what does a firewood sale cost you in timber?

[StephF]

Hi Ibought in last year at average £45 roadside now regularly hearing of 50 55 a tonne all these plus haulage!I run my own lorry and trailer but the haulage costs are still about 10 to15 depending on distance,truoble is I am in pembrokeshire and all the fc and large managed woods around here are softwood.

To sound even more grim A friend told me last night a large woodland management company

paid £55 a tonne for 3000 tonnes of STANDING hardwood how much is this going to be

roadside? Happy new year Big Chris.

 

Bet its going to a Bio mass plant making electricity somewhere, they have to secure HUGE quantities of timber to burn, and they are so subsidised they can afford to pay through the nose for it!!!

[woodworm]

I bet its not!!

[gensetsteve]

Bet its going to a Bio mass plant making electricity somewhere, they have to secure HUGE quantities of timber to burn, and they are so subsidised they can afford to pay through the nose for it!!!

 

I think alot of those subsidies have disappeared in the last few months thats why that shut drax at Slough. Good news for the smaller suppliers in the wood game.

[openspaceman]

I think alot of those subsidies have disappeared in the last few months thats why that shut drax at Slough. Good news for the smaller suppliers in the wood game.

 

I suspect their NFFO subsidy ran out, nowadays the big coal burners will be hooked in to one of the new tarriffs.

[nick channer]

I think alot of those subsidies have disappeared in the last few months thats why that shut drax at Slough. Good news for the smaller suppliers in the wood game.

 

Is slough actually shut???

I called a big local skip firm last week who have there own shredder to see if they had any chip they were looking to give away.

When Slough used to go down they would ring all local farmers to bring it in free for bedding.

They said no they had none.

I said I thought with Slough being shut they'd have plenty to get rid of.

He said what you on about were gunning two walking floors in there every day 6 days week..

[gensetsteve]

Is slough actually shut???

I called a big local skip firm last week who have there own shredder to see if they had any chip they were looking to give away.

When Slough used to go down they would ring all local farmers to bring it in free for bedding.

They said no they had none.

I said I thought with Slough being shut they'd have plenty to get rid of.

He said what you on about were gunning two walking floors in there every day 6 days week..

 

I heard it from about 4 different sources but it well be open to big contracts just not transits with green waste. I would have thought you know nick being on your doorstep.

[nick channer]

I heard it from about 4 different sources but it well be open to big contracts just not transits with green waste. I would have thought you know nick being on your doorstep.

 

Less than 10 miles from our yard but in 14 yrs none our chip has ever gone there. Always go up north.

Just googled it and they haven't shut just down sized..

[openspaceman]

Is slough actually shut???

 

It's still running on demolition timber rather than virgin wood, I'm guessing this is because they can get enough and be paid for taking it plus the virgin timber they were burning attracted the NFFO subsidy and as this was a pump priming grant it ran out after a number of years.

[gensetsteve]

It's still running on demolition timber rather than virgin wood, I'm guessing this is because they can get enough and be paid for taking it plus the virgin timber they were burning attracted the NFFO subsidy and as this was a pump priming grant it ran out after a number of years.

 

There is a pile of demolition timber the size of a football pitch at Raymond Brown at Barton Stacey about 30 miles from Slough. They try sending theres to Holland so the rate must be poor at slough.

[Marc Lewis]

Been messing around with some prices and budgets for next year today, and been ultering prices and potential profit to compensate for cord wood to keep rising. My loads (I have 3 different cubic metre sizes) currently cost me 20% of the sale in timber. I dont think thats too bad, obviously the more cheaper timber I can source the better but if im honest if the % was to be much more (say 30%) I dont think id keep pushing the firewood game.

 

Just intrigued what others are working out the timber per load costs are. Makes me wonder how/why some guys are cheaper then me and source all there timber in the cord at a premium.

 

I sell a load (1 m3) for £65, the wood costs me £5.