What would you price this Alder at?

[djbobbins]

Good burning wood... Especially if you can buy it by weight and sell it by volume!

 

 

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[Pete Mctree]

I've found very well seasoned alder burns ok (ish) but with not masses of heat. Made some nice charcoal out of a few tonnes once so might be worth seeing if there are any local charcoal producers who would be interested?

 

When dry & seasoned it is one of the best fire woods going. Needs to be dry though

[Rhob the Log]

Definitely DJB! Seems we'll get a good return on 10 days felling and traipsing through mud, with the buyers picking up the manual handling.

 

Did I see someone say weight can be arrived at by calculating stack dimensions divided by 2? Seems a lot like calculating volume minus air space (x0.5 or 0.4) and should be different for different species. Suppose a weighbridge is your best bet, but how do you do it in the field? What's the volume per ton of Alder? e.g Birch is around 800 Kg per cm3, Oak is over 1 ton per cube, right?

[hardtop110]

No option for charcoal production? It makes the best charcoal and you would be adding value. Definitely worth investigating.

[Rhob the Log]

No option for charcoal production? It makes the best charcoal and you would be adding value. Definitely worth investigating.

 

Funnily enough the guy who does a lot of the contract felling on the reserve, Paul Fulford, is a charcoal burner. Think he's moving house soon though so may not have the time on his hands, otherwise I'm sure he would've been interested. Can always ask though...