andy26
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Everything posted by andy26
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Ash and Larch. The Best Hard and softwood. One will give you a quicker return on your money, the other will forever be an asset.
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For arb arisings £30/t is plenty. Most of the piles I see are mouldy, contaminated with mud soil etc... And any decent cordwood has been cherry picked. £15/t is closer to the mark.
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Is editing posts not possible on this forum?
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There seem to be loads of similar posts. You're probably looking at paying around £40-55t/delivered depending on spec, distance, how many loads and access. Just phone up a local merchant or contractor tell them your requirements, send the payment, await delivery. Job done. It should be easy to get a ballpark for delivery, an artic with crane will need to be bringing in £500-700 a day. There tends to be little back-load work, so just work out distances. If you're hauling timber say 50 miles (main roads) expect to pay around £8/t on top of the timber price.
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I think if you wanted it as a full time business then given suitable investment and a professional outlook, those odd jobbers and pensioners wouldn't struggle to compete. You just need to mechanise every process and eliminate as much handling as possible. I'd say an efficient outfit would not physically touch or manhandle any wood at all. Labour is the biggest cost you face (you might think your labour is free, but this is what you're fighting against). In general captial machinery is cheap pro rata versus labour.
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Expect to pay approx. £900 for an artic load of Softwood delivered to your yard. Of course you must have suitable access and space for an artic. If you're only after single loads then you'll perhaps be quoted a bit more as generally in the trade the quantities would be multiple artic loads which obviously have some efficiencies built in.
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If you put your retail sales up by the same percentage as the cordwood is rising, won't you be making more money? (the answer is yes, by virtue of the value added for processing, seasoning and delivering). Actually strong cord wood prices will make it more available in the future as more woodland where it previously was not economic to extract timber, will due to the rise in price become economic to bring back into management. The consumer accepts energy prices are on the rise, it wasn't long a go that the thought of paying £1/litre at the pumps was unpalatable... now its accepted and people just get on, making cut backs in what they perceive as unnecessary expenditure. Quality sells, but you have to inform the consumer and tell them the difference so they can make an informed decision.
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As long as the price differential in terms of £/kwh between wood and gas/oil/elec, remains the similar then it should from the aspect of supplying firewood not matter. Yes the price of cord will go it, but then so will the retail price of firewood. As with any business its important to differentiate your product from your competitors. For those who sells unseasoned logs the differentiator will be price. For others it will be the quality.
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I have a few acres of woodland to clearfell, a lot of it is pine/larch that is dead. Its probably a prime candidate to be whole tree chipped for Biomass for a power station. How much is bulk woodchip worth at the roadside? I have a hard standing and teleporter to load bulk lorries. There will be some hard wood tree tops and scrub that will also be chipped.
