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Operational cost & prices

The world is getting mad. First Covid with interrupted supply chains pushing the prices up and then the Government increasing taxes and changing the fuel legislation, the heart-breaking storms with thousand of wind-blown trees and if that was not enough a stupid war.

For us that means that the following relevant costs rise by:

• Timber costs will probably remain as a lot of the wind-blown wood cannot be used for construction, but is harder to harvest jumping from root table to root table  

• Fuel legislation: we are no longer allowed to use red diesel which increases the fuel costs by 240%

• Insurance costs: up by 100%

• white diesel is up 30%

• all other costs are staggering as you know as well 

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Even we are getting more and more efficient and productive, we cannot compensate all of the cost increases mentioned above.

For Our Keen Gardeners !

We now have a limited supply of compost suitable for vegetable gardens, shrubbery gardens and established plants.

Compost improves the condition of the soil. Adding compost improves the fluffiness and texture of your earth, which makes your plants more productive and more resistant to disease. Adding compost to your garden beds will help the soil maintain its pH levels over time. Mulching with compost is a great way to reduce weed growth around your plants 

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We are limiting our compost to smaller orders to accommodate everyone's needs. 

And please note our compost is not suitable for seedlings.

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Woodchip

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The most obvious way to use wood chips is for mulch around plants in your garden and landscape. The wood chips naturally decompose and, in the process, improves the soil texture.

Wood chips also shade the soil and absorb water to keep moisture levels more consistent, so plants need less watering.

Another benefit is how weeds find it challenging to grow in wood chip mulch, which is a pleasant surprise to many gardeners!

Walkways made from a deep layer of wood chips are a fantastic way to repurpose a large quantity of material from trees you remove from your property and send through the chipper.

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How to find us

Our tidy yard with direct access from the main road is easy to find on the A97, 250m south from the Huntly roundabout direction to Rhynie. The roundles with the yellow letters

LFS (Linnorie Firewood Services) can easily be seen.

Naturally seasoned vs. kiln dried

Quite often we are asked: "Should I buy kiln dried logs?"

Here are some facts: 

• 1kg of softwood oven dry has a calorific value of 5.3kWh
  (theoretical moisture content MC of 0%)

• 1kg of firewood MC 20% or lower is about 4.3kWh

• to kiln 1kg needs approximately 1kWh
   

• Natural drying helps to fight global warming because

  1. No additional energy is used

  2. Logs are always trying to reach a equilibrium with the ambient air. To evaporate water from the logs during dry weather, the needed energy is taken from the ambient air, which becomes cooler.
     So if you walk through the shed on a really warm day  
     you can feel the colder ambience.

• The reverse process happens when the kiln dried or seasoned logs are exposed to a ambient air that contains higher humidity (fog, periods of rain). The moisture content is raising again.
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• Years ago we experienced that kiln dried products shipped by container were affected by condensation. That is the reason why these days we only sell local grown logs and we do not sell kiln dried firewood.

Therefore kiln dried firewood may be an option if the products are not stored outside at the merchant's or at your premises (not even if sheltered from rain) and if you don't mind about the additional energy that is used.

Happy Customer

This customer will have a quiet summer once the logs are in their compartments and waiting to cheer up the hearts of the family once it will get colder again. 

Spring Opportunity 2022

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Cost aware customers fill their Log Sheds now
as energy prices may rise again!

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Details and Terms & Conditions

The offer is 

1. valid for all orders placed before end of May 2022

2. for unseasoned softwood at your required length (from 250mm to 600mm length)

3. exclusively for loading directly into your or our open trailers (no bags)

The softwood logs will be seasoned by end of late summer if they are stored appropriately. 

Please note: to avoid legislation and regulations for heating systems with firewood becoming prohibitive: burning green logs is inefficient, is polluting the air and damaging the stove or boiler.

For self-collecting

• you may park your trailer in our secured yard to be filled

• times for parking and loading your trailer or a later pickup to be agreed in advance

• the trailer requires to be fit for purpose

• for efficiency and safety reasons we are unable to offer an unexpected drive-through service, because we may be processing a different product (type of wood or length)

• the volume will be measured and invoiced by m3 loose logs (cubic metres)

• minimum volume self-collected is 2m3. You may increase the volume by side boards

• but please take the allowed loading weight into consideration!

• calculate weight per cubic metre with approximately 420kg/m3.

• Please contact us for larger orders over 7m3 to discuss your requirements.​

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• Softwood 250mm or 300mm will be priced at £53 per cubic metre self-collected or £66 per m3 delivered.

• Softwood 400mm or 500mm will be priced at £47 per cubic metre self-collected or £60 per m3 delivered.

Operation: Area and Time

Please see the area of operation on the map below.

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We are open

• Mon - Thu 08.00 - 12.30 and
            13.00 - 17.00

• Fri       08.00 - 12.30 and
            13.00 - 15.00

• Sat       closed

• Sun       closed

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You can leave us a message or drop an email at any time and we will get back to you. This is also during the week the safest method because while operating the machines it is not always possible to pick up the phone or it is sometimes pretty loud. 

..and please remember: to be fair we strictly apply the rule

FIRST COME - FIRST SERVED

Occasionally you may be lucky that we have some spare capacity to include your delivery and you get the it pretty quick, but

it is in any case a soon as possible. 

Softwood 250mm tipped loose

This may be of interest if you are looking for softwood logs 250mm / 10'' tipped loose either self-collected into your trailer or stacked into your boot or delivered kerbside.

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To increase the volume we can store in our yard, part of our production is now stored in potato boxes of 1.6m3 (35cub ft).

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If available you may choose or may be asked if you would like to take a combination of tipped bags and boxes, e.g.

• 1 / 1.6 / 2 / 2.6 / 3 / 3.2 / 4 / 4.2 / 4.8 / 5m3
  potato box (1.6m3) and bags (1m3) combination.
   

The price per m3 (cubm) is exactly the same than the one for the tipped bags. We can tip the boxes with our box rotator into our tipper truck or in to any appropriate trailer. ​

Projects

LFS was founded in 2014 and every year we had to turn away potential customers in the peak of the heating season to keep our existing, regular and loyal customers as happy as possible under the given weather conditions.

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LFS converted the yard and is now able to buy and pre-season much bigger quantities of roundwood / timber, as well as to store processed logs to become seasoned. 

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We also improved the area around the shed for self-collectors and the loading of our own van / trucks.

LFS buys Timber HW / SW

LFS does not sell any timber as this would be very inefficient (loading, haulage, unloading at our yard and the same again afterwards at your premises!). LFS is always interested to buy timber of good quality. Ideally

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• 3m length and  up to 420mm / 16.5''

• but we may also be interested in longer and bulkier timber

• LFS has a 10t timber trailer and can collect timber in the Huntly area.