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mikepepler · Last edited by mikepepler on Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:00 pm; edited 1 time in total

We're trying to figure out how much we should be charging for our firewood, and I was wondering what other people are paying?

If you can, please give prices per cubic meter delivered (i.e. including air gaps between the logs), and specify if it's split and how long it's seasoned.

I'll put a poll up, to make it simple.
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Keela · Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1933

We're scavengers! Own fallen trees etc.

RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 10688 Location: York

Fess-up time. We collect it free (4 years and we've never paid for any) but recently had a friend chainsaw some up for us, for which we still owe him a fiver.

I don't think free wood is going to last, mind!

Chopped seasoned wood, delivered to door, seems to fetch about 1/2 the price of (thermal equivalent of) gas, that is, about £80/tonne dry.
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emordnilap · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 9480 Location: way out west

It's hard to say. We get ours in a large high-sided trailer for €200. Usually beech or ash, ready to burn. Two to three loads sees us easily through a winter, keeping us toasty and drying clothes, heating the water etc.

I'm happy with the price, mainly because all I have to do is throw it in the shed, which in itself is a pleasurable activity in the right conditions.

Does it sound cheap/dear or what?
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RalphW · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 3527 Location: Cambridge

We either scavenge ours our get a van-load (about a cubic metre) from our mates who manage (coppice) some ancient woodland near us on behalf of the wildlife trust. They use volunteer labour and haul wood with a borrowed horse. I think they charge 20-25 for a van-load (about 1 cubic metre) but they say business is slow because of the mild winters.

kenneal - lagger · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:08 pm Post subject:

The only wood we buy is slabwood from a couple of guys with a Woodmiser. They used to charge £10, collected, for a bundle of either softwood, hardwood or a mixture weighing about a ton. The last lot I bought cost me £20 because, he said, demand had increased, but it might have been because he realised I always took the bundles with lots of reasonable planks in. We use them for lining beds in the garden or building toilet/shower blocks for parties!
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Andy Hunt · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject:

I get mine in those orange net sacks, at £2 per sack. I go through about 10 a week.

I collect my own over the summer though, and that usually lasts me a couple of months before I have to start buying.
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RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 10688 Location: York

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snow hope · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

I get all my wood logs free, either from pruning/cutting in my own garden or from pallets, or from various neighbours who now know I have a wood burning stove. Mind you one or two neighbours are putting stoves in too now - sign of the times. Wink

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Keela · Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1933

We got word that our wood burning stove is being dispatched this week! Smile

Mind you... dunno when OH will have the time to install it for a while! Confused

And where he wants to put it will mean a complete kitchen redesign! Crying or Very sad

Okay so I visited IKEA (THE place for value kitchens according to my sister) and I got lost, lost my purse, heard security had it, took an hour to get OUT, retrieved purse and took a migraine!

And the family wonder why I don't want to bother replacing the lovely £150 second hand kitchen we installed 10 years ago! (Okay "lovely" is overstating the case, but it is highly functional and I like it!)

OH has loads of wood put up and seasoning.... but I'm sure it needs more time.... that's why I got the oil tank filled again! Twisted Evil

We'll get there eventually. Just wood = work. And I'm not sure I'm ready for that just yet.

Bedrock Barney · Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 253 Location: Lincolnshire

I get my hands on softwood offcuts from building sites, bits and bobs from our (very small) coppice, and the rest we buy in from local suppliers. A decent seasoned load of ash cost £80 earlier this year (ie flat bed transit). Not sure what this means in terms of m3.

Definitely an upsurge in interest for wood fired stoves round here.
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emordnilap · Joined: 05 Sep 2007 Posts: 9480 Location: way out west

caspian · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 681 Location: Carmarthenshire

Until this year we were paying about £160 per "load" (whatever that is in real money - I would guess that it's just under 3 cu. m). This year I've been told that the price has shot up (50% higher apparently), due to lots of people installing wood-burning stoves. This is what I feared - that the current mania for wood-burning stoves would translate into much higher wood prices.

RenewableCandy · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 10688 Location: York

We're still on the free wood. Mind you I think we used a little less than "normal" last winter because energy prices took a small dip.
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