Price of firewood

[muldonach]

in 1982 firewood was @ £9 per ton @ r/s & £5t for haulage !!

 

its now £45t @ r/s & £10t for haulage !!

 

At £45/tonne @ roadside I am a willing seller with large quantities to bring to market over the next few years, mainly softwoods SS & LP but with a proportion of hardwoods - all sub 10" for processor.

 

Who's buying?

 

Cheers

mac

[gensetsteve]

At £45/tonne @ roadside I am a willing seller with large quantities to bring to market over the next few years, mainly softwoods SS & LP but with a proportion of hardwoods - all sub 10" for processor.

 

Who's buying?

 

Cheers

mac

 

 

But processing is so profitable you may as well do it all yourself

[firewood]

At £45/tonne @ roadside I am a willing seller with large quantities to bring to market over the next few years, mainly softwoods SS & LP but with a proportion of hardwoods - all sub 10" for processor.

 

Who's buying?

 

Cheers

mac

 

If you already have the timber the next logical step is to "process" yourself.

 

If i was you i would be looking seriously at electricity generation like the balcas plant at invergordon. Assuming you have access to large volumes of timber.

 

http://www.kinnoirwoodfuel.co.uk

[muldonach]

But processing is so profitable you may as well do it all yourself

 

Rural area = limited market and plenty of saturday / sunday woodcutters I'm afraid - do about 50t / year of hardwood thinnings - you cannot give softwood away locally except to woodburning stove owners and I believe the FC practically gives it away up here.

 

When I hear prices of £45/tonne for firewood we really are in a different world - only thing that comes close to that kind of price is sawlogs.

 

Cheers

mac

[muldonach]

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If i was you i would be looking seriously at electricity generation like the balcas plant at invergordon. Assuming you have access to large volumes of timber.

 

kwfhomepage

 

Like I say the AW Jenkinson Plant at Lockerbie was offering £24/ton at the plant gate this summer - once you take harvesting and transport into account there is a negative return.

 

Invergordon would mean transhipping out of Ayr docks in 2-3000t tranches which is feasible - what price are they paying?

 

Cheers

mac

[firewood]

I do not know for certain but i did hear that they were happily buying in sawlogs to burn. They were outbidding the likes of james jones for the privilege. They can do this due to subsidies they are paid for green energy generation.

 

http://www.kinnoirwoodfuel.co.uk

[DN22 Gardening]

anyway, back to the thread.

 

we sell h/w @ £75 per cube, and soft @ £60

all arb arisings

 

we're considered expensive, but have a good product, well seasoned, and have sold out the past 2 years.

 

selling plenty of h/w atm but NO softwood yet ???????

[david wood]

I dont sell firewood but one thing i fail to understand is people who wont burn softwood. kept me warm here for 15 winters now!

 

I gladly take any arb arisings i can get my hands on, often exchanged for whatever person prefers to drink or stuff of folding variety. Softwood is just fine when dry.

[Dean Lofthouse]

 

we're considered expensive, but have a good product, well seasoned, and have sold out the past 2 years.

 

Then you must be too cheap

 

 

 

 

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[Cookie]

Im at £100 a cube hardwood (ash/beech), £85 a cube softwood/hardwood mix & £75 a cube softwood. All well seasoned quality wood, there are a few guys round here that will still do a "load" for £60 but there's getting less and less those guys. I'm considered expensive by some people that call and I have offered on more than one occasion to pay them £30 to collect, store for 18 months then process and deliver a cubic meter of wood to my door but nobody has yet taken me up on the offer but they do see my point!