How long is a piece of string

[MooresFT]

So whos going to put a figure on it...

The going rate for a loose cube of well seasoned hard wood logs delivered?

whos feeling brave?

[Gray git]

That's simple twice as much as anyone wants to pay and half as much as you'd like to get for them.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

twice the distance from each end to the centre......

[arboriculturist]

The very basics:

 

Cost a full load of timber.

Cost the overheads to process the load.

Multiply by no of loads over 12 months.

Cost your business overheads over 12 months.

Decide the margin you wish to make per m3.

 

= retail price / m3

[Stubby]

Length of string is relative .

[davetaz]

£115 per cube delivered in barrow bags and tipped out somewhere convenient for the customer

[gdh]

£60 a cube delivered and tipped is break even (as part of a £110 1.8 cube load). Around here in Wales at least.

 

Edit: That doesn't fully cover labour thinking about it but there's a lot of other suppliers around.

[davetaz]

£60 a cube delivered and tipped is break even (as part of a £110 1.8 cube load). Around here in Wales at least.

 

Edit: That doesn't fully cover labour thinking about it but there's a lot of other suppliers around.

 

so what you are saying is you deliver logs at £110 for 1.8cubic metres and you dont actually break even.

 

breaking even can also be acheived by staying at home all day!

[Ben1]

Hardwood £118 per cube delivered within 20 miles

[gdh]

so what you are saying is you deliver logs at £110 for 1.8cubic metres and you dont actually break even.

 

breaking even can also be acheived by staying at home all day!

 

Tempting, unfortunately there's costs to pay even then.

 

I was just giving an idea of costs involved, we get on ok,everyone would like to be paid more but putting the prices up would lose too many customers. I expect there's quite a few businesses where the owners don't get paid.