estate firewood book.

[David oakman]

Today i thought i would clean out my office and i had a good fire:001_smile:

I found the old firewood book. It started in 1968 and the cost of a load of logs was £12 and it finished in 1996 and the cost of a load was £65. I still use the same trailors and they hold two cubic meters. The estate staff used to get free firewood but no more they now have to buy it. There you go a little bit of history:001_smile:

[Rob D]

Wonder what all these things will cost in 20 years from now? And what the price of diesel will be?!

[David oakman]

When i came here diesel was 16p a litre frightening we will have to go back to horses and man power:001_smile:

[Alycidon]

I remember just before I bought my first car petrol had gone rocketing up to 6 shillings a gallon, that was following the 73 middle east conflict, I think !!. For you youngsters thats about 30p for 5 litres.

 

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[barry ayres]

ive got an old family book and it says my gr gr grandfather used to sell 100 logs for 10 shillings which i think is 50p and that was delivered in 1944 and now i charge £32 for 100 logs and ive still got an old sign in the yard that says £6 per 100 logs and i think that was from about 1992 now there £24 collected

[Flyguy]

This is very interesting.

 

Based on the cumulative (compounded) inflation since 1968 £12 then is the equivalent of £145 now.

 

And £65 in 1996 is now the equivalent of £85

 

Calculated here: Calculator - UK Inflation | How much is money really worth now compared to history

 

 

So all in all it looks like current firewood prices are historically very low and people used to pay significant money for logs.