Price of logs 2012?

PaulF81

Still got a giant pine and a willow to fell in our garden! Enough for the next 5 years I reckon!

savemoney

My supplier has said he is having trouble too thats why I have to wait longer I think weather hasn't helped thsi year too. I did hear a while back not sure where that some of the wood is now imported.

alleycat`

Camelina wrote: »

Don't hold your breath, my supplier has said that they simply can't keep up with demand, they can't cut the trees down fast enough.

That's quite interesting.
I was talking to a company that buy about 3K tons a year.
The problem they are having is the landowners are becoming greedy about the price and are now quite happy to not cut.

The implication to me is they have the product but are quite happy to leave it where it stands and let it accumulate in value, via growth.

Once it is cut down it is just going to lose weight and, since it is bought by weight, lose money.

I have a suspicion that this is going to turn into a price fixing fiasco by artificially reducing supply.

alleycat`

savemoney wrote: »

My supplier has said he is having trouble too thats why I have to wait longer I think weather hasn't helped thsi year too. I did hear a while back not sure where that some of the wood is now imported.

You are quite correct.
A lot of the wood from the major national suppliers is imported.

Camelina

It could well be on a national level. I get mine from a local estate that 'grow' their own so to speak. They are or appear to be quite happy to cut it down but they simply cannot keep up with demand. Someone I know got a load from them last year and it was literally cut down on the day(not ideal for burning though)

alleycat`

Camelina wrote: »

It could well be on a national level. I get mine from a local estate that 'grow' their own so to speak. They are or appear to be quite happy to cut it down but they simply cannot keep up with demand. Someone I know got a load from them last year and it was literally cut down on the day(not ideal for burning though)

Makes some sense then.
I'm talking about a company that actually buys and processes rather than has their "own".
On that basis their view of the world would be different and i could see how that would alter the thinking.

savemoney

I get my wood from local supplier but he has told be he does buy much of it in although he does get wood himself too

A._Badger

Thanks for the comments, folks.

There has always been a regional difference - usually based on where there are plenty of suitable trees!

The difference now seems to be that stoves have been promoted so hard that wood supplies are being squeezed and prices hiked.

Sadly, there still seems to be a popular myth that stoves are 'cheap' to run and, of course, that's hardly going to be discouraged by retailers and manufacturers.

PaulF81

Why I went multi fuel!

A._Badger

PaulF81 wrote: »

Why I went multi fuel!

Yes, me too. But, in my case, the advantage has been the extra heat you get from using solid fuel. I've never been able to calculate it exactly but I doubt it's much cheaper than burning wood.

I now use one or t'other, depending on the weather.