Selling softwood to fill time?

[cw1987]

In my experience many people will buy a bag of "firewood" readily, you advertise "softwood" they're suddenly not interested.

Theres obviously a marketing stratergy to be had there.

I'm not suggesting you lie or milk it but you could advertise it as firewood and find maybe only 40% will question species.

 

As said before softwood is still a good product and has its own merits for the supplier and the buyer over hardwood.

 

You could also consider selling in pulp legnth at your margins or in cloggies.

FC sell 3m softwood at roadside for £60 per tonne in some places Darn Sarf and plenty of people are buying, even in Lochaber people were buying at that price in 1.5m legnths.

You do it at half that its still worth your while...?

This then adds to the "convienience" of buying softwood for the customer over hardwood in that situation (easier to handle, split, get lit etc).

[firewoodman]

We've cut well over a thousand tonnes of hardwood cord in the last year and a bit. Seeing as processors are the only quick way to convert firewood, I wouldn't want to put a good deal of what we've cut through a processor. Too bendy and knotty. If you weren't to process it though, it would just be wasted.

 

500 cubic metres is some number though. You would need to shift that though to turn a £15000 gross profit, which isn't much at the end of the day. You then have capital costs like a processor, a delivery method, vented bags. How the hell do you firewood merchants make any money?![/QUOTE]

 

i wonder the same thing

 

We are all as tight as a rats arse!!!!

 

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yes we are!!!

[gensetsteve]

We've cut well over a thousand tonnes of hardwood cord in the last year and a bit. Seeing as processors are the only quick way to convert firewood, I wouldn't want to put a good deal of what we've cut through a processor. Too bendy and knotty. If you weren't to process it though, it would just be wasted.

 

500 cubic metres is some number though. You would need to shift that though to turn a £15000 gross profit, which isn't much at the end of the day. You then have capital costs like a processor, a delivery method, vented bags. How the hell do you firewood merchants make any money?!

 

I have taken a bit of a battering on other threads over the last few days about this. But its now been explained to me.

 

To get profit from logs its just a bit of cherry and a few chains. You must ignor all the other costs and just concentrate on spending this weeks £1500 turnover down the pub on friday night. Dont sit down and work out the real costs its depressing just ring up your nearest competitor and under cut them by £5 a metre.