do you charge more?

[woodworm]

Hi

I am getting more and more orders for logs no longer than 7". I usually cut them to 10" as a standard length, but now charge 10% extra to cut them shorter.

Am I being unreasonable or do any of you guys do the same, its all extra cuts and it takes longer to cut a trailer load.

Your thoughts would be appreciated.

[Big Bolt]

I charge £ 4 per inch under 10 inch per load so 6 inch I would place £ 18 onto the price

take it or leave it

[robbo 110]

most of my clients seem to prefer 8" !!!!!!!!!

 

lots of my customers have small grates anyway, i do 8-9 inch mainly then store the bigger stuff elsewhere.

 

you cant keep them all happy mate, you need to work out your biggest market an go from there,

 

this changes from street to street, village to town etc etc

Edited September 18, 2011 by robbo 110
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[hardtop110]

I charge £ 4 per inch under 10 inch per load so 6 inch I would place £ 18 onto the price

take it or leave it

 

Can you run the maths on that by me again?

[dave fox]

do you charge less for bigger logs?

[Stephen Blair]

I cut my logs to the width of the saw, so about 6"

 

Smaller logs dry quicker aswell:)

[matthew65]

I cut my logs about 8", if I get asked if I do 14" logs (not that often) I say you can fit a small log in big stove but you can't fit a big log in a small stove ! It seems to work.

[gensetsteve]

Yes our machine is really 10" minimum if you cut smaller there is more saw dust, takes more time, uses more diesel, creates more trash. And they get more logs in the tipper. £15 more or we sell them hot max bricks.

[davetaz]

Most of my timber is seasoned as billets 36" long. Logs cut to size as customer requires them 6", 9", 12", 18", quite quick on the Eagle Saw. Straight in to barrow bags and delivered to their door, lots of positive feed back about being able to buy logs of different sizes and having them delivered to somewhere convenient.

[gensetsteve]

The other way I look at it is leave the business for another log man in the area who maybe is better set up for smaller logs or is a bit quiet at the moment. I am happy to wait till December when people are less fussy and its easy to sell 50 cu metres a week of nice dry logs when everywhere has run out.