worth milling for the non professional sawmiller, but most of it won't make the grade. 

 

Species mixture will be beech, oak, sweet chestnut and ash.

 

I'd thought that about £40/t roadside might be somewhere near reasonable, and my first thought was Euroforest for the timber vacuum that is the biomass plant in Kent. 

 

I'm not selling the timber I should stress (I'm just there on a day rate), but what might prove attractive for a smaller scale firewood retailer is that the vendors are not VAT registered, so no VAT on the timber sales.

 

Any interest, or suggestions where to sell the stuff?

have you seen the thread for Ash cordwood for sale roadside ? £60-£65 per tonne at roadside, so i think you can increase your £40 a tonne by quit a bit,

[arboriculturist]

Our bought in prices have gone up a bit - we now pay £56 delivered for nice hardwoods.

 

It is clear that some that sell a few loads just decide on a price and then advertise at that rate and perhaps sell a few loads to those that do not buy regularly throughout the year.

 

Most prices are over inflated but good luck to them if they sell a few loads.