What is a fair price?

[Flip Flop]

Hi,

 

I have a number of trees that need felling/have been felled. I have a number of people offering to buy the wood off me. The trees are large and mature and suitable for milling into planks rather than firewood. If the tree has been felled but needs to be extracted (not an easy route) and transported from site what would be a reasonable price for:

 

Oak

Beech

 

£/cube

 

I appreciate this is a hard one as it will depend on the labour involved for extraction/transport but some indication would be useful

[leotandoh12]

I pay or charge roughly between £7 and £11 per cubic metre to extract to roadside. The machines I noramlly require a min volume. As many have also said it also depends on extraction route and ground conditions. I have heard of prices up to £21 a metre for a long tricky extraction. It maybe that the extractor may even take the wood as full or part payment. Where abouts are you?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I pay or charge roughly between £7 and £11 per cubic metre to extract to roadside. The machines I noramlly require a min volume. As many have also said it also depends on extraction route and ground conditions. I have heard of prices up to £21 a metre for a long tricky extraction. It maybe that the extractor may even take the wood as full or part payment. Where abouts are you?

 

Could I ask a question here, I don't "do" or understand this sector....?

 

Am I reading your post correctly?

 

How is it possible / viable to price by m3 of the timber to be moved rather than by the distance / complexity of the route?

 

Is it standard practice to price by volume?

[Jammydogg]

Wood, as we know if unbelievably valuable these days. We, as tree surgeons are lucky to be in such a lucrative business.

 

Most of us already have loads of equipment which means we have no overheads at all.

Because our work is easy the Insurance companies don't charge us, they PAY us.

Local garages give us fuel and the guys who work for us don't expect wages.

 

We mostly use banks which provide loans with negative interest. The money just comes from nowhere.

 

On this basis we are always happy to pay people to let us cut down their trees, and even get really rich in the process.

 

 

😂😂😂😂😂 legend

[leotandoh12]

Could I ask a question here, I don't "do" or understand this sector....?

 

Am I reading your post correctly?

 

How is it possible / viable to price by m3 of the timber to be moved rather than by the distance / complexity of the route?

 

Is it standard practice to price by volume?

 

It is standard practice in my area, North Dorset and I have always paid or quoted by volume, keeps everything fair. Further the distance or trickier the timber the more it costs per metre to extract.

 

The volumes should be stated on the felling license, so you should roughly know what will be coming out, so you can work it out from there. This only changes for very small volumes, ie less then 15 cubic metres for example.

 

If we get asked to do felling work, we are noramlly paid a cubic metre rate to fell and extract.