King Rollo

Sorry, about the delay I also have to work. I was thinking of the whole logistics,work effort and the costs. So, In the UK, firstly you need to collect or have it delivered. It would seem there is usually some distances to collect on the fantastic UK road infrastructure! Either buy it or not. The load, unload it and handle it. Again, handle it. Cutting, splitting, stacking, drying, bagging and delivering. Given the abundance of wood here and the proximity to raw materials there is less transport costs. The raw materials seem cheaper here; also we have some “right tackle “here which makes it more efficient, perhaps there could be an optimised size of tree! That would make “bagging more efficient. Or and optimised way of stacking into a container or trailer. What about, cutting the trees into squares and then stacking in a container that could be more efficient? At the moment a “cube “of year old beech here is £ 34. So, I need the transport costs! Is there a market for seasoned firewood with no effort, accept delivery to the end user or buy and retail it? How much will a “cube “weight approx? G

I’m still do my home work! Thanks for your response and sorry for the late reply I have been out and about. It seems that you can by a “cube “of seasoned! Softwood around here for £30/40 in bags ready to go, could be cheaper. Not sure of the moisture content but everybody seems happy with it here. As you pointed out perhaps not the most efficient way to transport but may be easier to drop 64 bags in or could stack here and could have somebody in the UK stack for total volumetric efficiency. Are 64 bags a lot to shift for one retailer /wholesaler? I can burn a bag a week in the house (usually breech) so, seems an expensive way to heat and house in the UK. Still a lot of work to do but given the potential to sell at £80, it worth a bit of home work. I have got a few enquires out for transportation, a boat runs every other day from Goteborg to Immingham. So, the question was Is anybody doing this? Or as it been tried and dropped? Would it need fumigating? Suppose that I set up myself, I have land and the raw materials are within easy reach! If, you have the trees to hand how many “cubes” would you expect to cut and split per day? Keep you posted and look forward to you feed back. Now that is the proverbial” coal to Newcastle “trees from bonny Scotland to Sweden! Used to work out of Aberdeen and was on vacation last summer,up in Dundee,Arbroath ,beautiful. G

Not knowing a lot about wood but surrounded by it! Leaving the Uk some years ago to live in isolated splendor in Sweden, I find myself living in the middle of a forest,suprisng!I am sure I don’t need to tell you about the abundance of wood here of various different kinds. Unlike much of Sweden we do have a lot of hard woods around here as well. Although having flexible job I do have to travel significantly and need to get out before it kills me! So,I am looking at different business opportunities. Much of the forests seems un kept and un managed, they only take wood for personally use.With many of my neighbours having over 100 hectares.They, usually enlist a large Sweden orgnaisation to harvest the wood and give a percentage to the owner, it’s not much!. So, If I wanted to get into the export of wood logs to the Uk what’s the market like, is it viable? Is it been done? Does anybody have any experience? If we did this backwards what price would I need to sell at to make it attractive? Say an ISO container, how many bags would I get in etc etc Thanks in advance