Firewood. How much are you paying?

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.

West Wales plenty of FB ads for £60 / ton bag of seasoned ash / mixed wood.

Next week ive got 8 good sized ash trees to take down (all have fairly advanced die back). Ive got to find somewhere to put about 12m3 of ash so should be sorted for wood for the next 3 years...

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.

Sure, but overwhelmingly most people live in cities, towns and villages. I'm sanguine about the very small % of the population in the situation you describe.

Sure, but overwhelmingly most people live in cities, towns and villages. I’m sanguine about the very small % of the population in the situation you describe.

I'm with you. So, if all the affluent townies wanting firewood for aesthetic appeal could kerb their habit the price might drop a bit!

Amen.

Nice to know I'm still cheap after putting prices up this winter 🙄😄

So much load and locality variation makes comparisons hard. I could probably double my price easily if I was to deliver down to Cardiff, certainly know of one firm around here doing it.

So, if all the affluent townies wanting firewood for aesthetic appeal could kerb their habit the price might drop a bit!

Indeed, and stop causing others to go back to burning coal:

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.

£1 a split log in a green mesh bag at the local petrol station.9 odd in total.
Kindling £5 for a bag 1/4 of the size of the green mesh bag.
Customer questions it but carried on with his purchase.
Got approx 1T of wood at mine. Love the chainsaw, split and stack methodology of it

Firewood costs money? Other shocks in this thread include the disclosure you can buy wood sheds.......

350 euros for a trailer load of turf, will probably last us a couple of years. Wood I cut down myself - fir trees are like weeds for us.

Looks like a deceptively small pile in the photo, filled the shed behind it and a job hand balling it all in.

What’s that attachment on your Stihl?

It’s a brush cutter, unfortunately it’s not a stihl but a “if we make it in orange it’ll look better than it is” cutter, which has now been replaced with a Stihl!
Gardening in our yard is quite heavy duty, we’re on our third brush cutter in ten years. Hopefully spunking the best part of seven hundred euros on a stihl will buy some longevity.

Thought the fuel tank was on wrong side, ah must be the angle making the guard look odd. You’ll love the new brushcutter

The most recent load we got was £225 for 2 x m2 of locally kiln dried Elm. The folks we use fuel their kilns using locally harvested wood.

It was slightly more expensive than folks on FB Classifieds, but excellent quality.

Benz that sounds the lads just after the midmar bend at the duck pond.

Good lads them . My mate used to live the other side of the track. Just their delivery truck can't get in either side of my house and delivery to the road isn't an option 🙁

If the rhyme is anything to go by I wouldn’t be paying for elm!

Beechwood fires are bright and clear
If the logs are kept a year,
Chestnut's only good they say,
If for logs 'tis laid away.
Make a fire of Elder tree,
Death within your house will be;
But ash new or ash old,
Is fit for a queen with crown of gold

Birch and fir logs burn too fast
Blaze up bright and do not last,
it is by the Irish said
Hawthorn bakes the sweetest bread.
Elm wood burns like churchyard mould,
E'en the very flames are cold
But ash green or ash brown
Is fit for a queen with golden crown

Poplar gives a bitter smoke,
Fills your eyes and makes you choke,
Apple wood will scent your room
Pear wood smells like flowers in bloom
Oaken logs, if dry and old
keep away the winter's cold
But ash wet or ash dry
a king shall warm his slippers by

TR,

Delivery was from the folks up past Monymusk towards Chapel Of Garioch. Delivered by a tipper Landie.

Must admit to liking some nicely seasoned Beech for the log burner - we used to get from some folks who harvested wind-blown round their farm but not doing it now.

Also like burning old Whisky barrels - love the blue flames and the aroma during storage - magic!

Guessing the Elm was pretty good burning - chimney sweep had no more than a mug of soot this year.

Going back a bit - kilo isn’t burning turf supposed to be the home heating equivalent to murdering kittens these days..??

Probably, the sale of it in commercial premises is just being banned, last month. Realistically that pile will last us years, it’s a second home and there’s oil, so we used to only use a few sacks a year, this summer I had the opportunity to get a full trailer so decided to do so. It’s handy to have solid fuel for the times without power / boiler issues. Our population density is probably four or five houses within a couple of square miles so we’re not in any urban environment, in fact we are immediately surrounded by forest on all sides at present.

Firewood is sold by the kg around here, last year it was €0.12 per kg for 150 year old logs and roots, this year I've paid €100 for 21/2 tonnes so half price which should easily last the 3 months or so we light the fire, it's our only source of heating. Being olive wood it is quite slow burning, sometimes living in the middle of an olive growing area of southern Cataluña has it's compensations.

https://ibb.co/SVjM6RD

Some elm this evening, burning like mould....
I reckon the old wives tale about it not burning is simply because it takes ao long to dry.
'Season' it for a year, and it'll probably still be over 50% moisture. Give it three years and you'll have some of the finest firewood available.

I had a load of trees blow down in the storms last year which I cut up to sell as firewood. However, HMRC have just let it be known that they will take 50% of anything I make from the sales. Apparently it is the windfall tax

i'll get my coat...

I bought a ton of the compressed wood briquettes last year for £225. This year price is up to around £270 + delivery. Fox timber merchants. I have half a ton left to get me through this winter + I'll do a bit of scavenging in the local woods for other bits.
The compressed stuff seems to burn ok and is easy to stack.

£165 for 1.4 cubic metre barn dried, local wood from forestry management and certified 'ready to burn' delivered to Brighton.

Now, if anyone wants to drop a forestry trailer of hardwood length in the FoD my dad wants some.He likes 10 or 20 tons at a time.
I would be intrigued to see concrete facts re the harm that woodburners do. If they outweigh, significantly, modern pollutants such as viatually all air transport, the manufacturing and charging of consumer electricals, recreational driving etc I might be convinced but as a far more long standing process I would see it as the default to be cut after all of the above modern pollutants.
Snag is there probably isn't definitive evidence and anyway, all the objectors live in glass houses which they get to by car or plane talking on their phone while they do it.

We've burned kiln-dried Ash since trying a few different woods early on when we got our stove, we've no CH, just a burner at one end and an AGA at the other, so we need wood that creates heat, not just light.

We've used the same supplier for 7/8 years and a couple of years ago (pre Brexit controls) we were paying £270 a delivery. Earlier this year it'd upped to £350 and now the same volume is at £590... We commonly get through 2 loads per year.

Needless to say I've ordered a 'trial' cubic metre from a different local supplier, still kiln dried.

If anyone has a good supplier near Bristol please let me know. I can collect.

I've been lucky enough to have the same tree-surgery family supplying our logs for over thirty years now; I get whatever rough split hardwood they have been felling lately. So I split these big lumps down to our size and stack into a dry store each winter for the following year.
A two tonne load in a tipper lorry has now risen to £180 delivered from their yard about ten miles away.
Just as well it's that reasonable as I'm WFH and the stove is sometimes on in the morning now it's regularly frosty.
They're not accepting any new customers.

Still using the Ash we had taken down due to dieback 2 summers ago, but the same chap who took ours down sells an ash/oak mix for £80 for a 2 cube trailer full. We now have another 2 big ash that need to come down this spring, so don't think i'll need to actually buy any for a long while.

Saw the comment about kiln dried ash above - do they really do that? seems overkill for something that's only 35% misture content live. Probably takes only 6 months to season down below 20%.

I do use the compressed sawdust stuff called Hotmax - use a broken up 'log' when lighting to help it get up to temp quicker - never tried to run a fire on this alone though. Can imagine it would get pretty spendy.

We also run the little stove on smokeless ovals - they've proper shot up in price - nearly £20 for a 25kg bag now. Need to have a look around and see if there's anyone doing cheaper if i get a pallet of them or something.

We're off mains gas, and don't have oil - so solid fuels is all we have. But we're thinking of looking at new generation electric wall heaters too, to add into the mix. Lighting a fire when you're late from work is 'testing' some times LOL

live near loads of woods and in a rural area where trees are always blowing down on farmland or across roads. I head out with my trailer and a chainsaw every now and then. Its been a few years since i last bought wood.

350 euros for a trailer load of turf, will probably last us a couple of years. Wood I cut down myself – fir trees are like weeds for us.

Looks like a deceptively small pile in the photo, filled the shed behind it and a job hand balling it all in.

Ha! As a kid I used to get bollocked for playing in the turf pile in my grandad's workshop. We'd run up and down it. He didn't mind, but my mum got angry that we all got dirty.

Thinking back... it was probably about that size!

I started selling logs last winter here in Fife. I have a growing list of customers mostly who have been ripped off with overpriced unseasoned wood.

I’ve been stockpiling for years and made the realisation that I could never burn all the stock I have in my remaining lifetime. I get my wood from a tree surgeon friend who I now work a couple of days a week with.

I’m selling my hardwood bulk bags for £90 plus a delivery charge. No doubt I could charge more but I have a regular loyal customer base with low overheads.

You can find me on Instagram as mcmoonter

Mine is free, I have a van and a saw.
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It's even easier just now, there is still so much damage from Storm Arwen still to be cleared up that people are pleased that others are taking it away!
My only problem is storing the stuff, I only have a very small garden, and therefore very small woodstore, I fill it late March, early April and then start burning it usually November, it's about dry by then but it would be nice to be able to hold two year's worth and dry it another year.

I've seen at @mcmoonter Instagram and he's got more stored than me currently!

I cut 7 pig trailer loads of branch wood Beech, £10 a load. Add garage rent insurance and fuel for the Series One and chainsaw. My recent monthly electricity bill was £35......