Buying fire wood west cork

ph5.5 · 2015-08-11 16:20:33

Hi I am looking to buy fire wood. Got on to coillte and they said. The position with firewood, when we have supply, for softwood, we deliver it in at a cost of €1,400 including VAT and this is for a lorry load, approximately 30m3, a lorry load which we deliver in to your premises provided that your property has sufficient…

11-08-2015 05:20PM

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ph5.5

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Hi
I am looking to buy fire wood. Got on to coillte and they said.

The position with firewood, when we have supply, for softwood, we deliver it in at a cost of €1,400 including VAT and this is for a lorry load, approximately 30m3, a lorry load which we deliver in to your premises provided that your property has sufficient space for entering/offloading and exiting.

Hardwood is sold on a tender system and costs closer to €2,000 per load.

Does any one know how many trees you get in a load.
What size the trees would be.

Or is there any one around Clonakilty area that would do me a good deal on wood. to bag and sell on.

Thanks
Pat:)

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#2 12-08-2015 08:47PM

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try the lads up in Graingers sawmill in Enniskeane, Kevin Kenneally or Traolach Layton, they are the 2 foresters up there and sell pulp as firewood all the time when they have it, might be worth a call and see. you should be able to get thier numbers off of the website

the size of logs will vary in diameter but will all be moreless 3 meters or 10 feet in length.
it depends if you get thinning pulp or clearfell pulp, thinning pulp is alot smaller in diameter.

how many trees you get in a load.. how long is a piece of string... depends on the diameter as larger logs need more space but you cant fit as many as small logs.

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#3 13-08-2015 09:59AM

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We buy a load off coillte every few years. The load for 1,400 is a good bit of timber. Think of the artic lorries you see on the road with 4 bays of timber. Timber wise it's usually around 6 inch to 1 foot diameter round. So yes a lot of timber, which means a lot of sawing and a lot of splitting. I'd advice only attempting it if you had a tractor log splitter or better. It's very labour intensive. You can also buy 1/2 loads from coillte.

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#4 13-08-2015 09:09PM

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I would try the forestry owners coop based in west cork, goole focs ie for contact details

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