Local firewood

[mendiplogs]

10 minute edit rule is pants.

Change it please admin

 

HI BAR send steve a pm then but have a dig at the mobs thanks jon

[BARNSLEY BOB]

Was going to carry on and expand my post.

But

exceeded the 10 min rule while having my tea.

So

change required administrators.

[BARNSLEY BOB]

Went to fuelwood open day sat.

 

Met log barons, good chat, and good to meet you.

 

Fuelwoods questionnaire, "what price do you sell firewood per tonne ? "

 

wrong

 

firewood is sold by volume.

 

This is an established firewood machinery company

[mendiplogs]

Went to fuelwood open day sat.

 

Met log barons, good chat, and good to meet you.

 

Fuelwoods questionnaire, "what price do you sell firewood per tonne ? "

 

wrong

 

firewood is sold by volume.

 

This is an established firewood machinery company

HI BAR that joy yes thanks we get some think good out this post yet :lol:thanks jon

[mark stamper]

Hi there mr bowlander or der as I like to think of it. You never got back to me about my stacking your wood for free?? Please email me [email protected]

[BARNSLEY BOB]

As for point 3.

The going rate should be £100/m3 for a sustainable,profitable business.

If you find a supplier for £35/bag, good luck , they will not be around for long, or they are up to something else, will they be vat registered, i dont think so.

[hedgesparrow]

As for point 3.

The going rate should be £100/m3 for a sustainable,profitable business.

If you find a supplier for £35/bag, good luck , they will not be around for long, or they are up to something else, will they be vat registered, i dont think so.

 

+1 £35 per bag of logs did do it for a regular but put prices up as not worth the hassel of doing it for that can not be making much.

did you ever ask a arbtalk member for logs. in your area.

[gensetsteve]

Since my original thread “why oh why...” has been closed and I cannot reply to someone who was particularly abusive I thought i’d have my final say here:

 

I have found an excellent local supplier who delivered 4 builders bags of well seasoned oak and ash pure hardwood for £35 a bag. The logs were cut to less than 10 inches. They are an excellent local company who I’ll be buying from again in the future.

 

My original post from "why oh why thread" was:

 

"After agonising about buying wood instead of those compressed briquettes I looked round for a local firewood supplier. He said £50 for a dumpy bag of hardwood which he estimated to be 0.7 cubic metres. I've stacked his delivery in the woodshed. A few bits of Scots pine and the dreaded poplar in there. Stacked it loose and measured..... It's only 0.45 cubic metres worth. Disappointing."

 

A few points:

 

1. This was the first time I’ve bought firewood in bulk. I bought by the builders bag which is how firewood appears to be sold. There is no uniformity or consistency in this, which makes comparison between different suppliers difficult. I did not buy by the cubic metre measure, stacked or loose. I merely asked for an approximate volume from the supplier.

 

2. Firewood suppliers will have a very good idea of how much is in a bag because they are in the trade and deal with such things on a daily basis. I appreciate that they might get very frustrated and about my lack of knowledge in this area. It is probably very easy to get wound up by questions from people like me who know nothing about the trade, even questions that seem “obvious” or ridiculous. But when people have been in the trade a long time i think that they don’t appreciate how much knowledge they have compared to a customer with little experience of it. I expect that good suppliers will explain such things very well to their customers who ask these sorts of questions. It is excellent customer service and ensures that they will have a lot repeat custom.

 

3. There is no such thing, in my view, as “the going rate” for firewood. It’s a market place and the customer can always shop around for better deals.

 

Finally, I could respond with some direct feedback to those who have been abusive. But life’s too short and they’re really not worth it. Good luck and a long life to you all.

 

B.

 

So you have 4 bags how much was in them ? .

 

You posted last December that you were unhappy with the bag system yet 8 months later you bought a bag with out really knowing whats in it.

 

What your really looking for is a full transit load for £50. I would say you have enough spare time to get screaming bargain on everything you buy. The people on here have families to support and mortgages to pay and need a good margin on what they sell to pay their business bills before they even look at net profit.

 

For some reason I knew you would start a new thread.

 

To anyone starting or thinking of going into selling logs please dont think all members of the public are like this. I would say this is one in a hundred and you soon get a feel for them when they ring up.

[Mark Bolam]

Felix, this is someone who's never wrong, the annoying one at a dinner party, your time is wasted

 

I'm really confused now.

I thought that was me?

[APC]

Since my original thread “why oh why...” has been closed and I cannot reply to someone who was particularly abusive I thought i’d have my final say here:

 

I have found an excellent local supplier who delivered 4 builders bags of well seasoned oak and ash pure hardwood for £35 a bag. The logs were cut to less than 10 inches. They are an excellent local company who I’ll be buying from again in the future.

 

My original post from "why oh why thread" was:

 

"After agonising about buying wood instead of those compressed briquettes I looked round for a local firewood supplier. He said £50 for a dumpy bag of hardwood which he estimated to be 0.7 cubic metres. I've stacked his delivery in the woodshed. A few bits of Scots pine and the dreaded poplar in there. Stacked it loose and measured..... It's only 0.45 cubic metres worth. Disappointing."

 

I think what has happened here is:

You were delivered a builders bag = 0.7 cubic metres, 4.5 of logs 2.5 of spaces between the logs, you then took the logs out and stacked them and you left all the spaces in the bag! If you still have the bag they might still be there.👍