Questions Questions

[Badger1434]

Right chaps you lot have the answers to most qustions between you so here is one i cant get my head around or need a bit of help with

 

We are buying cordwood in on artics which carry aprox 26.5 tonnes yet we sell out in cubic meters. So to work out if its all worthwhile we need to know is there a calculation or rule of thumb that gives us a clue to how many cubic metres is returned for an artic load of cordwood?...to my small brain it depends on the wood weight when its purchased. The heavier/higher moisture content of the wood the less on the lorry, yet regardless of the weght the volume will still remain the same?

 

[Samuel]

well i would weight one full cubic meter of cordwood and work out from there

[Chris Gagen]

or mark up one lorry's worth of wood with spray marker, process, and keep count of how many cube you get from that load

[firewoodman]

Right chaps you lot have the answers to most qustions between you so here is one i cant get my head around or need a bit of help with

 

We are buying cordwood in on artics which carry aprox 26.5 tonnes yet we sell out in cubic meters. So to work out if its all worthwhile we need to know is there a calculation or rule of thumb that gives us a clue to how many cubic metres is returned for an artic load of cordwood?...to my small brain it depends on the wood weight when its purchased. The heavier/higher moisture content of the wood the less on the lorry, yet regardless of the weght the volume will still remain the same?

 

 

yep, its this simple, follow carefully now.

 

process the lot into M3,

count the m3,

work out how long it took you to process and labour cost,

add %age of machinery involved and total cost of fuel,

add rent charge to store wood to dry

add to the price of the timber bought in,

add your profit margin

and then add delivery charge and %age of costs of delivery truck:thumbup1:

 

follow that and hopefully you wont make a loss

 

 

 

oh the is no weight to volume formula, some is 1:1, others 1;1.5, and others 1:2

[combined tree services]

it may not be of any use but i was chatting to dangerous brian and he has his timber delivered by M3 and not by the ton , maybe ask the supplyer how many M3 is on an artic load ? sorry maybe totally pointles !!

[Rob D]

I have been asking myself this for a long time. Measured a bag of pine and poplar the other day.

 

A cubic meter weighed 420kg BUT this was black poplar and also pine (which had some decay). I'm sure another bag of pine only was a lot more....

 

I'll try and weigh some more bags next week of different woods.

[gensetsteve]

I work on a wet solid metre of beech weighs 1000kg Which takes up just over 2 cu metres on the lorry. When processed into loose logs will be 1.6 cu metres.

 

So 26 tonnes will give you 42 cu metres at £80 a cu = £3360.00

 

I sell 2cu for £160 by the time I have bought the cord, processor, cherry, derv, bar oil etc I think my material costs are getting on for £50 a metre.