What's Firewood Worth?

Location
Suffolk
With all due respect, your are in a VERY different area and market
It may well be worth what you are saying but I can't imagine anyone around here paying anything near that
So you go to B&Q to buy an object where your location dictates it is way cheaper than any other area in the UK???? I think not. This is a perceived discrepancy brought on by the need for 'instant' & possible desparate cash. IMO the worst side of the race to the bottom. If you have a quality product sell it for its worth. OR If you have a quality product in Pembrokeshire, sell it for sweet FA.......Mmmm which model would I go for? No please don't be fooled by what your neighbour will pay.
Perhaps this is where & why farming is suffering.....
OK there are the mad ebay 'fetch this loada logs for £1000 but I'm being realistic.

@Penmoel Your ash will be out in the morning necessitating relighting the fire......Such a PIA! Eh? My oak will still be smouldering & with a tickle I'll have the fire going again for the rest of the day. smouldering. Smouldering with DRY timber & not clagging the flue with tar.
I've just as much if not more insulation as you. I have ash, but for the long burn I would have oak.(y)
SS
 
Location
Suffolk
I had big plans until I realised that everyone and his dog sells it .job to give it away
On this one I'd advise you buy all you can as cheap as you can so & store it carefully for a year or more. Then you have very very cheap heating.
Re the OP I am just quoting the value taking in consideration for your work and the 'actual' worth/cost from the forest. Otherwise the above sentence is valid!:D
Probably like milk. What it's worth & what it sells for are like two different planets!
SS
 

multi power

Member
Location
pembrokeshire
So you go to B&Q to buy an object where your location dictates it is way cheaper than any other area in the UK???? I think not. This is a perceived discrepancy brought on by the need for 'instant' & possible desparate cash. IMO the worst side of the race to the bottom. If you have a quality product sell it for its worth. OR If you have a quality product in Pembrokeshire, sell it for sweet FA.......Mmmm which model would I go for? No please don't be fooled by what your neighbour will pay.
Perhaps this is where & why farming is suffering.....
OK there are the mad ebay 'fetch this loada logs for £1000 but I'm being realistic.

@Penmoel Your ash will be out in the morning necessitating relighting the fire......Such a PIA! Eh? My oak will still be smouldering & with a tickle I'll have the fire going again for the rest of the day. smouldering. Smouldering with DRY timber & not clagging the flue with tar.
I've just as much if not more insulation as you. I have ash, but for the long burn I would have oak.(y)
SS
I'm not sure what B&Q have got to do with this? Our local one has gone
 
Location
Suffolk
There is a national price that folk pay. I was using B&Q as an example as they are a national company. To sell good things and this includes firewood, as we're on the subject is just so wrong on many levels.
On the other hand if you can knock those who are on the race to the botton in the instant cash firewood game, by all means do so & haggle for an even lower price, then if you keep the £100 per cubic meter as it's real worth in your head & buy at say £40 you are doing well. Ok the fellow may discover this price is unsustainable but you have come out with two and a half times as much produce in this way.
Arla milk has this as it's business plan so it must work:LOL::LOL::LOL:
SS
 

Penmoel

Member
@Penmoel Your ash will be out in the morning necessitating relighting the fire......Such a PIA! Eh? My oak will still be smouldering & with a tickle I'll have the fire going again for the rest of the day. smouldering. Smouldering with DRY timber & not clagging the flue with tar.
I've just as much if not more insulation as you. I have ash, but for the long burn I would have oak.(y)
SS

I think it best we agree to disagree on this, thankfully we have more ash (yet) and beech over here.
On this one I'd advise you buy all you can as cheap as you can so & store it carefully for a year or more. Then you have very very cheap heating.
Re the OP I am just quoting the value taking in consideration for your work and the 'actual' worth/cost from the forest. Otherwise the above sentence is valid!:D
Probably like milk. What it's worth & what it sells for are like two
different planets!
SS
I will agree on that one
 

Goweresque

Member
Location
North Wilts
There is a national price that folk pay. I was using B&Q as an example as they are a national company. To sell good things and this includes firewood, as we're on the subject is just so wrong on many levels.
On the other hand if you can knock those who are on the race to the botton in the instant cash firewood game, by all means do so & haggle for an even lower price, then if you keep the £100 per cubic meter as it's real worth in your head & buy at say £40 you are doing well. Ok the fellow may discover this price is unsustainable but you have come out with two and a half times as much produce in this way.
Arla milk has this as it's business plan so it must work:LOL::LOL::LOL:
SS

There isn't a national price people pay for all sorts of things. Beer is a lot dearer in London than it is in Leeds for example. Basically a good deal of the pricing of goods and services comes down to how much money people who live in an area have to spend - people can only spend what they have. There are wealthier parts of the country (you're in one) and there are poorer parts of the country, and prices of goods and services will reflect those income disparities. Yes you could try and demand Suffolk prices for logs in Pembs, chances are you'd not sell many, just as they don't sell many Porsches there either (except to the head of the county council:eek:).
 
Location
Suffolk
So a bag of dry oak firewood will sell for the same as a bag of mixed? My blue book weight guide rates beech as the datum at 1.0. Oak at 1.3. Ash at 0.8 (from memory) If a seller is foolish enough to sell his oak for less than ash prices than I'd advise you to go mad & buy it all & keep it undercover as it is money in the bank! Kilogrammes per kilowatts produced is usually 3:1
roscoe erf sells 0.8m3 for £50. I'm not sure what's in the bag, but surely 1.0m3 of pure quality dry oak should be close to £100. The billets are not so big as to only allow half a dozen in the recepticle at the size I said you will get a big stacked pile when taken out.
I'll stand firm.
Then I have & I'm the benefactor:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: I burn lovely dry oak, as in my picture, and no one else has it!
SS
 
I guess you would get more for your logs if you could sell them to a 2nd home owner who wants a nice log fire for Xmas , rather then someone who needs it for heating.
 
Hello,

I've cut down a load of oak tree branches, logged them, stacked them in my 6t grain trailer, it's over three quarters full now.

It's virtually all oak, and handy size stuff for a log burner. I realise that it will have to dry out before it goes on the fire.

What's it worth? It's of no use to me, so would like to sell it, in a job lot if possible...

:)
Find an elderly couple who are struggling a bit, back up to their stick store and tip it out and say "get stacking" and drive off (unless they give you tea and cake, never turn down tea and cake!)
 

Lincs Lass

Member
Location
north lincs
My regular tree surgeon doesnt bother selling logs as it cost more in time and effort than they are worth ,,often get a call from him if hes working local to clear big stuff away for him ,,everything goes through an 8 inch chipper otherwise .
Folks want logs in a certain size that will fit straight into their little burners ,they dont want the hassle of cutting and chopping it ,,only place that sells logs here are the coal merchant who buys them in or the big estate and at £70-80 a bulk bag ,its an expensive way of heating
 

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