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Alycidon

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  1. I have used Bag Supplies half mesh half stripe bags for 3 years now. Some bags must have done at least 8 trips. perfect logs, bags still look good. I do occasionally damage the mesh with the forks of the telehandler when stacking the next row if the forks are to far through the bag on them. The issue at the minute is supply, I have had green ones on order with Bag Supplies since March time, they are at least 6 weeks away. I took a few white ones to keep me going but they are now out of those as well. I have just taken 100 26 stripe all round from FP Baker, it remains to be seen how well the logs do in them. I stack 12 long, 6 deep and 3 high, all on pallets, but as the floor is not concrete the bags tend to move a bit as they dry. Got a 2 foot gap between 2 columns built in Feb/March. A
  2. Taking the thread back to silly prices. Came across a job yesterday, high £60s a cube including VAT, well cut, nice hardwood, 3.5 cube delivered approx 35 miles, so a 70 mile round trip in a 7.5 tonner. Customer was complaining how expensive they were !!!. Ironically I am taking logs back to within a couple of miles of that guys yard at nearly double that. A
  3. Most stoves have a rope seal joint between the sections or use Heat Seal, this is a cross between silicone sealant and fire cement and is better able to stand flexing under heat than fire cement. A
  4. If you are getting paid for them it comes under "Hire and Reward'. You do need a tacho, abide by drivers hours regs, rest periods etc and keep your last six weeks discs for roadside inspections. Thats it though, no op center, no cpc, no six week inspections. That covers any vechicle pulling a trailer that when fully loaded has a train weight of over 3.5 tonnes. So a BMW 5 series with a piddly trailer would also need a tacho if over 3.5 and doing work for hire & reward. If you are pulling timber that you have cut yourself back to your base for your own use and you are within 30 miles as the crow flies then maybe you could get away with arguing your case. The Police and Ministry are pulling a lot of IFW type trailers in, I got pulled off the M6 near Birmingham, no I did not have a tacho, I do now though. A
  5. 300 quid for a stove, on ebay you might get an half tidy one, but the odds are against it. Buy a new stove of decent quality, 530mm opening height, that sounds like a standard fireplace opening. ( 16 x 21 inches). If so install an inset stove into it. I do have a customer with an Esse 301 inset for sale, we installed it for the previous owner in early 2011, the new house owners want a gas stove instead that we are installing in a few weeks. PM me for further details. A
  6. I only sell mid market and top end stoves, I do have to go and have a look at their construction in their works before getting involved but I have every confidence that they are indeed a good stove. What is unique is the air flow design, usually you have an air curtain down the inside of the glass ( secondary air) that keeps the glass clean and sometimes an additional Terciery air supply in the rear of the firebox above the fire. These Burley stoves do not have a secondary air curtain but do have 4 Terciery air supplies, upper and lower, left and right so that the fire burns in a circular motion. That much air will make it burn like hell and I do have reservations about the degree of control that is available but as long as the stove is not oversize for the room it should go well. 12kw will nicely heat a room of 144 cu m volume given poor insulation, or 168 cu m for average insulation, thats a big room in most peoples books. A
  7. To right, that should open his eyes especially if trading standards are threatened once he produces a half cube bag. A
  8. In an ideal world I would process as it came in and store processed, but life and health issues tend to get in the way when you get older. A
  9. . Uncertified stove = constructional hearth to my understanding. According to Hetas it has recently been made illegal to sell and/or install a stove that is not CE marked. A
  10. If the stove manufacturer advises that the temperature of the hearth does not rise to above 100 C when then stove is in operation then a 12mm thick hearth plate can be used above a combustible floor. This is as per Approved Doc J of the building regs. I am just in the process of taking on a Burley dealership, I have found them quite helpful, I would suggest you call your supplier and ask the question. If the supplier cannot answer then get them to ask Burley. I cannot see an 11kw on the Burley site but looking at this from the Burley web site suggests to me that you would be ok with a 12mm thick non combustible hearth. WELCOME TO BURLEY On the slate hearth question the heat from a stove may crack a single slab of slate/granite etc. Have it cut into smaller pieces no more than about 300mm square. The joints between the slabs will allow for any heat expansion. A
  11. Could not agree more. A
  12. if the bark is somewhat stripped by a harvester then yes to a degree, I have been processing harvested Syc and Ash recently, delivered 2011, 21% and 24% on processing. I processed some soft a few years ago, been down a couple of years, 4% on the end, 27% a foot into the trunk. A
  13. Mentally thats £50 a cube, ( inc VAT ??) buying cord in and putting into into bags is not much cheaper than that. If its good quality hardwood, 14% ish, consistant length, split, I would be tempted to ask him how much for 25 cube, and buy it. Keep it 6 months and double your money. A
  14. I enquired about exactly that this week. They do make one to suit a telehandler, wants 30L ( or 40L?) per minute oil supply. You will need to weld an adaptor bracket on its mounting plate to suit your machine. What bothers me is that the telehandler will probably need an oil cooler to prevent issues, most older teleporters are not so equipped. About 5k so cheaper than a new Posch 20 splitter. Got a friend here who recently bought one, he finds it a more practical tool on his 3 ton excavator than his Posch 30T splitter. A
  15. Massey Fergusson. A
  16. kingstone does not show a 1 cube bag on their site that I can see. 800 cubed = 1/2 a cube, 900 cubed = 3/4 of a cube. They do look decent bags. IC Trees, There is a shortage of bags at present, I have had the green one on order with Bag Supplies for several months, I took some white ones to keep me going but they are now out of these as well. Delivery was promised for now but its now been put back till late August. I have therefore bought 100 white ones from Bakers, delivered yesterday. I did have a look a them at the Arb show last year, delivered 2 days from order, look decent bags. Have gone 26 stripe all round as the teleporter can rip the mosquito sites when stacking. Vented FIBC Big Bags for Wood and Logs A
  17. Keep a moisture meter in the truck, demo the MC to the customer before you tip, no issues then if he lets them get wet that night. A
  18. Agreed. A
  19. 15 cube a day so say 12 tons, so about 40 days cutting a year if my mental maths is right. With my volume I am looking at 20-25 days cutting this year. I do 8 - 10 cube a day with my Japa 700, 8 usually, 10 in a long day, single handed, Japa manual rack and teleporter to load it with. On 6 foot soft cord I have done 14 but that was 12 hours non stop cutting and double manned. Anything oversize I plonk on to a big boys heap ready for either a contractor or the day I get a big machine. Just gives me a feel for what other people consider the optimum machine capacity for a given sales volume is. A
  20. 2054 at the arb show last year was 20 ish from memory, that may have included VAT. 26k, thats probably more than a Posch 360 and into Fuelwoods own brand Transaw terratory, both of which have rotary blades which in my book are preferable to a chainsaw arm, less waste, less sharpening downtime. Dont know how Palax 90SG is priced. Mind it will handle bigger timber than any of the above but it wont be much faster on a 200mm log than my little Japa. I suppose if a high percentage of your cord is 300-500mm then its worth looking at or a decent 4 way splitter and use a smaller processor at the end of the splitting table. Got a friend with a big 30T Posch splitter, and a 350 on the end of it. Cut big boys into 1.5m lengths, they load themselves hydraulically then straight into the processor. Two tractors, two blokes minimum and usually 3. With the big machine you could save one bloke and have a bit less handling. What sort of volume are you looking to put through it?. Just interested as I am spending to many hours processing with a small machine, so need more output in the same or less time. A
  21. Not heard it mentioned before, just looked at the demo on U tube, looks one hell of a machine. Dalen do have a good reputation here. I especially like the 12 way splitter, no more big logs, seen some huge ones coming off 6 ways on different machines. How is it priced?. A
  22. Why is it no one near me ( Northants) has similar problems !!. I am far to far away to make anything viable. A
  23. Looking at the pics I can see the point. However the use of cleaner stoves that we use in smoke control areas would be a sensible step, these are however usually more expensive than non approved stoves, and that I suppose is where the problem is. Old non efficient stoves shut down, thats when smoke and pollution occur. In the UK we have smoke control areas for which we have to install DEFRA approved stoves if the owner wishes to burn wood. These are set up in such a way as to prevent them being shut right down which is where pollution occurs. A
  24. I have been processing sycamore delivered to me in 2011, most of this is well spalted. A
  25. Do a good search here on BGU, pretty sure there were some adverse comments a while back after the show last summer. Their machine does have limitations compared to some I seem to recall one post saying. A

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