Christmas tree millionaires

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Sell just 7 trees a day... 450 x 365 = upwards of 160,000 per year!

 

 

 

[AHPP]

19 minutes ago, MattyF said:

I took £450 today selling 7 trees  .. I probably could of made 1k plus if I’d gone and done tree work for the same hours but then I could of not sorted out my house log shed whilst waiting for 7 people all day…if any one wants to buy a few thousand lodgepole or norways let me know at any time 😆

£6 each and you can sell them for £30 + = 30k 

 

That's mad. Average of £64.29 a tree and you're hardly convenient to get to. The economics your side of the equation notwithstanding, how are people mental enough to pay that?

[MattyF]

8 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

That's mad. Average of £64.29 a tree and you're hardly convenient to get to. The economics your side of the equation notwithstanding, how are people mental enough to pay that?

They don’t , I did one local 14ft display tree first thing , a take up and down job  then 6 at £30.. some of those had come from Whitley bay and Gateshead … they just wanted to take there kids in to countryside walk through 30acres of trees and choose one.. kids love it. 
I don’t really take it seriously to be honest and would happily let them all grow on and be harvested later. 

[Mesterh]

1 hour ago, Ty Korrigan said:

What occured for MattyF to flounce off from you lovely fellows?

 

We couldn't hold up a conversation on which is the best upholstery to furnish a super yacht. Obviously.

 

I do hope that there are a few Christmas tree selling millionaires, hopefully home grown but I don't think that it's probable.

 

 

 

 

[Dan Maynard]

Are they not imported in containers from Denmark or somewhere similar? Whoever's doing that must be shifting a lot of trees, but at wholesale price sounds like they'd need to be shift 200k trees to just turnover a million let alon be a millionaire.

 

I would guess there's more margin in decorations, but it must be difficult to get right so you sell everything you've bought each year.

[AHPP]

37 minutes ago, MattyF said:

They don’t , I did one local 14ft display tree first thing , a take up and down job  then 6 at £30.. some of those had come from Whitley bay and Gateshead … they just wanted to take there kids in to countryside walk through 30acres of trees and choose one.. kids love it. 
I don’t really take it seriously to be honest and would happily let them all grow on and be harvested later. 

I follow. Makes you wonder how many more would come to pick their own if you were near Blaydon or somewhere. 

[MattyF]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

I follow. Makes you wonder how many more would come to pick their own if you were near Blaydon or somewhere. 

You would be a millionaire mate 😆

[Johnpl315]

I used to work on a Christmas tree farm many years ago, there is some serious money involved, although not without a share of work. 

 The farm I worked on harvested around 70k trees a year, and they only sold trade. Trade prices ranged from about £15 up to £50 for a regular sized tree. Say an average of £30. That's a fair amount of revenue! 

 But, you need the land, deer fencing, planting, bud rubbing, pruning, herbicide application to prevent them growing too fast, grading and marking, cutting, netting, loading on a trailer behind a tractor, taken back to a yard, unloading and palleting. 

 There is no doubt that the estate owner was a multi millionaire, but the Christmas trees were just one part of the estate, alongside a farm, shoot and woodland operations. 

 Most of the jobs were mundane and extremly repetitive and carried out by Eastern Europeans. 

Hope this gives you a bit of an insight! 

[Spruce Pirate]

10 minutes ago, Johnpl315 said:

I used to work on a Christmas tree farm many years ago, there is some serious money involved, although not without a share of work. 

 The farm I worked on harvested around 70k trees a year, and they only sold trade. Trade prices ranged from about £15 up to £50 for a regular sized tree. Say an average of £30. That's a fair amount of revenue! 

 But, you need the land, deer fencing, planting, bud rubbing, pruning, herbicide application to prevent them growing too fast, grading and marking, cutting, netting, loading on a trailer behind a tractor, taken back to a yard, unloading and palleting. 

 There is no doubt that the estate owner was a multi millionaire, but the Christmas trees were just one part of the estate, alongside a farm, shoot and woodland operations. 

 Most of the jobs were mundane and extremly repetitive and carried out by Eastern Europeans. 

Hope this gives you a bit of an insight! 

 

It's a long time since I was involved in Christmas trees in any serious way, but this is almost exactly my experience.  There's money to be made, but you have to work for it -quite hard.  Are there millions to be made?  Not sure, possibly, if you're in the right part of the chain but it's not going to be easy money.

[Stubby]

A 7ft top of a Norway Spruce is £57 in Home Base .