Current prices for Cordwood

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Personally I would not pay that

 

what despite just saying people are shifting it for more than twice that etc?

[skyhuck]

what despite just saying people are shifting it for more than twice that etc?

 

 

Yes, but what I said was more that twice £100 per tonne, as was posted earlier, dry hard wood is under half a tonne per cube.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Incredible. We have the highest roundwood prices down here (or so it would seem) and the lowest price delivered logs at circa £60-80 for 1m3. Deprived area - devon and cornwall :001_rolleyes:

 

At least that got 66 m3 bags out of 25 tonne of fresh felled ash.

[arboriculturist]

At least that got 66 m3 bags out of 25 tonne of fresh felled ash.

 

Can you actually get 2.5 m3 bags out of a tonne of Ash?

 

 

Everyone else in the UK seems to think only 2m3 is realistic.

[Woodworks]

Personally I would not pay that, I'd buy coal first, it would work out cheaper.

 

I have no idea how people can afford to heat their homes buying hard wood.

 

A mate of mine sells logs, but heats his house with coal, it makes sense for him to sell his logs and buy coal.

 

Surly at current prices hardwood is better value than soft to the end user. I would have thought a cube of dry soft has 70% the energy of dry hardwood. So has to be a lot cheaper to end user and subsequently has to be cheap for log seller as when wet softwood is much the same weight to volume as hardwood.

 

Many customer don't just have stoves just for heating it's more a lifestyle thing. Lets face it loads in this country will spend more on Sky than a seasons worth of logs costs. A good stove and some nice dry wood is more entertaining than TV.

Edited September 7, 2014 by Woodworks

[skyhuck]

Surly at current prices harwood is better value than soft to the end user. I would have thought a cube of dry soft has 70% the energy of dry hardwood. So has to be a lot cheaper to end user and subsequently has to be cheap for log seller as when wet softwood is much the same weight to volume as hardwood.

 

Many customer don't just have stoves just for heating it's more a lifestyle thing. Lets face it loads in this country will spend more on Sky than a seasons worth of logs costs. A good stove and some nice dry wood is more entertaining than TV.

 

Who mentioned soft wood?

 

I said coal

 

Sure as luxury fuel to great atmosphere its great, but I would not want to be buying the amount needed to heat a home.

[Woodworks]

Who mentioned soft wood?

 

I said coal

 

Sure as luxury fuel to great atmosphere its great, but I would not want to be buying the amount needed to heat a home.

 

Just thought that was what you were implying there was a difference between hard and soft when you say "I have no idea how people can afford to heat their homes buying hard wood."

[Matthew Storrs]

On the subject of making the most of hardwood whilst its around I can't understand why more isn't being planted. Last week I went into one of Dartmoors main 'managed' forests where a recently felled large stand of softwood had been replanted and guarded with a large number of Rowans!! Couldn't believe it, what a waste of time and resources particularly given Rowan would have self seeded quite happily anyway amongst any 'usefull' species they may have planted.

No deer fencing either so can't see many of those trees lasting either, IMO very poor management from the FC.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Can you actually get 2.5 m3 bags out of a tonne of Ash?

 

 

Everyone else in the UK seems to think only 2m3 is realistic.

 

No I just said it for fun.

 

Don't you think I would base my decision to concentrate on firewood on volumes I have seen my self not what joe blogs reckons or what I read on the net.

[arboriculturist]

No I just said it for fun.

 

Don't you think I would base my decision to concentrate on firewood on volumes I have seen my self not what joe blogs reckons or what I read on the net.

 

Absolutely, as would I.