Logs

[Steven P]

Last time I was talking to a tree surgeon about biomass, he was storing it in his yard till he got a wagon or a tractor trailer full (big trailer) before he sent it for biomass. If they are out of their usual area a return to the yard and back can cost more that what they get for it, or if they don't have a suitable yard to store that quantity - he wasn't sure a biomass place would accept half a transit load at a time... so back to it being a waste product - to some - unless they spend the hours making firewood... where as the bigger money is working on the trees themselves - so in some cases the finances make sense to use a local tip site.

[Mick Dempsey]

I dunno, I can’t be certain of the numbers, but a mate back in the UK tells me the money he gets for the waste wood can pay for the days diesel. 
Mind you he does have a tractor, wood trailer and grab to transport it. 

[John Shutler]

11 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I believe the waste wood market is changing.

 

Some firms are  paying for rubbish wood as chippable biomass.

 

everything i bring back to the yard has value. odd length logs, stump cuts and chogs goes for arb waste timber which we are paid for by the artic load. All softwood 2.5m in length and up to 1.2m diameter goes for chip by the artic load. Hardwood cord upto 400mm diameter goes to a couple of firewood dealers, they either buy it by the artic load or i sell smaller loads delivered with tractor and trailer. Oversize hardwoods go to a couple of guys who firewood it for their own use, again sold and delivered by the tractor and trailer. Chip goes out by the artic load. il even mix stump grindings in with older chip to make a nice mulch for people who want it for flower beds which i sell by truck or tractor and trailer loads upto 35 cubic metres.

 

the only thing that doesn’t have value to me is hedge clippings or rake up 

[Tree monkey 1682]

22 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

 

 

£21 pounds a cube for would chip,that's if they accept it at Didcot,  less than 6 weeks old and couldn't have much greenery in it.

Artic and bulker 21 cubic metres is the max the could take in one hit, still have to rent the yard and load the chip...that's if it doesn't get refused in Didcot..

Yes everything has a value, but its got to be financially viable .

Just realised I've tagged you in it 

[Mick Dempsey]

21 a cube?

A transit holds 4 to 5 cube.

 

So 80 to 100 quid a load?

 

Better than a poke in the eye. 

[openspaceman]

1 hour ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

that's if it doesn't get refused in Didcot..

Bound to be, the place has been closed and demolished apart from a gas fired turbine.

 

One of the local farmers tried to get them to take woodchip from his short rotation willow planting, the railway from Bristol that delivered the coal ran through his farm, but they wouldn't entertain it. It grew  rank and he had to give it away, must have been 20 years ago.

[Tree monkey 1682]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

21 a cube?

A transit holds 4 to 5 cube.

 

So 80 to 100 quid a load?

 

Better than a poke in the eye. 

That's a few years ago and that's if it didnt get rejected

[Tree monkey 1682]

26 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Bound to be, the place has been closed and demolished apart from a gas fired turbine.

 

One of the local farmers tried to get them to take woodchip from his short rotation willow planting, the railway from Bristol that delivered the coal ran through his farm, but they wouldn't entertain it. It grew  rank and he had to give it away, must have been 20 years ago.

Sounds about right ,it would be Thames valley power group .

Clowns on the phone ... good thing to look at a map before you send an artic my way 

[Tree monkey 1682]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

21 a cube?

A transit holds 4 to 5 cube.

 

So 80 to 100 quid a load?

 

Better than a poke in the eye. 

Was only 210 per arctic load 

[dan blocker]

On 28/07/2025 at 17:23, Tree monkey 1682 said:

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Tree surgeons don't get it ,the quicker your off site the more money you make, 

Why’s that then? Most jobs are done on a fixed price quote? There’s no Bruce’s bonus for finishing a job early unless you can squeeze in a small job? And then if that overruns you’ll piss the blokes off! The only thing you get for finishing a job early is an increase in staff moral?