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Expensive and difficult to source, its as cheap to bring in kiln dried from the Baltic at present. A

Depending on what you want to use the trailer for you may also need a tacho installing into the towing vehicle. A

Tread very carefully and take up references from UK companies. If there are none walk away. Do not support anyone who sells direct to end customers, ie your customers. There are a few posting here who will quite happily sell direct all be it probably at a slightly higher rate. A

Dont get hung up about efficiency, there are several different ways of measuring it. Some use logs with a zero percent moisture level, of course that gives a higher reading as no energy is lost evaporating remaining water. Efficiency figures can be misleading as can nominal output figures. All stoves have to have an efficiency of 65% in order to gain the legally required CE marking. Clearview are not bad stoves but look at all the glossy house mags, full or half page Clearview adds in every one, who is paying for that, you the end customer is. Morso make the best stoves in the world in my opinion, where else could you buy parts for a 40 year old stove off the shelf. Look after your Morso at thats the sort of life you will get out of it. A 5kw traditional stove then Badger 3112 at around £1050 or 04 at a similar price ( prices rose 1 Jan so unsure of new prices). Traditional looking but very advanced under the surface. A

End grain measurements would depend on how the log has been stored. If exposed it will probably be higher than the center. If the log has not been properly kiln dried then I would expect an end grain measurement to generally be lower than than the center of the log. A

Sounds like you have some poor quality logs. Split a log, measure the center of the newly exposed face, that is the real moisture level. Depending on your stove put anything above 18% aside to dry for next winter, use anything below that. If your stove is a modern contempory woodburner with a terciery air system that can take advantage of very low MCs then try and use logs below about 10%. If the product is kiln dried properly then you should be looking at MCs well below 10%. I bought some KD logs in the summer than averaged about 3%. These have now risen to about 8%- 10% externally thanks to the moisture in the air. Internal is about 5%. A

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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Discovery TD5 auto ES that I had did all you want in spades, but it was replaced in 2004 with the V6 money pit. Some friends have had V6 commercials with no probs but some have had horrendous bills. One guy tows heavy car trailers all over Europe, usually at max weight or more and at high speed. Often he gets an instruction that a car has to be somewhere in Europe in a matter of hours. He loves Disco V6 diesels, runs them to about 200k then outs them, he usually takes out an extended warranty package. Yes he has had 2 crank shafts snap but LR were pretty helpfull especially as both were on Autobahns. A

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