Don't ever, ever sell by weight unless you weigh the load.
It's a long time ago now but a heaped load in a Toyota was about 0.6 tonne,
and a farm trailer was 2 tonnes (we had a weighbridge ½ mile down the road).
With the trailer we were told by one regular customer who bagged the logs and
sold them on to his neighbours that on average the 2 tonnes contained 1400
logs (split).
All green wood is around 1 cubic mete to the tonne, but dried wood obviously
more.
Don't ever, ever sell by weight unless you weigh the load.
As has been noted in previous postings, there is little if any residual value
in the wood, it is all labour and handling. When I worked as a woodland
manager we put out about 500 tonnes of firewood each winter, predominantly of
fresh Birch.
We felled areas of Birch woodland for new planting and had a Stanley
hydraulic guillotine to cut the wood (12" max diameter as I recall) and the
width of the blade virtually split the larger diameter wood. the main
advantages were i) it never got blunt with dirt or snow(it would just snip
through or displace metal or stones) and ii) it was safe and could be used by
a YTS student (!) - as opposed to a sawbench. It was slower in cutting time,
but there was virtually no downtime and as a result it was more productive
over a day. The use of YTS lads made the whole thing quite profitable, but
it wasn't exactly a licence to print money.
Don't ever, ever sell by weight unless you weigh the load.
Jim
P.S. Did I mention that you should never, ever sell by weight unless you
weigh the load?
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Jobson [mailto:russell.jobson@xxxxxx.com]
Sent: 12 December 2008 11:20
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Log prices/weight?
Hello People
As an aside to a recent thread where log prices were discussed I was
wondering the following:
From travelling around I estimate £75 to be average for a pick-up load.
What, in tonage, do people think that equates to? (granted this would be
variable dependant on type of timber/green/dried etc but a general average
will do)
I ask as I noted that a large wood yard near me, is selling split hardwood
(most likely fresh timber) delivered (25 mile radius) @ £399 - 3 ton &
£325 - 1.5 ton.
Festive regards
Russ
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