I’ve just arrived in France,and have been looking to source some firewood for the wood burner, I’ve been quoted 42€ per square metre for part seasoned, and 47€ for seasoned, is that about right? I’m buying 4sq m of part seasoned for next winter and 1sq m to see in spring…
I'll give you a shout when I'm in your neck of the woods. Wear a leak in your lapel so I'll know you;-)
I've been advised by David Rosemont that there's a Welsh Pub in Plouye which is only about 30km from where I'll be . I'll treat you to a pint in May - yes?
OK,( I think) & I'm just up the road in Finisterre 29
Right - how does some Brains SA or the lovely Felinfoel Double Dragon sound !
Yeah! ditto here. My mate, the woodaholic down the road, has cut 40, yes 40 cords this year which he has yet to split & arrange. Mind you he does sell it. 40 cords X 210 euro = 8,400 euros. Stuff that for all that work. Personally I keep 2 years worth of dry & always have 2 consecutive years worth drying. That way I always have a year in the next 2 when I don't have to cut wood if I just can't be arsed or whatever! It's a terrible treadmill one is on as one always has to look at least 2 years ahead. If watching a proper fire wasn't so nice I'd turn on me leccy heating:-)
Locals round my way seem obsessed with collecting wood. Most have wood piles far larger than their houses!
Quite right as long as one doesn't stock too much. Wood over a certain age starts to lose it's calorific value.
And the wood will get better as it dries and the price will be going up to buy. Investing in wood is a better bet than pork bellies!
R E S U L T :-) That's about a grand saved less of course all the beer you now owe us!!
Believe me! Will not regret having a lot of wood in stock. Chopping down trees is good fun to start but from 11 years experience here I can assure you the magic soon wears off.
Hello everybody. I went back to the seller and to cut a long story short we've decided on 70euros per cubic metre.I've now got 3 years supply of wood which in a curious sort of way saddens me as I won't have the opportunity to play with my chain saw as much as I'd hoped.Not much use you see for a chain saw on Hayling Island.
Thanks everyone for your advice and for sharing your knowledge. Projected move date to 56 is second week in May.
On y va!
Hope you told him where to go with his wood, the cheeky beggar!
I wonder too if its not yours anyway? Were the trees on the property? Is he asking you to pay for trees :-) Just because they're cut down (at no expense to him) surely doesn't change anything legally
Its a handy thing to have 36 m3 but id haggle hard, its green wood presumably so no real use for at least a year. What's he going to if you dont buy it? Carry it away? No. Sell to someone else? Probably but they will not pay that silly price.
Thanks Nick you've assured me that I'm not going mad and your thoughts mirror mine.
Sounds a bit cheeky to me, he'd be hard pressed to sell it to anyone else for that price as it would want transporting apart from anything else.
Basically he has a windfall (sic) from EDF and is being greedy. Tell him that in fact you want it taken away as its his property not yours, see how that pans out!
Just posted a discussion before I spotted this post.Just about to sign on a house in Britanny.The owner wants me to buy separately the wood from trees that EDF cut down in the grounds.This in itself make me feel a bit uneasy but bottom line is that he wants 100euros per cubic metre for 36 cubic metres of a mix of seasoned and unseasoned oak.Could anyone advise if this is a good price?
I pay around that in 16 too. Depends on the wood type of course and how chopped down it is. Yes 4 m cubes wont last long. We are out near champagne Mouton and it gets preeeeeeety cold.
In Charente near Ruffec, hopefully it'll be here on Thursday, I'll see what comes, I think its the off cuts from when the timber mills cut workable planks for furniture making, so the 3'' think in 3' lengths, a bit barky but what was left by the previous owner was pretty good quality
Wow, that's cheap. Where are you based?