Anyone on here in the Firewood game?

[nick channer]

No my pile sh!t processor still sits in the hedge... I just like things that are diff and no one else has..
That machine would go lot better with a palax ks35 bolted to,it...
I'd like to get hold of some drawings for that and get my mate to make one.. Already have a drop down low loader trailer, could mount it all on that..

 

[roscoe erf]

What sort of money do you guys charge for firewood?!

Currently buy hardwood logs, about 10" - 12" in length in 1m³ builders bags.

£40 a bag hardwood.

 

[B&B Pig Man]

£40 a bag hardwood.

Is that delivered?!

 

[roscoe erf]

Is that delivered?!

in the words of grumpy feck off

 

[B&B Pig Man]

in the words of grumpy feck off

Didn't think so somehow!

Must be getting a good deal from my current bloke then!

 

[pellow]

bags of oak firewood on fleabay for £55, softwood for £40

 

[B&B Pig Man]

This is where I get them......

http://oaktreeproduce.co.uk/firewood/fire-wood-bulk.html

 

[nick channer]

That artic load I sell will produce 50 ish cubic metres split hardwoodvwithnaverage haulage cost of £400 makes it£28 a cube to buy....
Then there's the processing on top. When we have used processor it takes good 3 days for 2 men to split this load at around £200 day inc bit red in the old major on machine.. So it owes £40 a cube in the bag..... The bag will cost £5. ( prob returnable by customer) then there's advertising, truck to run to deliver and obviously time to deliver also..
Hence it should be at least £80 a cube.... And also bear in mind most bulk bags are not a cubic metre but 0.8 cubic metres or less..

 

[spanners]

Nature provides for me. or at least the man who planted about 1 billion trees on my place in the 1900s does

 

[multi power]

If i could buy 1m3 bags for £50 a pop i wouldnt even bother processing myself, thats stupidly cheap!

i thought that was too expencive, but i had no other option at the time

 

[caveman]

Want one!!!!!!!
Get all those logs out of the hedgerows.
There are some other makes available which are similar.
I also like the German made one which I cant find at the moment.

 

[caveman]

I like the particular type of self feed, as opposed to the bilke with its belt feed, plus the rear discharge which negates the need for a another tractor and trailer running alongside.

 

[caveman]

Heres a good one.

 

[Daniel]

Heres a good one.

Good grief, has he got a death wish?!

 

[Andy26]

 

[Andy26]

 

[Andy26]

 

[caveman]

Nothing like chucking gallons of squirt at a job!
Two entirely different applications though.
The less handling from smaller stuff the better, to make it economic to recover what is there, rather than just push it all in a heap and burn it.

 

[Andy26]

 

[Andy26]

A few pictures above of some woodland/firewood production, will add some more when on the other computer.

I find it difficult to compete with people selling 'builders ton bags' which are 0.625 cubic meters, when you're selling cubic meter bags. Really I should join them and buy smaller bags that appear better value to the customer, but in reality aren't.

Unfortunately some idiot has a few hundred unused cubic vented log bags sitting on a pallet still.

I think 'builders bag' sold two at a time would be significantly more profitable than how I currently do it.