How much???!!!

[eggsarascal]

I've been out beating on the Audley End Estate in Essex today. I got chatting to their forester/firewood chap. I asked him what they charged for a load, he told me that their trailer held 1.9m3 of hardwood and they delivered locally for £100, sad i know, but i got my moisture meter out of the truck and the logs were between 18% and 23%.... how do we compete with that????

[dave fox]

You cant , Im selling 1.8 cu mts of apple for £120 and its slow . 18 to 23% mc not bad

[Stephen Blair]

I've been out beating on the Audley End Estate in Essex today. I got chatting to their forester/firewood chap. I asked him what they charged for a load, he told me that their trailer held 1.9m3 of hardwood and they delivered locally for £100, sad i know, but i got my moisture meter out of the truck and the logs were between 18% and 23%.... how do we compete with that????

 

easy, sell dryer logs, cheaper for a larger volume:001_cool:

 

how you do it is up to you, if you want to earn less money, its very simple:biggrin:, if you want to make more money then you have to invest, time, effort blood and a lot of money to do it.

 

nobody ever said it was easy, but most things are possible:thumbup1:

 

who ever purchased and built the estate many moons ago did all of the above to get into that position, the logs are just a little extra because they can

[Mortimer Firewood]

Got a guy up the road selling at £80 for two cube don't know how they do it

he will sell out and so will i but i will take double what he does per cube.

[robbo 110]

looking at the price of cord atm i think im going to look into buying in green split logs, if i can buy at £40-45 per m3 then the axe etc will be having a year off!!!!

[farmer_ben]

Eggs, thats around Bulmer isnt it? Julian Swift farms there i believe. Lovely place.

 

Wouldnt worry about the price. I've run 2 loads into melford today (£100 a tranny load area!!) and both customers were over the moon with my 1.1 cube for £100.

 

I honestly wouldnt do it any cheaper, for me buying in wood etc i wouldnt start the saw bench up for less.

 

Hows your logs going?

[eggsarascal]

who ever purchased and built the estate many moons ago did all of the above to get into that position, the logs are just a little extra because they can

These estates weren't purchased they were laid claim to by the aristocracy, but the rest of what you say is true.

[eggsarascal]

Eggs, thats around Bulmer isnt it? Julian Swift farms there i believe. Lovely place.

 

Wouldnt worry about the price. I've run 2 loads into melford today (£100 a tranny load area!!) and both customers were over the moon with my 1.1 cube for £100.

 

I honestly wouldnt do it any cheaper, for me buying in wood etc i wouldnt start the saw bench up for less.

 

Hows your logs going?

 

Ben, this shoot was over Saffron Waldon way. Isn't a tranny more than 1.1 of a cube ?

 

The log sales are slow if you want the truth.

 

How about you ?

[Stephen Blair]

[quote=eggsarascal;582327

These estates weren't purchased they were laid claim to by the aristocracy

 

gotcha:sneaky2:

[Johny Walker]

gotcha:sneaky2:

 

that means stolen from the locals ,coz they couldnt pay/afford the extremme taxes required to free the the crusaders from the far east ,many moons ago