Just Firewood

[windfall]

Not after 5 mins i think.. weird eh

[Yeti]

It has been my families main income for three generations.That and along with coal but Since our grand pops passed the reigns fell to our old man who couldn't keep it up working his full time job,So along came me to pick up the reigns again.Sadly in the 8 years hiatus alot of people jumped into our grand pops shoes as for many years we were the only firewood supplier in the area.

Frustrating to watch.

Proffesionlism isn't the problem here I'm afraid Andy nor is it machinery or labour issue as that's all in check with a fully functioning 3 acre work yard,but if people are flogging twin axle trailer loads of dry stuff for 30 quid it's somthing I am struggling to compete with.But one by one our old customers are returning and were back taking names and heads and educating the public the benefits of quality wood and a quality service.So who knows maybe I can again in few years sit on top of the monoply haha

[windfall]

Can you not buy in the £30 trailer loads yourself?

 

I have had a guy selling nets for £2.50 from his garden, ended up going round to buying all the nets and the wood he had not processed yet cause his back was now knackered from chopping!

Edited June 8, 2011 by windfall

[andy26]

people are flogging twin axle trailer loads of dry stuff for 30 quid it's somthing I am struggling to compete with.

 

This is the absolute madness.

 

This mantra is always true:

"If something is unsustainable it will not be sustained".

 

Given how much labour goes into producing twin axle trailers of dry wood it will not be around for long.

 

What I was getting at with mechanisation is; there's a scale were you can bash out loads for £30... it's a long way from a man and an axe.

A trip to Scandinavia where you can see literally firewood factories, everything moved by crane or telehandler and the workers are merely observers.

 

And on the road there...

 

Quality sells.

[farmer_ben]

This is the absolute madness.

 

This mantra is always true:

"If something is unsustainable it will not be sustained".

 

Given how much labour goes into producing twin axle trailers of dry wood it will not be around for long.

 

What I was getting at with mechanisation is; there's a scale were you can bash out loads for £30... it's a long way from a man and an axe.

A trip to Scandinavia where you can see literally firewood factories, everything moved by crane or telehandler and the workers are merely observers.

 

And on the road there...

 

Quality sells.

 

I hope you are right, im sure you are...

 

I am having to put my prices up this winter, I will be the most expensive in the area, but i am also the only chap who is buying good wood in and the only chap investing my profits back into machinery and more timber etc...i see this as sustainable, not the cowboys wacking loads out around here for peanuts.

[Yeti]

Can you not buy in the £30 trailer loads yourself?

 

I have had a guy selling nets for £2.50 from his garden, ended up going round to buying all the nets and the wood he had not processed yet cause his back was now knackered from chopping!

 

I'll just wait for them to run out of wood, pricing it that low they soon will I imagine.All it'd take is for there saw to break or trailer to and they would be out of pocket,I never got pulled into the local fad of everybody dropping prices to match,I'll let them price themselves out of profit.Tortoise and hare story.And andy I'd love a big loader as that is somthing I agree on it does slow production and in turn lessens my profit potential

[eggsarascal]

I'll just wait for them to run out of wood, pricing it that low they soon will I imagine.All it'd take is for there saw to break or trailer to and they would be out of pocket,I never got pulled into the local fad of everybody dropping prices to match,I'll let them price themselves out of profit.Tortoise and hare story.And andy I'd love a big loader as that is somthing I agree on it does slow production and in turn lessens my profit potential

 

Softly, softly, catchy-monkey.

[sandbach-sticks]

No women drive you to drink firewood and been my escape

[eggsarascal]

No women drive you to drink firewood and been my escape

 

[Daniël Bos]

No women drive you to drink firewood and been my escape

 

was it:

No, women drive you to drink. Firewood has been my escape. ???:confused1: