Firewood prices?
Discussion
richyb said:
Hello, anyone have firewood delivered and how much do you pay? I'm constantly asked about firewood and was wondering what the 'going rate' was? Delivered by the ton, mixed fresh wood (some ash/sycamore/poplar/chestnut), chopped/split to manageable sizes. Rough figures anyone?
I pay £20 for 100 logs delivered (robbed I know) however these are a mix of well-seasoned beech, oak, ash and birch. No crud like sycamore or elm. However the answer is to go out and cut your own. I've enrolled on a chainsaw safety and maintenance course at the local agricultural college, so come the autumn I'll be doing just that.
Certain woods like ash and birch burn unseasoned, and thankfully there is a lot of this stuff about.
Ok, I'm not so good on the volume because it's delivered by the "truck-load" - a small transit-sized tipping flatbed truck and it's usually full. It takes well over an hour to stack it away so there must be at least a couple of cubic meters there. One of our neighbours puts theirs in the Wickes Jumbo bags and I think he said he got 3 plus scraps from his load.
It's mainly seasoned logs cut to size for wood-burners and the last load cost us just under £100. It's probably the labour in cutting that puts up the price. It's worth it for us, one load lasts us through the winter season with an open fire.
The going rates for mixed loads are anything from £50 upwards - delivery & cutting make up most of the cost. Against that, there's a firm on an industrial estate that gives away offcuts from kitchen manufacturing if you collect & sort yourself. The guys we use are probably the most expensive locally but we use them 'cos they're reliable and we don't get rubbish.
It's mainly seasoned logs cut to size for wood-burners and the last load cost us just under £100. It's probably the labour in cutting that puts up the price. It's worth it for us, one load lasts us through the winter season with an open fire.
The going rates for mixed loads are anything from £50 upwards - delivery & cutting make up most of the cost. Against that, there's a firm on an industrial estate that gives away offcuts from kitchen manufacturing if you collect & sort yourself. The guys we use are probably the most expensive locally but we use them 'cos they're reliable and we don't get rubbish.
Cheers guys, I actually work in arboriculture and end up with a few ton of logs a week as a byeproduct of my work. Just keen to find out what people pay for it as (as mentioned) I'm forever getting people enquiring. I'd never go down the route of just going and cutting down a random tree you don't own or have permission to fell. Even dead stuff laying around has it benefits to the biodiversity of a woodland. My comment would be if you are going to randomly fell trees then take out the non-native ones like sycamores that are often a pest within a woodland. It burns quickly but if you are getting it for free why worry. Thanks for your replies, all good stuff.
Edited by richyb on Wednesday 29th July 07:40
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