How much are nice oak butts worth ?

[gensetsteve]

I have some oak butts about 24-30 in in diameter I have been offered £3 a hopus ft for them but by my calcs thats about what we paid for it as firewood. If we put the work in we would get more than that for firewood. Any ideas?

[Rob D]

Andy fellows could go higher on the price I suspect if it is quality stuff with no metal in.

 

I'll PM you his phone number.

[Quickthorn]

I have some oak butts about 24-30 in in diameter I have been offered £3 a hopus ft for them but by my calcs thats about what we paid for it as firewood. If we put the work in we would get more than that for firewood. Any ideas?

 

£3 / hft works out at about £80 / cu. m - that's expensive firewood.

 

Where I used to live, they'd get up to £8 / hft, but these would be at least 3 ft diameter + and 1st grade.

[gensetsteve]

£3 / hft works out at about £80 / cu. m - that's expensive firewood.

 

Where I used to live, they'd get up to £8 / hft, but these would be at least 3 ft diameter + and 1st grade.

 

Buying in cordwood for firewood its not far off £80 a cu metre. A solid cu metre of oak will probably weigh more than a tonne and when cut and split will only weigh half a tonne.

[Big J]

For good clean Oak, £3 a hoppus foot is much too cheap. For me, I would be happy to pay £6-7 a foot delivered to my yard, so perhaps £5-6 at road side.

[John Hughes]

Yes , I would pay £6 or £7 a hoppus ft for good woodland butts delivered to my Woodmizer. Less if it is a hedgerow tree as the chances of hitting metal are much higher and there will be more wastage.It would take under an hour to mill it.

If I have to travel to the log then realistically it is not going to take me less than half a day, probably longer to to mill and then get all the timber and the mill back home. I would not want to pay more than £4 and the further I have to travel the price would drop.

[Richie G]

Whats that work out to in £ per cubic foot?

[nick channer]

Whats that work out to in £ per cubic foot?

 

i sell all my oak good and bad, short and long for £5 cube

[John Hughes]

One hoppus foot = 1.273 true ft3

[Big J]

JPH - I'm not sure that it is as simple as that for hoppus. As far as memory serves, the hoppus measurement takes into account that larger logs have less waste in them than smaller pieces, so the value changes. I might be wrong though, and I'm feeling too idle to test my theory by working it out!