End of an era for me

[Busy Daddy]

Thats it for me , sold my tipper pickup , sold the palax , no more commerical log sales

I split my first load of logs the first week at work on the estate with a mconnel saw bench ( which i still have ) at the age of 16 , i spent years splitting dead elms . So 31 years latter and i guess around 31 thousand tons of logs , i am going to call it a day

[Thesnarlingbadger]

That's a lot of logs. I hope this is a happy decision that you have made. Your post sounds positive. Onwards and upwards as they say :-).

[Steve Bullman]

What you moving on to mate?

[Johny Walker]

Thats it for me , sold my tipper pickup , sold the palax , no more commerical log sales

I split my first load of logs the first week at work on the estate with a mconnel saw bench ( which i still have ) at the age of 16 , i spent years splitting dead elms . So 31 years latter and i guess around 31 thousand tons of logs , i am going to call it a day

 

you should cracked by now then

[logedd in]

wishing you good luck with your next venture

[Busy Daddy]

Not sad but just sort of remembering all that hard , but happy work

I used to really enjoy the hard work when i was younger

In the last few years it has gone from 3 or 4 of us in the area to around 12 people doing logs and most of them kiln dried

I left the estate 3 years ago , and now sit on my fat arse chipping biomass 5 or 6 days a week , and loving it , i get to take my daughters to school , and best of all nobody telling me what to do well exept for the wife , and my daughters

[Stubby]

Good on yer . Enjoy the rest of your life matey .

[richardwale]

What would be your 3 top tips to any new firewood merchant?

You obviously have a massive amount of experience.

[Gardiners Tree Surgery]

I can give it to you in three words "don't do it"

[Busy Daddy]

Hmm not sure , dont do it certainly springs to mind

Number 1 you have to enjoy splitting logs , if you dont enjoy hard work dont start

Number 2 Ther are lots of ways to split logs eg big proccesers and splitters , these are very expensive , ive been there lots of overheads and quick throughput , you can make a lot of money with a sawbench and splitter

Last year i used the mconnel and splitter to split 4 pickups in the day £200 per pickup BIG ISNT ALLWAYS BEST

Number 3 Got to be safety , in my time i only grazzed my finger once , thats with no guards on anything and a modified splitter so if you are accident prone dont start and be happy