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Have used all sorts of things over the years. At 12ft lbs then 177 is fine but once you get into FAC terratory a 20 cal firing heavy pellets is the way to go, a Rapid in 20 FAC is a hell of a tool and will happily despach pigeons and rabbits out to about 80 yards given low wind and a good shot who knows the trajectory or who ranges, wind finds and dials. A far better all round tool is a powder rifle. 17HMR is at present being let down by some very poor quality ammo, if this gets sorted then it is preferred to 22LR by FEOs as the chances of richocett are less. Good for small vermin out to 150 yards, maybe 180 in good conditions. But it is NOT a fox round unless you can get a short range head shot. A 17 Hornady Hornet is a far better tool than 17HMR, has far more grunt (3500 fps as opposed to about 2400 fps), I use a 17Ackley Hornet as my trap round rifle early in teh year. Really good on crows etc out to 200 yards plus but again not really a fox round. I have lost several well hit foxes with it. If foxes are on the menu then a 204/222/223 would be far better. A

Fair enough. I would have said my container would be the taller one but might be wrong, I think the height of each crate is about 1.2m. The supplier would do well to standardise on one size and build your crates to fit it. Some members here tip crates into tipping trailers and do bulk drops, for them 2m crates are ok. Others like me deliver the logs to end users in the crates they come in, therefore 1 cu m is about the most that can be safely handled at the point of delivery. A

People are not bothered where timber comes from by and large, some dont even know hard from soft. I have lost count of the number of sales I have lost on price, usually to people selling lower volumes or higher moisture levels. In my book it costs the same to deliver a half cube bag as a cube bag, its just that the profit is less. But look at the supermarkets, many are now only stocking the smaller containers of washing powder and cooking oil. I may be forced to do some half cube bags next winter. A

My supplier gets 54 crates into a 40 foot shipping container, stacked 2 wide and 2 high, 13 rows then 2 on the floor at the back. These have a total pallet volume of 1.17 cube but when you measure the actual timber volume its about .95 cu m. This way of stacking fills a shipping container nice and tight, cant see how anyone can get any more than 56 max into a 40 foot container. Not aware of a longer container but accept that there might be one. Sounds a good price though especially if delivered to site is included. A

I was at a FC meeting a few weeks ago, they advise that the Ash disease is now all over the country and is unstoppable. Going to be a hell of a lot of large diameter trunks to deal with sooner of later, we must have at least 200 mature Ash trees some of which are showing signs of infection. A

Me too !! That in my book is one of the major benefits. A

Hi, 6 inch is what building regs spec but if the stove is Defra approved and has a 5 inch outlet it can be run on a five inch perfectly well. 5 inch is the norm in Europe. A 10kw inset is a pretty unusual beast, certainly not one I sell however this sounds like a flue performance issue or possibly an air supply issue. 10k is a big stove to run on a 5 inch outlet, details of the make and model of stove would help. Suspect Chinese or maybe Stovax. Smoking back into the room can be caused by insufficient pull up the flue or a differential in air pressure between that externally and the air pressure in the stove room. Extractor fans over cookers do cause problems as they create a low pressure zone and thus a stove in the same proximity can smoke back. Last part of the install is a smoke test, on a windy day this will clear like billy o anyway. Has it been signed off as being safe to use as legally required ?, got my doubts as it sounds like a bodge to and scarper install. Normally with an issue like this the installer should be called back. This sort of problem is why most reputable stove manufactures are moving away from on line sales. I assume it was bought on line, you have spoken to the seller who does not want to know. So you ask here. My gut feeling it that its an air supply problem, has an air vent been installed into the room through an outside wall, if so what diameter?. Does the stove have the facility to accept a direct air supply, a 10kw stove must have an air vent in the room anyway but a direct air supply connects the vent direct to the stove. To do this the stove has to be cited on an outside wall. If air supply can been ruled out then you need to increase the pull up the chimney, use a wind driven rotary cowl. Hope that helps. A

No, a forty footer. 2 wide, 2 tall, 26 double stacked rows and 2 single crates at the back. A

Spoke to a guy yesterday, he has just sold 200 tons of assorted hard, all sorts of lengths and diameters at £60 a ton ride side for firewood. God knows how anyone is going to make a sensible return selling that. A

Ok thanks. There are maybe 20 companies trying to do that, some sell first class products, very dry well packed, promptly delivered. There are quite a lot of poor suppliers as well, wet, mouldy or no wood at all. A

Re phrase this please. Are you a home owner looking to buy one cube for your own use, if so please advise your approx location and your local suppliers will contact you. If you are looking to buy 54 stacked crates and can handle/unload a container then I posted my costs last summer earlier in this thread. A

Central Boiler, Nick Channor has one running 2 or 3 cottages on his farm. A

EX is fine, a fork truck should be ok for the smaller crates but may need to be checked as to max lift weight for the bigger crates. Will pm details. A

Problem is that their are a lot of crooks out there and paying up front you take the risk of being stitched up. If you need a good supplier as long as you are not within 50 miles of me ( NN6 post code) I will give you one. I paid my money, took a chance all be it a small one and found a good honest supplier. You will need a good loader, something like a teleporter to offload a container, min order is a container so around 54 crates, so something like £4500 depending on supplier, time of year, species etc. 3 acres of timber is not a lot unless it needs to be clear felled and replanted, hell of a lot of work there for little profit. A

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These are the current economics. Good quality cord timber delivered in is around £55 - £60 a ton, I usually buy 100- 125 tones at a time, 4 or 5 loads, this is if you are lucky and your cord has been down for some time will produce about 1.7 cu meters of logs loose. I have this summer bought from the Baltic stacked crates of kiln dried Ash, internal MC mainly 3% or below, very consistant sizing, no crap hidden in the crates. The volume of timber stacked of a pallet is around .95 of a cube but put them into loose log bags and you have around 1.6 cu meters of logs beatifully dry and ready for immediate use. Cost, nearly forgot, £82 a crate, delivered. That was July, exchange rate has I suspect now made that better. I had an e mail yesterday from them offering me 2 cu m stacked crates of Birch delivered 48 hours after payment received. So buy in at £82 for 1.6 cube ready to sell or buy cord at say £55 for the same volume and process/store it ready to sell. With my small processor getting hold of small cord is now all but impossible so am looking (again !!) at a bigger processor. That would cut processing time/costs but at present its a bit of a no brainer to buy in although I am sure that sooner or later the wheel will come full circle. Buying timber standing may be a better option but you do need to be tooled up to handle it and of course a good lot of it will be oversize. A

BASC members have a group discount scheme that may be worth investigating,although not all dealers take part Members offers | The British Association for Shooting and Conservation A

There is a product called Galebreaker Bayscreen® That should keep rain and snow out but allow wind to blow through for ventilation. A

BASC are on the case for both of these threats. The firearms thing is a knee jerk from the Paris shootings which were carried out using AK47 assult type weapons or similar. These are banned for civilian use but as a reaction the authorities want to use it as an excuse to ban self loading weapons. 22LR self loaders were banned in Australia after someone went amok with one but are commonly owned in the UK. Lead shot, think its more political that anything else. I have killed long/tall Partridges with Bismuth 4s on a mixed duck and game drive, they fold up well. The alternatives are costly but if that is the deciding factor when you are paying £25-£35 a bird then you have your priorities wrong. But nothing in my opinion kills as cleanly as lead and that is what the issue is all about. A A

Got 7 people in my local magazine selling firewood + 3 like me selling stoves with a firewood sideline. Prices down to around £60 for what is allegedly a cube. The warm autumn does not help sales for anyone but some snow and frost will soon bring the sales in. A

I would be looking to buy and store his stock for when it gets cold. A

Esse 350 is a good stove, done several boiler models of it. Another option is the Stratford boiler stoves, made by Arada, they are my go to boiler stove range. Both these brands are made in England from UK steel. You need to work out your heat requirements, be aware that the Stratford outputs are shown when burning solid fuel, if you are intending to burn wood you will need a Stratford with an output of around 30% more than you heat calcs suggest. So if your heat calcs say you want 12kw to the water then select the Stratford if thats the one you like with an output of around 16kw. Looks like the bigegst inset has a total output of 16kw, so that will need breaking down to heat output to the room and heat output to the water. A

Given the size and volume that we saw, ( 15 ton on that trailer for a start) even in the film a small processor with single log loader would be a far safer and faster bet. But if he has nothing else to do it keeps him happy I suppose. A

I sell them as 1.2 cube when filled, I fill, bounce and top off level full. Bag Supplies one are OK but I prefer bags from SG Baker, eyes are a bit bigger so better suited to a log grab when processing using one loader for both jobs and they are a bit more robust. However BS supplies ones are 900x 1100, Baker ones are 1m x 1m so they dont stack nicely together. A