Ashes_Firewood

When got quotes for timber prices last winter they were that high I don't think it's viable to buy it in personally unless you don't value your time or can sell it for a lot more than I'm able to.

Its an 8x5 trailer so I can only fit 2 x 1m3 bags on. I just want to make sure if I were to be stopped by the police that I don't end up in bother for not having the load strapped down properly. Moving solid objects like IBCs is fine, you tighten the straps and that's it done. But with the bags the straps go slack after a few miles I'm finding.

That method does work when its IBCs I'm transporting 😁

How do you find is best to strap bulk bags of logs down to a trailer to deliver? I'm finding the contents settle during transport and I sometimes have to stop to tighten the ratchet straps up further. I put one strap from the front nearside of the trailer across the top of the bags to the rear offside of the trailer and then do the same again from front offside of the rear nearside with another strap so they're in a cross on top of the bags. Then I have an elasticated net over the top of it all. I do bounce the bags as I fill them but there is still a bit of settling happening. Is it because they're vented bags they have a bit more give in them than the solid bags? Just looking for any advice please.

I could always dump some IBCs of logs in front of it, just know I'll regret it when I'm in a rush one day!

Thanks for the replies. It's parked inside a shed when not in use but it doesn't feel secure using the built in Ifor Williams barrel hitch lock. Want at least some kind of decent visual deterrent. It's only going to be used for delivering logs so it won't have anything left in it like machinery that I need to secure.

Can anyone recommend a good trailer hitch lock?

2023 was the worst for me, we had a decent spring but then seem to recall summer was ridiculously wet.

Cover the top, I tried leaving about 15 cube stacked and open to the elements one particularly wet summer and had loads of it go mouldy and growing fungus. No surprises it was Silver Birch that most of the mould and fungus was on but still I won't be doing it again. I'd put some pallets on top then a tarpaulin over the top of that so there's still air flow across the logs at the top.

Not sure. Yeah it's a lot more than I'd thought it would be. Maybe it's the transport that's killing it.

Been quoted anywhere between £135 and £165 a tonne so far if anyone’s wondering for themselves.

Hi, I've never bought timber in to process before but circumstances have changed so I may have to start if the figures work. Can anyone advise on a rough price to expect to pay per tonne for a wagon and drag load? Rightly or wrongly I've been working on a tonne making 1.5m3 of split wood. Thanks.

£280 for 2m3 of 9 inch log seasoned hardwood. South Cumbria.

I keep all my logs in my garage after they've been air dried at my yard. No problems at all. Kiln dried logs are the same as air dried, you're just paying a premium for them to be dried faster.

Was thinking the same. You've done yourself there. Could have charged £120 and they'd have still been happy by the sounds of it.