Price of logs

[Bongtrees]

How much do you pay for good dried cut to size mixed logs where you are?

[Trooperman]

It's difficult around here in la-la land to get any sort of price based on anything other than the size of a trailer or how high that trailer's loaded or how charitable Juan is feeling or whether you are "enchufe" or not. But when I go down to Jimena de la Frontera there seems to be some standard and I think (if my memory serves me well enough) it's about 10 Euros for 100Kgs.

Does anyone else use those log merchants in Jimena to help my memory?

[chrissiehope]

We bought some earlier this year from a guy who sells in the Antequera area - not exactly cut to size (our estufa is quite small), but would probably fit most fires, particularly open ones. Still a bit 'green'. which is why we got them early, so they have a good chance of drying out. A trailer load (a cubic metre ?) costs 100 €

[country boy]

Our man sells them by variety: Grey Gum being the cheapest at €50 per cube Mtr; then €60 for Almond and Olive. Delivered and stacked in our Loggery! No complaints, (a trailer load from him is two cubic metros.)

[chrissiehope]

...on that basis, I suspect our trailer load will be the same !

[oliveview01]

Our trailer load (we think it was 3 cubic metres, it was a big trailer) was 120€ the same price for 2 years. The wood lasted us 1 winter and a couple of weeks or more into the next winter. We bought a load last Nov/December (or around then) and we still have over half of it left, that was with the really cold snap too. I don´t like to be cold, so I am generous with the wood!
I think our man comes from Arahal, we just ring him us and he comes the next day. He cuts the wood small for our fire, our neighbour has an open fire, he leaves the logs bigger for him. If, as he unloads he finds a big log, he chops it for us if we think it won´t fit the fire.
I have seen ´bags´of olive wood, the type you can get sand delivered in, at Mollina market (A Brit selling it) for 90€

[annfoto]

We get through 3 tones of olive wood most winters
It costs €360 and is probably about 6 cubic metres delivered.
Been the same price for years, tried another source one year, slightly cheaper but his truck was too big for our entrance so too much wheel barowing for us and not worth the saving.

[Bongtrees]

The only time we ever used olive was in a rental property before we bought here.

The smell was awful, the smoke and the tar dripping was also awful.

[annfoto]

The only time we ever used olive was in a rental property before we bought here.
The smell was awful, the smoke and the tar dripping was also awful.

Properly seasoned olive wood burns cleanly and gives of a great deal of heat.
All varieties of unseasoned wood gives of lots of smoke and leaves a lot of tar stuck to the chimney

[carrowcrin]

i wonder how long is a piece of string

sorry could'nt resist

[El Cid]

The only time we ever used olive was in a rental property before we bought here.

The smell was awful, the smoke and the tar dripping was also awful.

Sounds more like pine to me.

Olive is a great wood if your stove can cope with it. It burns for ages. Our stove only likes small pieces so we tend to get a load of mixed wood.

We pay €70 for a cubic metre.

Sid

[gus-lopez]

We pay around 520€ for 8 tonnes of seasoned olive. Delivered from Quesada, Jaen. Cheaper than anything around here which used to average 130-160€ tonne & that was some years ago !

[starynightsky]

We use Leñas El Lolo who delivers i think 8 tonnes for €550.

Gus Lopez, can you give me the number of your guy?

[anyroads]

The price of logs....

Was there not a song about that ?

anyroads

[peteroldracer]

We installed aircon last winter - far cheaper to run for heating than the logs we burnt in our twin-turbo fire the previous year, plus no lugging heavy logs around, baskets of wood in the corner with attendant wildlife, running out into the cold/wet to get further supplies, cleaning out the ash can, cleaning the glass, cleaning up the fine layer of soot that covered everything - and all at the touch of a remote control!

[starynightsky]

We installed aircon last winter - far cheaper to run for heating than the logs we burnt in our twin-turbo fire the previous year, plus no lugging heavy logs around, baskets of wood in the corner with attendant wildlife, running out into the cold/wet to get further supplies, cleaning out the ash can, cleaning the glass, cleaning up the fine layer of soot that covered everything - and all at the touch of a remote control!

Yes i do admit it is not fun running out in the rain / howling bitter wind in the dark to get more wood!!!

[gus-lopez]

We use Leñas El Lolo who delivers i think 8 tonnes for €550.

Gus Lopez, can you give me the number of your guy?

That's him! I done a deal back in the winter to have them at the same price as before. It is 550 now.
You should get them cheaper as you must be closer than we are. I don't know how he does it for the price considering the distance he is bringing them. He told me that it takes him nigh on 3 hours .

[Lavanda]

12 centimos a kilo of cut, split, seasoned, dry (and therefore lighter than wet) oak.

[Footprint]

We installed aircon last winter - far cheaper to run for heating than the logs we burnt in our twin-turbo fire the previous year, plus no lugging heavy logs around, baskets of wood in the corner with attendant wildlife, running out into the cold/wet to get further supplies, cleaning out the ash can, cleaning the glass, cleaning up the fine layer of soot that covered everything - and all at the touch of a remote control!

Ah but nowhere near as romantic

[peteroldracer]

Which bit of the lugging around and cleaning did you find romantic? Unless of course the good lady wears a tiny pinny and little else whilst the man sits there slobbering!
Edit: or vice versa!