Mr Ed
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I can do a dogs bollux grinder for under £5k. Comes with own engine, hydraulics, battery, fuel, 24" sandvik duradisc with 32 teeth. The hydraulic drive versions are crap, no power at all. New price now starts at about £13500, mainly due to the high euro exchange, but there are always a few excellent ex demo / ex hire examples with great discount on the dealer network.
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Dave, I have a CSF multione loader - superb piece of kit, virtually invaluable for tree work. I can get great discounts on CSF machines, as I am still classed as a dealer. If you want to try one let me know.
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Most of the guys round here sell a transit load (approx 3 m3) for £100. Having said that, its usually been felled the day previous, and is just about suitable for putting your fire out. The guy who is the most succesfull only deals in softwood, but always sells it bone dry.
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How much would a pollytunnel that size cost?
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I'm thinking of getting into firewood properly for exactly the same reasons - I produce hundreds of tonnes of hard / softwood pulp every year, have plenty of yard space, vehicles for delivery etc, and very little competition. How much do you charge for 3 m3 Steve? my truck holds 11m3, I am thinking of putting 2 hinged dividers in to give me 3 bays.
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Its not a 'machine' so much as a linked process of several machines Wet chip - goes into hammermill for particle sizing wet particles - augered through into 28ft rotary dryer dry particles - into flash dryer goes into storage silo and metering device metered product goes into twin chamber flat pellet press hot pellets discharged onto sieve to remove oversize (returned to press) sieved product goes into cooling process, discharged into 10kg sacks, weighed and automaticaly sealed. Included in the process were dust control and recovery, all recovered dust returned to process. Consultancy fee in the post
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The Doctor is in... Pelleting works best as a large scale operation, most systems cost millions. However, with the advent of cheap chinese flat plate mills, the capital cost is dropping significantly for systems. The energy content for pellet is much higher on a dry per tonne bassis. i.e. 2 tonnes of wet fresh wood will compress down to 1 tonne of very dry pellet. It is most suitable for waste wood applications, but that about perfectly describes most arb arisings. The problem is that to make pellets you need 6mm shredded particles, at no more than 13% moisture content. So you need milling and drying stages = more capital outlay. I did design a complete turnkey plant with a manufacturer giving 250kgs per hour of finished product, for a reasonable cost.
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What a coincidence. The seller of the landrover on Ebay is Terry at 4x4play, who happens to be the **** that tried to buy my 2 then backed out 2 weeks later.
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The Japa is a most excellent piece of kit. The rest are just ordinary timber grapples modified on a frame, and wont work. The japa is a 'proper' skidding grapple, and has the correct swivel mechanism. It would be a very simple job to attach a winch to the Japa.
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Al, I bet if you started selling it, there would be plenty of people wanting to buy it. Lots of people who own wood burners never lay hands on an axe...
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Dave, you would be better off buying a bulk order of say 1000 nets of kindling (hopefully from me ) and sticking 100% on for retail.
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Never seen Kindling retailing at £5 a bag... the best wholesale price I've seen is £1.75 a bag.
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Depends. Job I'm on at the moment, 250 tonnes so far, probably another 250 tonnes to come off. Next job probably about another 500 tonnes.
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What % of your cost is timber? Or how much do you pay per tonne? I'm in a very strong position, as I am busy harvesting lots of scots pine and birch, and have my own 8 wheel grab truck. Thanks for your details Wynn. One of my subbies has a kindlett already. I'm thinking of buying the Fuelwood Splitta, so I can do pre-packed bags of logs with the same efficiency as the sticks. Looking at the Transaw processor too, but it seems very pricy.
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Here's the proper link for the Rojek Machine http://www.rojek.cz/Video/V006DH.avi
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Thanks. I have been offered £1 a bag wholesale on a basis of 5000 nets over the winter. Whats the profit margin like at £1?
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Not my machine, its built by Rojek. It fascinated me though. Check out teh vid - http://www.rojek.cz/Video/V006DH.gif
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What sort of £££ are you guys getting for your kindling? Also, whats the cost of the nets like?
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Here's how I would do it - 1 hour to fell, 1 hour to stack up, 1 hour to chip. 1 Artic load of chip away. Couple of hours grind the stumps out.
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The mulcher was brought in to splatter the Rhododendrons, and was quite succesful - apart from the fact that it left huge piles of mulch and logs everywhere, changing the nutrient levels on the site. Conventional harvesting was utilised to clear the plantation, but by all accounts they had a terrible time with machines sinking into the peat. Feel free to pop in and see the operation working.
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Yes mate, James looks after us well.
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