Hows the log sales going now

[swinny]

Logs are trickling out still, very strange weather!

 

A few have sold out.

 

I had a call the other week off a guy wanting to buy some wood to split if it was seasoned to burn himself. Said he was getting a trailer load for 20.00 and thats all he wanted to pay. The other guy had stopped selling him logs and the guy on the phone to me said he had sold more than he expected..... sorry i said, you said they were for personal use! What an arsehole lying to me!

 

Turns out he sells roadside for 3.50 a net, started this year and sold out mid december haha!

[mendiplogs]

  swinny said:

Logs are trickling out still, very strange weather!

 

A few have sold out.

 

I had a call the other week off a guy wanting to buy some wood to split if it was seasoned to burn himself. Said he was getting a trailer load for 20.00 and thats all he wanted to pay. The other guy had stopped selling him logs and the guy on the phone to me said he had sold more than he expected..... sorry i said, you said they were for personal use! What an arsehole lying to me!

 

Turns out he sells roadside for 3.50 a net, started this year and sold out mid december haha!

 

Hi skinny that's good he sold out then mate thanks Jon

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Worst year ever; packing up next year; once the woods gone, I aint buying no more! Less than 10% of volume sold last year and that was 66% down on the year before that.

[mendiplogs]

  TimberCutterDartmoor said:

Worst year ever; packing up next year; once the woods gone, I aint buying no more! Less than 10% of volume sold last year and that was 66% down on the year before that.

 

Hi john it not that good here too mate it been very warm oil price very low to thanks Jon

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

  mendiplogs said:

Hi john it not that good here too mate it been very warm oil price very low to thanks Jon

 

That's it mate.

[mendiplogs]

  TimberCutterDartmoor said:

That's it mate.

 

Hi john it getting cold mate now 👍👍👍👍thanks Jon

[chris23a]

Worst year ever for logs, I wont be processing any this winter, still have 80% of my logs we cut last year so until I sell that I wont be cutting any more. Im seriously considering giving it up and just selling my wood as cordwood/uncut/rings/etc.

[mendiplogs]

  chris23a said:

Worst year ever for logs, I wont be processing any this winter, still have 80% of my logs we cut last year so until I sell that I wont be cutting any more. Im seriously considering giving it up and just selling my wood as cordwood/uncut/rings/etc.

 

Hi Chris do you do only hard wood or soft wood to thanks Jon

[chris23a]

  mendiplogs said:

Hi Chris do you do only hard wood or soft wood to thanks Jon

 

I do both Jon

[Mortimer Firewood]

We have had to adapt to the way we sell wood a lt of our existing customers would order 50 % of what they ordered the previous year. So we started doing half cube and barrow bags they have sold really well as have .7 bags . We generate a lot of sales from passing trade.

 

Other ways we have generated trade is 30% discount to pubs then put a box if cards by the log pile the land lord gets get burn able wood at a discount and you get somewhere to showcase your product.

 

The other one is road side signs in areas where there is known to be wet logs been sold. Not big ones 18 by 12 inch up 8 ft on telegraph poles if you do a few in the same area people see the first then stop at the second to get number. We all so do this at busy junctions on fences with banners. In march we take them down in march put them back up in October.

 

This generates more business than any other form of advertising we do not have a website yet.

 

I've got no choice but to get the firewood out it's now my main income for me it's got to work