Why is wood chip not a saleable commodity?

[alex_m]

Is that from stobarts? Wondering if it depends on how far you are from the nearest biomass plant.

[Dan Earp]

Is that from stobarts? Wondering if it depends on how far you are from the nearest biomass plant.

 

Were in leicester and our chip goes to wales bud

[Beardie]

Reminds me of the guy who I met at a boot fair who said- yeah, I'll have a load- when we turned up with a load it turned out he just wanted about 20% of it.

Bit of a waste.

 

Obviously some misunderstanding as to how much "a load" is. Certainly with a lot of the firewood ads I've seen, this is not stated.

[MattyF]

Is that from stobarts? Wondering if it depends on how far you are from the nearest biomass plant.

 

I guess not ... They are talking the piss at £3 per tonne though !!

[shendy]

Im looking for a wood chip boiler that will run on 'arb waste' chip and run 2 houses. If there is such a thing

[rustcutter]

I genuinely don't understand the biomass thing e.g. Stobarts. Can any one explain why they come for it?

What I mean is; they come to collect a 20 ton load for £60 in a lorry which would probably cost £60k, driver on £30k never mind other running costs; £60 of diesel would take the lorry about 50 miles.

How much do Stobarts customers pay them in order to make it worth while?

Presumably woodchip is indeed a very saleable product but even so sometimes you cant give it away.

[Breezeblock]

Im looking for a wood chip boiler that will run on 'arb waste' chip and run 2 houses. If there is such a thing

 

there is but you will need to spend 30k + to get it

[Burgess]

I genuinely don't understand the biomass thing e.g. Stobarts. Can any one explain why they come for it?

What I mean is; they come to collect a 20 ton load for £60 in a lorry which would probably cost £60k, driver on £30k never mind other running costs; £60 of diesel would take the lorry about 50 miles.

How much do Stobarts customers pay them in order to make it worth while?

Presumably woodchip is indeed a very saleable product but even so sometimes you cant give it away.

 

I dunno, my local recycling place sells bio mass (they have a bandit beast recycler so whatever comes out of that) at £25 a tonne and it flies out of there. The worse bit is they charge me £18 to get through with my vauxhall combo!

[shendy]

there is but you will need to spend 30k + to get it

 

Ouch. Got any info?

 

 

Sent from the future.

[openspaceman]

there is but you will need to spend 30k + to get it

 

Or buy a secondhand one from someone going for new under RHI. Saw one I worked on commissioned for £300k get knocked down for £8k at 4 years old when the greenhouses were shut.