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  1. Highland Forestry
    I got some free software from the bank which was quite useful but ended up using a microsoft word template...
  2. Highland Forestry
    I'm trying to do formal business plans at the moment for all the strings on my bow too...... nightmare.. have trawled google as well with no luck. Get you notepad out!!
  3. Highland Forestry
    red in all machinery...... i might start riding the chipper to work!!
  4. Highland Forestry
    We do have one of the highest fuel prices in the country here but it's worse in the far north and the islands! When I started driving i thought it was expensive at 65p a litre!! that was only 6 years ago!
  5. Highland Forestry
    On average I get through about two and a half tanks of fuel a week.... if the fuel goes up much more I am going to be crippled. We use mainly diesel for all our equipment, and all my guys tend to have diesel vehicles also. LPG is looking very attractive right now!
  6. Highland Forestry
    Just wondering here.... what is the current fuel price for diesel around the country?? We are now up to 137.9 p per litre in Aviemore today!!!
  7. Highland Forestry
    VAT is an issue that gets right on my nerves.. Why the hell should we have to pay for a bunch of guys that used our own money to screw us over so badly that the whole country effectively collapsed at a time when because of this unemployment is at a high and money is hard to come by. The money they gave the banks to get them back on track was invested by the banks into the very markets and funds that went tits up in the first place!! There is a documentary available on-line which was aired on British television a few months back called 'How The Banks Won' The dispatches programme revealed so much information which was damaging it was not allowed to be aired again and it has since been removed from 4OD. It is available on YouTube: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmy2MmWsyog]YouTube - Dispatches - How the Banks Won.2010[/ame] Everyone should watch it in my opinion! Very enlightening.
  8. Highland Forestry
    Here's a novel idea for this time of year.... what about compressed christmas trees??! As in chipped then compressed..
  9. Highland Forestry
    This is the third thread I have seen on here about this woodland which is supposedly eligible for grants...... why do you no do what anybody else would do and contact a land agent or an estate agent specialising in the sale of forestry and woodland properties????
  10. Highland Forestry
    Bang a harvester and forwarder in there, thats the only real way to make plentyof money at £20 a ton on roadside
  11. Highland Forestry
    £5 per ton on out-turn is always a good starting point
  12. Highland Forestry
    Well I've just ordered a copy of that book.... looks a very interesting read!! The reasons behind my thinking here are all about added value.. If I purchase a standing sale then we own everything and it seems to me that in predominantly birch plantations we could be leaving behind quite a good resource. If I could sell faggots at £1 each for example, I am sure that one guy working away could make more than 20 in an hour and so the profit would be quite good. I don't live in an area good for much else, we have hazel etc in places but no really coppice woodland, and certainly no chestnut etc. What we do have is birch though!!
  13. Highland Forestry
    By my rekoning, the maximum the wood should be worth is 12k.. Not sure how they are measuring it, but they'll have to sell it by the ton rather than the cube as it will need lifted by lorry and the only way to quantify the quantity is by weight.
  14. Highland Forestry
    I wonder how many I could make in an hour.... I think if they were neatly trimmed and bundled then they would sell well alongside kindling and firewood
  15. Highland Forestry
    Came across this video this afternoon - Got me to thinking, we cut a hell of alot of birch, and I'm now wondering if we could use the brash to make small bundles which would sell for fire lighters etc [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bFatvC4BDE&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - Pimps, Faggots and Benders.[/ame]
  16. Highland Forestry
    You have to take a roadside price that you are confident you could sell it for and then work back from there taking your costs off like extraction and cutting, any other work like understory clearing, then take your profit margin off and then you are left with your standing sale price.
  17. Highland Forestry
    You B******s!!!!!!!!!!!!
  18. Highland Forestry
    LOL that explains a few things!!
  19. Highland Forestry
    Surely too much thought is given to type, shape, length, species etc etc etc? The best kind of firewood is ANY wood that is DRY!!
  20. Highland Forestry
    I joined for networking and knowledge sharing, which is what I hope we all achieve on here. Also a great way to make new contacts and new friends!
  21. Highland Forestry
    Firewood customers pay quick..... some of my larger clients take 3 months!
  22. Highland Forestry
    Yes but it is an extra 2.5% of anything we purchase that we have to lay out for three months in credit..
  23. Highland Forestry
    I know Looks like prices will have to go up a bit, but i'm hoping to hold mine until February
  24. Highland Forestry
    Yep, having read Johns link that seems to be correct... Cheers Steve, and John!
  25. Highland Forestry
    Ahh cheers Steve... I was starting to get a bit worried as I don't want to put firewood prices up in January.

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