Going rate for scots pine?

[Woodworks]

Been offered some scots pine to make up a load and wondering whats the going rate and how does it compare with douglas and larch as firewood? Price per cube would be handy

 

Thanks

[Woodworks]

Anyone?

[biggarlogs]

It's an ok firewood but keep it off the ground and process soon as rots real fast.if stored outside in wet it can absorb a lot of water,but when dry burns fast and hot,the resin burns like the blazes. Price wise cost up here is approx £35 a tonne delivered,do your own conversions to cubic metres,or else we will get another how many cubes to a ton thread!

[biggarlogs]

Not as good as Douglas ,better than Japanese larch but not as good as European larch!

[Barton77]

Chip wood price? Around £25/tonne roadside. I think it's ok firewood just needs to be really well seasoned.

[FJMatt]

Keep it well ventilated when fresh cut, can go back

[Woodworks]

Thanks all

 

Gives me something to work with

[Havelock]

Your valuation, Biggarlogs, got me thinking.

 

“cost up here is approx £35 a tonne delivered”

 

For my own use I make up 0.25 cu m bundles of Scots pine. On one of the bundle threads Difflock weighed a number of dry bundles. Using Marcus’ figures pro rata for my smaller bundles, mine are about 83 kg each.

What is the value of each bundle? 35 x 83/1000 = £2.90.

 

For the amount of effort involved, intuitively that seems like a surprisingly miserable amount. Good job the two Knottis (2 x 50p) and rope are reusable.

Realistically apportioning time for felling, transport out of the woods (ATV arch), chain sawing into rounds and splitting, I probably make three bundles in an hour, that’s £8.70. Ignoring storage costs, a big advantage of (wet) bundles made on site is ease of (minimum time spent on) transport to, stacking at the place of storage and of subsequent loading.