firewoodman

well i would say " I stand corrected, i'm too cheap" by the above, BUT then i remeber it is 2 years undercover and mine is not at £130 for 2m3:001_cool:

i charge £20-25 for barrowing and stacking per m3, but am putting the price up cos i hate it and it gives me a bad back........... no pain, no gain.........i'd rather not gain and have no pain

i'm going up to that in dec ready the stupidly manic xmas rush i know of others charging much more though supply and demand

did a delivery today where during the phone conversation for her to order the wood i was assured there was an area to tip off the load, when i turned up there was a small pavement on a busy road, so i asked the lady where i could tip the load, she replied you can throw them all down the ally way. i replied that will cost you an extra £20 for handling, she said thats outrageous, why so much. well, you told me i could tip and i cant, the handling will now make me late for the next customer and the rest of the day, i now have to work overtime and by the time i get home the kids will be in bed and i wont have seen them, so you can pay for that....... or i can leave now and go straight to the next customer. outrageous she replies, that makes you the most expensive around. yes love, but not the richest! at that point i was quite happy to loose the sale and got my keys out to go when this happened. well dont be hasty and go.... i'll just go and get some more money and we will both know for next time. i charged her £15 in the end but it took 1/2 to shift the wood to where she wanted it

cool pretty safe, might wear a hard hat though

sorry its for 1m3

well charge what you like, depends on how much effort you put in, your competition and quality. not saying you are right or wrong, just seems cheap i split, leave in pile under cover till dry, load with skidsteer, drive to customer, tip on drive , collect money and go all for £65 + delivery charge dependant on area. did think of doing dumpy bags but the time ratio thing did not work for me and the dumpys i got were 0.7m3

ime builders bags are different sizes but never more than .7m3 but still 2 years undercover???

boy you guys are cheap! 2 years undercover dean......... i'd be charging more for quality like that

yeah, lime dries quick and burns hot..............can be diff to split sometimes. split it now and you could be burning for or just after xmas. give plenty of air whilst drying as can go mouldy qite quick. good wood though and nice and light for the misses to drag the baskets in:thumbup:

QUOTE=Mr Ed;188326]I always hate the way softwood / connifer gets lambasted. A nice dry sappy pine log in a woodburner is a delight to behold. :congrats: i'm sure all this softwood is bad bull, is all propaganda from the FC to put people off cuttin down the woods when they first planted them (imo)

all wood burns well when seasoned, no wood burns well when fresh in my experience, all these rhymes are wrong, they just rhyme, the wood property tables of 1-5 are not that accurate and most go on hear-say woods burn differntly when placed in a stove as opposed to an open fire, and all stoves perform diffrently. i recommend you burn the diffrent woods and make your own results. but please do tell us what you find, the results may suprise you and others many say dont burn softwoods, i find i get great heat, no tar and quite a good burn time off larch pine and cedar, cant get enough of the stuff. if it ignites, burns and gives off heat then it cant be bad can it!!!

firewood! i burn it, no probs here, never had any probs with it

was that not pine he used to produce pine pitch, which was the extracted resin, which was then used to coat and preserve a set of tradional wooden skis in sweden:001_smile: he may have done it on 2 different programs though:blushing:

good site, straight to the point, nice and clear. well done, you should do well on a personal note, i would not give away so much kindling, but sell it at a reduced price. (work out how much money you could be losing by giving it away) and free delivery on orders over £100 ( would encourage customers to top up their order with extra kindling) free delivery within 15 miles is generous imo, i would drop it down to 10 or just not advertise it and go with what said above. all this is my own opinion and in no way does it mean you are doing anything wrong, quite the oposite,. I started off the same, being very generous with everything, but it soon came round to bite me in the bum when i worked out the losses involved.

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/2205-bagging-logs.html#post41591 follow this link, or pm gray git, his idea roll of stock fencing around £55-60 and get around 10-11 crates, pick up pallets for free:thumbup:

the speed where the chips come out the right size, and not too slow that it stalls

slow down the in feed and have blades spinning faster and adjust til you get the right size

place i cardiff called sealmasters, they'll get you any seal. diy works for me. seals cost from £2 up

how many tons of fresh softwood would it take to produce 4 tons of dry wood chip at 20-25% moisture content. probably a Mr Ed question:001_cool: i rekon the ratio is 3-1 but am intrested to know otherwise also what is the current price of G30 chip per ton

got a 310, good truck and pulls well even when overloaded

think i'll carry on building the stock fencing type crates then

whats the price of bags this year then???

definatly billet it or store in individual crates with plenty of air flow. if you dont and store it all in one big pile then the bark will absorb all the moisture from the wood and start to go all stringy and rot and leave you with one big black wet mess in the log pile, same for pine and any other wood with a very high water content at felling. get the felling i had this happen??? once dry it burns well and had no spitting or poping when burning and gives off a good heat

never never never would i offer the customer money for his timber after an arborist has gone in. 1, he should've paid you a fair price to do the full work. 2, he should'nt be so tight 3 its my time and labour to move the dam stuff 4, it just encourages doing the work for the wood...(free) i get loads of calls off arb customers asking would i be intrested in buying the wood, their cocky little voices soon go when i say i'll remove it for £25 per hour plus travelling time. i do pick up off site for arb guys though, it saves them a trip and its extra pir of hands for both of us:thumbup1: