Logs..do you sell by weight, or volume

[DN22 Gardening]

mine get em in whatever size they're cut to.

 

the bigger the ring the smaller the thickness :lol:

[Acle Garden Machinery]

is £70 a ton to cheap

[Farqhar]

Selling firewood as logs to customers is a pain when u r asked about cube-v-weight. But I find it an even bigger problem when thinning/singling and general clear out in compartments, getting a fair price from commercial firewood merchants. From my point of view cube is fairer - but they don't want to know they seem to 'guesstimate' weight and that's that - take it or leave it. IS there a rule of thumb to equate cube to weight when it's all 8 to 16 ft lengths with some twisty stuff in it ? E G - is a rough rule of thumb 1.5 or 1.8 cubic metres a fair equation for 1 tonne? It's mixed birch, sycamore, oak, ash, chestnut, with odd holly & rowan log, 4" - 12" approx dia sizes.

[Joy Yeomans]

if youve got it in a ride side stack, there are formulas to work out the stack measure to weight over volume of stack for different species, i cant, but Mr. and the lads do it alot, i think if you google it or someone a bit more knowledgeable than me will probably have the formulas - however nothing beats going over a weighbridge and as foresters you want it over that weighbridge asap!

 

mrs. j.

Edited November 11, 2010 by Joy Yeomans
me speaking not Mr.