The end of firewood?

[gensetsteve]

I do some times wonder if I would of been better sticking with the splitter and buying over size in cheep.

 

couple hours with a splitter may prove the ash cord was a good idea.

[Mortimer Firewood]

Could sell you a hakki pilke eagle for your small stuff:lol:

 

Still got all your digits then that or your typing with your left hand?

[Hotrod81]

Typing with my nose.

[Mortimer Firewood]

I know. The big circular saw processors are awesome but much more expensive than big hydraulic mills (which is daft as they can't produce the same value of product).

 

I quite like this one:

 

TurnerFirewood Processor

 

Not the quickest, but cheap, well made and Bill at Turnermills is open to customisation (I spoke to them for a while before settling on Logmaster).

 

I'm no nothing about mills j but a big circular can churn out big volume 15 cube plus an hour constantly if your at the lowest price for firewood that's 2k an hour would a saw mill do that?

[Mortimer Firewood]

couple hours with a splitter may prove the ash cord was a good idea.

 

If your on about the graded stuff the driver dumped it on top of a pile of mixed size so it kind of defeated the whole point Spent most of Friday morning digging it out ohh the joys of firewood.

[Jackalope]

Well Sunday Night tele was crap, so, on the advice of a collegue, some time after my supper I set to reading this forum and 300odd posts later I have not been disappointed!

Some very good points, some cracking comebacks, excellent 'debating' of all sorts (relevant or not), and just when all seemed lost the last 2-3 pages returned to civilised, intelligent discussion'

 

So I thank you all for contributing to my evenings entertainment if nothing else:001_tt2:

[gensetsteve]

No, but my mill only cost £20k. If every day was a good day, it turns £800-1000 worth of raw material into £5000 of sawn product (final, kilned value). Minimal running costs, one man day of labour and also not having to deal with firewood customers!

 

We can all produce endless firewood/sawn timber - it's the selling of it that is tricky!

 

Yes does not matter how much cord you have or how fast your processor works if its 14 deg outside it makes life difficult for people. I feel for anyone making a living from firewood at the moment as i have been there and know how hard it is. Hopefully things will come right for everyone.

[skyhuck]

Retail has aways been about buying, not selling.

 

If your paying too much for the stuff you sell you'll struggle.

[Chalgravesteve]

Retail has aways been about buying, not selling.

 

If your paying too much for the stuff you sell you'll struggle.

 

Nope....Retail is about selling.....even if the incoming stuff is free, if you don't/can't sell it you don't make anything..... stockpiling is no good either..

 

Profit is made on turnover of stock, not how much you have. If you have £50,000 worth of stock and you sell it in a year and it cost you £20,000 to acquire/process you made £30,000.

 

If you have £10,000 worth of stock and it cost you £4,000 (same %age) but you sell and replace the stock every 2 weeks through the year, you never hold more than £10,000 worth of stock, but you sold £260,000 worth of product and made £156,000!

 

What do you want then? £10k of stock or £50k of stock?

[skyhuck]

Nope....Retail is about selling.....even if the incoming stuff is free, if you don't/can't sell it you don't make anything..... stockpiling is no good either..

 

Profit is made on turnover of stock, not how much you have. If you have £50,000 worth of stock and you sell it in a year and it cost you £20,000 to acquire/process you made £30,000.

 

If you have £10,000 worth of stock and it cost you £4,000 (same %age) but you sell and replace the stock every 2 weeks through the year, you never hold more than £10,000 worth of stock, but you sold £260,000 worth of product and made £156,000!

 

What do you want then? £10k of stock or £50k of stock?

 

Yes, but if you buy right, selling is easy