Last month to process logs to sell this coming Winter ?

[R5log]

I did not have the foresight to sign up in the early days, which I put down to being overcomitted time wise - should have spent more time critically thinking and less time working!

 

I do have a kiln as I have previously posted, but not as you know it and not taking the subsidy.

 

Air drying is easy if you have the space, handling infrastructure, shelter and capital.

 

Kiln drying is advantageous, but that has gone now except for the few as discussed- knowone can rely on 20 years of financial support anymore good or bad.

 

 

I had/have the capital

Yard space which I can/could make bigger to hold more, making bigger means more business rates

(I pay rates, I wonder how many others do? 10%?)

Handling down to a minimum

 

And then the government say I will pay you to dry you wood for 20 years!

 

Why wouldn't you?

[R5log]

Plus!

 

You push up Quilty, hopefully making the weekend cash boys at the end of the season when they are selling sh#t wood look worse!

[Woodworks]

I had/have the capital

Yard space which I can/could make bigger to hold more, making bigger means more business rates

(I pay rates, I wonder how many others do? 10%?)

Handling down to a minimum

 

And then the government say I will pay you to dry you wood for 20 years!

 

Why wouldn't you?

 

Good business sense yes but good use of natural resources? I had the money, space and time but only considered it for a short time and decided it was simply wrong to waste lots of wood to dry more and make profit from the taxpayer for doing it. Not sure anyone buys kiln dried around here anyway so it may have turned out to be good business sense anyway.

 

Each to there I say

[skyhuck]

Never having burned kiln dried until I had my own kiln, I was very surprised by the difference. My wife was quite concerned that they were going to damage the stove as they burned so intently!!!

 

A great many people with have never burned properly dry timber, IMO.

[Woodworks]

Never having burned kiln dried until I had my own kiln, I was very surprised by the difference. My wife was quite concerned that they were going to damage the stove as they burned so intently!!!

 

A great many people with have never burned properly dry timber, IMO.

 

What MC do you take them down to skyhuck?

 

Let's face "kiln dried" doesn't mean a lot on it's own. You could take some beech at 60% MC and take it down to 35% MC and call it kiln dried but it would still be wet rubbish.

[R5log]

Kiln dried at 35%

What are u on about

[Woodworks]

Kiln dried at 35%

What are u on about

 

Just saying kiln dried means nothing other than some wood has gone into a kiln. It's the moisture content you take the logs down to that counts to the buyer.

Edited June 25, 2015 by Woodworks

[ash_smith123]

Good business sense yes but good use of natural resources? I had the money, space and time but only considered it for a short time and decided it was simply wrong to waste lots of wood to dry more and make profit from the taxpayer for doing it. Not sure anyone buys kiln dried around here anyway so it may have turned out to be good business sense anyway.

 

 

 

Each to there I say

 

 

Might be the wrong way to think of it but if we don't take it someone else will. There is a pot of money to be used and it will go down to £0 at some point so someone else will be taking the money you could have had. Why shouldn't hard working businesses get something back? I get no help from the government/council any other way, all they try to do is screw every other last penny out of us! At least it's not going to benefit scroungers... (That's another argument for another thread ;-p )

[Woodworks]

Might be the wrong way to think of it but if we don't take it someone else will. There is a pot of money to be used and it will go down to £0 at some point so someone else will be taking the money you could have had. Why shouldn't hard working businesses get something back? I get no help from the government/council any other way, all they try to do is screw every other last penny out of us! At least it's not going to benefit scroungers... (That's another argument for another thread ;-p )

 

Yes your probably right there ash

 

I happily take some money for our PV so not entirely missing out on government handouts.

[woodrascal]

Just saying kiln dried means nothing other than some wood has gone into a kiln. It's the moisture content you take the logs down to that counts to the buyer.

 

Exactly right Woodworks - It's the % M/C at point of sale that is important. Without a point of reference, 'kiln dried' is as misleading as 'seasoned'...