Logsnstuff

I just sold 28 dumpy bags to a trader yesterday £70.50 each £25 doesnt even cover the bag and wood.

cheers Jon

£188 for 1.5m3 and if u want it cheaper you gotta buy 30+ bags

or mount a crane can use a hand crank one if you dont want to go for hydraulic.

28 dumpy bags worth this morning, 9 barrow bags this afternoon

I mean my customers are either hardwood or softwood they don't take both and if I did mixed bags they would move to another supplier. I had someone complain the logs I had delivered wouldn't burn and they wanted an exchange bag when I checked them they were 15% mc but oak so they refused to take anymore oak and now buy elsewhere. had another one yesterday complain the logs are too wet when I checked them was 17% mc sycamore birch beech mix then they refused to pay travelling costs and time 2hrs 80 mile round trip they also will be buying elsewhere in future.

I sell both and tar is only an issue really if you don't season it, I've had several customers change from hardwood to softwood, the main issue is for sure the stove sellers telling people only seasoned hardwood. I prefer douglas & larch for my stove, wasn't too fond of pine and spruce is good on a chilly summer night not sure I'd want it for -20

I charge same price for mine and people still buy it, but no way would I mix.

I use a delmhorst mm think cost around £400

I'm so flat out i decided to go cut some trees instead. https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1403568_605761482815236_904549208_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1385041_605759842815400_503811797_n.jpg

used to deliver to a guy who kept his logs in a wheelbarrow filled with water for a day or 2 so they lasted longer when he put them on the fire.

start with some decent tarps instead of a barn until you build a little customer base to afford luxury storage.

I get the same thing usually after they decide I'm too expensive and try the cheap load, next order they are back at us praising the quality, the problem is getting them to make the initial purchase, starting to lean towards doing the farmers markets so they can at least get a look.

£10 standing £10 delivery where's the felling and extraction price even doing it yourself you have to put a figure on it

I wish I was getting paid for cutting trees,I'm purely firewood production for now although I'm considering putting the forwarder back to contracting the harvester is too old and wouldnt take full time use unfortunately. at least the estate where we are gets a lot of blow so we had 40/50 ton come in this week foc mix of oak syc and ash which helps a bit but its not great for the processor wriggly treetops.

secret is be a tree surgeon get paid £200 to cut it down and dump the waste before you start. cash in hand guys killing us yet know one ever reports them. gets busy round our industrial estates on the weekends also as ppl nick all the pallets for their fires too. and its not unknown for people to just go into woodlands and cut trees down without permission, our accountant has small parcel of birch and caught several people cutting trees down for logs. retail £94.00 .073m3 12%mc and £38 barrow bags and being told were far too expensive, the competition 2.5m3 £160 38%mc and telling us they have to use coal to make it burn. Kindling buy it in £1.50 + vat a net retails £4.95 or 5 for £18.00 delivery vehicle avg 21 mpg breakdowns alot roughly £4.5k a year 5yr old van Vehicle finance £1,800 a month circular blades £120 sharpening a year Red diesel 800ltr a fortnight Hydraulic hoses, hydraulic oil, filters bag £5.50 each nets £0.18 each cord £52 per ton delivered euroforests £35 never appeared Advertising £1,500 a year Petrol and 2 stroke £160 a month saw servicing/repair £180 last month saw chain imported from baileys so import duty etc approx £350 a reel tarpaulins about £3.5k a year can't afford a shed round these parts and many more costs i dont want to think off or it will just depress me more.

absolutely our bags at this time of year go out at 12 to 14% but by december/january same stock is hitting 22 24% east coast scotland.

saw an ad in the paper couple of weeks ago tree surgeon selling cube for £50 and a stove fitter telling us we have a rep for being expensive at £125 a cube our oldest bags the oak was testing 12% everyone else's iv tested 30%+

£56k if you include the new van, so ye helluva lot of logs and why we get pissed at beer money guys still have the trailer to buy. most merchants up here have switched to some form of 4x4 now anyway I still favour sticking with a van over pickup. I did notice some of the pics on here showing 3 4 & 5 bags in the back I hope these were 5 tonners I got done for having 4x 90x90 and was 700kg overloaded case doesn't come up till next month find out how big a fine court will give me. you gotta remember from your payload to take driver and any passengers off + your fuel weight + any tools means you can carry hardly anything even with 2 bags it puts me into the 5% over which is just a telling off but already considering operator license and go 5 or 7.5t for distances we travel.

its about £12,500 all in but were having a camera and worklights and beacon + the aluminium bed in that price the crane on its own is about £6k

We took a sample of the bags can't say I like the look of them, the mosquito net looks alot better, being able to see the logs is why we moved away from the standard bulk bags, with air holes burned in the sides they did the job but didn't look very nice. The barrow bags seem ok although they are smaller than what we are used to use.

all this cost me was 2 fills of petrol and a little diesel to haul it into the yard still wont sell it for less than £125 a cube

site fairly near us with 3 - 4m ash syc beech they are asking £35 a ton roadside £42 delivered, think they were talking 6k tons total but probably 4k of that will be softwood been nearly 3 weeks still havent managed to get a load into the yard yet not sure the manager likes us

still slow from this warm weather 28 barrow 17 bulk for this week

use iron men i think they call them from local builders merchants the frames you put scaffolding boards on for walking at a little height, theres a pic somewhere of ours cost about £35 a pair and you just knock the pins out when your done to take the weight of the handles and they slip out 20 sec job.