Any suggestions on ways of getting biomass?

[Ren]

Hi all, 

 

Just wondering if any of you have suggestions on ways of getting biomass onto a site? We're going to need a fair bit for our (as yet unnamed) orgasmicish growing project in south Wales. We have added it as a tip site on the very useful directory here - but I thought it worth asking for general advice on other sources of large amounts of wood/chippings/anything that can be had cheap or free.   

 

TIA! 

 

 

[agg221]

OK, a left-field suggestion. How about exploring whether there is demand locally for a chipping service? While you are establishing your farming business, some extra income may be useful. You would need to have the capital available to invest and you have running costs (including insurance) but as a sideline, underpinning either tree work firms or members of the public who have cut the hedge/pruned a tree and now want it gone, there may be an opportunity if the figures stack up. You want the arisings so you don't have disposal costs to factor in, which may make it cost-effective even if the asset is not running at particularly high utilisation.

Alec

[swinny]

I doubt you will get anything for free ... Only a few tipper loads here and there....

 

Would in any form is worth something and I certainly wouldn't give it away for nowt

[Ren]

Thanks - showing some naivety here clearly.... might be my experience in more urban settings - where there is less demand and costs to dispose. I should probably update the tipping advert to offer some cash for the tips! 

[Paddy1000111]

3 hours ago, Ren said:

I should probably update the tipping advert to offer some cash for the tips! 

Or beer 🍺🤣

[Will Heal]

Where are you on South Wales?

[Ren]

We're around Carmarthen! 

[gdh]

Not free but Dyfed powys wood fuels/dc2 in llangadog do large amounts of chip and chipping.

[Steven P]

On 27/04/2021 at 14:06, swinny said:

I doubt you will get anything for free ... Only a few tipper loads here and there....

 

Would in any form is worth something and I certainly wouldn't give it away for nowt

However, I have had tree surgeons drive past and reverse back to mine offering loads full of fresh cut logs to save them paying commercial rates at the tip. If you ask the right people the right questions you get the right answers. 

 

Have you looked in the phone book and see who the local tree surgeons are, bit of leg work to call them all but it might turn out OK, especially if one could give up a rented yard / downsize to a smaller one and use yours as their full time tip site.

 

You don't get anything for free... if it's owner can make a profit for sure, but if you are saving them a cost (tip fees, travelling to their usual tip site, even giving up having a rented yard), you arn't fussy them you might get what you want.

 

The final thing, nothing for free of course, maybe no cash but your time - you might not get anything tipped but you might get the offer of "come to our yard, take what you want" type of thing, and so log as you can load and transport it then it's yours.

 

However, I would look at talking or phoning about locally and see what you get

 

 

(my 2 best sources of logs were both from popping in as I was walking past, and just asking, the answers were both "take what you want")

 

[skyhuck]

How would you be fixed for collecting from site?

 

You may find local firms are much happier to give-away timber, if you come and take it from site, "Once its on the truck, its generally going home"