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Any one else had an E-mail from PREMIUMWOO.CO.UK
Alycidon replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Northern Ireland supply base leads to Balcas on pellets, they also have a big site in Russia. A -
You would need a fair old bit of sawdust to be worthwhile, when I looked at pelleting sawdust was compressed by a factor of 8, so a heap of sawdust will make a heap of brickets etc only 1/8th of the sawdust heap by volume, not actually done it myself so that might be wrong, it was what I read. I would think that Renewabal John would be best able to advise. A
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I get around !!. Actually I have a stove business and have a firewood side line. The beech etc that is about in the market at present is by and large fresh felled and will be far to wet to chop and sell this winter if you want customers coming back for more. Be OK for next winter though. A
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I have had 200 and TD5 and driven a 300 for a while. I prefer the TD5 although the 200 was the most reliable. Be aware that both my 200 and TD5 required replacement fuel injectors at 180,000 miles. Might be worth thinking about finding a set for your TD5 from a write off etc,( new ones are 250/300 each.) and having them fitted at the same time as the remap. Be aware though that this remap may well invalidate your insurance unless you make your insurer aware of it. A
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Nick Channor currently has some beech I believe, I had 3 loads of ash/sycamore mainly from him recently, good stuff, ideal for processor. The 17 Hornet is still going well, cured that case neck split issue with annealing. A
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Help needed to fill massive log order!!!!!
Alycidon replied to Johny Walker's topic in Firewood forum
I heard of an old lady who complained her stove did not work properly, engineers were called in, when asking where she kept her wood she told them, the pond. She floated it in her pond for a couple of weeks, otherwise she said it burnt to quick !!!. A -
As others have said log it and sell it. I apprecaite that I am not first in the queue but if it becomes for sale as it lays and those before me are not interested then I would consider buying it. I am off M1 J18 so about 30 mins from Coventry, would use an IFW trailer and Disco to shift it. Thanks A
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I am 100% soft so far this season, no complaints at all, in fact one repeat guy today said he would not buy hard again as this burns far better and gives more heat, it does all be it for a shorter period. A
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Problem you have supplying wholesale is 20% Vat rate instead of 5% direct to joe public. Providing your retailer is VAt registered that is no issue at all. He reclaims the 20% he paid and pays the 5% he collects. A
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I load them with a teleporter on pallets then unload with a pump truck, roll them down the tailgate and into the customers garage, they love it. So far this winter 90% of my wood sales have been in 1 cu m bags, I was going to buy a tipper for bulk stuff but am now having second thoughts. The only down side is thats its a real squeeze to get 2 pallets and a pump truck into a GD85 IFW trailer. A 10 foot would be far better and maybe thats the way to go. Tippers being higher even with long ramps may lead to an excessively steep unload ramp. Ball hitches on 4x4s do have weight limits, I think that the crane on the front of a trailer body may well take the weight OTT when loaded, looks a nice idea though. Perhaps a military jaw hitch would be better. A
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Anyone thats driven a tractor on the road for some time has come accross this. Problem is finding somewhere safe every 1/2 mile or so on a busy road and if you have a widish implement then finding a space that is wide enough to take that implement. Most awkward thing I used to drive commonly was a close coupled bale trailer with a fore end loader on the front of the tractor and a flat 8 bale grab on the front of that. Overhang from the front axle was in the region of 14 feet. You did not want to be waving that around and the close coupled trailer meant you could not turn tight even if you wanted to. 8 courses of bales meant I was going nowhere but straight ahead. Cut my teeth on a Dexta, lovelly little tractor. A
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Yep, called wayleave, its either so much per year OR a larger one off payment when the pole is erected.
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I have seen a flat grid made up of metal bars about 2 inches apart, set in an incline the logs slide down the bars the crap falls through. Bark comes off when the wood dries, a tumbler wont fetch that off as its still green when you process it. A
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Hakki Pilke 60 Firewood Processor PTO driven | eBay
Looks pretty worn out to me, 3.3k seems a lot for it.
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Buy a tipper trailer and hang it behind Defender. A
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I would hope that most here are selling that at £80 plus if ready to burn. That was indeed a good deal for the buyer. A
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And the optimum word is GREEN, not enough heat to burn the crerosote. A
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I have used a barn with 3 closed sides and one open long side, no problems with mould to date. Had about 110 cube of soft in one heap and about 40 of hard in another seperated by a wall of arb bags. Putting in at about 27%-30%. Bulk heap does not seem to dry as fast as arb bags, took some out last night at about 19%, far damper than I would like but being soft it burns well. A
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Education, education, education. Tell them that the Scandinavians burn 90% soft wood, if their climate hard woods are pretty scarce. Tell them that Morso use Pine to test for overfiring as it burns hotter than most other wood. Problem is that softwood spits, in a stove that is no problem as the doors are shut, it is also alleged to put tars in the flue, the reason for this is that soft woods burns at a higher mc than hardwood, but unless a certain temp is reached within the fire the creosote within the wood will not combust. Make sure you wood is dry, no wetter than 18% and you will be fine, it will burn like hell. I have a guy that is currently mixed my supadry softwood with wetter wood from a DIY shed. I have taken him a bit of my to wet to sell hardwood ( around 20%) to try. A
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As others have said willow is probably the long term way forward. Commercial biomass pellet and chip plants are processing willow harvested with modified forage harvesters on something like a 3 year rotation. It is chipped by teh harvester, piled into heaps to dry for a few weeks then ground, dried and pelleted. Had a tour of just such a plant near Newark maybe 4 years ago. I have been burning willow in my stove this week, burns well, good heat, wind blown last winter I cut and split it in April, stacked it, then brought it inside a few weeks ago. A
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You would think that the stove retailer would advise customers about the inns and outs of what to burn, I do and labour the point but an awfull lot dont and people buying stoves on line do not have a hope in hell of getting this info from their suppleir. A
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Think I got mine for here: [http://bagsupplies.com/uk/ventedlogbags.htm Use green 1 cu m ones and white barrow bags. Some of the green ones have done three trips so far and are holding up ok. Green looks less of an eyefull if seasoning outside. A
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As a slight aside how are you boys filling barrow bags ?. Filling direct from the processor would mean a new bag every few minutes. I processed in bulk of into meter bags. So I am hand filling barrow bags at present. A
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Tried them this year, delivered my first one tonight. Not as popular as the vented cubic meter bags so far. Customers like the ability to store the meter bag in their garage, just roll it off the trailer on a pump truck and pop it where they want it. Got 50 of each bag, all my meter ones are full, wonder of I have wasted money on the barrow bags but time will tell. A
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News papers are worse. When you read in print something that is nothing like what you actually said. I had an artical in a local free issue by monthly magazine on my buisness this month that was titled. Center of Eccelence for Home Farm Stoves Ltd. That is exactly how they spelt excellence !!, I complained and they are now running it again. A
