Good work if you can get it

[Jimoz]

 

[V8Druid]

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"make hay ..." won't be selling a lot once the wood-burner ban bites ...... first steps're already in the pipeline with registration of all wood burners imminent ... (an' they can go **** themselves, locally )

" Did I invite you on to my property? No? Best leave while you are still able to " ....

saw a great quote recently ... "the older you get, the less of a deterrent life becomes " .............. an' apparently, according to Dan @Monkeybusiness, the grumpier The Druid gets

 

[GazCro]

"make hay ..." won't be selling a lot once the wood-burner ban bites ...... first steps're already in the pipeline with registration of all wood burners imminent ... (an' they can go **** themselves, locally )

" Did I invite you on to my property? No? Best leave while you are still able to " ....

saw a great quote recently ... "the older you get, the less of a deterrent life becomes " .............. an' apparently, according to Dan @Monkeybusiness, the grumpier The Druid gets

We've all noticed this

 

[V8Druid]

We've all noticed this

moi?

 

[Jimoz]

He can't be knocking them out in the summer at a fiver a piece can he. I wouldn't like to be burning them at that money

 

[Lancs Lad]

Woodsure? Less than 20%..

Tbf my crates are approx 300kg ish
...so that's £150 and they more than a cube. And there's some silly rates online for cubes ATM.
Daft yes but then there's folk who just want tidy little packs sat next to their fire not the ugly mountains in our place
Stoves not been out for a few weeks now

Firewoods an emotive subject but it needed to go up ...I mean I know folk still at 60 quid a cube it was that 15 years ago

 

[doobin]

Woodsure? Less than 20%..

Tbf my crates are approx 300kg ish
...so that's £150 and they more than a cube. And there's some silly rates online for cubes ATM.
Daft yes but then there's folk who just want tidy little packs sat next to their fire not the ugly mountains in our place
Stoves not been out for a few weeks now

Firewoods an emotive subject but it needed to go up ...I mean I know folk still at 60 quid a cube it was that 15 years ago

We are at £120 a cube and to be honest it needs to be more. Don’t do much. Basically I have a keen lad who first started coming to my yard age 16. He’s a good mate now, works for a local farmer. The deal is, he does all the work, I supply all the machinery and lend the ‘business’ the seed capital for logs/bags/spud crates and we split the money 50/50.

The trouble is, processor grade cordwood is approaching £2.5k an arctic! Out of that you might get 45-50 cube. So you barely double the money on the wood plus have all the hassle of delivery. We have managed to scratch enough cordwood together from local sources for now.

I gave him a hand today cause I didn’t fancy being out on site!

 

[Smiffy]

Woodsure? Less than 20%..

Tbf my crates are approx 300kg ish
...so that's £150 and they more than a cube. And there's some silly rates online for cubes ATM.
Daft yes but then there's folk who just want tidy little packs sat next to their fire not the ugly mountains in our place
Stoves not been out for a few weeks now

Firewoods an emotive subject but it needed to go up ...I mean I know folk still at 60 quid a cube it was that 15 years ago

Several places around here hitting 150 for a bulk bag. I can't see those nets being that expensive really when you consider the typical consumer. People buying little bags arnt heating there house.
I would find it more concerning the lack of mentioning of what the logs are. Id be a bit worried a load of wet willow would turn up.

My mate has listed on his website 1cube of gym logs at nearly half the price of the other options. People keep getting a shock when they find a cube of rings in there driveway.

 

[doobin]

Several places around here hitting 150 for a bulk bag. I can't see those nets being that expensive really when you consider the typical consumer. People buying little bags arnt heating there house.
I would find it more concerning the lack of mentioning of what the logs are. Id be a bit worried a load of wet willow would turn up.

My mate has listed on his website 1cube of gym logs at nearly half the price of the other options. People keep getting a shock when they find a cube of rings in there driveway.

£150 for a bulk bag sounds excessive, but realistically it’s where it needs to be to be profitable! Remember that a builders bulk bag is 80cm cubed (.5m3), vented log bags are often .9 cubed (.72m3) or the full 1m3.

The problem is, logs are a trade with a very low barrier to entry! I should know, I remember how £40 cash from a log delivery after a days work on the farm seemed like a fortune! I tried to explain all this to my mate Harry, but he was adamant that a processor would make it profitable. One came up locally and the Iseki didn’t shift despite being listed for two months at 4k so we went for it. He’s got £720 worth going out tomorrow.

 

[Storrsy]

We are at £120 a cube and to be honest it needs to be more. Don’t do much. Basically I have a keen lad who first started coming to my yard age 16. He’s a good mate now, works for a local farmer. The deal is, he does all the work, I supply all the machinery and lend the ‘business’ the seed capital for logs/bags/spud crates and we split the money 50/50.

The trouble is, processor grade cordwood is approaching £2.5k an arctic! Out of that you might get 45-50 cube. So you barely double the money on the wood plus have all the hassle of delivery. We have managed to scratch enough cordwood together from local sources for now.

I gave him a hand today cause I didn’t fancy being out on site!

I like the chainsaw holder on the digger

Don't think there's anything easy about firewood really. Quite a lot of work for not a vast return- probably ok if getting the wood "free" from other jobs but then likely to be s**t unprocessable wood.

 

[doobin]

I like the chainsaw holder on the digger

Don't think there's anything easy about firewood really. Quite a lot of work for not a vast return- probably ok if getting the wood "free" from other jobs but then likely to be s**t unprocessable wood.

Yup, we had the Friday lad on the Sherpa splitter doing the Arb waste today- fed up of looking at it. Took him all day to do about five cube, and that’s with me holding and cutting with the digger prior to him splitting it.

In contrast, the processor must have done around 15 cube- lost track.

 

[Lancs Lad]

Which saw holder doob? Was going to make one out of timber but rather one that lasts.

 

[doobin]

Which saw holder doob? Was going to make one out of timber but rather one that lasts.

12mm Stockboard. Works a treat.

I need to remake it with slightly thicker edges, will post detailed pics when I do.

 

[Furniss]

Firewood is by far the most popular round here although those pellets are becoming more popular which has led to prices of them going up and as far as I'm aware you can't burn anything else on them.

This year I paid 220€ a cord for oak/chestnut split and sawn at 50cm , a cord is 3 stere .....Google says a stere is a cubic meter.

So about £70 a cube

 

[Lancs Lad]

12mm Stockboard. Works a treat.

I need to remake it with slightly thicker edges, will post detailed pics when I do.

Ah good ive a 8x4 sheet of that at a loose end.

 

[Jimoz]

Is there a rule of thumb for how much kwh you get per ton when burning. Surely it can't be cheaper than gas at a fiver per small bag. Would you burn a full small bag per night with a proper stove?

 

[GazCro]

Is there a rule of thumb for how much kwh you get per ton when burning. Surely it can't be cheaper than gas at a fiver per small bag. Would you burn a full small bag per night with a proper stove?

But nobody can impress their mates with a gas fire can they

 

[Storrsy]

12mm Stockboard. Works a treat.

I need to remake it with slightly thicker edges, will post detailed pics when I do.

How is it fixed to the digger?

 

[doobin]

How is it fixed to the digger?

Uses two of the panel mounting bolts.

 

[Smiffy]

£150 for a bulk bag sounds excessive, but realistically it’s where it needs to be to be profitable! Remember that a builders bulk bag is 80cm cubed (.5m3), vented log bags are often .9 cubed (.72m3) or the full 1m3.

The problem is, logs are a trade with a very low barrier to entry! I should know, I remember how £40 cash from a log delivery after a days work on the farm seemed like a fortune! I tried to explain all this to my mate Harry, but he was adamant that a processor would make it profitable. One came up locally and the Iseki didn’t shift despite being listed for two months at 4k so we went for it. He’s got £720 worth going out tomorrow.

The bloke I know who is 150 has always been the most expensive. It's free kerbside delivery anything more is extra. He was the first in the area to go properly into logs as the one and only business. First to get a processor and so on. He seems to have a steady work flow. And I think he sells a "premium" product as there are plenty about cheaper.

And then it's not far and your inside the m25 so fair game