Roadside oak forsale

[Mortimer Firewood]

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!

 

If I had time I'd love to mill some of the over size we get it should not be going for firewood.

[treeman]

Umm at no point did I say it was one load, it came on a flat bed trailer and the bloke had a 360 to load it at his end. He was clearing a site less than a mile from my yard and didn't want to take it back to his yard ( he sells firewood)

[Big J]

It had occurred to me fairly recently that some of you firewood merchants must have ties to stove shops and stove installers - what's to say that they wouldn't be interested in taking mantle pieces at knock down prices? For instance, a 5ft x 8 inch x 6 inch mantle piece at £14/cf is £23.33 plus VAT. A stove shop I spoke to in Keith said they would charge £300 for the finished item if installing a stove. They'd have to dry the mantle themselves and plane it, but for a bit of storage and a couple of hours work, they might well be interested for £275 profit.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

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

 

 

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

 

LUCKY you.

 

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

 

Processor ash here would be minimum £45/t or more likely done on metreage roadside.

 

Oversize oak max £35/t r/side.