Log sellers experience of last winter

[gensetsteve]

Luckily we spent too much time last spring making kindling so we were not overstocked on logs but that was more luck than judgement

[turbull]

If people not buying log,s they aint buying kindling ?

[nick channer]

This aways happens.

 

A few years ago it happened with potatoes, there was a shortage and prices rocketed the following year every one planted spuds, the price fell through the floor.

same as hay from 2011 harvest.... 2009 and 2010 was very dry and yields down so you could ask what you wanted for a small bale..

every spare bit of grass was made into hay last harvest and market is now flooded... doesnt effect us as we supply our regular customers with little left over but the hay/straw dealers all say no trade at all for hay... straw still keeps going up and up bit like cordwood..

[gensetsteve]

If people not buying log,s they aint buying kindling ?

 

round our way less people make kindling than logs. The kindling is made and sold a week later. We make logs and season for 12 months in the hope they may sell

[farmer_ben]

same as hay from 2011 harvest.... 2009 and 2010 was very dry and yields down so you could ask what you wanted for a small bale..

every spare bit of grass was made into hay last harvest and market is now flooded... doesnt effect us as we supply our regular customers with little left over but the hay/straw dealers all say no trade at all for hay... straw still keeps going up and up bit like cordwood..

 

agreed, i dont make much hay but this year i still have half of the bales in my shed i made, 2 years before sold it all a lot earlier and at a better price

[dylan]

sold more this year than the year before but found i sold alot more bags than tipped loads due to people not sure of what the weather was going to do and not wanting to outlet in large loads because of financial uncertainty

i did find that out of the calls from non recommended people that i only supplied 50% of them early season due to more competition selling freshly split cheap logs

although alot of them rang back after getting a load that wouldn't burn