arboriculturist

It's simple physics, bend radius etc. which is why pulleys have been used for hundreds of years. If you wish to extend the safe useful life expectancy of your ropes - pulley every time. This is basic knowledge every credible training organisation will have drummed into you.

Thanks ?

What species of Hardwood did you have delivered ?

Put a pitched roof on if should you wish it to look less industrial. Depending on the use clad with Celotex, tape the joints and foam fill in the corrugation gaps. Unless you are worried about security I would form studwork panels and bolt them together. Allows you to make the ideal size. ?

What processor do you have?

I'll do that ?

Yes, I buy off KK but transport distance can kill it. JL has been up in Wiltshire for 7 weeks loading out timber for Sandwich, Kent. TCD says nothing till Novemember and I can't find Jonny Williams number? Thanks for your reply ?

We bought a few loads from Dave last year, a bit far but worth a try. Where roughly are you in Devon? Thanks

100% agree. After 5 minutes taking a look on their website and the process of buying from them - never in a 100 years.

Although you may be keen to buy from FC they might not be willing to sell direct to you. Have you made enquiries with them?

Who do you normally buy from? A while back MD said there is nothing about in the whole of Cornwall and he is struggling just to supply his regulars he hauls to. It's now a question of having a heap of money in the suppliers accounts sitting there ready for if/when something comes up and not everyone's cash flow will allow that. It will all be fresh and very very green of course.

Same - Chris Walker a hand cutter who we used to buy a lot from says exactly that also. The local boys start buying now and I think their dead in the water sadly.

What even though all the Chip, Sawlogs and Hardwood within a 4 1/2 hour radius is going there ! ?

It's always the simple things you can miss ! One think that I noticed reading the blurb for the the Tajfun 480 - is that it has an oil cooler as standard, which is reassuring for longevity.

Sandwich Biomass Power Station, Kent are burning about 220,000 Tonnes / Year but they can't spare any. ?

Looking for a few 8 wheeler and drag loads of Soft / Hardwood roundwood for Firewood processing. I can collect if required from Devon, Cornwall or even South Somerset/ Dorset. Anything up to 4.9m. Please PM if you have anything available roadside. Thanks

10" not to small - 44 is exactly correct provided you only fill a m3 in each (they hold 1.2m3).

The UK are bound by EU legislation regarding energy production from renewables. As it stands at present we are bound by UK law to produce 15% of energy from renewables by 2020. Leaving the EU renders the enforcement of the UK’s 2020 renewable energy targets uncertain. Needless to say there the huge penalties to pay if we don't deliver and these go from the top down. Government (public money) get enormous fines and the Timber Harvesting Companies are encumbered with financial clauses that hit them hard if they don't deliver the roundwood quantities to the biomass power stations. This is why they are sending chip, hardwoods, even sawlogs to those sites. This is not renewable energy as we know it, trees don't grow that fast and the inefficient burning in converted coal power stations at present certainly isn't. Building the Severn Hydro barrier would be a good start. IS THIS THE END - To make a living from firewood production alone, I think will left to the super efficient established businesses for many reasons.

Once you have visited this Website http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/axedrax-campaign/ and spend some time reading through all the data on there the UK picture becomes even darker - but yes there are huge imports.

Very very few Firewood retailers have the capital or space to buy ahead of demand. This situation has been on the cards for the last couple of years and has been discussed on the Forum on several occasions. Sandwich Biomass has come online now in Kent and they are just one of many. They are burning circa. 200,000 tonnes / year including hardwood chip, this being exactly what the Firewood roundwood buyers want. These plants wouldn't be viable without RHI funding, it's a shamefull situation and it spells the end of many Firewood businesses as we are all hearing. TCD put me onto the following link, so if you wish to know what is driving roundwood timber prices up so dramatically and why some people can't even find any to buy- here you go : http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/axedrax-campaign/

Can you post a couple of photos ?

I've been waiting for 6 weeks now since the last delivery, but after a lot of time and effort I hope to have 6 deliveries lined up from a wide range of sources , some has been down a fair while so may go this year. From what I hear a lot of Firewood retailers are throwing the towel in and that's sad to hear. I think you will just have to retail at £110 and not mention the vat. The vat is inclusive of course - all above board. We have a range of products and just advertise the prices customers pay. Start mentioning ex. vat, inc. vat etc. just confuses people. The businesses like pubs just get issued an Invoice. This approach is tried and tested.

Having put our prices up by £5 /m3 it's made no difference whatsoever at the moment - the orders are still coming in and up to now knowone has even commented. I hope everyone else has the good sense to do the same.

So is it coming in over 480 diameter? If so processing that must kill production output. Fortunately I have been cultivating our suppliers for sub 350mm for a long time now, so when we change to the 480 I can see us using a saw very much at all - looking forward to that and 12 way splitting. I will be taking your advice and getting the 16 way also, as it always seems easy to get oversize soft. Got offered 50 tonnes bone dry Larch last year all gun barrel straight, but turned it away as it was all over 350mm but just under 480mm, so would have been perfect for the Tajfun - imagine the output on 16 way !

Like you say only occasional so can be managed and I don't expect any more summers like this one anytime soon !