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I have two log burners, the smaller one is being used at the moment just to keep the chill off the house in the evening, the bigger one gets lit end of Sept, and then i give in to her indoors and let her have central heating on, in moderation obviously.
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I was teaching full time, but went to part-time and set up a firewood business. I have started a wood etching service, and help out with catering (weddings) during the lean times. I have also started making oak shelves etc. with the wood that is too good to log. Loving every minute of it, and hope to be full time within two years. Great to hear others on hear doing similar.
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If you are struggling for hardwood kindling give us a shout we receive hardwood off-cuts at 9-14% moisture content.
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Similar here I sell kindling at £1.50 to see it being sold for £3.99, so i am trying to sell more and more direct to customers and pushing advertising. I have even started doing local markets with firewood and other wood products, and am starting to build up a client base that way.
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Would have been there in a flash, but just googled great torrington, bit far to travel!
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How do you guys price VAT into your Firewood?
sandbach-sticks replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
I invoice with VAT added. 20% wholesale 5% private sale(end user). I don't print an invoice for every single bag i sell at a farmers market for example. I just enter it as cash sales and pay the 5% VAT. So if i sell bags of logs at market to the public at £2.50 i would enter it as a cash sale as £2.38 and the 5% VAT would make it up to £2.50, although i must confess to actually doing myself out of profit when i started by entering the sale as £2.50 and then paying the VAT myself derrrr. I too would be interested to know how others are doing it? -
If you were selling to garden centers etc around here i think you would do well to get £1.50, having said that bags of logs in your area seem to be a lot more expensive than they are here, so £1.60 might be right for your area. 10,000 is a lot of bags! Good luck
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Kiln dried hardwood sticks 5kg, moisture 9%.
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will weigh one after ive eaten, they are kiln dried, be back in twenty or so
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I get £1.50 for orders <50 £1.25 >50 although i will be putting them up to £1.35 when old stock is gone. i think they are 60cm by 40cm would have to double check that though.
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Love to have it, but a bit too far for me
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I wish i was getting £1.60 for a net of kindling wholesale
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I have one of the purpose built troughs, however, i still use a piece of drainage pipe from the farm works great i think its 315mm diam sewage pipe. I cut it to the length of the net and got a file to the rough edges. I find that if you use this on a bench to avoid a bad back, then it is nearly as quick as the purpose built bag troughs, the bags look neater and you save a couple of hundred squid
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my request for silver birch cord is for a big alcove in a pub. All logs for winter 2011/2012 was split Nov 2010 March 2011, some of the stuff i am processing now will be sold March 2012 if dry enough. I keep logs in potato crates where the wind really does get through them and some logs will be below 25% moisture within 6 months, i always leave oak for at least 18 mnths, but i have to say that there is no definite time scale regarding how long you should season logs. I kept some oak logs in a barn for 2 years and they went mouldy (not enough air around them). I burn my own logs and when a sample reads <25% i burn them myself and if happy sell them. I found that my best wood last year was eucalyptus which i had in potato crates for 18 months. I now leave a foot between each stack of crates and take the sheets off the tops on really hot days, this really does help season the logs.
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Could anyone help me out in or close to Cheshire. I have been asked for roughly a tonne of Silver Birch cord, i could do with it in 8-10ft lengths, and looking to pay around £35 will pick up cheers Rob
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Just coming up to completing my first full year, kindling selling better than logs this month. I presume BBQ weather has helped me. Does anybody have any silver birch cord wood for sale in Cheshire? Need about 1.5 tonne special request from a customer
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I sell at £1.50 for orders less than 50 bags, £1.40 50+ and £1.35 for 100+ but i am VAT registered, so need to add 20% onto that if wholesale. I sell £2/bag +5% Vat direct to customers from the yard. Look on ebay there was a lot of cheap kindling on there.
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I only started really pushing sales and advertising last August, this July looks to beat last Aug and Sept put together. My sales have been mainly kindling and chiminea logs to garden centers this month, although a few new customers have appeared. They have recently installed log burners, and have obviously read the literature and want hardwood with a moisture content of <25%. I am very polite nod and sell!! I read that log burners were the most popular home improvement in our area last year, so fingers crossed for another cold one and watch these logs fly out Kindling still doing far better than our logs!
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Hi Dave
Yes Yew is sort after. If i get any good Ash Yew Cherry Oak then i am sealing the ends with wax and drying it. You can get £20+ for a good blank. I have started to make things out of wood, to start getting more cash in over the summer months, have a look at band saw boxes on youtube and you will get hooked Band Saw Box – To Do Plank in My Own Eye, and doing some planks (Oak shelves going like hot cakes). Anyway back to your question pick out the really good stuff, and sell it to wood turners, any fruit tree wood seems to be selling well at the moment. Keep in touch! My mate says ebay your blanks some go for £30 good luck!
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correction 1.5 tonne potato crate not 1.5m3 sorry
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50cm x 60cm net 1.5m3 potato crate gives me 60 bags with 12-14 logs in logs 8-10 inch long. I tend to do small logs, as most of business is narrow boats and terraced houses with small log burners.
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Help with log sizes and delivery ideas please
sandbach-sticks replied to davidjm55's topic in Firewood forum
I cut a lot 6-8 inch but a lot of my customers on on the narrow boats or have little Wenlock log burners in terraced houses. Some of my other logs are a foot long, but they are for a couple of pubs i supply with open fires. Advertise and decide what is best in your area, standard size i would say is 10 inch and these will just about fit in the smaller stoves. I have gone off vented bags and use potato crates, only because i find it easier with our set up, and we did have some of the vented bags going moldy. good luck! -
do you stack logs for customer or not thanks
sandbach-sticks replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
yes i do stack, a lot of my customers live in terraced houses and have log stores, i don't want my logs getting wet after spending a year drying them. Having read comments i may charge extra if i dont get a cupa! -
there are a couple on woodlots website
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Client list and local independent stores, and marketing all essential i reckon.
