firewood boom now bust?

[agrimog]

the price of oil will go back up, but not by much. the oil producers in the gulf are now refining it themselves and marketing the finished product rather than just crude, they will start to control the price rather than the greedy bas***d speculators who have done so in the past. as for firewood and RHI, it will stay steadyish till this bunch in goverment stop the payments, then start looking for the sheeple dumping the stuff in favour of the next chocolate firegaurd trend

[spuddog0507]

in reply to Genset 3/4 years ago there was 8 different firewood guys(wk end wood warriors i call em) started up round me buying 1 or 2 load of timber in processing in to logs and delivering at wk end they have all since dissapeared of the radar. saw one of these lads at a wedding 2 monthes ago and he said he could not make it pay as it was just beer money he was making after costs removed, and you lads doing it all year round i dont know how you do it, it took 2 of them 6 wk ends sat& sun to cut and split 24t of larch and day to tidy. how many has there been round the country i dred to have a gusse,?

[difflock]

The old saying is sort the wheat from the chaff comes to mind fly by nights will come and go

 

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[cornish wood burner]

in reply to Genset 3/4 years ago there was 8 different firewood guys(wk end wood warriors i call em) started up round me buying 1 or 2 load of timber in processing in to logs and delivering at wk end they have all since dissapeared of the radar. saw one of these lads at a wedding 2 monthes ago and he said he could not make it pay as it was just beer money he was making after costs removed, and you lads doing it all year round i dont know how you do it, it took 2 of them 6 wk ends sat& sun to cut and split 24t of larch and day to tidy. how many has there been round the country i dred to have a gusse,?

 

Only doing 1 ton/day/man.sounds like they didn't put much effort into it. However the weather must have a big influence on demand and consequently price. Perhaps a drop in demand and price made it unattractive for them. The reverse could happen if we get a few cold winters. At work we can easily use 30% more in a cold winter. Glasshouse insulation is obviously poorer than buildings but a cold winter must drive private demand up and also prolong heating use. If log merchants stock is exhausted then that will open the door for the w/e/w warriors again. Therefore guys it might be advisable to carry extra stock to keep out the competition.