My log pricing this year

[Treefitter]

Has anyone thought that selling the logs is cheaper than paying for the disposal of green waste?

 

 

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[gensetsteve]

I don't have to put a figure on it if I was selling on I would. the way I look at it if I earn £20,000 a year in wages it is good enough. in the season I deliver approximately 6 m³ a day and I start at 8 o'clock and I'm normally home by 2:30 to 3 o'clock five days a week. In the summer I tend to start earlier but finish same time

 

No one is having a go. You earn a living its up to you what you charge. But if one of the wood merchants moves in and pushes you out you will not be able to hold your price to £60 a metre if you have to buy in cord. I cant put a ro ro in to fill up as everyone round me sells for £60 a metre. So for now I am out.

[john burgess]

No one is having a go. You earn a living its up to you what you charge. But if one of the wood merchants moves in and pushes you out you will not be able to hold your price to £60 a metre if you have to buy in cord. I cant put a ro ro in to fill up as everyone round me sells for £60 a metre. So for now I am out.

 

and one of the big forestry contractors looked at the job I'm doing at the moment and offered £8 a ton. I do buy in timber from a local estate in cord at £70 a cord

[gensetsteve]

and one of the big forestry contractors looked at the job I'm doing at the moment and offered £8 a ton. I do buy in timber from a local estate in cord at £70 a cord

 

How many cubic metres of solid timber in a cord I am guessing 2.5 - 3 . If they offer £8 a tonne I would guess it costs £25 a tonne after it lands in their yard. Around this way they are paying £25-£30 standing.

[hazzygawa]

Interesting thread. I didn't realise people's high costs of logs.

[ThrustSSC]

I have tried this a few times. When you collect they look like they are chewing lemons. They either half fill the truck, its 38% or full of crap. I nearly bought two ro ro skip fulls a few years ago about 80 cu metres but when it came to invoice time they wanted the retail public price then put another 20% vat on. I left them to drive it all round the country side dropping a metre at a time.

 

Glad to hear it's not just me! As they're in my 'patch' I do think I should check them out, but my customers keep coming back saying "we don't get logs anything like as good as yours from anyone else". So clearly I'm doing something different enough that they're happy to pay my price - which is significantly more than that guy!

[eggsarascal]

No one is having a go. You earn a living its up to you what you charge. But if one of the wood merchants moves in and pushes you out you will not be able to hold your price to £60 a metre if you have to buy in cord. I cant put a ro ro in to fill up as everyone round me sells for £60 a metre. So for now I am out.

 

It's quite easy really. If you have got to rent a yard and buy in all your timber. Don't do it.

 

I rented a cheap barn and some space to store timber. All was working well. Then the landlord wanted to put the rent up fourfold! Which to be fair was around the going rate. I could not make it pay in the end. So I jacked "The Logs".

[Logsnstuff]

Glad to hear it's not just me! As they're in my 'patch' I do think I should check them out, but my customers keep coming back saying "we don't get logs anything like as good as yours from anyone else". So clearly I'm doing something different enough that they're happy to pay my price - which is significantly more than that guy!

 

I get the same thing usually after they decide I'm too expensive and try the cheap load, next order they are back at us praising the quality, the problem is getting them to make the initial purchase, starting to lean towards doing the farmers markets so they can at least get a look.

[Logsnstuff]

It's quite easy really. If you have got to rent a yard and buy in all your timber. Don't do it.

 

I rented a cheap barn and some space to store timber. All was working well. Then the landlord wanted to put the rent up fourfold! Which to be fair was around the going rate. I could not make it pay in the end. So I jacked "The Logs".

 

start with some decent tarps instead of a barn until you build a little customer base to afford luxury storage.

[eggsarascal]

start with some decent tarps instead of a barn until you build a little customer base to afford luxury storage.

 

Where would I have stored tractor and processor?..... I wouldn't think Mrs Egg would be pleased if I parked them on the drive every evening.

 

By the way it was nothing like luxury. 'twas cheap mind.