Cord Wood Price/Calculation

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2 minutes ago, the village idiot said:

Ah, you're thinking of selling in 4ft lengths?

Yeah, we’ve had a number of people that have seen the cords stacked and fancy a bit of cutting and splitting themselves, which we’re more than happy to accomated!

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3 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Prices vary drastically all over. Best bet would be to search local sites and see what they are charging. I'm guessing in Surrey it will be the higher end of the scale

Fair play, I’ll get googling!

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1 minute ago, Burnt Ends said:

Fair play, I’ll get googling!

You'll do well to find anyone selling wood in the way you want to.

 

You could try starting at £100/cube and keep dropping until the customer's face unwrinkles.

[difflock]

Sniff!

Despite my views on Brexit, I fully support the metric system, and even for good English Bitter,

so as mentioned above, 1.0m lengths and m3 calcs, and simply keep life simple.

P.S

Is there not an app for that cordage stuff?

PPS

I do like acre feet as a measure of irrigation water, as so easy to visualise.

Marcus, the Hatter.

[Rough Hewn]

There will be air gaps in your stack.
Usually from cord to cut,split n stacked you get about 70-80% of the cubic meterage.
I.e. 5m3 cord = 4m3 split logs. Approximately.
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Thank you all this is all very useful. I just now need to find some sort of document that says:

 

Ash = £x Per ton

Oak = £x Per ton

etc

 

And then I can work the weight from the volume and thus the price. I’m probably doing this backwards I know!

[Rough Hewn]

Hardwoods, seasoned and split and delivered (in Surrey) probably about £120-140 a m3.
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[spuddog0507]

9 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

There will be air gaps in your stack.
Usually from cord to cut,split n stacked you get about 70-80% of the cubic meterage.
I.e. 5m3 cord = 4m3 split logs. Approximately.

cant see how that works ? i have a ifor trailer with cage sides that holds 4cubic mtrs of split logs but when i bring that trailer back to yard full of rings and then split rings up i get 5-6 ibc cages of split logs, so my volume goes up once rings are split but that will do as you have just increased the air gaps.

[Rough Hewn]

cant see how that works ? i have a ifor trailer with cage sides that holds 4cubic mtrs of split logs but when i bring that trailer back to yard full of rings and then split rings up i get 5-6 ibc cages of split logs, so my volume goes up once rings are split but that will do as you have just increased the air gaps.

If your logs are 8' long and not perfectly straight, there will be air gaps.
When I was running a firewood business, the chestnut was 80% wood in a cord (3m3), the oak was bent as hell and about 70% of the stack was wood.
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[Paul in the woods]

This might be useful if you've got time to look through it. It's the Forest Mensuration Handbook, all 280 pages! Things like stacks are covered from page 27 - 35.

 

https://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/FCBK039.pdf/$FILE/FCBK039.pdf

 

You'll also find cord to m3 conversion factors on page 198