Think back to over 15 years ago, where your local log merchants would deliver loose loads - dropping them off in a place where you may not necessarily have wanted, leaving wood debris on your drive. Then when it rains you get wet trying to save your wood!
So WHY now deliver your firewood in bulk bags you ask?
History of bulk bags.
To be honest, we have absolutely no idea how long bulk bags have been around. But we do know aggregate companies have used them for the last 15 years, and farmers use them for fertilisers. Maybe these helped to move away from manual handling and forklifts? Industrial loaders became more common and more efficient to move these products around in so called bulk bags. Many products are now carried in a bulk bag as you can see on the Internet by many industries – such as food to building products to name but a few. There are many different types of bulk bag forms (volume and weight). Firewood merchants deliver in volume weight (as they should), so you know how much firewood you get BUT don’t forget that the wood is a thrown load or a face cord in USA terms.
So where do we fit in?
We originally started to deliver our bulk loads of firewood in 2014. We were going to do this earlier but time goes by so quickly, and we got to a stage where loose load were so inefficient and costly to deliver. When we dropped off firewood in the rain, it got so heartbreaking when customers called to say the wood is wet although the wood was seasoned. So with that in mind, we decided to buy a small lorry with a HIAB crane and deliver four bulk bags at a time. It’s a great system to have, saves time and money and much better for the environment when using less fuel. This also provides more flexibility within the log deliveries which enables us to deliver over small walls and hedges and as close as possible to your log store within reason!
Nationwide coverage.
Since 2014 we have had a lot of interest in delivering firewood Nationwide up and around UK via the pallet network with our SOFTWOOD/HARDWOOD NETTED LOGS, FIREWOOD AND KINDLING NETTED BAGS to name but a few for our products which you can see on our web site. Our local haulages that cover our nationwide deliveries are incredibly efficient. A truck with a tail lift will deliver your firewood and place it in your garage or driveway. The only trouble they will have is if you have a gravel drive this will stop the pallet truck from moving so your delivery would be placed as close as possible. This makes a massive difference over loose loads being kept dry and does not mess up the driveway meaning a little less pressure to get those logs stacked away before the weather changes.