Forwarding Costs

[farmer rod]

what is the price range for a tractor and trailer crane per hour/day, say a 10 tonner, how many tonnes per day do you do?

[Mark Bolam]

I know a lad based in Smarden who would probably want around £300/day depending on travel.

 

Tonnage/day would depend on too many different variables for me to comment on though.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Priced per m3 here; £5/m3 ish depending on distance to stack / landing.

[farmer rod]

thanks guys, I have just signed up for a chip boiler, and Ive got wind of a poplar windbreak coming down, just have to do my sums first.

[A Townsend]

thanks guys, I have just signed up for a chip boiler, and Ive got wind of a poplar windbreak coming down, just have to do my sums first.

 

Hi,

 

Id be interested in the extraction if all goes ahead.

 

Cheers,

 

Andrew

[farmer rod]

Hi,

 

Id be interested in the extraction if all goes ahead.

 

Cheers,

 

Andrew

 

Hi Andrew where are you based?

[gensetsteve]

If you have to pay a mans wage for the day and you have the access it normally pays to have an arctic 27 tonnes at a time set up right you should get 2 loads a day possibly more if you work long days. I doubt you will do that with tractor and trailer.

[ben lightfoot]

Andrew is based hampshire berkshire border just outside basingstoke

[A Townsend]

Cheers Ben,

 

Based just outside Basingstoke on the Hants/Berks border. If of interest pm, e-mail or give a call 07748854549

 

Cheers,

 

Andrew

[openspaceman]

what is the price range for a tractor and trailer crane per hour/day, say a 10 tonner, how many tonnes per day do you do?

 

 

Length of a piece of string question, when I packed up as Sudbrook closed I was forwarding 2.5m hardwood pulp onto trailers at 58 tonne/day over 1km for £4/tonne and using about 30 litres of diesel. It was OK if nothing went wrong.

 

I can get woodchip to you for cheaper than you could fell and chip it if you take it in the summer and in 25 tonne loads.

[farmer rod]

On the basis we are looking for the best way to do this:-

 

500 metres long poplar windbreak, (there is probably more) which is to be pollarded. I would guess its 40 yrs grown plus. it certainly looks massive but I havent yet been along to look at it, so Im working from memory.

 

Alongside an arable field so it will be cut August and need to be moved straight away. I would need to stack it for a year at my farm, to be chipped in the following summer. Im 17 miles away, but I do have some ground just down the road (say 2m) where it could be stacked. My home farm is not brilliant for artics, but eight wheelers no problem.

 

Does poplar go soft if stacked for more than a year?

 

Any bright ideas welcomed

 

Rod