Loose cubic meters from artic of beech

[arboriculturist]

Hi Ive had sfew loads like that ,but at the right money .A lot of it can be made into quite good timber with a decent saw anything over 40 cm quarter on the 30T binderberger then through the processor,anything horribly bent and all the broken bits and debris can go in the biomass boiler.I know it is a bit slow but if it is free or cheap enough it still makes sense.

Cheers Chris

 

If the price is rock bottom - agreed can be worthwhile if you have a boiler to take waste, however given the price of labour consider what meterage of decent roundwood you would have run through the processor in the time it would take to process that lot!

[Logsnstuff]

been splitting billets for a few weeks on and off and I reckon it takes easily twice as long as processing a cube through the processor, softwood would rattle through no probs if only I had some customers for it but hardwood is a nightmare especially the seasoned syc that didnt get done last year. did buy the smallest set of Clarks timber tongs when went down to Wilson's demo day and they are working fantastic on the verticals winch, their large pickaroon gadget not so good though going to have top tackle it with a grinder atm just bounces off hardwoods.

[mendiplogs]

been splitting billets for a few weeks on and off and I reckon it takes easily twice as long as processing a cube through the processor, softwood would rattle through no probs if only I had some customers for it but hardwood is a nightmare especially the seasoned syc that didnt get done last year. did buy the smallest set of Clarks timber tongs when went down to Wilson's demo day and they are working fantastic on the verticals winch, their large pickaroon gadget not so good though going to have top tackle it with a grinder atm just bounces off hardwoods.

 

Hi LOG WHAT MAKE is your PICKAROON I've a 3ft log rite great they are thanks Jon

[Tomatin Firewood]

Thanks for all the replies.It has been really useful to get a guide on what other folk are getting.

 

It sounds to me that worst case scenario you will get around 37.5 cubic meters from a 25T artic, norm of around 45 cubic meters and anything better a bonus. I have done well this year then with 55 cubic meters per 25T load @55 /T ex vat delivered!

[gensetsteve]

I used to work out 1 tonne of green beech gave me 1.5 cubic metres of loose logs and if I got more then it paid for the service on the Ferrari

[mendiplogs]

I used to work out 1 tonne of green beech gave me 1.5 cubic metres of loose logs and if I got more then it paid for the service on the Ferrari

 

Hi Steve you would not be far out there mate thanks Jon

[aspenarb]

Dave does ok out of the rough loads. His lads will have that converted down into logs in half a day. We charge £450-650 for a load like that, he will turn that into twenty five or thirty loads @ £100 a load ( he gives people a very greedy load ) I don't think North of 2.5k is bad for what would be a total two days work inc the delivery. The guys with the processors that we deliver to don't seem to have the same bulging pockets that Dave has, they call this progress

 

Bob