Throughput

[Big J]

Just curious what sort of throughput other Arbtalkmillers are doing. I ended up with 5 separate deliveries or collections of timber yesterday, totaling 43 tonnes, so decided to sit down and work out how much I'd had delivered to the yard or milled on site this year. I was somewhat shocked when the figure I finished with was 230 tonnes! At this rate I'm milling 400 tonnes a year, which for one man with occasional labourers is lunacy!

[Coed y Cardi]

What the hell are you going to do with all that money!!!

[Goaty]

:congrats:No its impressive. You won't be wasting any offcuts. Probably a model sustainable environmentally aware business.

 

This year I've probably done 30kg:lol:

[Big J]

What the hell are you going to do with all that money!!!

 

Haha! If only! I think I run a high volume, low margin kind of business!

 

I do feel that timber can be overpriced sometimes in the UK, so I aim to keep things cheap and cheerful for the most part. I've had more softwood than usual this year, and I only really make £100-150 a tonne on that.

[bella wood]

Lucky you,,,, my timber sale's have dried up to the point of thinking of giving it up ,, sheds full of air dried stuff so no where to put newly milled stuff ,lots of wood here to mill,

 

I can make more money cutting outsider's and windblow for the harvesters , not much equipment needed, but the money im making from it at the moment is maintaining my other machines used for sawmilling ,,

[Rob D]

Through put is slow for me - but I tend to go for low volume high margin and all the wood I sell now has generally been through the planer.

 

 

Such a catch 22 selling wood - people want to see what they are buying but for them to see it means a lot of work taking apart stacks of wood and planing for them to see it - and then they may not buy it anyway!