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Cordwood at roadside all over the country "price tracker", topic???


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Is there any way a topic ,entitled   "Price of cordwood at roadside all over the country" could be set up, so that members can put prices they are being charged for cordwood at roadside, on a regular basis.  On "The Farming Forum" Cropping Section they have what  are called sticky threads , where they have price trackers, for Fertiliser Prices , Combinable crop prices and chemical prices, the prices are updated on a regular basis by participating members.

Surely a price tracker for cordwood at road side would be a good idea to have on this "Firewood Forum".

If there already is a "cordwood at roadside price tracker", please can someone direct me to it. Many thanks

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I tend to charge £52-54 a tonne for roadside hardwood. If it's dead ash, I have to sell it by the cubic metre due to the variation in weight, but I don't like doing it. 

 

I try not to vary my prices in the hope that the consistency of cost for customers would afford me some loyalty (through market fluctuations), but it's not worked out as well I would have liked.

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Far to much variation in timber at roadside these days, once it was all about the same price from one end of the country to the other, if big J was with in 50 mile of me i would be buying the lot of him at that price,, A sub contracting harvesting crew where getting £95 a tonne for soft wood chip at roadside in may june july last year and this timber was some crappy windblown lodgepole pine, next guy you talk to says its £50 a tonne then the next says its £75 i think alot depends on the supply and the demand, forestry seems to work in cycles around me, like there will be timber ever where you look or ask thats for sale for 4 or 5 years then there seems to be next to nothing for a couple of years then it picks up again, The likes of Stobarts and Jenkinsons dont help matters either because if they are short of timber they can pay more than what i would pay for it, so its a bit of a vicious circle at the moment and given the recent price hike in sawn timber its only going to get worse,,,

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Many thanks for your replies.  I appreciate their are  prices differences  due to many factors . The idea would be for members to say what they  have paid at roadside ( mentioning area, species and tonnage/cu mtrs)  so as to get a very rough idea of what is being paid in  areas  compared to other areas.  

So forgetting my idea  what is the range of prices being asked  for  ash/beech  2.5mtr long +/-  at roadside , in   Gloucestershire /Wiltshire  area, many thanks.    

 

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