Logs..do you sell by weight, or volume

[DN22 Gardening]

Had a customer call into the yard the other day looking to place a log order.

 

Showed him the crates i store my logs for drying in and explained that as the crates were 1000mm x 1000mm x 1200mm which equals 1.2 cu/mtr, we sold that as 1 cube........

 

No problem...

 

Next he asked for weights ??????

 

My reply was as i didn't have free access to the weigh bridge 1 mile away, i sold all my logs by volume..

 

Guessing, i'd say an average crate holds between 750 and 950 kg's

 

We then had half an hours discussion about the various weights of logs (no, i haven't got anything better to do with my time...honest )

 

This ended in me getting

 

1. a seasoned ash log

2. a seasoned oak log

3. a seasoned holly log

 

and just for comparison, a WET softwood log

giving all to customer, and asking which he'd prefer...

 

The holly log weighed about twice as much as the ash,( i know which i'd prefer)

 

"I'll have to tink about it", and off he tootled.....

 

Did i do wrong trying to educate

[tommer9]

Always by volume, and the only mistake you made was in trying the impossible- educating firewood customers!!

[Chris P]

Always by volume, and the only mistake you made was in trying the impossible- educating firewood customers!!

 

 

Too true.

[Lee Winger]

Best to tell firewood customers whatever they want to hear, can be a funny lot firewood buyers, they always think you're out to rip them off....

[Paul Smith]

If you sell buy weight and not approximate volume trading standards will have you under the weights and measures act.

[THE88MAN]

If you sell buy weight and not approximate volume trading standards will have you under the weights and measures act.

very true,i sold for years in 1/2 ton-1 ton loads (appx) now in cubes,i even tell new customers once they stack it,it will lose a third with air space.As a sales pitch i think a ton sounds better than 2 cube but i wouldn't do that now

[timtree81]

volume

[APC]

By the trailer load, so by loose volume. We get it though, what's yer weights blah?? We just say no idea how much it weighs. We offer at very low price in comparison with other sellers, not intentionally undercutting, but they all seem to have put their prices up and we forgot or something.

[Mark Bolam]

It's mixed seasoned hardwood, it's 2.3 cubic metres, I don't know or care how much it weighs, it's £130 cash on delivery, I press tip then I leave.

 

I hate log customers generally.

 

'Well old Tom used to deliver a ton'.

 

Yeah, right, in his VW Caddy pickup......

[APC]

It's mixed seasoned hardwood, it's 2.3 cubic metres, I don't know or care how much it weighs, it's £130 cash on delivery, I press tip then I leave.

 

I hate log customers generally.

 

'Well old Tom used to deliver a ton'.

 

Yeah, right, in his VW Caddy pickup......

 

 

I hate Old Tom.