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Tonne bags are designed to carry a ton of sand, they are usually 1/2 a cubic meter. I use Bag Supplies 1 cubic meter green firewood bags and do exactly what you are thinking. You need a teleporter or similar and they dont like being 3 high much. Wood seasons perfectly on them. A

Fed up with logs to be honest, have now all but run out of stuff I processed late last summer for next winter. Once my ground dries I need to have several weeks processing. A

I see, well in that case its TC Dartmore, I would think he was talking about his cost rather than a sell out price. If the latter I would also have a few !!, A

There is another standard that was coming in for wood fired boilers fueled under RHI than fuel needed to be 90 or 95% trunk wood. I had assumed that was exactly what it meant. I would think that will probably go by the board now if RHI for domestic has been kicked into the green deal. A

Cant see it, cost of timber would be more than that, we both know that. Cant actually see where he said they were £60, Timbercutter Dartmore mentioned that at 240 they were 4 times the price of his. A

Agreed. I am £30 a cube dearer than most in my area, I have 5 cube left. A

Hi and welcome to the forum. The problem you will find is that when a customer is having a tree down there is a queue of the houseowners mates waiting for the timber assuming the guy does not want it for himself. So what was waste product a few years ago is now in demand, on top of that most arb boys also run a small firewood business with what timber they get. To go forward volume wise you will probably have to buy in ash and sycamore in 27 ton loads, that puts your cost per cube at about £40 - £45, add processing costs, storage, fuel to deliver, upkeep of the equipment, vat, profit and you will need to be going out at £110 -£120 a cube and then not going to far with it. If its a premium grade product, cut to a standard length, split and DRY it will sell. The other option may be to buy in a container or two of kiln dried logs, 24 tonnes per container, so no work, premium product, dry, delivered to you on a schedule if required, its a route I may try myself this next winter as my volumes are close to exceeding my storage space. You will need handling facilities though, the crates are about .75 tonnes each. A

So advise what you have, timber type, what sort of log size, moisture content, what sort of volume, delivered or not, if not where uplifted from and your ability to load a 27 tonne bulk trailer. This may cause an issue under selling your goods without being a member of the firewood group, be an idea to talk to the moderator before going further. A

I have one of a similar age, used from Fuelwood, been a good machine, put about 200 cube through it so far so not a lot. Only down side is that you are limited to 250mm timber and as the timber moves to the blade your cord is best at about 1.5m long so that it clears the feed rack. Longer stuff I load into the machine then chainsaw in half, do the first half then do the second half. Get a feed rack for it as well, speeds up production if you have a loader to load the rack, no point if not. A Planning to put 200+ cube through it this year.

Been there myself with that one. Lifting a full cube bag with the major will be hard, no power steering on those old ladys. Better to get her to power a processor I would have thought. A

Does it have all the paperwork?. All in all I would give £500 for her providing she starts and runs. A

Why, then they would want it at lower prices. A

I had a guy recently that was moisture testing every log before stacking it in his log shed, at least it keeps the blokes selling crap away. A

Usually if round they are 7, 8 or 9 inch. There are also square liners of similar sizes. You will want 2 inches of clearance to stand a good chance of getting a flexi liner down. If you have a 6 inch clay lined flue you cant put a flexi liner down as the minimum flexi diameter is 5 inch and that can only be used with Defra approved stoves with a 5 inch outlet. Cant say that I can remember ever coming across a 6 inch clay lined chimney. A

25 posts in 2 days, you dont hang about, welcome anyway. A builder bag is usually 800x80x800, so HALF a cubic meter. They are designed to carry a ton of SAND but I understand this has now been downgraded to 800kg. From 27 tons of cord I would be looking for 35-40 cubic meters of logs. A

Buying stalking by the day is a perfectly acceptable reason to own a deer caliber rifle. A

I does re absorb water quite fast so keep your split logs covered. As its not very dense it will burn at somewhat higher MCs than other woods but you may need to add some primary air under the grate in your stove to ensure clean combustion. If you are selling it I would try a bit on your own stove first/ A

If she has tall ceilings then using an Ecofan will pull that heat down from ceiling level, makes a difference even on normal height ceilings of about 4 deg C. Room size, property insualtion and stove heat output would be handy to have to work out if the stove is big enough for the room. A

Insulation material does not stop bits of crap etc falluing down and getting onto the stove top. Fireboard is legal if you have fitted a liner but as I understand it illegal if no liner. If it gets wet is will allow water to wick down the side of the flue pipe and sit on top of the stove. Simple sheet of galvanised steel, some 90 deg angle, an angle grinder and a drill is all thats needed. A

My wife's parents are in Northampton too, so I can appreciate how much nicer it must seem over there. Northampton itself is a special kind of dive! I live near Northampton, like most towns a few dodgy areas agreed but most is ok. Spend a lot of evenings delivering logs there in the winter. If thats a dive there are a whole lot that I have lived in that are worse, Luton for example. A

Galvanised steel is better, does not rust if it gets wet. 1.5mm - 2mm thick is good enough A

Ash when felled in winter usually has a Moitsture Content of about 35%. I did pick some up a while ago that had been felled in autumn and the leaves were left on for a couple of months, that was 27% approx. When a log is addded to a fire the first thing the energy within the log does is to evaporate the remaining moisture. Once thats done the remaining energy is converted into heat. So less moisture = more heat. All woods when the burn give off gases that contain crerosote. If the heat in the fire/stove is not hot enough to combust that crerosote then it will condense in the chimney and form tar, this is combustible and the main cause of chimney fires. So green/wet woods can equal poor stove performance and tar in the flue. Adding some primarty air under the fire in a multifuel stove will help the stove to burn hotter so that you get a decent heat and minimal tar. If you can though burn it dry. A

I have had dealings with this guy, think he is a member here as well. Good bloke with decent kit. Andy Harrison - Wood, Wood Turning, Landscaping, Timber and Firewood Also based near Kettering, he has a large mobile mill, Woodmizer from memory. A