How much do you pay for your firewood?

[bushcraftbob]

I went to buy some firewood from a local sawmill last week, i filled my boot with a mixture of soft-woods, which worked out at 20 quid, (i have a fairly big boot and the seats were folded down so thought this wasnt a bad deal!), and they quoted me £80 per ton for some hardwood. Although the lady in the sales office i spoke to didnt know what wood types the hardwood was, but just wondering how this price sounds???

 

[BorderReiver]

Round our way it's about £70/cubic metre.

Much better to carry a lump home from the woods every time you take the dogs out.

 

[Nonsuch]

£110 for two cubic metres, seasoned hardwood, delivered. Price has doubled in the last 10 years

NS

 

[tomongoose]

£70 for a Long wheelbase landrover pickup full of seasoned hardwood inc delivery

 

[Mesquite]

...they quoted me £80 per ton for some hardwood...

Is that ready split? If so ask for a price unsplit, it's usually a bit cheaper and you can have fun splitting it yourself

 

[Osprey]

I paid £10 per tonne at forest roadside two years ago, I bought 25 tonnes and shared it with two neighbours. I and am still burning this. This is for un-cut, un-split timber, you have to collect it or arrange with a haulier to get it for you. I think prices have now doubled.

 

[dandan]

Over here in France , I pay 35 Euros per cu meter for seasoned hardwood - Oak , Beech etc. That is a good price. I have seen similar stuff in the DIY shops in big towns selling wood at 70 Euros a Stere ( cu meter) .

Bring on the cold weather. Sunny and 15' here in S W France today.

 

[lab72]

i pay £75 for a pick up level load

 

[maddave]

Errr I get all mine fer nowt

 

[Mesquite]

Errr I get all mine fer nowt

Only because you go round with a chainsaw in the back of your van Dave

 

[Ph34r]

I think we paid about the same for our wood, but everytime i see a tree surgeon, or an unloved bit of wood I tend to 'adopt' some more. I also take broken fence panels off peoples hands, not a bad way to do it . Usually i have a look for wood after a particularly windy day in the local woods, and can usually fill a drag bag in about half an hour.

 

[Peter_t]

at work we sell a cubic meter for £65, a mixture of mostly hardwood and some softwood. we ran out last year so we put it up £5

people always want 'just ash' but the only reason for this is because you can burn it green and many people get flogged other green unseasoned woods which barely burn at all.
imo the best woods to burn are oak, beech, ash, hornbeem, cherry, apple(most fruit woods), hawthorn, elm and eucalyptus. these all burn for a good long time but if they are not seasoned for a year or two forget it.


pete

 

[Tengu]

I get mine from skips.

Yestedy I found nothing but a load of copper pipes.

How am I to burn that?

 

[tomongoose]

Crikey you must live somewhere posh if they chuck out copper its worth a lot for scrap

 

[John Fenna]

I grow most of mine......

 

[Tengu]

thats why I grabbed it

 

[Nagual]

thats why I grabbed it

So that was you was it, right then time to call thi polis!

 

[dasy2k1]

My local council have just ordered all of my neighbours to cut back their trees to 4m above the road....
offered to take the wood of their hands.... now i just have to saw it all up and split ready to rack up to dry in the scout hut...

 

[Ex Member - Sidney Bounty]

$0.00 I got enough firewood in the back yard for a lifetime or two...

 

[treelore]

i would ring around a couple of local tree surgeons and see what they charge...i sell mine @ £70 a long wheel base landy load..all hard wood and seasoned aleast a year..... i would get in quick too as the price may go up if the winter id hard !