Tom D
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contract chipping and value of g30 woodchip
Tom D replied to John Shutler's topic in Business Management
You can't compete with the big boys on the big jobs John, but many of the 200kw size boilers just don't need huge volumes of chip and thats where the smaller chippers come in. The big jenz round here costs £200 per hour plus travel. Its just not worth getting to round to chip any less than 100 ton. I have a few clients who like the fact that I can turn up and chip smaller amounts at a sensible rate. Plus I can go off road and chip where the timber stacks are, most farms have grain / silage trailers, few have forwarders. So for the farm customer its easier to haul chip than timber. All food for thought. -
Forestry cutters are rare these days, but if you meet a good one they will pi55 all over the average arb guy. Production cutting on a tonnage rate will weed out the pussies in a matter of days, those same pussies will be dragging conifer and feeding the TW150 for years. Forestry is way harder than arb work. I'll bet the forestry sharpening is better too.
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I bet its a bit of crap in the pressure relief valve. I take it the 3PL arms work ok? in which case it will be the valve on the crane block..
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Try it out John, see what pto rpm you can achieve, in both settings. You can push the heizo to 800 so running at 1000 speed 800rpm on the pto should be well within your torque band. or over revving at 540 speed may yield 600ish... You need to try it out. Do you have the agrodata switch? can you see pto rpm displayed on the lcd display on the dash? if so just fire it up now and have a look at both options. Once you get the heizo it will tell you the rpm on its own display. For site clearance you could over rev at 540 speed for max power and if you do biomass or want to save fuel, under rev at 1000 speed.......
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The problem is, there is no perfect setup. That said if money were no object I'd have one of every gadget going, a massive shed to keep it all in and a huge hyena to guard it all. Thing is in reality if I had that kind of money I'd buy a house on the Mediterranean somewhere and bank the rest to live on.
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Pressure relief valve gone?
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A gift given with expectations is no gift at all.
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I like the big shot idea, I reckon that would be good sport.
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3 Point Linkage Winch Used/Reconditioned wanted
Tom D replied to Ribble Valley Logs's topic in Large equipment
That'll be the brake band not the clutch Dave. They are so easy to work on the Iglands, good winches... -
That is a worrying development if its true...
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The only way you get bumped is if they go bust, otherwise you'll get paid in the end. Well I always have. There was one small building firm who took 2 years to pay but it was only 2 grand and we still got it in the end. I have more trouble with domestics not paying than commercial.
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Maybe if you put an upturned pan or something over it to create an oven it would work on the top...
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Furlo Gorge, Italy. Its something to do with the limestone I think, it looks blueish some days.
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We d loads of work for builders and developers, as well as big construction firms, they all take ages to pay, its just the way the industry works. If you are prepared for it and have sufficient cash flow then its a nice way to work. You just need to make sure that you can afford to work for a few months without the money. We are constantly owed a big chunk, right now its about £35k 2 months ago it was £80k, its never normally less than 20k, once you get used to it its fine.
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Less than 50m, I didn't start at the valley bottom, it was half way up, on a ledge accessed from a road. The drop to the bottom was high though 3-400' maybe more.
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I think I could do it, psychologically at least, not sure I'd have made it up 20m of armoured cable though, that stuff must get slippy with sweaty hands. Physically there's no way these days I'd be doing chin ups of anything like that. I climbed this ladder on holiday last year, I had to chin up the first 6' lol, as it had a locked trapdoor on the bottom, I had to go through the side of the safety cage.. This one was no where near as scary as that one though...
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Chilli is awesome like that Mark I did a massive load for our bonfire night party, 2 kilo of shin, cooked the day before, served on a baked tattie.... I bought a load or pork belly today, gonna try jerk pork with yams and dumplings.... The hugh fearnlley whittingstall lancashire hotpot is awesome BTW, that would probably work in a slow cooker, maybe in the oven at the end to crisp up the tatties......
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If I docked wages for all the stuff my guys have broken recently they'd be working for free till april LOL. Seriously though, it is illegal to dock wages like that, fair play if the guy wants to pay, but as his employer you have to swallow whatever damage he causes.
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I think the big issue is that chlorine forms dioxins when burnt.. I'd love to know where in the wood its coming from, is it the bark?
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You're right. All I know is there is higher chlorine content in brash than in virgin wood. Per haps someone knows where it comes from....
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Its not that grey really, if you work alongside the subby and he is working under your direction then you need EL, even if he brought his own saw.... I have subbys in all the time, one has his own business, I give him a job spec and he goes and does it. If he breaks something or has problems then thats his problem. He invoices me when the job is done. Other subbies work along side me or my employees, they are classed as employees and so covered on my EL. Mos commercial jobs demand that you have EL anyway, and to get el cover for the occasional use of a subby will cost buttons, so why not just get it? Thing is nearly everyone has public liability insurance, which is not a legal requirement. PL claims tend to be small, you broke a window or scratched a car..... EL claims on the other hand can be huge. If your subby gets a life changing injury the bill could easily be 6 figures, and you could loose your house and the shirt off your back. Its a no brainer really, get EL cover....
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Chlorine is found in chlorophyl which is in the leaves in summer and withdrawn to the wood in winter. I just sent off some chip samples today for analysis, I'll let you know how I get on, I believe that the chlorine leaves the chip reasonably quickly as it rots, so old chip might be ok......
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Its not as simple as all that. You don't ned EL cover for Bona Fide Subcontractors. That is a subby who works using his own tools and equipment, and who is left unsupervised to get on with the job. So if you employ some one, give him an address and send him off to do a job thats fine. If he's your groundy however then you need EL.
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With some jobs its best to just make your money from the work and forget about trying to make something off the arisings. Its nice if it will wash its face but it doesn't always happen. That said a big biomass chipper will chip 200 ton in a day, so if you sell 200 ton at £20 thats 4k, even if it cost £2k to chip the brash you're still quids in...
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When you say the whole tree do you mean brash and all? leaf and brash contains chlorine which you are not allowed to burn in most biomass boilers, that would knock the value right down. you need to snedd off the brash and stack the timber so that the buyer can send a timber wagon to collect it. Try the machinery ring, they will probably know a farmer who has a boiler and might want to buy it. The big guys like stobarts will screw you on price.
