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The digger has got a timber grab on it. Ive been doing logs for a good few years but my old Palax was on its last legs. my old digger (Hymac) was getting past it. My transit wanted to much money spending on it and i use my tractor for contracting. I do nearly 30 bulk bags a day some days (trade) Most of my work is to trade and i cant let them down so i either go balls out or nowt. We will soon make it back.

 

Just my idea but

I would save those nice tractors for proper work. Buy something 35-80hp for £2000 running a 1000 pto at 540. A cheap bobcat to load an old lorry body to feed the palax. Retailing wood the margin is small to wholesale must be tiny especially if you buy the wood in.

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We have now started to bag our shavings/sawdust as soon as it comes out the back of the Palax it gets blown into bags and its then sealed. But what the rudy hell do with 8ish tons of sawdust?:confused1:

 

what sort of suck/blow setup is it you use to get the shavings into the bags? trying to set something similar up ourselves - great setup their adamralph, good pics:thumbup:

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what sort of suck/blow setup is it you use to get the shavings into the bags? trying to set something similar up ourselves - great setup their adamralph, good pics:thumbup:

 

The sucker blower is a single phase standard workshop blower but we made the sawdust bag collector ourselfs in about an hour. It consists of a 5 gallon paint tin a hesian sack and a length of drain pipe with a 90 degree bend and two inertubes. proper boge job but it works a treat :laugh1:Ill take sump pics of it tomorrow.

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The sucker blower is a single phase standard workshop blower but we made the sawdust bag collector ourselfs in about an hour. It consists of a 5 gallon paint tin a hesian sack and a length of drain pipe with a 90 degree bend and two inertubes. proper boge job but it works a treat :laugh1:Ill take sump pics of it tomorrow.
sounds the dogs bxxxxs, sort of thing wed do - thanks for reply mate and look forward to pics:thumbup1:
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