timber prices

[Steve Bullman]

you'd be a fool for selling it at £30 a ton.....and i think you'll find rideside its worth a lot more than £10 a ton also

[Buzz]

Why a fool when 30.00 at roadside equates to 40.00 a ton delivered in ? Get haulage rates and deliver it yourself if you want another 4-5 a ton.

[Buzz]

Post 5 reads wrong from me, i ment 10-12 is roughly what it will cost you to stick it there at a very rough guess now knowing the site etc.

[Steve Bullman]

my mistake, i misunderstood your post. £40 to end user minimum

[Steve Bullman]

and i think you mean post 4, sort it out mate:001_tongue:

[garth mc garth]

site is pretty small and level, good access for forwarding, well drained sandy soil so it not too wet. so whats the goin rate to buy it at the stump?

[Buzz]

There is no going rate mate, just work the figures back what will it cost you to extract i.e. how long with the kit you have ? how many man days ? how much do you want to earn out of the job ?

 

Looking at the figures i posted with 1k extraction costs and 2 k profit i wouldn't want to give him much more than 5.00 ton, he may well be expecting 8 - 10.

 

Really you just need to find out what your end user will pay and what the client wants for it and take it from there.

 

I reguarly pay 9.00 ton for chip wood at roadside so firewood is good money.

[Quickthorn]

As a guide...The estate here in Lincs were asking £5 /ton standing for firewood at the beginning of this season (although more recently, some outfit were paying around £10 /ton for ash..standing..this is in Notts..not sure if they made much money on that one). A rough figure for felling and extracting is £18 / ton..I think it splits 50/50 between felling and extracting, so that puts it at £14 / ton at stump. However, we're talking about a different county here, and it all depends on lots of stuff.

 

Are you dealing with the owner direct, or through some sort of agent? This the owner a farmer?

 

I'd be interested to know what price it goes for.

Edited January 14, 2009 by Quickthorn

[Justme]

I have just ordered an artic of Larch. Min 10" at the narrow end, front end of lorry all 5m plus, rear of lorry 3.6m plus, 25-27 cubes / tonnes on lorry for £65 per tonne inc del VAT etc to a remote area (added £5 tonne to normal delivery cost). Its for milling up not firewood mind you.

 

Justme

[john burgess]

I'd be interested in it P.M. me