Shoes and socks off

[widmere]

How much split saleable firewood do you get from a tonne/metre of pulp wood - assume 10in length and pieces you can pick up with one hand if you're a lady. Fellow splitter reckons 48m from 27 tonnnes

 

Adios

 

WW

[tommer9]

He MIGHT be a muppet then. Never deal in wood/timber by weight, always by volume, unless it is either totally green and you know the green weight of that particular sp or it is kiln dried and you have the weight of that timber when kilned. he only time when weight is relevant other than that is when making sure you dont overload a lorry etc.

[widmere]

Don't think he's a muppet - Sould I re phrase how many metres out of a 27 metre lorry load.

 

W

[Chris Sheppard]

Very, very loosely speaking we used to work on 1 tonne straight from the woods creating enough logs to fill 2 1m cube boxes - did depend on type of timber and whether it was winter or summer felled etc etc......

[davetaz]

I recently had 2 cubic metres (mixed hardwoods, not seasoned) on the trailer, went to local weigh bridge and it came out at 860kg. By my calcs this means 1T (1000kg) will convert in to 2.3 cubic metres. This was fresh cut green timber.

[davetaz]

RE previous post

I only did this as an experiment though. Firewood we sell is by the volume. All i was trying to do was figure out how long it would take to process 2 cubic metres and what weight of timber was needed. This way we can figure out how long it will take to process a 20T load and what volume it will convert in to and therefore any profit margins etc!

[widmere]

Thanks Chris and Dave - 2 to 1 and 2.3 to 1 - I am only getting 1.8 to 1 - I think the size of log is critical to create max air space in a loose load.

[Chris Sheppard]

I think the size of log is critical to create max air space in a loose load.

 

and it depends how roughly you load it - if you place them all nicely then you'll get a lot more in - if you throw them in/drop them off an elevator theres usually more gaps too - so many variables you'll never, ever get two loads exactly the same.

 

Weights and measures act has a lot to answer for - sell it by the loose "load" and explain that the volume figure is the volume of the size of the container it's being delivered in if need be.

Edited May 8, 2009 by Chris Sheppard
sounded confusing.

[Johny Walker]

we get 3 & bit b/bags per ton on average between 250 & 300kg per bag