Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.

[cessna]

Apologies if this not the right forum to be asking the above.

My wife has asked if I have any idea how much per cu mtr standing Ash is worth ,some with Ash die back.I have told her it would be  very hard to value it until ones sees the trees,terrain ( how wet the ground is etc). If anyone can give me a range of prices as to what it might be worth would be a help.

I do know the wood is on reasonably level ground  and one can stack by a track suitable for an artic to reverse along. They want the trees hand felled / winched ,harvester will not be allowed.

[slack ma girdle]

£50-70 per tonne, depending on how desperate the buyer is. Dieback shouldn't affect the price unless it is mush, and then it won't hold together when you fell it.

[Whoppa Choppa]

No way would I be paying £50-70/t. Could be only 50 tonne in the job, down a steep brambly bank and motor- manual only. Fk that. £10-20/t more like 

[Whoppa Choppa]

Sorry just re-read the op. Ok so it's drive able terrain but it's not because machines not allowed. You're going to need a forwarder so why on earth ban a harvester. So they want all the lengths winched to the edge, converted by hand and stacked by what? Walk away. 

Edited December 9 by Whoppa Choppa

[slack ma girdle]

4 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

No way would I be paying £50-70/t. Could be only 50 tonne in the job, down a steep brambly bank and motor- manual only. Fk that. £10-20/t more like 

Thats £50-70 roadside,  felling and extraction will be less

[AHPP]

25 minutes ago, slack ma girdle said:

Thats £50-70 roadside,  felling and extraction will be less

 

Standing by the roadside?

[Stubby]

6 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

Standing by the roadside?

Stacked . Standing is not felled yet .

[swinny]

8 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

£50-70 per tonne, depending on how desperate the buyer is. Dieback shouldn't affect the price unless it is mush, and then it won't hold together when you fell it.

Do you find it takes a lot more wood to get the ton due to the dieback. 

 

I had a decent stack of wood this year off one job and thought great, be 23-24t there. Was gutted when it was delivered to firewood man and they weighed it when lifting off and only grossed 19t 😞 volume seemd there but apparently not the weight

[AHPP]

5 hours ago, Stubby said:

Stacked . Standing is not felled yet .

I’ll wait…

[openspaceman]

14 hours ago, slack ma girdle said:

Thats £50-70 roadside,  felling and extraction will be less

Yes work back from the roadside value and remember an artic carries 29 tonne, with a loader about 2 tonne less and an 8 wheeler about 18 tonnes with loader, any part loads cost more to move.

 

If it is firewood then you have the luxury of delaying extraction till summer (sell by stacked measure), conservation sites often don't allow summer access (conservationists ruin woodlands).

 

A tractor and trailer crane can extract 30-70 tonnes from stump to roadside if the round trip is less than 1km, on a shorter route a modern forwarder will do 150 tonnes in a 12 hour shift but can make an awful mess at this time of year ( and cost a few hundred to low load to site}.

 

I could go on but I'm 15 years out of this although I have done a double extraction of ash off a hill by winch then conversion then forwarding recently and that was extremely slow.

Edited December 10 by openspaceman