Alycidon
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I am a Hetas approved Retailer, I have done and passed with distinction the installers training course but at 61 I am a bit to old to go climbing about on peoples roofs so I sub my installs out to a Hetas installer who has been doing installs for over 30 years. He has done over 750 for me, not a single word of complaint anywhere. Selling stoves in the middle of summer is not exactly busy, but the new season is just showing signs of starting, been away today but my daughter who was running the showroom in my absence has had several good enquiries. Firewood is pretty well dead other than a bit for outdoor ovens but do have a crate of kiln dried and a barrow bag of same going out tomorrow. Would think you are pretty well the same. A
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Planning is not normally needed for a twin wall but some councils insist, be as well to check. You would be wise to have a look at approved Doc J of the building regs, the 2013 version from the planning portal web site. Download is free. Personally for what it costs I would recommend replacing the liner, failing that who ever is signing the work off will almost certainly want to look at it to decide if he feels its safe to use. We would not re install a liner that is 8 years old, just not worth the risk. Don't forget you will need a CO2 alarm. A
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Customers that take my 1 cube crates usually remark on the volume in the crate once they start using it. A
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Having been there and done that, have had the logs out of a stacked crate and bagged them loose just to compare volume then a 50% uplift loose compared to stacked is in my experience about right. Done it several times just to make sure, even emptied one into barrow bags and got 8 of them nicely full. So getting 2.8 cu m loose from a '2 cube' stacked crate which is actually about 1.85 cu of stacked timber seems pretty plausable. The 2 cube crate again is external dia and includes the dimensions of the pallet below, container shipping means the size is restricted by what fits best within the container. As there is only one pallet you would get slightly more timber in a 2 cube as opposed to 2 x 1 cube. But handling them at point of final delivery is a nightmare unless you are tipping them out into a trailer and doing a tipped bulk drop. A
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I use 1 cu m bags from Bag Supplies and Bakers, level fill, bounce with teleporter, this settles and expands sides, takes about another 50 logs to top off. This is certainly 1.1 cube and 1.2 cube on the BS ones as they have one side as a fine mesh. Balance I put into barrow bags, these are bag suplies ones and .2 cube each, get 2 bags. Crates are actually sold as 1.17 cube, but this is the external dimension of the case AND the pallet. The wood storage area which is well packed is around .95 cu m. All the Europeans use this trick. A
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I find it hard to shift soft even when priced 25% below hard, think most people are the same. Maybe the way forward is to sell a mixed bag or load. A
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The thing with firewood is that if the Euro goes to hell and back when they finally kick Greece and possibly a coupe of others out then the cost of imported crates will go through the floor. As a stove retailer I have four good suppliers that I have taken UK references up on from the Baltic chasing me for business, one exhibited at the ARB show and the stove show this year, all speak English. You have also got those with RHI kilns reducing their costs thanks to payments being received. I have this summer bought imported at £82 delivered per 1 cube stacked crate of KD Ash, this equates to about 1.5 - 1.6 cube loose and its quite superb stuff. If I order it now it will be cheaper still with the fall in the Euro this week. A
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Its not a good reason on its own but it would be deductible against tax. A
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I am using AT ( all terrain) as opposed to the more aggressive MT Mud Terrain. Suspect the AT is a harder compound. A
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Never go more than 5 courses and a binder course with hay, it moves to easily especially if over fit. Learnt that one the hard way !!. A
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Yes, A
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If used for Hire and reward, ie delivering logs then you need a tacho but if using the trailer to take maybe machinery to site then see my post about 2 or 3 from the top. There can be quite heavy fines for non compliance, my local garden center got fined 2k when they were pulled delivering a new mower on a trailer behind a 4 door pick up. My local Vosa check point was chocka last Sunday pulling stuff off the M1. A
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I have something in writing from Vosa that advises that no O lic is required providing the towing vechicle is under 3.5 tonnes. A
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I use Linkline carriers, normally about £40 for a 400kg pallet but that is usually within 100 miles. Might it not be easier to get a trustworthy member here to do your delivery and charge you for it?. A
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Only most days when not in the showroom !!. A
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Alycidon replied to davidwilsonarch's topic in Firewood forum
Be a good idea to be a bit more specific, do you have a tractor to power it or do you want one with an engine attached that is maybe road towable. 25t a year, thats a fair heap, around 45 cube, I assume its going into a boiler so you will need the capability to cut long logs. Do you have a limit on the area you are prepared to travel to to see/collect said unit. Caledonian Forestry have a JAPA 700, thats a nice little machine, will cut to around 500mm long, need a 35 hp or so tractor to move and power it. Something like a MF135 or Dexta. Unless your timber is billeted then its now a bit late to be processing logs for the forthcoming winter unless you have old cord with bark falling off. A -
Yes, did it twice, once on a 200 series Disco and again on a TD5. On the 200 it was mainly A road stuff, very little towing. The TD5 was 50% plus motorway work. With the TD5 set i did loose 2 to punctures but the other 2 went the full distance. I hasten to add that I drive in the words of my daughters like an old man, (which I am). A
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If you are on Hire and reward then you do, I got pulled off the M6 on a Police check three years ago. There is a loophole taking plant to site and the driver using it, if within 30 miles of base then no tacho but if the driver drops the gear and goes or others use the gear then its Tacho. If your max all up train weight exceeds 3.5t then its tacho, so towing vech + trailer + max cargo weight. In theory something like a BMW 7 series which weighs a lot could only pull a trailer about the size of a wheel barrow without needing a tacho. A
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Is that all !!, Grabber AT2s on my Discos which admittedly were mainly on road and motorway work with probably 30% towing would punctures permitting do around 110,000 miles. Got a set a BFG ATs on my current Defender, they were on it when we bought it at about 35,000 miles. Don't know how many miles before we had it but its now just short of 160,000 on the same set of tyres. These will soon want replacing though as they are getting well down. A
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Currently I run a Defender and and two IFW trailers both rated at 2700 kgs. I have and use a tacho but have no need of operating centre, 6 week checks etc. I do have to abide by drivers hours but thats it. I am looking at a bigger trailer to take more bags of logs out at a go as I sometimes go 30 miles out, taking 3 drops would be more economical than 2 drops. I also pick up 2 tonnes of wood pellets 3 or 4 times a year, that I think takes me just over 2700 on the IFW GD85. So if I upgrade to a 3500 kg trailer which the Defender can pull then would that take me into the realms of operating centre etc. I have been though the CPC requirements in detail with Vosa, that drives around the weight of the towing vehicle so no change. Think uprating would be fine other than some difficulty getting a 4m trailer into some places but one of the 2700kgs is 3m so that would do. Thanks for your thoughts, A
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As a farming family its not hard, battered dirty Defender with dogs hanging out of it, battered coat with baling string evident in the pockets, holey jeans, and of course suitably muddy wellies. Never been clocked yet. A
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There is Andy Harrison near Kettering who has a mobile Woodmiser if no one nearer comes forward. A
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As a stove retailer i tell it like it is. Wilsons had a sheet on their web site a few months ago giving the calorific values of different UK timbers. 6 of the top 7 are softwood. I issued that with all new stoves in an attempt to shift softwood, alas most bought hardwood. The public are by and large coming from an open fire or no fire background, hard is recommended on open fires as it does not spit, but in stoves the doors are shut and soft burns hotter but for a shorter period. But I do accept your point that there are some very poor stove shops out there, ( I visit my competitors incognito every six months or so) some of whom have no idea what so ever. My own sales are very much hardwood, I only sell soft if I am out of hard. I have been thinking of doing a mixed bag but am unsure how this would sell. A
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Slightly off track but wood pellets at £200 a ton would be cheaper, they then crush down when wet. Certainly the volume is only about half what you have on that truck. A
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Maybe they have discontinued them, suggest you give them a bell. Of course I might have got it wrong !!. A
