davetaz
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What about cutting bottom off the pumpkin and sticking it on top of a swedish log candle
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Be careful shipping from US as you may get an import tax bill from the nice people at HMRC
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Our barrow bags are 0.2 cubic metres each, making 5 barrow bags to a cubic metre. Average of 80 logs per barrow bag (logs 9" x 4"-5" width/diameter). That's 400 logs per cubic metre. 1-3 bags...........£25 each 4 or more..........£22 each free delivery up to 10 miles, minimum order £100 Bags tipped out and re-used
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Who buys their wood? People with too much money who don't know they could buy a decent product more locally for less money!
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Was wondering if it is possible/easy to fit a tachometre on to my petrol logsplitter so i can keep an eye on the number of hours it does? Any advice or help much appreciated
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A lot of the time customers only look at the unit cost. They don't take a great deal of notice of the size of the product. Cut your bag size down by half and the cost of them by half and you'll probably sell them all no problem. That's why I think the barrow bags work well for selling logs. I promoted my barrow bags full of logs at a market last weekend - Customer: How much are your bags of logs please? Me: only £21 each if you buy 4 or more Customer: that's a good price, I'll have 5 Me: thank you And that's how to sell bulk loads for £105/cubic metre, they appear to be extremely good value for money, which they are of course.
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Had a call today from a potential customer looking for some one to saw up some timber so they can put it through their splitter (approx 3-4T!). Too far for me to travel. Any one interested in some chainsawing work PM me and I'll pass on your details.
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I might take it if I can find some one to haul it for a reasonable price.
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Any one out there haul timber? If so what is going rate per tonne for 40 mile trip? and how much can you shift in one go?
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What size are your bulk bags (width x depth x height)? Average ones seem to be 80cm x 80 x 80 , 0.512 cubic metres. £75 per bag is good going! 250 logs in a bag = 30p/log if you put 25 in a net at 30p each they should be worth £7.50 each to you!
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Makes superb kindling. Must be worth something to some one. I shifted 35t Poplar as firewood a few years ago (£100/cube), easy to work and dries really quickly. If I had a truck with a grab I'd take it all. All seasoned wood burns with roughly the same calorific output per kg, less dense woods just burn quicker and often a bit hotter.
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Can you arrange transport John? If so any idea what haulage costs would be to Nantwich? Dave
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I sell nets to 3 or 4 retailers. I use 40x60 nets holding about 8-10 logs each. Wholesale at £2.75, retailers just add £2 and sell at £4.75 (all seasoned hardwood). Local sainsburys selling same size nets, 6 large chunks soft wood "real wood logs" for £5.99!
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We paid £53k for 21 acres in North Wales 4 years ago (leasehold with 900+years on it). I have been offered the lease for about £10k but the wood will then be worth in excess of £100K, according to the price others are selling for in same area!
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Easy to process in to firewood and seasons very quickly if stored properly
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have found loads of wasps beginning to overwinter in various logpiles
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We have a villager (AL I think!). Had it 10 years before we moved house and then added a boiler in to it. Can't fault it at all. A friend of mine has a villager for sale - I'll find details if interested (located Cheshire)
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I'm interested in what your solar kilns consist of if you don't mind telling?
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Quite a bit gets ploughed up in West Lancs around where I used to live(Rufford-Burscough area). You may just need to have a drive round as it often got left at road-side. Or just call in to a few farms and see- head down towards Martin Mere.
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I always thought brambles were a part of the flora of a good woodland. They provide food and habitat for a variety of wild life. If you have to remove any cut paths through and leave the majority. The owners need a bit of educating about woodlands. Many small wod owners seem to spend so much time and money "clearing brambles" that they never actually walk through the areas they have cleared. There is so much more to a good woodland than having tall trees with 20m spacings and just a bed of leaf litter on the ground - rant over
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Any one monitor their website traffic. Just had a brief analysis of mine over last 12 months (Logtastic! Flaming good wood, firewood site only) Amazingly getting 500-600 individual visitors/month, and that seems to be all year round too
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Welcome to the forum Jim. Where abouts are you as price tends to vary due to locality more than anything else? My logs are selling at £105/cubic metre of loose logs Good luck any way
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Licence / tickets to deliver firewood to domestic buyers?
davetaz replied to TreeNuts's topic in Firewood forum
So that's business insurance on the vehicle, public liability and may be employers liability. If you already have these then you are ready to go deliver logs! -
Get up to my yard in cheshire, I'll get 5 or 6 axes and you can try them all on my 20T pile of rings (minimum of 2 hours on each axe and that should give you a good idea which to use), meanwhile I'll stick to the hydraulic version!
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Most of my timber is seasoned as billets 36" long. Logs cut to size as customer requires them 6", 9", 12", 18", quite quick on the Eagle Saw. Straight in to barrow bags and delivered to their door, lots of positive feed back about being able to buy logs of different sizes and having them delivered to somewhere convenient.
