small scale firewood

[treedweller]

Hi all as the title say I'm running a small scale firewood setup cutting and splitting by hand (hardwork but I have youth on my side). I have a 25.8 ton of seasoned larch and iv so far done 25 .8 of a cube bags. My parent run a much bigger setup in the Scottish borders with a porsch processor and also bought a load of the same cord when I did. They processed it into the same bags as I have and took it to the quarry next door and weighed it. It came in at just over 200kg!!!! So that's 5 bags to the ton ish??? Yet everyone on here says says you can only get a bag and a half to the tonne!? The wood is very dry and it came on a wagon and drag stacked to the sky but still there is a massive difference between 1.5 bags and nearly 5 to the ton!! Does anyone have any thoughts??

[slasherscot]

1 cubic round should fill 1 1/2 bags......26 tons should get about 40 bags...........if that helps,,,,sell by bags filled loose not by weight in bag

[hardtop110]

Seasoned softwood weighs less than seasoned hardwood.

I have some lovely dry larch in my store and it's very light, burns well, hot but quickly.

 

I wouldn't worry what other people say, it sounds like you have a decent product that should sell well. Just don't expect to get hardwood prices for it.

 

Good luck.