firewood boom now bust?

[difflock]

With the price of oil continuing to tumble.

I smell bargains galore in firewood processing equipment in the near future.

Both new and second hand.

What say you?

Marcus

[biggarlogs]

We will be OK ,as all the numbnuts have scrapped their oil burning boilers in favour of biomass.maybe make money scrapping them all soon.

[Billy]

Oil won't be cheap for long it'll soon start to climb again.

[Tom D]

People didn't go out and buy stoves because oil and gas were cheap, they did it because its the "in" thing to do....

 

A change in fashion would do far more harm to the log business.

[THE88MAN]

People didn't go out and buy stoves because oil and gas were cheap, they did it because its the "in" thing to do....

 

A change in fashion would do far more harm to the log business.

 

Very true

[Wood wasp]

I was just offered £65pt roadside this week for hardwood as simply none around, with Rhi paying to heat your house then I see no change until subsidies reformed.

 

Let me rephrase- with Rhi paying you to run boiler hell for leather Resulting in open windows I see no change.

[mendiplogs]

I was just offered £65pt roadside this week for hardwood as simply none around, with Rhi paying to heat your house then I see no change until subsidies reformed.

 

Let me rephrase- with Rhi paying you to run boiler hell for leather Resulting in open windows I see no change.

 

Hi wood weres that to then it getting like milk farmers soon thanks Jon

[spuddog0507]

hi talking to a harvesting lad on thurs, he was selling stitka saw logs to a mill 6 wk ago for £49 tonne they rang him last mon and told him all they would pay now is £36 we seem to have a massive glut of soft wood round here at the moment 4 jobs i know of are stuggling to move timber and there not small jobs 24,000t 19,000,11,500 & 4500t all sat there drying out, and has for hardwood been offered ash at £85t del mixed £75t some big ash syc and beech £65t and just found 1500t @ £58 del it is out there and has for proccessors a mate has just bought one a haki 37 been to see it this aft clean tidy machine paid £3.5 k for it not bad i thought,?.

[difflock]

hi talking to a harvesting lad on thurs, he was selling stitka saw logs to a mill 6 wk ago for £49 tonne they rang him last mon and told him all they would pay now is £36 we seem to have a massive glut of soft wood round here at the moment 4 jobs i know of are stuggling to move timber and there not small jobs 24,000t 19,000,11,500 & 4500t all sat there drying out, and has for hardwood been offered ash at £85t del mixed £75t some big ash syc and beech £65t and just found 1500t @ £58 del it is out there and has for proccessors a mate has just bought one a haki 37 been to see it this aft clean tidy machine paid £3.5 k for it not bad i thought,?.

 

This is what I was really alluding to, perhaps more as a result of those with poor or zero business models or sense rushing in (with grant aid?) to make a fast buck in the firewood market, or so they thought.

Cos,

I was seeing, (and not that I was looking for), some very senseiblly priced 2nd hand processors for sale.

Unlike when I was in the notion of buying one a few year ago.

cheers

m

[R5log]

So a couple of processors for sale and heating oil at a low and that's it end of the firewood?