This years log prices

[Whoppa Choppa]

2 hours ago, rapalaman said:

One of my customers paid 180 for a cube of silver birch delivered and stacked while I was cutting her hedges. Her next load came from me at 75 for a heaped big builders bag so about .8m roughly of 90% mixed oak, cherry, syc, ash etc with a few softwood mixed in to get it going. Next order already in 👍

You won't be able to keep it that cheap for long. £180/cube is about right. Or £300 for 1.4 cube near Bath.

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, Big J said:

Prices for firewood here are generally really cheap. This seller on Marketplace is doing 2 year seasoned birch for just under £50/cube. Minimum order 5 cube, free delivery on 10 cube. 

 

I did my own firewood this year, but I'll just buy it in for next year. It's not worth doing it yourself for that price.

 

What does your sawmill does with the scabs?

[Big J]

2 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Is it not milled or peeled for plywood?  Surely Scandinavian furniture is renowned for using birch? 

 

I understand that birch plywood here in the UK is really pricey.

 

There is a large paper producing plant in the viscinity that takes birch and aspen, as well as spruce. But it's still not grown commerically in any great quantity. The Finns do grow it widely though.

 

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

What does your sawmill does with the scabs?

 

All chipped, I believe. Most of it feeds the kilns, some of it is sold.

[Ashes_Firewood]

16 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

You won't be able to keep it that cheap for long. £180/cube is about right. Or £300 for 1.4 cube near Bath.

Was thinking the same. You've done yourself there. Could have charged £120 and they'd have still been happy by the sounds of it.