Help with logs.

[GarethM]

True, but knowing my luck I would be the test case and I would be reamed to within an inch of my life!.

 

It's enforced by trading standards, yeah I know they're underfunded etc etc.

 

But it's an easy win, legally speaking if you sold it without being registered.

[Mark Bolam]

It’s an even easier win if you just send them a log you’ve had in an oven and give them £500.

[GarethM]

I've heard those stories, granted mine hover sub 19% with the stuff winds.

 

It's just another layer of bs that makes it less worthwhile doing.

[Mark Bolam]

42 minutes ago, RobG 86 said:

Thank you all for the replies. Just look at doing 15-20 bulk bags a year, we get plenty of wood from the tree work. Keep getting asked by customers. We have space, and just an extra couple of day work for the lads over winter so they don’t lose hours if weather is crap. Thanks again 

 

Just do it then Rob.

Don’t bother with the ponzi scheme.

If customers are already asking you you’ll sell that amount through word of mouth, no advertising.

If anyone mentions Woodsure just walk away.

 

Get them ringed and split as early as possible, and under cover with airflow.

 

If you start now you’ll be ready to start selling next winter.

 

Buy a moisture meter as well, customers won’t come back if you sell them wet crap.

A hard/soft mix is fine.

 

Be honest about volume.

A ‘builders bag’ is fine.

 

Saying a builders bag is 1m3 is not, unless you actually have 1m x 1m x 1m bags, which are huge and pretty rare.

 

A standard 800mm bag is only just over 0.5m3 if it’s not stretched.

 

 

[GarethM]

35 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

 

Just do it then Rob.

Don’t bother with the ponzi scheme.

If customers are already asking you you’ll sell that amount through word of mouth, no advertising.

If anyone mentions Woodsure just walk away.

 

Get them ringed and split as early as possible, and under cover with airflow.

 

If you start now you’ll be ready to start selling next winter.

 

Buy a moisture meter as well, customers won’t come back if you sell them wet crap.

A hard/soft mix is fine.

 

Be honest about volume.

A ‘builders bag’ is fine.

 

Saying a builders bag is 1m3 is not, unless you actually have 1m x 1m x 1m bags, which are huge and pretty rare.

 

A standard 800mm bag is only just over 0.5m3 if it’s not stretched.

Plus cash only and no receipt, unless it's through the books then call it something nondescript.

[Steven P]

2 hours ago, RobG 86 said:

Thank you all for the replies. Just look at doing 15-20 bulk bags a year, we get plenty of wood from the tree work. Keep getting asked by customers. We have space, and just an extra couple of day work for the

lads over winter so they don’t lose hours if weather is crap. Thanks again 

 

Do your tree work customers ever ask for the logs? Might be a handy extra days work "We can split them for you, bring the same ones back in a week or 2 or I can swap them for a random selection I have split ready in the yard this afternoon" type of thing - saves all schemes I think since you are not supplying the logs, only splitting them.

[Stubby]

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

I don’t know a single supplier down here who has signed up to the bullshit ready to burn scheme.

 

Hopefully it will just die.

No fcuker round here is in it . Don't  think they even know what it is . We are out in the sticks a bit here but everything is how it was before it was ever conjured up .

[GarethM]

Clean Air Night fact sheet - Woodsure

WWW.WOODSURE.CO.UK

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There is a lot of misunderstanding and some misinformation regarding the solid fuel industry, so we wanted to help...

 

I'm sure reading war and peace was shorter than their recent publication/justification for existing.

 

 

[Rob_the_Sparky]

15 hours ago, Stubby said:

No fcuker round here is in it . Don't  think they even know what it is . We are out in the sticks a bit here but everything is how it was before it was ever conjured up .

I don't know the local market as I split my own firewood but the one trader I am in contact with is still supplying logs to his regulars, just no longer advertising that fact, and we are certainly not in the sticks  so you area is not unique.