To log or not to log….

[JLA1990]

Hi all, after a bit of advice - we have a job coming up where we will be clearing 50/60 x hardwood trees (birch,chestnut,oak) and 300 x softwood (lawson will be chipped for bio) we now have the ability to store large amounts of timber at my yard. I was thinking is it worth transporting the hardwood to the yard and processing for fire wood (relying on haulier). The crux is we do not own any processing gear, so would look to subby that bit out and then sell it in bulk (green)by the artic load. Is there some money to be made or am I better off just chipping all of it and getting money back that way? If we can sell

it bulk and there’s money we can buy some processing gear as we will start to take loads back from our jobs as we now have the storage space, traditionally just chipped everything as not had the space to store. 
 

TIA

[doobin]

No. Just sell it roadside. 

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, JLA1990 said:

Hi all, after a bit of advice - we have a job coming up where we will be clearing 50/60 x hardwood trees (birch,chestnut,oak) and 300 x softwood (lawson will be chipped for bio) we now have the ability to store large amounts of timber at my yard. I was thinking is it worth transporting the hardwood to the yard and processing for fire wood (relying on haulier). The crux is we do not own any processing gear, so would look to subby that bit out and then sell it in bulk (green)by the artic load. Is there some money to be made or am I better off just chipping all of it and getting money back that way? If we can sell

it bulk and there’s money we can buy some processing gear as we will start to take loads back from our jobs as we now have the storage space, traditionally just chipped everything as not had the space to store. 
 

TIA

Can you not stack it road side and sell it from there ?   Edit . As Ruben above . 

Edited 15 hours ago by Stubby

[JLA1990]

10 hours ago, Stubby said:

Can you not stack it road side and sell it from there ?   Edit . As Ruben above . 

Yeh, I’ve tried in the past but due to let down/not collecting it’s usually caused more stress.

[dan blocker]

And if you leave it roadside for any time expect some of it to grow legs and walk? Put the word out to your nearest firewood producers to see if they’re interested. Chestnut’s not particularly good firewood(but better than burning your furniture and doors to keep warm) if it close grown, straight and clean could go for stakes, rails, cleft products and make better money than firewood or biomass? Any surplus wood get it back to the yard and save it for those quiet/ early finish days and convert it to firewood.