farmi chippers

[Mr Ed]

With the price of steel the way it is, you wont find one that cheap anymore. I bought my first one for £4995, and also had to make up a better control bar. The later control bar systems are fantastic.

Garth, I'm sure Corwen Forestry are doing them for under £7500

[Big dog]

Not sure about end market steel prices, but scrap has nose dived in the last three months at an alarming rate!

[Mr Ed]

Yeah, unfortunately, fresh stock has only dropped by about 10%.

[garth mc garth]

a friend of mine is a steel stock holder and they are saying steel price as a raw product has dropped but main distributors brought up large stocks thinking it was gonna keep escalating and are now having trouble shifting it for the price they paid

[Mike Hill]

During the early 1990's the Japanese would bring Freighters into New Zealand ports and have them filled with scrap steel.Tractors,Rail lines what ever.Then they would sail the ship back to Japan and scuttle them.

 

They story was that they were sinking them to make marine sancturay's.But they were also getting steel from Veitnam,northern Aus,PNG,Fiji etc.Thats alot of artificial reefs!

 

People say that infact they were securing a supply of steel for the future.Makes sence as 50,000 ton ships take along time to rust away.

[Busy Daddy]

I ran a farmi for biomass on a 150 horse case at 540 pto .It wasnt enough power to keep a constant chip size when putting big timber through .

It saps the power with all the breakers in , fine for arb work though.

Hope this helps.

I moved on to a heizohack a lot better for biomass