Price per 1m cube next year.

[18 stoner]

it was certainly difficult (and expensive) to get hold of this year!

 

What sort of £ per ton you been buying in in your neck of the woods?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Or perhaps it's simply a shortage of hardwood in my patch - it was certainly difficult (and expensive) to get hold of this year!

 

Aint that true !

[StephF]

Prices varying a lot! between £35 / £55 tonne roadside for mixed hardwood, not much more than softwood, which is around £30!

[combined tree services]

Do any of you guys find that the problem is seasonal ? i know a couple of the boys that pick up out timber have said that its certainly quieter now with regards to pulp/chip wood deliveries to the firewood guys

[gensetsteve]

When we did logs I used to have a price rise in august then another in December when logs were scarce I used to then hold this price through the summer to encourage stocking up early.

[rovers90]

I've charged £75 inc vat for a loose pick up load of hardwood logs for the last three years. The load equates to a loose volume of 1.1 cubic metres. I'm now putting my price up to £85 due to increasing costs and people often say what a good size load it is and how much drier they are than previous suppliers they have used.

 

New customers have accepted the price no bother but I don't know how my regulars, some of whom were on a load a month last season, will accept it - time will tell:confused1:

[18 stoner]

Never be afraid of increasing prices.

 

You need to work out your profit per bag/load/cube, and also your accepted percentage loss of customers.

 

If, for instance you made £20 per bag and wanted to increase your price, you could increase your price by £10 a bag and accept loosing a third of your customers without being any worse off.

[Yorkshire Brummie]

Hi Guys,

I am a bit new to the firewood trade. I am hoping to sell a bit, to accompany the tree work side. I'm afraid it will be a bit old school, cutting rings then splitting with small tractor driven splitter. Excuse me if these Q's all sound a bit lame but - Is there an industry average size per log, say 9"? How do I measure say 1 m3 worth of logs? (I will deliver in my Pick up/trailer) Is it about 250 x 9 " logs? How do I measure the moisture content in said logs? As I say this will only be small scale, probably to my existing customer base but all the same I would like to do it right, and make a few Bob! As for costing, well it seems charges vary from £50 - £100 per m3! Cheers in advance fellas, Ian

[eggsarascal]

Hi Guys,

I am a bit new to the firewood trade. I am hoping to sell a bit, to accompany the tree work side. I'm afraid it will be a bit old school, cutting rings then splitting with small tractor driven splitter. Excuse me if these Q's all sound a bit lame but - Is there an industry average size per log, say 9"? How do I measure say 1 m3 worth of logs? (I will deliver in my Pick up/trailer) Is it about 250 x 9 " logs? How do I measure the moisture content in said logs? As I say this will only be small scale, probably to my existing customer base but all the same I would like to do it right, and make a few Bob! As for costing, well it seems charges vary from £50 - £100 per m3! Cheers in advance fellas, Ian

 

No average size logs ( I used to cut mine 10 inch), get a moister meter to test content. Measure the size of the back of ya truck/ trailer, length x width x height of sides to get volume.

 

Or just sell your arising/waste for beer money.

[Alycidon]

No average size logs ( I used to cut mine 10 inch), get a moister meter to test content. Measure the size of the back of ya truck/ trailer, length x width x height of sides to get volume.

 

Or just sell your arising/waste for beer money.

 

 

 

Cut 240mm or shorter and split. Most people these days are burning logs in small stoves. A few can only take 200mm, most can take 250mm. I have no issues to date at 240mm give or take a bit.

 

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