Hand Cutting Softwood Rates

[Farfield firewood]

Evening all, 

 

I am currently doing a hardwood thinning job that also contains a small parcel of larch the landowner wants cut.

 

There is about 80-100 cubic metres of larch in total, with the trees being 30-50cm dbh and fairly well drawn.

 

The landowner just wants a price for felling the timber as he is arranging extraction.

 

The question is what sort of price do people charge per cubic metre for this sort of work? 

 

cheers  

 

[Stubby]

12 hours ago, Farfield firewood said:

Evening all, 

 

I am currently doing a hardwood thinning job that also contains a small parcel of larch the landowner wants cut.

 

There is about 80-100 cubic metres of larch in total, with the trees being 30-50cm dbh and fairly well drawn.

 

The landowner just wants a price for felling the timber as he is arranging extraction.

 

The question is what sort of price do people charge per cubic metre for this sort of work? 

 

cheers  

 

Cut to length and stacked  ? or just dropped were they are .

Edited November 29, 2019 by Stubby

[Farfield firewood]

HandCut to 3m lengths with the smaller lengths stacked 

[ESS]

21 hours ago, Farfield firewood said:

Evening all, 

 

I am currently doing a hardwood thinning job that also contains a small parcel of larch the landowner wants cut.

 

There is about 80-100 cubic metres of larch in total, with the trees being 30-50cm dbh and fairly well drawn.

 

The landowner just wants a price for felling the timber as he is arranging extraction.

 

The question is what sort of price do people charge per cubic metre for this sort of work? 

 

cheers  

 

£12/tonne  if its a clearfell block, more if its a thinning. If its a block that has a lot of edge trees that need wedging etc. you would need to increase the rate.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, ESS said:

£12/tonne  if its a clearfell block, more if its a thinning. If its a block that has a lot of edge trees that need wedging etc. you would need to increase the rate.

Twenty plus  years ago, when I decided there was no point cutting softwood as the machines had driven down the price, we were getting £8/tonne  for cutting selections of sawlogs, bars and pulp from third thinnings onward and £4 for extraction.

 

I was still extracting hardwood pulp for £4/tonne when Sudbrook closed.

 

Can I take it from your  price the fell and extract should now be about £18/tonne?

[ESS]

7 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Twenty plus  years ago, when I decided there was no point cutting softwood as the machines had driven down the price, we were getting £8/tonne  for cutting selections of sawlogs, bars and pulp from third thinnings onward and £4 for extraction.

 

I was still extracting hardwood pulp for £4/tonne when Sudbrook closed.

 

Can I take it from your  price the fell and extract should now be about £18/tonne?

£18-£20 dependent on distance, quantity, amount of specs. etc. 

Realistically the extraction rate shouldn't vary much between harvester cut and hand cut , although more log would be stacked by harvester.