Im taking the plunge

[AdamnRalph]

I have paid £6 a bale today for horse bedding.

 

how many ton do you want?

If i get £2.75 a bag id be happy

[hazzygawa]

way too dusty for horses. they would be coughing their guts up in a stable with that. how about selling it to garages for oil spills etc.

[Dave Martin]

way too dusty for horses. they would be coughing their guts up in a stable with that. how about selling it to garages for oil spills etc.

 

Way to blowy for oil spills

[AdamnRalph]

Happen i should dig a big hole a bury it:lol:

[chilli]

Years ago my ole man bagged up all his sawdust (carpentry dust at that, not chainsaw chips), sprinkled in a few drops of 'Dettol' & it was sold as medicated bedding for rabbits, guinea pigs etc through pet shops!!

[gensetsteve]

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.

[Joy Yeomans]

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?

 

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:

[Hogs Breath]

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?

 

Mix it with cement and coal dust then put it into a mould!

[AdamnRalph]

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.

[Joy Yeomans]

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: