Best start up set up for processing

[arboriculturist]

If you have somewhere to store it Save your money and time and Import kiln dried.

If it isn't your full time job your time is precious! days you will be processing 3/5 cube a day you can be our delivering making money and you won't be waiting a year for it to dry. Firewood is a numbers game and to make any money out of firewood you need to be doing high quantity!

Buy a few crates of Ash for kiln dried and sell at £120+ a cube and birch for seasoned at £90-100 a cube so you have 2 differing products.

You will be saving a lot of time and making the same money!

If you havnt got a forklift to unload it hire one for a day for £60-80.

 

This is of course sound advice if you are comfortable (to cut a very long story short) with the effects on environment / uk economy.

 

The only other business model to make a decent return is to invest > 50K like many of us on the forum and have all the correct kit to have a medium scale setup.

 

You will never, ever make a credible return in Firewood with a splitter as you have to handle timber.

 

Sorry to be blunt but you would be better off labouring for £10 - 12 /hr with no overheads and a quiet life.

[Woodworks]

Only problem with storing logs outside over winter is you can guarantee it will rain sideways and a lot of the logs will end up wet. Ideally you need to move them inside in Autumn to keep them dry ready for delivering.

 

You say that and it's partly true but we have diabolical wind and rain over the last week but this is a crate with a lid that's been out in it. Fortunately the crates hold more than a cube so you can leave and wet stuff for another day and still get a cube of dry logs out. The south and west sides are a bit wet but the rest was perfect.

[rowan lee]

Just trying to work out best way of cutting to rings to put on the splitter?

 

I use a rack system for one man logging up pre-splitting. It sits on a 3 pt. fork lift, enabling me to raise and lower the unit to avoid bending when unloading. I do about 50cm3 a year like this.

[Richard 1234]

I use a rack system for one man logging up pre-splitting. It sits on a 3 pt. fork lift, enabling me to raise and lower the unit to avoid bending when unloading. I do about 50cm3 a year like this.

 

 

50cm2 does not seem that efficient 😁😁😁😁😁😁

[bilke_user]

50cm2 does not seem that efficient 😁😁😁😁😁😁

You're right, that's why he'll be doing 50cm3:blushing::blushing:

[jonno141]

jcb power pack and a oxdale splitter cant go wrong

[Burgess]

You say that and it's partly true but we have diabolical wind and rain over the last week but this is a crate with a lid that's been out in it. Fortunately the crates hold more than a cube so you can leave and wet stuff for another day and still get a cube of dry logs out. The south and west sides are a bit wet but the rest was perfect.

 

 

Also humidity regularly up in the high 90s and even 100% occasionally. Woods not drying at all at 100%

[Ashes_Firewood]

You say that and it's partly true but we have diabolical wind and rain over the last week but this is a crate with a lid that's been out in it. Fortunately the crates hold more than a cube so you can leave and wet stuff for another day and still get a cube of dry logs out. The south and west sides are a bit wet but the rest was perfect.

 

The middle does look nice and dry still to be fair

 

I just want to go pick up a crate, put it in the trailer and every log be dry without having to pick through and separate dry logs from wet logs. I don't do a massive volume of logs so fortunately I have enough room to be able to stack all my bags and crates inside.