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Alycidon

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  1. Good and cheap are not two words that often appear in the same sentence, come and see me and I will show you the Morso one. Not back in till Thurs now though. A
  2. Is this also something to do with the Countryside Stewardship Schemes ?, I have a feeling that it is, at least in some of these cases where farmland is involved. Failure to comply with wrinkles such as this lead to withdrawal of annual funding, this is a significant amount of money especially when in the Higher Level Scheme ( HLS). A
  3. Hardwood, Morso recommended max moisture content is 18%, ideally wants to be 16% or below. It does burn acceptably up to about 20%,above that excess soots and tars in the flue and poor heat output. Softwood will burn about 5% wetter. I prefer to sell soft at about 17-18%. 39% is far far to wet, you wont get an acceptable level of heat from it. A
  4. Nope, be proactive in the market and let your competitors be reactive. People are fed up being held to ransom by the energy companies. The RGI scheme if and when in comes in for private dwellings will also help. There are a lot of knackered oil boilers waiting for govt funding to switch to wood. What sells sells, what does not then sell it next year. At the end of teh day dropping prices to regular customers will mean they have stock so will not be buying next year. A
  5. My thoughts are ( and I dont do kindling so please feel free to flame !!). Loading it, looks like bits of pallet going in, no auto feed system, I would find that a pain. Looks like you could load perhaps 3 boards deep, maybe more. When putting the thicker stuff in it only cuts in the vertical so you get wide sticks that are maybe not to everyones taste. Round wood would be far worse, cant see how you would get sticks and inch or so square out of it. A
  6. Looks like someone is for a vacation to the salt mines !!. A
  7. That looks like a Wales only scheme, would no doubt need planning permission so will attract the attention of the rates office for sure. If that scheme is also available in other parts of the UK please advise. A
  8. Cheap labour comes from eastern europe not Birmingham !!. A rail line 100 yards from a pheasant drive is not to bad, yes you will loose birds in the banks and of course its a no no to fetch fallen game but it will be a sanctuary which is not a bad thing. I have stood on a peg no more than 15 yards from the east coast main line south of Peterborough, pretty busy and nothing was shot at that even might fall on the railway, a bit restricting yes but not a disaster. What would be a disaster is using that soil in the valleys where the pegs are !!. Remember that we are in the worst financial crises since 1929. At the time Hoover built a dam, cost a fortune but it put money on peoples pockets and started the worlds economies going again. I travelled to Birmingham from Northampton by train on a Sunday recently, had to stand all the way there and all the way back. This railway just might get our economy moving again. A
  9. Morso use softwood (PINE) to test stoves for extreme temperature durability. The Scandinavians who know a thing or two about stoves burn a high proportion of softwood. As its easy and fast to replace then soft wood is where the future is. Perhaps the softwood you used was not dry enough, then you will get tars and excess soot. A
  10. Sounds about right, again talk to Nick, I had several loads from him this summer, all good processor stuff. A
  11. Some councils are not currently charging business rates to small businesses. A
  12. Heating oil is also commonly stolen from country houses, none of the authorities seem to bothered. We have a mini crime wave going on round here at present, farms being done most nights. It is known that 2 ***** brothers are responsible but the Police wont touch them, just issuing a crime number is easier. A few weeks ago they came across a drilled field of wheat and knocked a hole in a breeze block wall to get at the equipment inside, they building was alarmed and they set the alarm off once they got inside. A
  13. I would like to see the delivery offence appear in court !!. Must be the only organisation in the country to be discouraging the use of renewable fuel. I wonder if national laws and regualtions are above local bylaws ?. Others have covered the smoke cont area aspect, to burn wood in a smoke cont area the stove needs to have DEFRA approval. No Defra approval and only smokeless fuel can be burnt. When the stove is signed off as being safe by a suitably qualified person a copy of the sign off certificate gets lodged with the local building inspectorate. So they know who has a stove, what make and model it is ( and DEFRA publish a list of approved appliances) and who has installed and signed it off. So its pretty easy for the authorities to see and check on non approved stoves as to their fuel usage. Burn wood in a non defra stove in a smoke cont area and you usually will be prosecuted. A A
  14. But unless it has lost its bark some time ago it wont really be dry enough to sell this winter, same for 'dry' cord. I processed a lot of 3 year felled soft and hard cord this spring/summer, moisture content on the ends 4%, a foot or so inside from the end 27%. A
  15. You will then receive an immediate visit from an armed response vehicle, the officers will have orders to remove all your firearms and ammunition assuming you have some, your firearm and shotgun licences will then be revoked. It is then unlikely that you will get them back, ever. If you don't have any firearms then you will probably be prosecuted rather than the criminals. Happened to friend of a friend when he came home one night to find burglars in his remote house and the Police advising that they were unable to respond, he tried again 5 mins later, same response, 5 mins later he reported he had shot one of the intruders, an ARV was there in under 4 minutes. The Police crew were not interested in the burglars much, just the firearms side. You do need photographic evidence in order to obtain a conviction. If they are carrying them away in a car then the car can be seized and crushed, cant get much more than a week or twos worth in a car so you will probably have a good idea when they are likely to return. A A
  16. It will burn fine in a stove, burnt some earlier this winter. A
  17. I have been burning mainly Lime in my showroom stove this winter, about 12% it is a first class fuel. I have also been burning wind blown willow at home, that is also about 12% and burns very well if a bit fast. I find most customers would not know and ash log from a larch one. A
  18. Hi and welcome to the forum. I have a small JAPA 700, rotary blade but smaller than those you are probably looking at. I put about 130 cu meters of mainly soft cord through mine last spring/summer, only needed to sharpen the blade once although it does now really need doing again. Output with one man using a loader to load a log rack is about 2 cu m per hour given a cross section of cord diameter from about 50mm through to about 300mm or sometimes a shade more. It goes best with cord 150-250mm dia. I bought mine used from Fuelwood, they are a decent set up and have been pretty helpful. Cost was under 6k with rack. I suppose it just depends what sort of volume you are looking to process and sell over what period, no point in having a machine that will do 25 cube an hour if you sell 100 cube a year unless to have some profits to loose. A
  19. If I wanted a stove to last all night then smokeless fuel or anthracite. General daytime/evening use wood looks nicer burning. Cost wise per kw then there is not a lot in it if buying logs at retail rates. Be aware that ordinary house coal is NOT a recommended fuel for stoves, it burns very dirtily and if burning on low oxygen ( shut right down) and you open the door allowing a huge amount of oxygen into the stove a backdraft explosion can occur, ie the fire comes out to meet you !!. If you are not burning wood then either Anthracite ( natural smokeless coal) or manufactured smokeless fuel is recommended. A A
  20. Plumbing with a cold water tank already in place need not be that complicated. This link will show you some popular ways of doing the plumbing. http://www.esse.com/pdfs/Centraliser.pdf Remember when selecting a boiler stove that you have two heat outputs, heat output to room and heat output to water. Get the heat output to room correct, then sort how it looks or what type ( freestanding/inset etc) and then see what heat output to water to can get. A room of say 5mx 4m will want about 4kw to the room given poor insulation. A
  21. Another good tool, shame about the operator, 2 feet from the blade with no apparent ear or eye protection. A
  22. Price to match as well, 25t per hour, thats maybe 160t a day, 800t per week, week in week out, cant be to many people moving 800T a week except CW etc. A
  23. I would have said so although I am far from an expert in this field. I had logs kept in a basket near a fireplace into early summer that put very aggressive woodworm into a picture frame of ours some years ago. I took if for reframe, at 8am I had about a dozen holes, by lunch about 20 !!. Get it out in the spring or somewhere where there is no wood to infest. A A
  24. Soft £30, mixed £35, hard £40. Sounds like I am way overpriced, perhaps thats why I have not sold many. A
  25. I have both but only sell the cube bag, .6 of a cu against a whole cube, thats over 50% more logs !!. But there are those that cant afford a cube so thats where the builder bag comes in, if I want one then I fill it to order. A

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