Selling THE BULK BAG

[farmer_ben]

i charge £80 for 1.3-1.5m3... [bucket is 1.3m3 but depending how hard you push it into heap and how careful you are about level filling it can go up to 1.5m3].. does seem a builders bag of any size does get a premiumn... they sell 1.2m3 bags for £100 round here....

 

1.2m3 baf must be huge nick?! must be a nightmare to haul off the truck or trailer?!

 

yeah 0.65 bulk bags are a good seller for me. got 3 to do tomoro.

[nick channer]

1.2m3 baf must be huge nick?! must be a nightmare to haul off the truck or trailer?!

 

yeah 0.65 bulk bags are a good seller for me. got 3 to do tomo

i dont sell any bags at all.. guy down road does... he just tips them out on there drive...

[farmer_ben]

yeah i gathered you ment someone else. i like the 0.65 bags as i can pull a full bag off the pick up on my own and can leave the logs in bag if thats how customer wants it.

 

going to get some sections made up for my tipping trailer so each section can hold .065 or 1.2 cube. will make things bit easier and less handling,

[the crafty weasel]

I sell by the builders bag. I can drag them around by myself, as it's mostly oak and beech I have this year I don't think I'd be able to handle a cubic metre bag. plus there's the issue of cost on the bag. I can buy 0.65m3 bags from a local quarry for £2.50 each, and seeing as I season my stuff before it's bagged I don't really have to worry about ventilation.

[Spruce]

Speaking as an ex-customer (I do my own wood since we started using it as our only source of heating) customers only think of weight and price. We have no idea how much weight water adds to wet wood and volumetric measurements like a cubic metre are pretty much meaningless. However, we all know how big a builders bag is, and we all know it weighs a ton when it's full. You're wasting your time trying to educate people because we know it all and we're not going to be ripped off by one of you lot selling us wood that was free anyway. I mean, look, the stuff grows by the side of the road, doesn't it?

[Nat]

"Somebody said you sell logs, how much are they?"

 

"Sure, what size load would you like? I do a net for £3, a sack for £5, builders bag for £40, a cubic meter £60 or a 3 cube tractor trailer for £150.....

 

Funny, nobody ever quibbles over price! I get loads of repeat business.

I put £5 deposit on a bag if they insist on keeping it, and get a fiver delivery if we're going more than 5 miles and upto 10 from base.

[farmer_ben]

"Somebody said you sell logs, how much are they?"

 

"Sure, what size load would you like? I do a net for £3, a sack for £5, builders bag for £40, a cubic meter £60 or a 3 cube tractor trailer for £150.....

 

Funny, nobody ever quibbles over price! I get loads of repeat business.

I put £5 deposit on a bag if they insist on keeping it, and get a fiver delivery if we're going more than 5 miles and upto 10 from base.

 

I'm not surprised nobody quibbles them prices! I'd buy all your logs if I was next door!

[Hodge]

Speaking as an ex-customer (I do my own wood since we started using it as our only source of heating) customers only think of weight and price. We have no idea how much weight water adds to wet wood and volumetric measurements like a cubic metre are pretty much meaningless. However, we all know how big a builders bag is, and we all know it weighs a ton when it's full. You're wasting your time trying to educate people because we know it all and we're not going to be ripped off by one of you lot selling us wood that was free anyway. I mean, look, the stuff grows by the side of the road, doesn't it?

 

A builders bag does not hold a tonne of wood when full.

[DN22 Gardening]

offer the customer what they want.

 

we sell in any size of bag they want to buy in.

 

we recently had a customer buy a dumpy bag of ash off us after i'd tried to sell him a cube but was told it was too expensive

 

two doors further up the road bought a tipper load, also of ash a few days later. the first customer was straight on the phone.

 

[pembswoodrecycling]

A builders bag does not hold a tonne of wood when full.

 

it can if you take a hose pipe to it!