Just got 3 dump bags delivered for £150. Mixed load, dried.

Quite pleased with that!

Will be able to heat the house for about half the price of having the rads on.

Dunno, but I’m intrigued whether wood suppliers are raking it in since the fuel price increase.

PS, kudos for not calling them 1m^3 bags.

Same price as I paid for it off them 2 years ago.

I get a full load for £100. Up by about £10 since I started using the guy I get them from – that is in about 5 years.
On the basis that a full load = 1.5 cubic metres and a dumpy bag is about 0.7 cubic metres we are paying almost exactly the same price. Although he does stack them all up neatly in my log store as well which has to be worth something!

Nothing. And as I don’t have a stove I’m just leaving the wood to rot in the woods

I get mine off the beach, spend 1 hour per day cutting get so warm I don’t need a fire.

I had a full truck delivered from my supplier in August.

I paid 280.

I’ve just checked their site now – same thing is now 380.

They claim it’s 4 cube but it’s either more than 4 cube or there’s alot less in dumpy bags than folk claim. Either way at 280 I feel I got decent value.

Firewood in recent years seems to have become seen as a luxury product for burning in the parlour stove, and priced as so. A few people I know with fire/stove as the only means to heat their homes have resumed getting coal deliveries.

I have a wood4beer arrangement with a furniture maker. A small win in this life

I still get emails from my old coal.supplier from a previous house which was coal heating.

They sent out warnings that coal was going up 40-60 quid a ton there in September.

No escaping fuel price increases !- even the calls to come and remove wood foc are few and far between now – pre and even during covid I was getting at least 1 call a month for anything from a couple trailer loads to the odd tree…… It’s all looking to be going for strong money on market place now. (Folk seem to be getting split wood money for rounds or even cordwood it’s incredible)

70 quid for a dump bag. Not cheap, but probably cheaper than electricity.

The farm opposite has a tree cutting contract with the council. Brilliantly he measured up the width of our stove and cuts the logs to a bit less than that, then delivers them in the bucket of his dumper truck 🙂 I dunno what we pay but it isn’t much thankfully. I know we pay cash 😉

Leave it to season for about a year normally.

On a related note, just had chimney swept. £65 which seems more than fair. No interest in doing that myself.

£250 for a lorry load which is apparently 3m3. That’s ‘hardwood’, which is this case means birch. Birch as a hardwood is botanically a hardwood but probably does not have the same calorific value as ash or oak.

So…not as cheap as I’d like.

I do however buy whisky staves for £40 a pallet load. I reckon 2 pallets has the same heat generating capacity as that £250 load of birch. It’s needs a little bit of processing to cut to length which is no biggy. It is however a bit ‘frisky’ – so needs to be burnt with caution. I burn it in combination with my firewood.

I pay £85 for dumpy bag of kiln dried hardwood… (at least that’s what they say it is 🤷‍♂️) however I’m chomping through the stuff atm and it’s not even that cold yet..🙄 I’ve already bought a second log store but I’m loathe to buy a third as there is limited space for it…

Those prices all seem very keen, I’m surprised it’s not more, the producers feel the same inflation as the rest of us.

I got 6 transit tipper loads in back in early April which cut and split to about 15 m³. 2/3rds Oak. I gave the guys a few quid, can’t remember exactly how much, likely about £20. I’ll have to message my usual guys again soon to get the wood in ready for 24/25.

Neil, that’s amazing value, more for the watch fund.

I have a mutual arrangement with builders who specialise in lofts.

I think just over £4,000 over the last 9 years. TBF almost all of that was the charge for cutting the bloody things down (4 in total!) the firewood was just a ,’fire’ byproduct.

Can any of you guys link to where you are getting logs at those sort of prices! I haven’t seen a dumpy bag of wood for <£100 for years (just paid £129 for a mixed bag of mainly ash but some beech, oak etc).

Won’t see a single dumpy round here for less than 100 either.

Gotta buy bulk to get the low prices round here.

Least you can buy from my guy is 2cube. That was 200 quid. The extra 2 to fill his truck was 80 quid.

Gives a rough idea how much is product and how much is transport…..

The guys that I use. Rochdale area.

https://www.treelinknorthwest.co.uk/

I’m a scavenger, mostly in the woods behind the house. Otherwise I’ll go to the tree services yard on the moor and fill the car. I’ve only got a smallish stove so like to hand pick logs. They weigh your car in and out, they are currently charging £90 hardwood / £80 softwood a dumpy bag delivered locally (Keighley tree services). Anchor logs in Gargrave are currently charging £145 a dumpy bag, but it’s the sort of stuff for designer homes, very clean, very uniform.

4 dumping bags for £159 of dried hardwood on a deal

Stocked up on lovely dry elm at £65 a builders bag a couple of months ago, took six of them.
Also three cube of almost dry softwood for £150.

Local kiln dried guy is now £160 for a cube of birch and over £200 for oak / beech….Can’t keep up with demand either.

The guy I use will only supply existing customers. Given what others are saying, £100 for 1.5 cubic metres including complementary log store stacking seems pretty good. Usually lasts me almost or sometimes all of the winter.

I’m largely against scavenging for firewood, generally wood found on the woodland floor becomes deadwood habitat which is not as abundant as it should be. (my dissertation was on deadwood habitat provision at the Falls of Clyde nature reserve)

Think we’re £80-£90 a bulk bag round here

A load of mixed hard and soft for us is about £160 iirc.

100 quid per load.

Just had a dumpy bag of birch dropped off for £80. Same price as last year but it’s not as dry and the splits are less even.

The guy can’t keep up with demand, we ordered in August. I suspect demand is going why it isn’t as dry.

£95 for a dumpy bag of hardwood.

Keen to look at other options though, might check out those whisky staves,

I do however buy whisky staves for £40 a pallet load

Where from, if you don’t mind me asking? I can’t find any at anywhere near that price.

And does anyone use the compressed sawdust type stuff? Any good?

Where from, if you don’t mind me asking? I can’t find any at anywhere near that price.

Do you live in whisky country ?

I’m “just” outside the delivery radius for the good lads. I could collect but buy the time.i factor in time there and back + fuel and then to chop em ….it’s not worth while. The further you get from whisky country the more it’ll cost.

I recently got a small trailer load for my parents, 100kg for £33.50. Was the cheapest price by a mile and enough to keep them going for the winter as a top-up for cold nights. Was from the pick-your-own forestry place by Longleat (did as part of a separate journey so no delivery costs) so got to pick the best bits with no waste. Was getting quotes of £100+ for a 150kg locally!

Have to buy my wood now a farming mate has sold up and buggered off to Spain so it’s £70 a large tote bag, lasts just over two weeks so it’s an extra expense I have to find for now.

I love the choking smog that descends over my neighbourhood when people burn wood.

Where from, if you don’t mind me asking? I can’t find any at anywhere near that price.

messaged you.

I love the choking smog that descends over my neighbourhood when people burn wood.

Whilst I can see it’s an issue in highly populated areas; when you live rural (there are 20 odd houses in the 3-4 square miles in my vicinity) I’m still to be convinced it’s not better than fossil fuels in the round.

Whilst I can see it’s an issue in highly populated areas; when you live rural (there are 20 odd houses in the 3-4 square miles in my vicinity) I’m still to be convinced it’s not better than fossil fuels in the round.

Yes this.

I agree they should be banned as vanity pieces in populated areas.

Nowt, my friend has a wood, so we do some thinning over winter and we get to burn what we fell. This year it’s birch, beech, hazel, oak and sycamore.

Last year 1 cubic metre bag kiln dried Beech firewood (inner Bristol roadside delivery only) – approx 280 logs × 1 £145

This year they want £230 for the same. Using up the last of last years first before I think of what to do..

Pay?!!!!!
Collect.

@Wally I’ve about 28-29m³ here and another 4-5m³ I’ve delivered to mum’s this summer. That would heat my house entirely, and probably do half or more of mum’s heating, for 2 bitter cold winters or probably 3 mild. Round here I’d be paying the £125/m³ price range if buying ready to burn but over the last 6-8 years I’ve befriended 3 local tree surgeons. If they take down a tree nearby they are keen to dump the wood quickly and easily so my front garden and drive is very convenient. They know I’ve the saws to deal with anything they can get on the truck and make it very easy for them to drop the wood and go. The bit of folding money that is whatever I have in my wallet is just a thank you. With 6 loads in 6 days my small front lawn looked like a landing from Netflix’s big timber. With wheelbarrowing to the back garden, running the saws, swinging the axes and then stacking I spent around 75 hours on that wood, enough for one colder than average winter. It’s saving a fortune on gas though, and yes a chunk of the saving goes in my watch fund 😁

Pay?!!!!!
Collect.

That would be ideal. And as a chainsawerist (as in I own one and know how to use it without relieving myself of body parts) and a lumberjack shirt I could do that…..if I knew enough sources and had enough time. For context I went through 10sqM last winter……I’m just not sure I’ve got that much time on my hands. What value do you put on doing anything other than processing wood in your spare time. I work a 6 day week and run a holiday cottage on top – spare time is a much prized commodity.