Firewood

Nick, Can you give me a guide price for an artic load of hardwood to between Andover and Salisbury please?
Hello mate.
Load what we call processor size timber would be £1500
Load bigger diameter timber and more twisty limbs suitable for chain sawing and splitting would be £1250 load.
That's a 25 ton load of probably silver birch, alder and oak..
Thanks nick
 

Andy26

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A bit of firewood production going on here today, not quite industrial scale but beats an axe!
 

RCS-EPoS

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@Ben M that is a beautiful bit of machinery. Do people still use an Axe to cut firewood these days or is it just simpler to use machines? I can understand when it comes to selling firewood that you'd want to use something more industrial than an axe otherwise time vs profit wouldn't work out.

All this talk of firewood makes me want to grab a blanket and snuggle down next to a log fire. Quite cliche at Winter/Christmas but I think that's part of the magic of Christmas time.
 

renewablejohn

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Hardly say the firewood kiln is free you still have to feed it with firewood which I would prefer selling to customers at £100 per m3. I have looked at it but unfortunately its not suitable for use in a smoke control area so instead I will be using a solar drying kiln claiming RHI and Fits.
 

Andy26

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Northants
So you pay £60/ton for core wood delivered to farm. Then process it into logs , how much can you sell that ton for? Also what does a cubic metre of logs weight?
One ton of cord produces around 1.6 cubic metres of firewood.

E.g. a builders 'ton' bag is 0.65 cubic metres, thus £65/bag

A cubic metre of seasoned wood should retail around £100, so £60 of produces £160 of retailed seasoned logs.

After processing, storage and delivery there is very little if anything in it. The price of seasoned wood to the retail customer has barely changed in ten years.

 

Ben M

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Suffolk

One ton of cord produces around 1.6 cubic metres of firewood.

E.g. a builders 'ton' bag is 0.65 cubic metres, thus £65/bag

A cubic metre of seasoned wood should retail around £100, so £60 of produces £160 of retailed seasoned logs.

After processing, storage and delivery there is very little if anything in it. The price of seasoned wood to the retail customer has barely changed in ten years.


Depends how dry the cord wood is. Last year I weighed 3 o.65 cube bags of bone dry ash and elm (heaviest dry logs youll get) they were 260kgs each on average. So 1.2 cube load around 500kgs and 2.4 cube around 1000kgs (1 ton). Sycamore and birch for example would of been even lighter. I paid £40 / t for the cord so each 0.65 cost me £10.80 a bag.

Softwood even lighter
 

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