Cabstar, Tranny, Landy, Dumpy bag !!!

[Isaac]

I'm trying to figure a price for selling seasoned Ash & Beech split and delivered.

There are SO many various loads advertised and all differing !

I called a couple with Cabstars who quote 2m3 ? I measured a few of these butts at 3x1.6x0.35, this comes out at about 1.7m, so that cant fit 2.0 unless it's tumbling over the sides !

Another had a Tranny who said it's 2.1x2.4x0.6, this makes a massive 3m3 ! He told me a level load is 2m3 !

There are plenty of folk advertising regular Dumpy bags at being 1m3.. They are 85x85x85 which comes to just 0.6m3 !

 

If anyone is still awake !? I'm trying not act like some kind of log police here but I'm genuinely confused !!

 

If anyone could just tell me how many standard Dumpy bags full of 8-10" logs would equate to a level load of a Cabstar I'd be delighted !

I'm hoping it's about 2 or maybe 2.5 ? If this is the case it would put my logs at around £60 a sack ?

I'd look forward to your thoughts on this one. Thank you.

[robert t]

I'm trying to figure a price for selling seasoned Ash & Beech split and delivered.

There are SO many various loads advertised and all differing !

I called a couple with Cabstars who quote 2m3 ? I measured a few of these butts at 3x1.6x0.35, this comes out at about 1.7m, so that cant fit 2.0 unless it's tumbling over the sides !

Another had a Tranny who said it's 2.1x2.4x0.6, this makes a massive 3m3 ! He told me a level load is 2m3 !

There are plenty of folk advertising regular Dumpy bags at being 1m3.. They are 85x85x85 which comes to just 0.6m3 !

 

If anyone is still awake !? I'm trying not act like some kind of log police here but I'm genuinely confused !!

 

If anyone could just tell me how many standard Dumpy bags full of 8-10" logs would equate to a level load of a Cabstar I'd be delighted !

I'm hoping it's about 2 or maybe 2.5 ? If this is the case it would put my logs at around £60 a sack ?

I'd look forward to your thoughts on this one. Thank you.

 

I take it you dont have a cabstar, so you intend to sell by bag, but you want a comparison?

You have been told the size so get 4 bits of cheep sterling board, cut them to required size, set them on the floor to make copy of cabsters back. Fill the

it up with 8-10" logs then fill the bags up and you have your answer. Do the work and you will get the answers.

[dangerous brian]

I think your digging too deep,its firewood i get 95 quid for a level load,and i recon thats pretty damn close to 2 meter cubed cheers DB.

[combined tree services]

i think that i would be a little less worried about how much they say the truck holds and more concerned about what timber your getting , personally i would be quite happy with slighly less timber than i expected if it was decent quality timber .

 

When selling logs i simply sell by the cabstar load not by cubic volume , if im asked how much that is i simply answer "its a cabstar load" if they want the dimensions of the tipper they can have it and calculate what they like . Hope this is of use to you

[Isaac]

Thanks for your thoughts. Brian, I dont think I'm digging too deep at all when you consider that based on a few calls a 2m3 load of logs can be anything between 1.6 and 3.0m3 ?

A level load on a Cabstar which is can only be 1.7m3 of logs (ish) but sold as 2m3 leaves the buyer about 100 logs short.

I'm just playing Devils advocate here of course, but I'd still like to know how many empty sacks of logs make a level Cabstar load ?

Cheers Robert your idea makes perfect sense, I was just hoping somebody would know.

[combined tree services]

can you / would you want to measure by M3 ?? if it was wood chip, sand, gravel etc i would go along with the idea but logs ??? how much is simply fresh air ? surely a quality load of timber is in most cases worth what its being sold for ? if dangerous bri was to turn up at my door with a load of logs i would be happy to pay £95 for , infact i would think i had a deal , however i have seen other firms passing wet pine off as seasoned hard wood

[Isaac]

Combined tree services ... Thank you for that, you make a fair point.

I'm guessing my answer is as I thought, about 2.5 Dumpy bags equates to a Cabstar.

[combined tree services]

Combined tree services ... Thank you for that, you make a fair point.

I'm guessing my answer is as I thought, about 2.5 Dumpy bags equates to a Cabstar.

 

thanks Isaac, another option to throw in the mix is the size of the log , if you cut slighly smaller it takes far more to fill a tipper or dumpy bag , i once worked for a guy the demanded we cut logs bigger and into awkward shapes !!!! he did prove to me that it takes quite a bit less timber to fill a truck that way

[Isaac]

I see your point about gravel or sand but a pile of logs will always have a similar amount of air so two 1m3 boxes of logs would hold a similar number of logs so it's relative ?

I guess I'll have to build that mock Cabstar butt then ? Cheers for your thoughts though.

[Big 'Ammer]

I called a couple with Cabstars who quote 2m3 ? I measured a few of these butts at 3x1.6x0.35, this comes out at about 1.7m

 

 

 

There are plenty of folk advertising regular Dumpy bags at being 1m3.. They are 85x85x85 which comes to just 0.6m3 !

 

 

Come on, its not 2.5, is it?