Imported kiln dried logs - does anyone actualy buy them?

[ash_smith123]

I have had alot of emails the last few months from companies in europe importing kiln dried wood by the container load. Just wondering if anyone actualy buys them?! From what i can gather you will be lucky to get it cheaper than £120 a cube?! 60 cube container for about £6200+vat (im guessing at 20%?!) what do you guys think or am i missing something?

[hardtop110]

There will always be customers who will pay a lot of money for a premium product.

I concentrate on running the business how I want to and not worry about what other folk are trying.

Innovation in the industry is good for everyone.

[gensetsteve]

By the time they ship their birch over hear you could by it cheaper from anyone on here and you would get a better log being a mix of beech and ash etc. Hence a bit of a pointless excercise especially if diago swizavitch does a bunk with your 6k.

[combined tree services]

I know of a local coal merchant that is buying in kiln dried hardwood , he sells heaps of it to the wealthier customers however several customers have come to me saying that the timber is too dry and feel it burns too fast ?! i dont mind having their custom but really does it burn that fast ??

[gensetsteve]

I know of a local coal merchant that is buying in kiln dried hardwood , he sells heaps of it to the wealthier customers however several customers have come to me saying that the timber is too dry and feel it burns too fast ?! i dont mind having their custom but really does it burn that fast ??

 

I would think so, in my mind birch is getting a bit close to softwood in burning traits ( cant spell characteristics ) so bone dry will give good heat for not very long.

[Bearded Munch]

A local stove shop was selling a box of kiln dried jotul logs for £7.50 which contained about ten logs she said they would last an evening I thoght mabey a couple of hours if lucky.

[Alycidon]

I am aware of some birch imported last spring, kept inside all summer, MC is currently 4%, way to low.

 

Customers are no silly, well most of them are not, they want value. CW's advertised MC is 20-22%, just nail what your MC is in comparison. You will be cheaper so at a similar MC you should be the supplier of choice assuming you are able to deliver in the same way, ie bags on pallets.

 

People these days do NOT want a pile of logs tipped on their drive.

 

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[combined tree services]

A local stove shop was selling a box of kiln dried jotul logs for £7.50 which contained about ten logs she said they would last an evening I thoght mabey a couple of hours if lucky.

 

I have burnt 1 bin load of logs this morning and will burn at least 1 more bit today , this is seasoned hardwood that has been sat in my wood shed since the summer , if i were burning kiln dried timber i would expect i would have to double that to keep the wood burner in all day . throughout the winter we rely on our woodburner t heat the house and provide hot water , im fairly sure if i were to try to do this with kil dried timber it would cost me more in 1 year than it would have cost me to have gas brought in from the road and have a boiler fitted

[Crazy Cutter]

 

People these days do NOT want a pile of logs tipped on their drive.

 

 

No they want the best wood at bargain basement prices.

[gensetsteve]

[quote=Alycidon;743191People these days do NOT want a pile of logs tipped on their drive.

 

I find log customers have a totally different outlook in December when logs are running out everywhere else and there is a foot of snow on the ground. In October/ November go on holiday and save your self the stress and head ache. Your reliable early customers have already been and gone in the spring / summer.