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Would they need CE approval?, most things do these days. A
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From the link it looks like Posch have most of the equipment, food for thought. A
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Sounds nice, but processors currently will only handle up to around 450mm logs at tops ( I think !!). I have 3 ash trucks to process for winter 12-13, chainsaw into short lengths, split down then process, be far easier to wack the whole trunk into a big machine. Maybe I need a bigger splitter !!. Looking at the farming side there are few farmers who use contractors for harvesting as timing of harvesting is vital but increasingly farmers are joining together and forming co operatives, this allows bigger machines, cuts labour and reduces overall costs per acre. Maybe thats the way the firewood job should go, maybe get four or five localish companies, each put in say 40k for equipment and see where you go. Works for grain farmers, no reason why it would not work elsewhere. A
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This link will allow you to check and compare different energy costs, it is updates 2 or 3 times a year. Details on energy costs per type and how those figures are arrived at are on a seperate sheet. Energy Cost Comparison | Nottingham Energy Partnership I put a wood pellet boiler in to replace oil 3 years ago, at the time pellets were £130 a tonne and oil 65ppl and rising. Today oil is fluctuating around 65p.pellets are £200. There is a monopoly on pellets and the main player sets the prices to be just inside oil. Yes I can see a major expansion in wood as a fuel, thats why I am in that business !!. Customers want independence from large energy suppliers. Prices will rise of course they will, timber in Scotland that was practically worthless five years ago owing to its value against the cost of harvesting it can now all be used as it will become profitable to sell it. So investing in cord or standing timer should stand you in good stead in the future. A
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Comments on Pinosa are interesting, presumably this was pre Fuelwood getting involved, they have a good reputation/ Pro companies processing in bulk, agreed, mounted on a big trailer complete with generator ( or PTO I suppose). Pull it with 120/150 BHP of FWD tractor, elevator tall enough to offload into big 18 ton bulk grain trailers. Most framing contractors already have the associated kit such as bulk handling tele-porters, trailers etc. Pull the machine onto site, process straight into bulk grain trailers and transport back to base as logs. Cost would I suppose be an issue, cant be to many folk able to sell the volumes that such a machine could get through when used day in day out. Most combine harvesters are used around 30 days a year, cost 200K + but can cut £60,000+ worth of grain a day. I suppose there might be an equivilant there, maybe I am down the wrong lane completely. A
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Good solid tools those big Fords, cut my teeth on an old Major then graduated to a 5000. My brothers had a cog fitted to the gearboxc of their 2850 John Deere to give 40kph ( maybe 50?) but they usually only pull a cattle trailer at that speed. If I was driving with 14T on the back plus trailer weight then 20 mph is plenty fast enough. Need at least 100hp though, the big TW has that and FWD so it should be fine, just invest in a pair of ear muffs !. My brothers pull large grain trailers with a train weight of just under 23 tonnes loaded with 160hp JDs but not faster than about 18-20 mph. A
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Hello from Loadhandler UK - for the pickup truck unloader
Alycidon replied to LoadhandlerUK's topic in Arb-Trucks
Thinking about the tail ramp, a bracket fixed to the sides near the back would not drop timber out of the back but simply onto the ramp, you would then have to drive forward to empty. Bearing in mind I had a guy last week complain when I dropped half a dozen bits of straw on his drive I am not sure that is a good move. Really wants a 3000 fitted to the top of the tail gate then the tailgate fixing so that it only came down to a level horizontal to the floor like a pick up. The strip is long enough for an 8 foot long body but might be a bit short for a 10 foot. Once the autumn cultivations are finished I will see what my brother thinks, he is clever designing and making things like that. A -
But it costs a mint and a half when they go wrong, half shafts I seem to remember were horrific. I have a Defender and a Disco, both 03 TD5s, both good tools, both high milage. Defender is an out and out work tool, mine is a County so as posh as you can get, the wife goes everywhere in it after our daughter totalled the wifes Focus. A Disco 4 with pick up open back would be not bad, maybe re engined down to a 4 cylinder engine of about 130/150 bhp and lower ratio gears. With Diff lock and low range. A
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Hello from Loadhandler UK - for the pickup truck unloader
Alycidon replied to LoadhandlerUK's topic in Arb-Trucks
I would be interested in one for an Ifor Williams GD85 trailer hauling firewood, appreciate that I would need to support the tailgate when unloading somehow. A -
You have an accident with that and the H&S inspector is likely to be all over you. First question will be where is your Risk Assesment. No way on earth can that be assessed as safe to use. A
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Hi Steve,
Pretty sure you are one of the mods here.
On the right hand side of the screen is a series of ads, one is for a company called Stove Seller. This appears to be a new web based seller.
Stoveseller|Woodburning Stoves|Multifuel Stoves
The only name and location is in the fine print un theire terms and conditions of sale. So the seller is or appears to be Horncastle Tiles of Skegness. There seem to be no contact details at all in the body of the web site.
They are advertising Morso stoves, check the Morso web site for dealers in that area, there are none. Therefore they are grey importing, Morso will only honour the full 10 year warranty if bought through an approved UK dealer such as me. (Home Farm Stoves Ltd) ,. Do you need to be associated with such organisiations?.
Thanks
Geoff ( Alycidon)
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I used to have a brake shoe riveting machine, this has a 150mm dia cylinder and a stroke of around 3 inches. The pin punch would go through steel. Compressor wise I had the biggest I could run on single phase, think about 12 CFM. No way would you get a long enough stroke to make it viable against hydraulic without a huge compressor and reservoir. A
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I use an 8'x5' x 15 inch side IFW trailer,, heaped up its just 2 cu meters. Its about 35 cu ft to a Cu meter. So level full the trailer is 52 cu feet, 1,49 cu meters approx, You cant buy the softwood for that price let alone process and sell it. A
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Thats fine but multi use pallets are normally treated with preservatives which when burnt are harmful to human health. Gases given off are harmful as is the residue of the preservative that finishes up in the ash. Please do not spread this ash on the garden, if you do and subsequently grow veg in it the preservative will get into your body. Dispose of the ash in your rubbish bin having made sure its cold. the nails from pallets will also lodge on the grate making teh removal on some ash pans tricky. You have to fish around for the nails. That aside they do burn well. A
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Dont forget minimum order will be around 40-50 cu meters, then add transport at about 2000 euros a load. Makes it about £120 a cu meter from memory, thats at 20-22% when shipped, alledgedly. A
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Me to, sold out in 08, now running a wood burning stove business with a firewood side line. Cutting the firewood in the summer keeps me busy but once late Aug arrives stove sales go ballistic till Xmas, then zippo till August. A A
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I am surprised the figures are so low, depreciation is the major cost. I used to use a trade mag that broke down all company car and van running expenses. In over 25 years of running diesel cars and a fleet of usually 8 or 9 vans I sell my vechicles at about 300,000 miles. I have only once or twice from memory replaced a gearbox and only lost two engines, both those were early 1.6D Ford in Escorts, plastic cam pulleys exploded, both within 5 minutes of each other about 80 miles apart. They were 2 months out of warrenty, Ford would not touch them under warrenty so I bought Vauxhall Combo's for the next ten years. My last Disco ( a 200 auto, one of the first) I had 11 trouble free years and sold it at 274,000, the current one ( TD5) has about 225,000 on it so far. My depeciation this year will be about nil !!, ie with that milage its only worth 3 or 4 k maybe, be worth that next year as well. A
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Harvesting, then autumn cultivations and drilling etc, see you November. Forget about the log stores this winter, make some next spring for winter 12/13. A
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http://www.certainlywood.co.uk/online-shop I think there is some money in it, pallets for the base, frame, roof and some sort of rainproof mesh as per arb bags to let wind through but keep rain out. A
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They need educating about the differences between hard against soft, moisture content etc. Some around here are selling a hard/soft mix with no indication of approx percentages. A
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Did not feel it on Tues when I was processing fresh cut lumps of oak, sycamore and beech. I would have said oak was the heavyist followed by Beech but it is difficult to be precise as the lumps were slightly different sizes. A
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Transit has ( or did have when I worked in the motor trade) a carrying capacity of 35 cwt. That will be reduced in the truck in the pic due to the weight of that tipper body. I would guess his legal carry capacity wont be more than 20 cwt, ie a bit over 1 cu m. Looks like a stitch up, its not to far from me so I could do a bit of digging I suppose. If its anyone here can you please put your hand up at least to me. Thanks A
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Anybody got any feed back on these trailers, they used to advertise here but dont seem to be here at present. galvanised trailer body ¦ tipper trailer ¦ tipping trailer ¦ galvanized trailer body I would like an Ifor Williams but the tailgate only hinges at the top at present. Dont want to be messing about taking rear panels off every time. Looks like the Atlas would do the job but I am a bit worried about durability and back up. A
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No it wont work. The fan needs to sit directly on top of the stove. It has a metal base, a sandwich element and a metal top. The temperature difference between the metal on top and the metal below the element creates a current which drives the fan via a small motor. Having said that I suppose if the shelf was steel or cast iron it might work after a fashion, just depends how hot the shelf would get. Dont forget the minimum combustible clearance above most stoves is 600mm so no wooden mounting brackets etc. A
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I bet that when you cut and split it the moisture content on the freshly split face will be 25% - 30%. If it was cut a split earlier in the summer it should be OK. Invest in a moisture meter, £36 inc VAT and tax deductible to boot, you then know exactly where you are. A
