Gold Dust AKA Seasoned birch 3-5m lengths

[JayVee]

Any interest?

 

I could deliver to the UK for around GBP 73 per cubic metre to your yard. Delivery time estimate two weeks (it's coming from Finland). Any interest please PM me. Minimum order, one container full 60-65 cubic metres.

 

All you need to do is cut it, bag it, sell it.

 

Have a good weekend all.

[sethgill]

£73 per cube?.. be luck to get that bagged..

[s.varty]

Any interest?

 

I could deliver to the UK for around GBP 73 per cubic metre to your yard. Delivery time estimate two weeks (it's coming from Finland). Any interest please PM me. Minimum order, one container full 60-65 cubic metres.

 

All you need to do is cut it, bag it, sell it.

 

Have a good weekend all.

 

Going rate in my area is £60-£75 per pick up load (1.2 cubic metres) , think i,ll pass. Mind you this could be a very long winter and a lot of log suppliers could run out before the new year and then it could be name your price. 30 nets per cube x£8 = hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[tommer9]

73/ cube?

I know you say its seasoned, but unless you have had it stored for a very long time in very careful environment, then it wont be seasoned, as timber just doesnt dry out in big logs in my experience, and you can get softwood pulp for £17/ metre over here.

But best of luck anyway.

[santacruz]

Remember roundwood is also sold by the meter, but is a measure of solid wood. So when cut and split will make around 2 cubes of loose stacked firewood. Dry roundwood for firewood is always sold by volume. As a meter of solid green wood is very roughly around a ton except for species such as oak or beech then currently you pay £40-45 per meter. So on a volume by volume basis you are paying around £73 per ton so an extra £30 because its already seasoned. I dont understand why it comes in a container. How do you get roundwood into and then out of a container without tipping it. Even the telehandler wont reach to the back of a 40ft container, and it certainly wouldnt lift one end to tip it.

[JayVee]

Thanks for the comments.

 

In regards to Tommer9's comment about the dryness, the wood is in inland Finland where the climate is significantly drier than the UK.

 

As Santa Cruz states, when cut and split the amount in cubes is significantly more.

 

As to why in containers, which is a fair and common question. It comes down to logistics. The container is a 40 foot open top container so the wood is filled from the top. There are many transition points along the way and putting it in a standard container means that packing and unloading have to happen only once: Point of collection and point of delivery.

 

We would love to charter a whole ship to the UK (around 3300 cubic metres) and then load the wood onto log trucks on the UK end, but that would necessitate a large scale buyer(s) on the UK side. It would be a lot of capital being tide up for about two weeks. If anyone is interested or has expertise in that kind of business please feel free to contact me.

[muldonach]

How much of your 60-65 cubic metre container are you proposing to charge at £73?

 

you are going to lose 40-50% of the container volume to broken stowage, in other words you will get 30-32.5 cu m of timber into that container if you are lucky and neat

 

Cheers

mac

[Treegeek]

I had been told round timber is shipped in containers partly to control/quaranteen due to insects in the bark etc also i live near southampton docks never seen a ship stacked with rounds

[slasherscot]

all imported round timber has to be debarked before entry

[slasherscot]

jay vee u seem to be selling the volume of the container not the volume of the wood in it.

As been commented above i doubt if the actual volume of the wood is 30 cc metres. U must be transporting the wood to the containers by timber wagons so it must have been weighed, u must know how many trailer loads fill a container.

 

UK birch cut 2010 delivered to ur yard is £35 a tonne or around £42 a cubic metre if u prefer that measurement.

 

I am afraid to me, urs works out about £190