pick up load

[farmer_ben]

  Daniel Jiggins said:

Ditto

 

Thought it was single cab

 

80 is not enough imo. My truck is the same as yours, l200 king cab (altho mine is newer shaoe), and I easily sell at 100 a load. Heaped right up its around 1.2cube.

[Daniel Jiggins]

  farmer_ben said:

80 is not enough imo. My truck is the same as yours, l200 king cab (altho mine is newer shaoe), and I easily sell at 100 a load. Heaped right up its around 1.2cube.

 

Is that all hardwood though Ben?

[farmer_ben]

  Daniel Jiggins said:

Is that all hardwood though Ben?

 

It is right now but will start offering a mixed stove mix in the new yr, that will be £100 and all hw going up to £110-£115

[New Forest Firewood Co]

Thing is a good proportion of the load shown is taken up by a wheelie bin.... That's got to be about .3 of a cube.......

[Backpain]

I always drop a pallet under my loads, make them look bigger:laugh1:

[White Noise]

  wannabe logger said:

Hi all, do you think £80 for a heaped Mitsubishi pick up load of well seasoned mix of hard and softwood delivered locally is a fair price? I only ever sold them in nets before and really think i was working for nothing/very little. Thanks in advance:thumbup1:

 

Yes £ 80 is a fair price . Although I cannot understand how you made less money doing logs in nets . For me If I sold just nets I would have a greater profit . I would sell nets for at least £5 and each net would contain 10 logs . At the minute I sell 250 logs for £50 mixed load loose tipped on drive . If I did the same in nets at £5 per net with 10 logs I,d be making £125 per 250 logs . Think I will start doing nets only:lol: Your load looks around about 350 logs

[big chris the log]

If I were you I would measure out the back of pick up to know the cubic capacity ie cubic metre the sell every load the same the customer then knows what they are getting.The trouble is they think builders bags contain a ton of logs when it is only half acubic metre

as they are.80x.80x.80 =0.512 cubic metre.As for what you charge well that depends on so many factors mainly what every one else in your area charges.

Hope this is of help Chris.

[drythropple]

  White Noise said:

Yes £ 80 is a fair price . Although I cannot understand how you made less money doing logs in nets . For me If I sold just nets I would have a greater profit . I would sell nets for at least £5 and each net would contain 10 logs . At the minute I sell 250 logs for £50 mixed load loose tipped on drive . If I did the same in nets at £5 per net with 10 logs I,d be making £125 per 250 logs . Think I will start doing nets only:lol: Your load looks around about 350 logs

 

  big chris the log said:

If I were you I would measure out the back of pick up to know the cubic capacity ie cubic metre the sell every load the same the customer then knows what they are getting.The trouble is they think builders bags contain a ton of logs when it is only half acubic metre

as they are.80x.80x.80 =0.512 cubic metre.As for what you charge well that depends on so many factors mainly what every one else in your area charges.

Hope this is of help Chris.

So many different sized dumpy bags! Mine are 80x80x90!

[wannabe logger]

  New Forest Firewood Co said:

Thing is a good proportion of the load shown is taken up by a wheelie bin.... That's got to be about .3 of a cube.......

 

Haha thanks new forest, i should have pointed out that the bin is full also., sorry for the confusion:thumbup: Anyway i was previously selling 60x45cm nets to a coal merchant for £2 who in turn sold them to public for £3 or 4 for a tenner, so really nobody was making money anyway:blushing: The pick up load is alot less work and i definitely see a profit in this route. BTW it was 15 deg here in N Ireland yesterday, but who knows what Mother nature will bring in New Year.

[Logsnstuff]

  wannabe logger said:

Haha thanks new forest, i should have pointed out that the bin is full also., sorry for the confusion:thumbup: Anyway i was previously selling 60x45cm nets to a coal merchant for £2 who in turn sold them to public for £3 or 4 for a tenner, so really nobody was making money anyway:blushing: The pick up load is alot less work and i definitely see a profit in this route. BTW it was 15 deg here in N Ireland yesterday, but who knows what Mother nature will bring in New Year.

 

i sell my nets similar size for £3 + vat and they sell them on at £5.00 and softwood I do in 50x80 which I'm selling £3.00 because the timber is getting bit old but £4.50 + vat when I buy in fresh stuff next year