headgroundsman

7 hours ago, Dougie Stirling said:

I've bought loose wet logs for several years and am charged by the m3. Basically after the logs have been dropped off the back of the tipper fish from being sawn we get a tape measure and do a rough measure of l*d*h to calc the m3, we then typically round down to allow for air and type of wood and I pay the agreed price per m3. This works for me as I've a drive, wood stores and enjoy the chopping and storing. It's also cheap enough to allow me to use the wood burning stove daily and so a big thanks to all tree surgeons who deliver like this as I couldn't enjoy my stove as much without it.

 

More widely, my thoughts are that customers will want different options, most will probably like chopped and dried. Many sellers seem to want to sell a builders bag (or tonne bag) and I've found the best ones say what size their bags are as often it's 80cm cubed and so 0.64m3 which is obv's a bit smaller than 1m3. So as long as the sellers are clear about what a tonne bag size is when they sell then I' happy, it's where I've sold it as a 1m3 and it then turns out to be 0.64m3 that I'd be left disappointed, but that means I just don't repeat business.

0.8x0.8x0.8=0.512 so very nearly 1/2 a cubic metre