Free logs wanted

[Stubby]

Any one got any free milk or cheese they don't want ? I am quite happy to collect from your fridge . Eggs , bread etc etc ...

[trigger_andy]

34 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Any one got any free milk or cheese they don't want ? I am quite happy to collect from your fridge . Eggs , bread etc etc ...

I’ll happily take unprocessed milk. I’ve a crate near my front door that it can just be dropped off at. 

[Dan Maynard]

1 hour ago, doobin said:

I dunno, I’ll give any neighbour to a job who asks as much free horse chestnut as they can handle !

Got a horse chestnut to do Saturday on the village green, reckon I'll leave the logs in a pile for a day or two and hope they vanish.

 

[spudulike]

Trouble is that they have left it a year late, that unseasoned timber will be ready to burn this time next year unless it is dead wood standing.

I really don't get this "Free" thing....just offer a bit of beer money, surely a truck full of green wood will cut up to a few cube and is worth £40 in its green state....that's how my last 8 years have been, that a a good deal on low price servicing for a load of wood.

[trigger_andy]

2 minutes ago, spudulike said:

Trouble is that they have left it a year late, that unseasoned timber will be ready to burn this time next year unless it is dead wood standing.

I really don't get this "Free" thing....just offer a bit of beer money, surely a truck full of green wood will cut up to a few cube and is worth £40 in its green state....that's how my last 8 years have been, that a a good deal on low price servicing for a load of wood.

I’d be wanting 40% of current seasoned prices. Give it a year and that will seem dirt cheap. 

[neiln]

A couple of cube from a transit tipper massively over weight with hard wood, a bit more if it's softwood.. Maybe 3.  That's rough estimate based on my experience. Varies a lot though.

[spuddog0507]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

The brass necks displayed these days is unbelievable. I can only assume it aligns with the mollycoddled reliance on a whole raft of benefits and the entitlement that seems to come with it. 
 

I’ve said I’ll keep the in-laws and my sisters father-in-law in firewood for the rest of their days. Unless it’s family everyone else can either pay or pay in kind. 

Yep I put mine up this year and there is no haggling over price it's take it or leave it, there will be one lad ringing up who all ways has to haggle and he will mention mates rates but that is no longer availableb as well, I know the lad who has the garage where I get my fuel and have done for 40+ years, but n don't get mates rates on petrol n diesel of him,  the brass neck of some people is beyond belief at times and believe it or not I still have a electric,gas,council tax bill to pay and my pint of milk and loaf of bread are the same as everyone else's, 

[Will C]

I wonder if this “crisis” will put an end to the Woodsure ready to burn nonsense? As folk will just turn to the cheapest supply rather than the best quality?

[spudulike]

1 hour ago, trigger_andy said:

I’d be wanting 40% of current seasoned prices. Give it a year and that will seem dirt cheap. 

I'm more of a bartering man and have reduced or done servicing of kit for free but let the guys shifting the timber off the van get a drink out of it as well. That way the owner and the lads doing the heavy lifting both benefit. 

Some Joe on the street perhaps has less to offer and has higher expectations! 

[neiln]

40% of current seasoned prices, how does that compare to cordwood prices?  Admittedly, finding the room for 18 tonnes from an eight wheeler would be challenging, but arb waste looks expensive at 40% of seasoned.