Looking for a partner (firewood)

[twistedhicap]

My supplier gets 54 crates into a 40 foot shipping container, stacked 2 wide and 2 high, 13 rows then 2 on the floor at the back. These have a total pallet volume of 1.17 cube but when you measure the actual timber volume its about .95 cu m.

 

This way of stacking fills a shipping container nice and tight, cant see how anyone can get any more than 56 max into a 40 foot container. Not aware of a longer container but accept that there might be one.

 

Sounds a good price though especially if delivered to site is included.

 

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Cheers for the info very handy

[Alycidon]

There are two variants of 40ft containers the standard 8ft6 tall and 9ft6 tall high cube then there are the 45ft standards and high cubes

 

Fair enough.

 

I would have said my container would be the taller one but might be wrong, I think the height of each crate is about 1.2m.

 

The supplier would do well to standardise on one size and build your crates to fit it. Some members here tip crates into tipping trailers and do bulk drops, for them 2m crates are ok. Others like me deliver the logs to end users in the crates they come in, therefore 1 cu m is about the most that can be safely handled at the point of delivery.

 

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Edited December 25, 2015 by Alycidon

[twistedhicap]

Yes I would think most use 40ft high cubes and yes standardised crate sizes would be good

[eror1515]

how much does a pallet Board?