Current prices for Cordwood

[Mortimer Firewood]

I have a load hardwood coming in this week £40 delivered

 

Is that the average price up your way though?

[Brushcutter]

Mixed hardwoods (mainly birch & Cherry) £35+vat

Beech £45+vat

Ash £55+vat

 

All per cube.

[Logsnstuff]

Is that the average price up your way though?

 

roadside is £35 to £50 depending who is selling £20 £25 for oversize stuff

[Mortimer Firewood]

Mixed hardwoods (mainly birch & Cherry) £35+vat

Beech £45+vat

Ash £55+vat

 

All per cube.

 

Are you also involved in harvesting operations?

[elfinwood saws]

It,s all to cheap, Harvesters and forwarders are expensive to buy run and maintain and hand cutters deserve a good wage for their hard work and i would like to make a wage to, So i think a lot of you are selling your firewood to cheap, Hardwood is only going up in price as demand increases and supplies of standing hardwood reduces.

[Brushcutter]

Are you also involved in harvesting operations?

 

Yes i am.

[Mortimer Firewood]

It,s all to cheap, Harvesters and forwarders are expensive to buy run and maintain and hand cutters deserve a good wage for their hard work and i would like to make a wage to, So i think a lot of you are selling your firewood to cheap, Hardwood is only going up in price as demand increases and supplies of standing hardwood reduces.

 

To be honest the guys I buy my firewood off have new kit ie in the last five years there making money I am making money. Hardwood will go up because of miss managed woodlands and planting crap crops. Bio mass is also a problem train goes from Cornwall to chick once a fortnight last one they could not fill so buyer put hardwood destined for mill on. Also cutters are takin the piss and cutting more than they should hearing about it all the time.

[Brushcutter]

It,s all to cheap, Harvesters and forwarders are expensive to buy run and maintain and hand cutters deserve a good wage for their hard work and i would like to make a wage to, So i think a lot of you are selling your firewood to cheap, Hardwood is only going up in price as demand increases and supplies of standing hardwood reduces.

 

Totally right. Problem is that people don't want to pay more. The firewood guy has to compete with every other guy doing logs and his margins are as tight if not tighter than the harvesting contractor.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

It,s all to cheap, Harvesters and forwarders are expensive to buy run and maintain and hand cutters deserve a good wage for their hard work and i would like to make a wage to, So i think a lot of you are selling your firewood to cheap, Hardwood is only going up in price as demand increases and supplies of standing hardwood reduces.

 

Spot on.

[arboriculturist]

Round these parts those advertising Firewood appear to consider it clever to undercut those who are sensible enough to try to raise the base price, especially for hardwood. Hardwood should be 100/tonne minimum and we should all stop offering 100% hardwood - those in the business all know the many reasons why.

 

If everyone used their intelligence they would realise that they should all be reading from the same page - that way we all win as we start getting a realistic price for timber and those mechanically and manually harvesting the crop make a half decent living also.

 

At the moment most of us are just static due to the overheads of running our respective businesses and if something large goes bang, we are inclined to think - is it worth it.

Edited September 7, 2014 by arboriculturist
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