Logsnstuff
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Thought I would put this up see what other people are doing to help keep the garbage out of their bags. [/img] [/img]
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multiply the lengths 90x90x90 bags are 0.729m3 we sell currently £94.00 for 1 of these, we don't do bulk discounts 1 bag or 100 I'm going to charge £94 or it stays in the yard and we get orders from all over the country, I've shipped stuff down to channel islands and up to shetland. I do free delivery upto 150 miles with our own van as long as you buy upto 6 bags depending how far out you are. I can't get my head round selling a cube for £60 £70 I didn't sell this cheap 6 years ago. I do find customers rotate through the local merchants always willing to try the next cheap price but always coming back to us because of quality. I also charge £38.00 for the barrow bags I sell 5-600 barrow bags a year but I'd be happy not to do them at all most people who want these have the log store at the far end of a deep gravel path.
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I'd go this route also, we have a 2.5m horizontal but the majority of wood shatters this way and makes for pretty ugly logs vertical 99% of the time.
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Imported kiln dried logs - does anyone actualy buy them?
Logsnstuff replied to ash_smith123's topic in Firewood forum
20% mc is 20% mc whether its been air dried or through a kiln the difference certainly round here is my 1m3 is £125 and the kiln dried is £160, I use a pretty high end moisture meter and my logs are usually 5% lower mc then the kiln dried until you get into mid winter then they all measure the same. -
S G baker were selling them but they stopped now they supply the white bag you can see in the bottom left corner of that image. We have been using single tarps we found they worked better than using large tarps but we are going to have another go with some 5x6m see how they work out. [/img]
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Ah well hope it works well for you, heres a pic anyway, it looks low because the spacer has been removed from the bottom reducing the height by a good 5-6" to allow splitting 18" stuff. [/img]
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I'd agree buy a moisture meter and with softwood once it's split dries in hardly any time, I split oak in late winter early spring and by oct it can be down to 15% . the advantage of filling bags over a large stack in a shed is airflow. I did try burning some 2yr old grandfather pine this winter and it was horrible. [/img]
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in my area over the last 6 years its gone from 5 suppliers to over 32 that's not counting the small holders and part timers working for cash that we see everywhere. never mind the 2nd home in miami not sure these days you can afford the first home. I do seem to be the only one who is full time firewood the rest have garden centres or haulage company's or joinery shops might be time to charge up the harvester and go cutting instead.
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I've got the old man working the posch vertical he splits about 1.5 cube an hr depending on the diameter. I recommend getting the table extended though we had the local welder add some wings to it and its now about 4ft wide so when you split something pretty large you dont have to gather it all from ground lvl again.
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I agree charge the same I do and I'm starting to get people switching to 100% softwood and giving up burning hardwood.
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I charge £94 delivered 90x90x90 bags 15-20% mc
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I pay 2.5k for an acre in the middle of a farm no sheds though. pay £35-£50 ton usually for mixed processor size and sell it £94 0.73m3 (90x90x90) 15-20% mc there's 20 other guys around selling for £50 a cube but 35% mc + they don't get people want seasoned logs not cut to order on the delivery day, they want it bagged not tipper loads for the mess, work smarter not harder as I read here earlier I work 9-5 5 days while the other guys are doing 7-6, 6 days and more and making less money. secret is break out of the tesco mentality that people will only buy cheap because for everyone who wants cheap there's at least 1 other who wants quality.
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