Help with pricing felling Douglas.

[Mick Dempsey]

I have to price for the removal of around 55 Douglas alongside this football pitch. 
They can nearly all be felled into the adjoining field, some unassisted the rest easy enough with a winch. 
My question is (very approximately) how much can I can get for the wood?

Most around 25 metres between 15” annd 24” diameter, all straight, but with lower spindly branches. 

Strictly speaking I’m not set up for this job, but it’s for a LA that rate me and you miss all the shots you don’t make. 
TIA

Mick
 

[monkeybusiness]

How much will your biomass buyers give you for it if you present it roadside for them to chuck straight through their Albach? Use that to price from - anything over and above per tonne you can get for the timber then becomes a bonus. 

[Mick Dempsey]

20€ a tonne from the biomass lads, they like it dried out so the needles have dropped off, so I’ll have to speak to the farmer about leaving it stacked for a couple of months.

How much does 1 tree weigh you reckon? 15” diameter at the base, straight up to 25metres 

I am thinking about 1 tonne per tree.

Edited yesterday at 12:55 by Mick Dempsey

[monkeybusiness]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

20€ a tonne from the biomass lads, they like it dried out so the needles have dropped off, so I’ll have to speak to the farmer about leaving it stacked for a couple of months.

How much does 1 tree weigh you reckon? 15” diameter at the base, straight up to 25metres 

I am thinking about 1 tonne per tree.

Yeah, that’s a good rule of thumb on those, particularly if dry. (I’d imagine it should work out a bit of a better yield in reality). Will they also give you a price for timber and a price for brash? Clean timber chip commands decent money over here. 

[spuddog0507]

3.7mtr and 4.9mtr saw logs are approx £65 tonne road side and 3mtr chip wood is £45 tonne then stacked brash ready for chipper will be appro £15 a tonne once some one has chipped it,, trees will average just under a tonne so if you work on 50 tonne of timber then another 15 tonne for the brash and tops you wont be a million miles away,,

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, spuddog0507 said:

3.7mtr and 4.9mtr saw logs are approx £65 tonne road side and 3mtr chip wood is £45 tonne then stacked brash ready for chipper will be appro £15 a tonne once some one has chipped it,, trees will average just under a tonne so if you work on 50 tonne of timber then another 15 tonne for the brash and tops you wont be a million miles away,,

He’s in France though - no idea what the market is doing there. 

[spuddog0507]

2 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

He’s in France though - no idea what the market is doing there. 

Well thats fooked that up then,,,

[Mick Dempsey]

Anyway, I thought about it last night this morning I just passed it on to the biomass firm who took my waste wood.

A man’s got to know his (and his machinery’s) limitations.