Roadside oak forsale

[mendiplogs]

Just seems a lot of money, I paid £640 for 30 ton of ash

 

Hi tree what size was your ash then there's people out paying that for standing ash mate thanks Jon

[treeman]

From 12 inch up to over a metre dia and that was delivered to the yard

[Shire-Forestry]

The bloke who sold you that ash must have been desperate at £21.30 delivered a ton for hardwood.

[Johny Walker]

Just seems a lot of money, I paid £640 for 30 ton of ash

 

i, 1. load

[mendiplogs]

The bloke who sold you that ash must have been desperate at £21.30 delivered a ton for hardwood.

 

Hi shires or MAD thanks Jon

[mendiplogs]

The bloke who sold you that ash must have been desperate at £21.30 delivered a ton for hardwood.

 

Hi mate I'm now thinking how did he get 30ton a lorry just a flat body one with out crane thanks as ours around here are only 26:5ton thanks Jon

[Stihlben]

How much for just the large butt piece?

[Shire-Forestry]

Hi Stihlben sorry I'm not selling it on its own. Need the weight to make up a full load on the lorry. If anything changes I'll pm you. Cheers

[Mortimer Firewood]

£46 p/t for oversized oak is under market price? Whereabouts are you and what price is processor sized material making?

 

Must be the only place then as processor grade oak goes for that round here.

Over size (0ak chestnut) is worth no more than £42 after that it's not worth it

Lot of oak floating round at the moment just been offered processor size @ £40 but there are a lot of tops in it.

[Big J]

If it were closer I'd buy it, separate out the logs for milling (the one in the picture has a roadside value as part of a full load of at least £135/t) and cut the rest as mantle pieces. A week's cutting and here are the figures:

 

£1200 to buy it in.

£400 to deliver in.

£350 labour

£300 fuel and band resharpens

 

Assuming a pretty poor recovery rate, I'd reckon to get about 500 cubic foot of saleable oak, which at £14/cubic foot is £7000. That would leave about 10 tonnes of firewood offcuts, which would produce another 20 cube of firewood (a further two days work for two men, chainsaw and splitter) for £1600 revenue and £200 cost.

 

£8600 revenue for £2450 costs and 7 days work seems pretty reasonable? You firewood merchants need to get sawmills for those oversized, hard to process logs!