Price of firewood

[shendy]

sorry yeah as split logs.

[Rob D]

£100 cubic meter for hardwood

[shendy]

fantastic thank you for the replies im goin to have to mesure my trailer at the weekend and figure out what i should be charging.

[muldonach]

Depends very much on where you are i.e. how much your local market will bear.

 

We do seasoned hardwoods at £60 / cube delivered within 20 miles, another local guy does softwoods at £40 for 1.2m3 collected.

 

Any attempt to charge £100/ cube would get the dogs set on us!

 

Cheers

mac

[County4x4]

Just out of interest - it's obvious that firewood prices vary around the country by up to a 100% difference. Do the prices of cordwood and so on follow suit in different areas, as I've seen cord advertised some places at more than some guys in this thread are selling the finished product at?

 

Andy

[gensetsteve]

Yes strange it is . If you pay £50 a tonne. A cubic metre has cost £35 for the wood + fuel wear and tear. So either people are not paying £50 a tonne or are selling under sized loads. If you sell for £80 a metre leaves you with £20 for an hours labour if you are lucky.

[hardtop110]

£20 for an hours labour if you are lucky.

 

Not a bad rate for unskilled labour really.

[gensetsteve]

£20 for an hours labour if you are lucky.

 

Not a bad rate for unskilled labour really.

 

I would say operating and maintaining a modern processor is not unskilled. Also how many unskilled workers have between 30-60k invested in equipment. You could have to invest 25k in cord wood 12 months before you need it just to earn a living. Dont put yourself down there are plenty of others out there to do that most of them wearing suits waiting to be made redundant now that really is unskilled.

[hardtop110]

I would say operating and maintaining a modern processor is not unskilled. Also how many unskilled workers have between 30-60k invested in equipment. You could have to invest 25k in cord wood 12 months before you need it just to earn a living. Dont put yourself down there are plenty of others out there to do that most of them wearing suits waiting to be made redundant now that really is unskilled.

 

Sorry, what I meant was that paying someone £20 per hour to produce firewood, is not a bad wage. It'd be interesting to see how it compared with what the tree surgeons charge - with all the risks associated with that.

 

Of course the smart money is getting someone in at £8 per hour to do the production.

[shendy]

So what kind of prices are we looking at in which areas?

Im just trying to work out what i should be charging per cubic meter.