what logs have you been chopping today!

[gdh]

Nice set up but how do make a living £150 for 2.4 m3

 

Careful costings and large amounts. And a nice bank manager

[Woodworks]

Careful costings and large amounts. And a nice bank manager

 

I will take you word for it but we could never consider doing logs for that money.

[better dayz]

I will take you word for it but we could never consider doing logs for that money.

 

2.4 cm for £150 is £62.50 per cm

Round timber circa £60 a tonne delivered

One tonne is circa 2 cubic meters give or take

So £30 per cm raw material

That's £32.50 to process and deliver it

 

Depends how efficient the processing and logistics are but I can see money to be made

[Woodworks]

2.4 cm for £150 is £62.50 per cm

Round timber circa £60 a tonne delivered

One tonne is circa 2 cubic meters give or take

So £30 per cm raw material

That's £32.50 to process and deliver it

 

Depends how efficient the processing and logistics are but I can see money to be made

 

 

Out of that £32.50 you need to pay VAT on sale price, run all the machinery involved pay the operators. Delivery say 5 miles away at 50p per mile just for the truck. All these costs add up. Then you have to wait a year for the return while your logs dry. Doubt there is more than a tenner to be made per cube at best.

 

Fair play if you can be efficient enough to make it work though

[Chris83]

I've just started to chop all mine ready to stack and dry out before the winter. I've realised that the demand for logs nowadays is getting bigger each year and I'm starting to struggle to do this solo. Sadly there isn't anyone local in the midlands to turn to for help here. Nice setup you have there pal [emoji106]

 

 

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[better dayz]

Out of that £32.50 you need to pay VAT on sale price, run all the machinery involved pay the operators. Delivery say 5 miles away at 50p per mile just for the truck. All these costs add up. Then you have to wait a year for the return while your logs dry. Doubt there is more than a tenner to be made per cube at best.

 

Fair play if you can be efficient enough to make it work though

 

I would like to think being left with £10 is a very bad day but I do agree with your point its not big money

[gdh]

I've just started to chop all mine ready to stack and dry out before the winter. I've realised that the demand for logs nowadays is getting bigger each year and I'm starting to struggle to do this solo. Sadly there isn't anyone local in the midlands to turn to for help here. Nice setup you have there pal [emoji106]

 

 

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Thanks. Don't envy you cutting on your own but it is satisfying when you get a nice load done at the end of the day.

 

To the other comments at our prices it will be anything between £1-5 a cube after all costs and a base wage for our labour. I tend to work off 2 cube per man hour including everything from 2 people loading to stacking boxes and sharpening chains.

[Bustergasket]

managed to get a few hours to chop some logs it has been a nice day here, managed 6 full metre cube bags in 1.5 hrs all about 8-10 inch dia and cutting 9 inch long, that's me loading and operating, but another pair of hands cleaning up and picking strays and oversize out, managed 5 deliveries but it's going quieter now, I think I have got to get busy getting done timber in for later in the year

[pycoed]

To GDH :-

Do you sell the cleft oak posts or are they just for your own use? If you do sell them please PM me with the price & I'll bring a trailer up - I need around 100-150.

[gdh]

To GDH :-

Do you sell the cleft oak posts or are they just for your own use? If you do sell them please PM me with the price & I'll bring a trailer up - I need around 100-150.

 

We've only just started selling them again and just got an order for all we can make sorry. It's finding enough straight oak that's the problem.

 

If anything changes I'll let you know.