Firewood price increases - but by how much?

[Logburner]

I checked the prices of firewood very carefully in the winter of 2021/22, so I know exactly how those prices looked at that time: differing woods, differing packaging, seasoned/part seasoned, etc.

 

Percentage-wise, what would you say is the general level of increase since then?

 

Any further thoughts?  Like particular viewpoints on this subject special shortages, great opportunities? 

 

......   And what do you think is going to happen in the next 12 months or so?

 

It's not an essay question !!!  Just interested to know your thoughts on any part of this.

[gdh]

We've put our prices up 10-15%, most expensive is £210 for 1.8cube of hardwood.

 

We got lucky because we held out for lower priced roundwood and it worked but it's gone from £70 to 90 a ton average and now a lot are asking for £100 plus if we bought now.

 

Machinery costs and electric costs for drying have also rocketed so I expect prices will go up again next year.

[Whoppa Choppa]

54 minutes ago, gdh said:

We've put our prices up 10-15%, most expensive is £210 for 1.8cube of hardwood.

 

We got lucky because we held out for lower priced roundwood and it worked but it's gone from £70 to 90 a ton average and now a lot are asking for £100 plus if we bought now.

 

Machinery costs and electric costs for drying have also rocketed so I expect prices will go up again next year.

 

£210 for 1.8 cube is very reasonable (£117 per cube). Nearer £145/cube here.

[Logburner]

Hi Whoppa Choppa   Thanks for responding but what do you mean by a 'cube' of firewood?  How does this relate to a cubic metre?  Are you talking about loose fill or tight packing?  W

[gdh]

6 minutes ago, Logburner said:

Hi Whoppa Choppa   Thanks for responding but what do you mean by a 'cube' of firewood?  How does this relate to a cubic metre?  Are you talking about loose fill or tight packing?  W

Cube is generally just short for cubic metre. Nearly always loose.

[GarethM]

1 m3

[Steven P]

Cube would be about 1m3, could be that thrown in the back of a transit, could be a 'builder bag' (0.6m3?). A smaller supply like this would be loose filled in the bag - not stacked in. A larger like 1.8m3 above probably stacked into a cage and you get a bit more that way, or 'IBC cage' quantity the same.

 

Firewood is great with their standard units:

(Petrol station grab bag - not sure who would ever buy one though)

Builders bag

Dumpy bag

Ton  / Ton bag

m3

Cube

Cord

IBC

'Load'

.. dry wood is rarely sold be weight since that depends on how dry it is

and then 

xT (from the tree surgeon) - which is usually a full tree straight off the job - or large portions of one

 

 

[cessna]

13/10/24: I am now charging £230.00 for a 2cu mtr  load of loose logs seasoned ,

Gloucestershire ,but will have to up again soon due to price of cordwood rising.

I assume the demand for woodchip by  industrial users is what’s driving the price up, well that’s what I am telling my log customers. They see all this Ash being felled along roadsides and assume that there’s a plentiful supply[ Surplus!!!!] of it and can’t understand why prices of logs keep rising.

[Stere]

After all the ash is gone there won't be many big trees of any kind left  in the hedgerows.

 

As im guessing about 80% of the large  roadside/ field hedgrows trees are ash.

 

Before DED the most  common boundary tree was probably elm....& ash second.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Muddy42]

I think it depends where you are.  In rural Scotland (for example where I live) there are more trees, less people and more of those people have a chainsaw. Prices per tonne are lower across the board, probably because timber and logs are not cheap to transport?