How much do you pay for logs?

kingshir

Have got an open fire and am wondering what (if anything) other folk pay for their logs and where do you get them from??

calleyw

kingshir wrote:

Have got an open fire and am wondering what (if anything) other folk pay for their logs and where do you get them from??

This is kinda a how long is a piece of string question. My father does logs and charges depend on the size of load. And prices have gone up recently because of the cost of the wood in the first place.

Also you need to know how old the wood is and how it is been stored. And also don't expect to get it yesterday. My dad is backed up at the moment because of the cold weather everyone has decided they want logs.

As my dad says "he is not Tescos" As people ring up and expect it in hours or even the same day. He does have other work to do as well. He is doing logs for people now who rang up at the start to middle of last week. That is how busy he is and he works 7 days a week.

You would have been better asking this question and getting the logs in over the summer as you would had them stored and you would know that they are dry.

My father does not advertise but goes via word of mouth. So I think that is your best bet. Find someone else local who has wood burning stoves and ask them.

Yours

Calley

IcemaidenUK

i used to pay about £40 for half a truck load

calleyw

IcemaidenUK wrote:

i used to pay about £40 for half a truck load

But what sort of truck are we talking about. A toyota pick up, a bed CF flat bed etc.

The truck size makes a hugh difference as well as if it was a level or heaped load to how much you are getting for your money.

Yours


Calley

marymilkmaid

We get ours from boughton camp. It is soft wood & is off cuts ( they used to make pit props, I don't know what they make now). We pay £10.per loading shovell bucket full. We have our own supply of hard wood from trees blown down in the fields.
I suggest you look for someone near you who works with wood or if there is a wood yard near you maybe they have some off cuts

black-saturn

I havn't got a real fire but I cant believe you have to pay for logs :eek:

edna_clouds

black-saturn wrote:

I havn't got a real fire but I cant believe you have to pay for logs :eek:

Did you really say that or have I read it wrong.Do you think people cut them up and usually delivery them for the goodness of their health?? A lot of folks sell logs for a living.

It's like saying I've got an electric fire.Do I really have to pay for the electricity

to run it.

Ted_Hutchinson

If you have room to store them and time(chain saw) to cut them up you may find it's worth keeping your eye on the local paper for a "pole" or "wood" auction sale. Our local estate has one every year. They pile up all their fallen treas into bonfire size heaps. Some contain really large heavy stuff. Others are more manageable. About 3 years ago I bought one of these piles at auction. Cost about £20 and we burn log fires in a couple of large rooms every night through the winter.I'm still using this first pile. I've only got a one ton trailer so it took a few days to move the pile from the auction site home but it was money and time well spent. I think I must look out for another sale this year as I can see that the end of my initial purchase is in sight.

calleyw

black-saturn wrote:

I havn't got a real fire but I cant believe you have to pay for logs :eek:

Not being funny but where do you think my father gets the wood from. He does not go out in to his fields (he is a farmer by the way) and cuts trees down. How would he get a enough when at the moment he can be doing up to 4/5 loads a day.

Of course he has to pay for it has to be felled and that is mainly from managed forests and then either he picks it up or it is transported on those great big lorries to him. He would be well happy and might make some decent money if he did not have to pay for it.

Yours

Calley

calleyw

marymilkmaid wrote:

We get ours from boughton camp. It is soft wood & is off cuts ( they used to make pit props, I don't know what they make now). We pay £10.per loading shovell bucket full. We have our own supply of hard wood from trees blown down in the fields.
I suggest you look for someone near you who works with wood or if there is a wood yard near you maybe they have some off cuts

I agree that is another goodway. Do you have anything like a bedmaking factory or furniture factories near you as they will end up with a lot of offcuts. And you might have to pay but I know in the past that the ones local to me did not use to charge and where glad just to get rid of it.

People would come along and fill the boot of there car up.

Yours

Calley

black-saturn

calleyw wrote:

I agree that is another goodway. Do you have anything like a bedmaking factory or furniture factories near you as they will end up with a lot of offcuts. And you might have to pay but I know in the past that the ones local to me did not use to charge and where glad just to get rid of it.

Thats where my family always got their wood from for free.