Is there a market for oak wood chip from machine shop.

[codlasher]

There'd be no harm in weighing a 20 kg bags worth and putting it on ebay. You may be surprised or disappointed but worth a try. There were some keen smokers out there....on R4 recently.

A local bedding manufacturer pelletises his waste for heating boilers. With the quantities you have this may be another possibility?

codlasher

[benedmonds]

There'd be no harm in weighing a 20 kg bags

 

Hes got 6 artic loads a year! Thats going to be about 100 to 150 tons a year... quite a lot of bags.

 

Try stobart biomas. They will pay between 3 and 10 quid a ton for wet woodchip.

[Hamburglar]

Live in Yorkshire. Went to pick up some oak for a woodworking project from British Hardwoods. They had oak chippings bagged up ready for some company to pick up that makes biodiesel. They added a scoop of something to each bag before sealing them up. Seemed that it had a reasonable value as they weren't interested in letting me have some for smoking meat on the BBQ, but they are Yorkshiremen and tight as you like!

 

You could give them a ring and have a chat.

[saintsman54]

You may have problems marketing it for biomass, as many large systems require specific chip sizes and low percentages of dust/moisture. This is to do with the automatic feed systems that supply the boilers I believe. I will have a think about potential markets....

[wills-mill]

Make briquets and sell them

 

I'm fairly certain that the briquetters don't like green material

[Captin Pellet]

We produce around an artic bulk load of 100% oak wood chip plus a small amount of dust every 8 weeks. It's what comes of our planer and other machines and is a mix of green, air dried, and a small part kiln dried.

Is there a value to this - we currently just dump it or sometime local stables will take it. Is there a market for this in the biomass sector. [ATTACH]176383[/ATTACH][ATTACH]176384[/ATTACH]

 

There will be a commercial use for this in the near future. The pellet market is growing in the UK and is set to grow between 50 - 60%. At some point there will be a big problem with the supply of biomass for this market and there will be competition for fibre for pellets.

 

this material is already rendered down, it would require drying. If free of any nasties, a bulk load would have some value. Oak makes great pellets and the experience I had selling oak pellets was that most pellet boiler owners preferred these as they used 20 % less pellets compaired to softwood.

[shendy]

Fish smokers. Or is it the right material to turn into biomass pellets?

[cornish wood burner]

What moisture content. Can you give us a rough idea of percentage of dust, 1 to 6, 6 to say 20mm

Transport cost may be high but it sounds like we could use it. We are near Plymouth, artic walking floor or bulk tipper loads would be welcome.

[Celtictimber]

What moisture content. Can you give us a rough idea of percentage of dust, 1 to 6, 6 to say 20mm

 

Transport cost may be high but it sounds like we could use it. We are near Plymouth, artic walking floor or bulk tipper loads would be welcome.

 

 

I would say the moisture content is around 25%.

80% of the load would be wood chip from the planers and moulders and the remaining would be fine dust from the sawmill and wide belt sanders.

[SteveA]

Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire Wales

 

Hi, we're close to Haverfordwest and have been considering turning all the paths between our beds (currently grass) into thick mulch paths.

 

I was planning to use chip from our own woods but that seems a bit crazy if you're dumping loads.

 

Is all the mulch chemical free, ie not mixed with any treated wood?

cheers, steve