Seasoned cordwood per m3

[waz77]

Ha no he knows it needs seasoning, it's more the difference between what a tonne of green timber is worth compared to a tonne of seasoned. Had the same trouble convincing him that a builders bag of wheat didn't weigh the same as a builders bag of sand.

[Lucan]

Ha no he knows it needs seasoning, it's more the difference between what a tonne of green timber is worth compared to a tonne of seasoned. Had the same trouble convincing him that a builders bag of wheat didn't weigh the same as a builders bag of sand.

 

 

The difference will depend on the species you're selling, ash for example wouldn't be as much of a difference as sitka spruce.

 

Moisture Contents

 

If you agree on the equivalent price of seasoned (say around 20% MC) then you can use the above link (table pg5) to calculate the relative price for green wood. Make sure you know if the the difference between "wet basis" and "dry basis" when calculating MC

[waz77]

Cheers Lucan

[cornish wood burner]

We buy in our wood fresh at an agreed price and it of course reduces in weight as it loses moisture. If we buy seasoned timber we would pay more per ton in line with the weight it has lost from when it was cut. In effect the wood is the same price either way just we get less " free "water the second way. After it has dried to 25%mc and chipped both ways will end up the same cost. Standard way of doing it. You need to have a chat to him.

Other way is by the cube but not so accurate

[spiral]

Had the same trouble convincing him that a builders bag of wheat didn't weigh the same as a builders bag of sand.

 

He might be sharper than he presents? ... If every misunderstanding is in his financial favour?

 

Spiral

[Marc Lewis]

You are doing him a massive favour by giving him credit. The price should be agreed from what weight the wagon reads when delivered from you to him.

[Mark Bolam]

That's the only way to go Marc.

 

Calculating exact m3 from a load of round wood every time would be a ballache to say the least.

 

 

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[gensetsteve]

He might be sharper than he presents? ... If every misunderstanding is in his financial favour?

 

Spiral

 

He is a farmer he knows to the grain or splinter what he has and has not paid for

[gensetsteve]

To do it fairly calculate the volume of the lorry allow some air space. If its nice straight 12 inch sticks 3/4 of the volume is wood. If its twisty beech sticks just over half the lorry is wood. That way the weight is irrellevant he could get 12 tonnes or 16 tonnes but still has the same amount of wood. Otherwise you are getting shafted for a third of the wood. Thats the way I would see it if things dont pan out I would be cutting it and getting it straight over the weigh bridge and paid for.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

He might be sharper than he presents? ... If every misunderstanding is in his financial favour?

 

 

 

Spiral

 

 

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