small bags wholesale

[Tom D]

Anyone know the going rate ? I have around 90 0.8 cube bags already filled and enough split wood to fill another 120 but I was thinking of selling the rest wholesale in small bags. What are the small bags wholesale / retail prices like round your way, up here a 90x50 cm bag sells for between £4.50 and 6.50 retail.

[Mozza]

I saw the small bags being sold by B&Q round here last week, they were £5.99 a bag and they only had about 5 or 6 logs in the bag, That might be the going rate but as i dont buy logs it seems steep to me.

 

 

By the way Tom, That view from your yard is awesome

[Splitter]

Nets over here sell from £3.50 to £5 (25kg net size)

I think this is a good way of selling logs, but it is a boring job bagging them. Also the net bags quickly deteriorate in daylight / direct sun if you store them outside for any length of time.

 

Tom, do you find your logs are going mouldy in the builders bags? I have kept a bit of air between mine which seems to be helping.

Edited August 3, 2009 by Splitter

[Tom D]

The bags that I am using are vented .8m3 so no problems with mould, in fact they're working really well.

[Splitter]

Are they expensive?

[Tom D]

This was when I got them:001_smile:

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/3273-vented-bulk-bags-co-operative.html

[kindlett]

M8 i would charge £60.00a bag i charge that and i sell them all day and£40for softwood good luck

[skyhuck]

I think wholesale you will only be looking at £1 to £1.20.

 

I looked into it a while back, decided it wasn't worth doing.

 

I would put a small add in the paper, £3.50 a bag, minimum order of 10 bags.

[Rob D]

It looks great selling bags of net bagged logs when you see them retailing at £5 a bag but that's not what you'll sell them for unfortunetly.....

 

Wholesale to a petrol station etc. you'll get £1-80 or so. So if you're selling the builders bags for £60-00 hardwood how many net bags do you have to sell to get this = 34 bags....

 

Much easier to sell your builders bags... you need a friend with an outlet for the net bags who will give you a better price and unless you have a little machine for loading them it is a pain getting the logs into the bags - a real real pain.

 

And as said above in direct sunlight they fall to bits. I bought a load, net bagged them, tried to sell for £2-50 each, sold all my other logs in builders bags over 6 weeks, most of the net bag logs didn't sell, bags fell apart, so had to rebag in builders bags where they sold!!

 

I spend a lot of my life doing things like the above and wasting my time!

[Johny Walker]

I think wholesale you will only be looking at £1 to £1.20.

 

I looked into it a while back, decided it wasn't worth doing.

 

I would put a small add in the paper, £3.50 a bag, minimum order of 10 bags.

 

i get £2.20 a bag trade :001_cool:2 men can split & bag 4oo in a day