How much do you pay for logs?

calleyw

black-saturn wrote:

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

I see, you comment does make sense. But my father sells logs and not offcuts. Which does take time and effort to cut it.

But if you are skint then offcuts for free are million times better.


Yours

Calley

edna_clouds

Another place you could try is a factory or any business that have goods delivered to them on wooden palets.Most are returnable but there are plenty that are not.I work at a animal feed mill and we have got loads that are scrap and I know the mill manager would gladly give them away.
If broken down carefully this would make ideal starting wood.

meadowcat

I paid £2.50 for a fertilizer bag full of good dry logs. Don't know how much they would be for a trailer load.

bootman

£47 for half a load, where I live

Sarahsaver

Price of my firewood - Free
Source - builders who were working locally, and gave me all the stuff they were otherwise going to throw away, also the branches of a rather large tree which they 'trimmed'
If you don't ask you don't get! They even cut it into handy sized logs and put it in the coal cellar for me;)

speedyjoe

Sarahsaver wrote:

Price of my firewood - Free
Source - builders who were working locally, and gave me all the stuff they were otherwise going to throw away, also the branches of a rather large tree which they 'trimmed'
If you don't ask you don't get! They even cut it into handy sized logs and put it in the coal cellar for me;)

Beware, some building timber is treated with toxic chemicals to resist rot and insect damage and so therefore should not be burnt. Builders wanting rid of such that they would normally need to pay to dipose of are unlikely to tell you that.

Burning treated timber is dangerous to health and the environment and is probably illegal.

I know because my parents had loads of offcuts last year, after building a house, and offered them to me to burn. I knew they were treated and and checked out the treatment manufacturers web site where the guidelines were very clear. They then gave the wood to someone else who burned it, I wasn't very pleased, to be honest, but at least I didn't live next door to get poisoned by it.