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  1. arboriculturist
    What sort of year and price are the ones at Wilsons?
  2. arboriculturist
    I may lap wire to give 1m3 crates and use an excavator to lift. We plan to fabricate a unit similar to quarry loading batch filler, which will take loose logs ready to load. Thanks for all the info.
  3. arboriculturist
    Not even secured to pallet! I'll try one tomorrow and lift the mesh ring off logs with a triple spider strop hooked onto top of wire and see what happens.
  4. arboriculturist
    Have you seen one for sale local to you for sensible money?
  5. arboriculturist
    Not wanting to de-rail the thread, but can you tip those wire nets on a rotator without destroying the mesh - of do you just re-shape them a little each time after they have been tipped? I thought mesh on pallets was a non-starter ; now I'm not so sure!
  6. arboriculturist
    He knows his excavator operation - shame he knows nothing about trees by the way he is destroying practicaly 50% :thumbdown:of their root system.
  7. arboriculturist
    How long will it take to earn 25K net profit before that lift starts earning you a profit? (+ running costs + possibly finance charges). I know businesses that could buy that outright but don't - there could be a reason for that, most likely because it may take many years before it is paid for and you actually start to make a profit from it. Just one opinion though of course.
  8. arboriculturist
    Mortimer and other have discussed this at length on several previous posts - Yes the whole process can be speeded up with older roundwood and optimised drying conditions.
  9. arboriculturist
    I have a kiln and find kiln dried burns the same as our air dried wood at 20%. If dried to below 15% the burn rate is faster, perhaps 20%. If dried below 15% the wood burns slightly faster again but when kiln dried to these moisture levels the wood looses a range of the volatiles it contains. So 'very dry' kiln dried logs burn more intensly, hotter and faster, just like softwood - The end result "can be" a wood that has the same characteristics as Softwood. People buy Hardwood as it generally lasts longer, so kiln drying below 20% removes the very quality people buy it for. There is adequate research conclusions out there to support these statements.
  10. arboriculturist
    Disagree - better product and reduced handling. Agree - less storage area required and ability to react to demand ( but only if you cannot afford to buy stock to air dry)
  11. arboriculturist
    Don't forget to decuct the cost of fuel for the kiln, electricity, maintenance and labour to run the kiln.
  12. arboriculturist
    Nice looking Lime - however knowone will be looking at that tree removal just for the timber.
  13. arboriculturist
    The price of a kiln can buy a lot of stock that can be air dried. We love the fact that many still sell only partially dried wood. There's not much harvester cut hardwood this way, so just accept a longer lead time and adopt perfect drying storage methods like yourself. I haven't hear of any new kiln installations for ages.
  14. arboriculturist
    Yes, roundwood prices appears to be regionally influenced i.e. depends where you are located in the UK.
  15. arboriculturist
    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.
  16. arboriculturist
    Yes, I have noticed as you say. It's human nature to be jealous of others in the same business who have an edge, however it doesn't pay to dwell on the negative. It was good business sense on the high tariff - all changed now of course.
  17. arboriculturist
    Agreed, many would not, but for those who have forward planned, invested wisely in their business and are established in the industry, their business model can be effective. Like in nature - survival of the fittest.
  18. arboriculturist
    Those who commissioned their boilers in the days of high tariffs like yourself can afford to compete - in todays levels things are marginal. Understandably there are several on the Forum who wish they had had the foresight to invest at the time, but as always there are still other options available to them.
  19. arboriculturist
    As Mortimer predicted - prices falling:thumbup1:
  20. arboriculturist
    If customers can buy quality naturally dried firewood for considerably less than kiln dried, it will not be long before they realise that kiln dried has no advantages, which is the case in fact.
  21. arboriculturist
    No panic
  22. arboriculturist
    All good, knowone minds, interesting views as well:thumbup1:
  23. arboriculturist
    BY THE WAY YOU ARE ON THE WRONG THREAD FOR THIS TOPIC. However with tariffs tumbling I think it is clear that the 'Hay Day' of making money from the feed in tariff is coming to a close - unless you are on the previous tariff rates of course. You can make the figures look more attractive of course if you don't factor in your labour costs involved with the whole forced drying process.
  24. arboriculturist
    Sometimes the obvious is not obvious! However many do not have the luxury of unlimited storage space and/also cannot afford the stock levels they require to adopt your processing system. I'm envious though:thumbup1:
  25. arboriculturist
    Those times are going to result in decent firewood. Winter felling we find makes a significant difference to drying times and by end October when sales kick off most June processed timber species reach around 20 - 25%. Stored on a windy site though. Thanks

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