firewood

[czhey]

Just wondering roughly how many m3 of split logs you would get from 1ton of brought in round hardwood?

 

thanks

[niftysteve]

depends how wet it is

[tommer9]

You will have to be more specific mate- how fresh, what species etc etc. This is really an impossible question to answer with any degree of accuracy. Buy a ton, make a cubic metre frame on the ground out of pallets or something and see how you go is the best bet.

[Steve Bullman]

as above...impossible to answer, but if my customers insist on knowing the weight when i quote a price for a 3cm3 load i tell them appriximately 1.5t, which i dont think is far out on average.

[Stephen Blair]

someone mentioned on here that a dry load of logs in a dumpy bag filled loose was about 250kgs.

[Johny Walker]

someone mentioned on here that a dry load of logs in a dumpy bag filled loose was about 250kgs.

 

yea me !!!we weighed 3 b/bags & averged out @ 250kgs per bag that was mixed timber

[Stephen Blair]

good man johny.

[Dean Lofthouse]

So according to that a 65 x 65 x 65 dumpy bag wieghs 250kg making 1cu/m weigh in at 385kg

 

So a 3 cu/m dry load would weigh 1.155 tonne

 

and so if you do as steve says and allow 1.5t for an unseasoned load or allow 400kg per cu/m you wont be far wrong

[Stephen Blair]

i thought of putting a big set of scales on the back of a truck and selling them by weight, like a green grocer. then the customer spends what they can afford. you could deliver by the wheelbarrow load, remember the thing for filling coal sacks, you would weigh it then tip it out into the bag, you could do that, slap a sticker on the bag and bobs your uncle

[czhey]

I was thinking about fresh green wet stuff bought in by the lorry load. I know its hard to say weight into volume but i was just wondering.

 

Thanks, C