Firewood Business

[nick channer]

i'll deliver you timber in at £50 a ton and if i was a one man band and just relied on firewood i could make a good living.. in summer you have to source as much wood for free as poss by collecting it for free from tree surgeons off their jobs then buy in the rest..

[samtheman365]

Do you believe it is possible to make a year round living out of just selling firewood?

 

I do and ive only been doing it full time for 2 years:thumbup:

[Dean Lofthouse]

I haven't really done any deep studies but I reckon if I sell £60 worth of logs I make £20 and I would imagine the more I produced the more margin I would make

[timberbear]

I certainly think you can make a living, but there again I'm in a fortunate position owning my own small holding and equipment. I know someone (can't say who cause he is on here) who makes a decent return from his firewood business. In fact he makes such a decent return that I had considered buying his business, cause he wants a change of career (getting old I call it). But I only want to make enough money to be comfortable, I'm gearing my business up as my retirement future.

[kinojango]

Well I have some spare land and a large garage, think I may just go for it. What could go wrong ha ha.

[Tom D]

Its definitely doable, I just bought a 30ton splitter and a processor, with arb waste we can do 25 - 30 cube a day, maybe more if the timber has been laid out in lengths which some of ours has. If we sell a cube for £60 thats £1500 quid a day, there will be less productive days of course and you still have to deliver it. My operating costs are around £450 a day allowing for everything. I will probably sell wholesale + delivery at around £40 a cube so I will make about £500 for each day spent splitting.

 

So I am happy with that!

[john p]

nice set up Tom

[Spruce]

it,s all down to your out goings and your lifestyle, my morgage is paid off and i have no loans and we live a simple but good life, spend lots of time with my family and our 4 horses, plus we have 220 acres of woodland to harvest our firewood from and we only scratch a living but we have a great quailty of life and would not swap it, to be a wage slave!

 

Lucky b*****d!

[kinojango]

Very good set-up Tom.

 

Thanks for all of your advice guys, its appreciated.

[barry ayres]

well my great grandad, my grandad, my uncle and my dad have all made a living just from firewood ive still got little way to go before i do but im close so the answer is yes you can make a living just fro firewood.

 

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