Alycidon
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I thought I had a fair heap but only about a third of that, about 90cum of soft so far in a 20 foot bay, teleporter buckets are handy of the job. A
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They wont work and 60% of all court fines and compensation orders never get paid. Crush the truck is about all you can do. A
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Personally I would only sell ready to burn and push a moisture content aspect, I have posted on this elsewhere here recently. Dry wood produces no tar, minimal soot deposits and lower levels of particulates in the flue gases, better flame patterns and of course as you state more heat. Surprised you are not selling in bigger bags but I do appreciate that small nets = bigger profits. A
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Lucky you got that fast a police response, we get 'no one available" usually if I have poachers. Good result anyway. Now then you left wing commies, how would you like it if someone started cutting up limbs dropped by a tree in your garden, the fact that it dropped onto the pavement ( and had it dropped onto a member of the public or their car etc you would be liable to be sued) means that its still yours not anyone else's. Twice last winter i caught people red handed with bow saws cutting branches off willow trees on the road side of some farmland I am lucky enough to own, they seemed to think they had a right to. Willow as well, not exactly high quality wood. I have had a big trailer load of split ash stolen last summer, it was 200 yards from a road, a days worth of cutting and manual splitting. Now it goes home in big lumps. A A
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Process it and sell it, might be to wet for this winter though. A
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Look in your owners instruction manual. People do burn coal I know but it is not recommended. I have seen bags of ordinary house coal these days marked "not for use in stoves". A
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You cant burn ordinary house coal on a stove, burns very dirty, clags up the glass and danger of backdraught. Weight for weight coal will produce more heat than wood when burnt on an open fire but at twice the price of wood then wood is a winner. A
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I remember just before I bought my first car petrol had gone rocketing up to 6 shillings a gallon, that was following the 73 middle east conflict, I think !!. For you youngsters thats about 30p for 5 litres. A
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Well in that case I would leave my wood in the barn, prices will rise with the cost of gas etc. No point in being a busy fool. A
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£100-£120 a
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Bedford TM, thats a mans truck as long as you dont have a Detroit under it . Good old 500 engine goes for ever. We built a frame from square steel tube and hang the bags on it under the processor eleveator. I did 18 cu m this week just by hanging bags from a teleporter arms. That bag when full will weigh getting on for .75 tonne, how are you going to get it off the frame?.
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My brother is pretty handy with a welder and made a splitter out of an 6 inch twin acting ram. The problem was it bent all the retaining plates he used to hold the fixed end in place. In the end I bought one and he dismantled it. Judging by the price it splitter in the link will be chinese made, you pays your money and takes your chance I suppose. Personally for a splitter that would be getting a fair bit of use and possable abuse with knotty wood etc then I would be looking pay a fair bit more. Generally the more you pay the better gear you get. A A
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Actually no, my mistake, sorry. A
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Firewood is sold by volume not weight !!. We buy cordword by weight yes but sell it seasoned by volume. A
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It will also dramatically increase the production of soot and tars in the flue. Tars in the flue will lead to a chimney fire sooner or later. Running a stove on a reduced oxygen input is not recommended these days by anyone in the stove industry. Let the stove burn itself out at its usual setting, it will continue to radiate heat for some hours after the fire has gone out providing its a half decent stove. Its not as though most houses don't have central heating for the morning is it. A
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When you do the test please advise the size of builders bag you are using, there are two sizes, .6cu m. this is I think designed to fir a Europallet and around .7 cu meter. The idea of offering them alongside your cu m bags and bulk is sound. A
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Sounds like he has done the job properly, I bow to his greater knowledge. That would imply that 2 cum stacked equates to 3.3 cu m loose. Maybe costs above are making more sense if you sell it loose. Interesting, thanks for the link. A
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The lack of customer fuel awareness can be laid at the door of poor stove sellers who driven by low margins caused by the web cannot afford to spend time educting people about the stove they have just bought let alone what goes into it. We do though expect instant results from something we have bought, buying green and storing I doubt will really catch on here. Having said that a lot of people in this area were sold green last winter as being readyto burn. A
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Not actually been there myself but I cant see it. Maybe 2.5, thing is to get that you have to tip it out and handle it, surely its better to sell it by the crate and advise the customer what he is getting for his money, ie stacked and not loose. A
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The Morso tester has a guide on the back of it that relates to the readings on the front. That way anyone that can read can see if their wood is in the green ( ready to burn), amber ( burn at a push) or Red ( dry some more) band. Easy to use and nothing to confuse the public. A
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Hetas have a similar scheme set up, or at least with similar aims to educate the public about quality firewood. A
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[ Are you referring to the government of the United Kingdom? Before Scotland and wales were given their own governments yes. In those days things were on a pretty level playing field, not so these days. Just look at Uni tuition fees, I have 1 at Uni and another just going grades permitting. I suppose I am annoyed rather than bitter, I have some great Scottish friends who are fantastic company. They only wanted devolution because they would have access to oil revenues, once they have been used up i expect they will be seeking to become more closely tied again, not that that will occur in our lifetime. A
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No response at all to my e mail and phone message. He has not been onto this site since 9th so I guess he must have sold it elsewhere. A
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Might be wrong ( hope I am!!) but I did not find any grant funding at all when I looked a couple of years ago in England. Loans are available through the governments buisness gaurantee scheme but interest rates are very high. No doubt the Scots will be spending our oil revenues and be handing cash out somewhere though, got an awfull lot of wood in Scotland planted courtesey of grants from the English govt that looks like it may never be harvested unless timber prices rise which is looking very probable. Wales I have no idea. A
