Time to kiln dry firewood down to 20%

[Mortimer Firewood]

Fair play to everyone with which way they proceed with their businesses but forestry/firewood seems to be heading the same way as agriculture it's got to be BIG! I think that's a bad thing, woods operate in a totally different way over a very long time and it now seems without any Gov support for planting. I foresee a real battle developing for wood in five to ten years it's just not sustainable.

 

Most people I know with kilns are running the kiln dried along side there seasoned lines.

Nothing in life is garenteed even less so when the government are involved once they start hitting targets for the 2020 agreement they won't care about biomass

Make the most you can while you can.

 

Another cutter saying 5 years then problems are going to start I'm seeing it all ready. Lads paying £65 a tonne for oak then bussing it in from 100 miles away at 16 a tonne because there getting subsided on it .

Firewood will be dead in 10 years make money while you can

[R5log]

I wasn't trying to sound patronising, just trying to explain why kiln drying works for me. It's a no brainier. Yes I could just peg the clothes on the line but that isn't suitable for me.

Yeah think we are travelling in very different roads, I'm not in business for the fun of it, I want to make money. Surely most business owners are of the same mentality or what's the point of owning a business? How else am I going to expand if I don't cut, split and dry more firewood to sell?

 

 

Well said

[skyhuck]

Business is uncertain, we don't know what will happen in 6 months, never mind 6 years.

 

Look at oil, no one saw that coming.

 

We must each plan our businesses on what we think will work for us and our customer base, but we need to try and remain flexible, its the trees that bend in the wind that stand the storm.

[R5log]

U don't really need to charge much more for kiln dried

[R5log]

Business is uncertain, we don't know what will happen in 6 months, never mind 6 years.

 

Look at oil, no one saw that coming.

 

We must each plan our businesses on what we think will work for us and our customer base, but we need to try and remain flexible, its the trees that bend in the wind that stand the storm.

 

 

Diesel on its way back up!

[Chris3King]

Sorry for the ignorance, but wouldn't it be a better idea to just get a massive dehumidifier in a big shed full of wood? Don't have to burn any to dry any then

[skyhuck]

Sorry for the ignorance, but wouldn't it be a better idea to just get a massive dehumidifier in a big shed full of wood? Don't have to burn any to dry any then

 

You would end up with a huge electric bill, far better to get a nice cheque from RHI

[Mortimer Firewood]

U don't really need to charge much more for kiln dried

 

Yes you do it's a no brainier

[skyhuck]

Yes you do it's a no brainier

 

How so????

[R5log]

Yes you do it's a no brainier

 

 

I said, u don't really need to charge much more.