40 quid a ton

[Stephen Blair]

Are there folk out there buyung lengths of firewood for this price, and arranging haulage to take it away. 20 ton at a time?

 

what size is the wood.is it any old size.?

[Steve Bullman]

thats a delivered in price mate...and i'd want it to be maximum 15" diameter at that money although would take what i could get.

[Stephen Blair]

what is haulage cost per mile?

[slasherscot]

what is haulage cost per mile?

 

 

phone a haulier and ask...........£6-£10 a tonne

[Stephen Blair]

phone a haulier and ask...........£6-£10 a tonne

 

i dont know any mate, can anyone recommend a good one that covers scotland and national. sounds like you guys are needing some. if i could make money at it, i can soon get my hands on it. from coppice ash(12")

to monster horrible stuff that i can rip down to processor size. And anything in the middle.

[Ben Ballard]

we sell our firewood at £25 ton (green weight), to a firewood merchant 2m lengths mainly first and second thinnings .any large lumps i rip down middle with saw before selling .He arranges for the collection wear i have it stacked in loading area. probly costs him about £100 for a 20 ton artic load, in haulage costs to get to his yard.if i deliver a load of seasoned wood in 2m lengths local on my tractor crane trailer would sell at £40 a ton (was 3 ton load on weigh bridge).when we sell to merchant from stack i always agree price going by what weight would of been when it was green .hope that some use to you.

[Stephen Blair]

how do you know what weight it would of been mate. Do you have a contract in place and get paid once they have it over weigh bridge or do lorries have scales?cheers

[Ben Ballard]

we agree just by looking at the stack i keep note of how many loads i take up to stack average weight of 3.5 when green when fully loaded i get 4 ton it ushaly never far of what we guess it is . some of the wood not always good ,sometimes losts of horse chestnut and conifer .When selling pulp wood we have sales agrement drawn and get what the lorrys weight is on the weigh bridge at the place it going .had a load of larch 2.3 chip lengths had been felled a couple months in summer so a little dry .weighed 22 tonne on ticket .

[Stephen Blair]

we agree just by looking at the stack i keep note of how many loads i take up to stack average weight of 3.5 when green when fully loaded i get 4 ton it ushaly never far of what we guess it is . some of the wood not always good ,sometimes losts of horse chestnut and conifer .When selling pulp wood we have sales agrement drawn and get what the lorrys weight is on the weigh bridge at the place it going .had a load of larch 2.3 chip lengths had been felled a couple months in summer so a little dry .weighed 22 tonne on ticket .

 

an experienced eye then, i would like to take a piece to a weigh bridge and see what my judgement is like.cheers mate

[Buzz]

Most timber wagons have weigh loaders now.