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No, think she would do about 35hp on a rolling road. Can always move a processor with a bigger tractor but its backside ache putting it away. Max lift is about 2200 lbs, at that the front end would lift without additional weight. A

There are members here from your area I think that could now help. A

Think you are right there. Power may not be quite enough either. A

Quite a few here. me included use older tractors to run processors. My MF135 would need plumbing for a spool valve me thinks although it has a loader on it. A

I think people are wondering exactly what you want. 6 inch x 10 inch ?, please explain a bit more. 2 feet deep we get. a hole 6 inch x 10 inch by 2 feet deep would equate to maybe two rings, so a night burning. Most here could find you that. Maybe you mean 6 feet x 10 feet x 2 feet deep, so about 120 cubic feet, that would be about 3.3 cubic meters. A

What we are looking for is a a cheaper version of the Posch and Palax machines, so self contaioned hydraulics, joystick to do everything, able to control a live log deck as well as an infeed. A

Some softwoods spit, therefore hardwood was always preferred for use on an open fire. But a stove is a closed box, ie the door is always closed, or should be. So spitting is not as issue and not even noticed. A

Thats what I was thinking or even better access to the field next to the wood. That will likely only be clear of crops for a few days but no reason why the timber cannot be stacked next to the field then loaded onto a vehicle in August. A

So how will these Xylog 320 and 400 machines stack up price wise with a powered log feed rack?. A

Agreed, 90% of the wood burnt in Scandinavia is soft. For the last 2 years I have sold a large majority of soft, something like 90%. It is very dry and I have had no probs at all. Anybody in my area needs to get rid of some conifer, willow etc then I will take it. Burnt willow in my lounge last winter, 14%, it burnt well. A

I can at present see no point in an industry standard that I far exceed. Hetas ( and I am an approved Hetas retailer anyway) minimum moisture content is 25%. All they do is list you on their web site as an approved firewood supplier and come and have a look every year to make sure you are doing the job right, oh and charge for that as well. My sales last year were three times what they were the year before so I guess I am doing something right. Its a bit like BS5750 when it first came out, everyone tryign to make a fast buck on selling people qualifications. A

face cord,. Tree surgeon is getting his wood for nothing and basically getting rid of it for beer money. Chances are his logs are uneven in size and length as they will have gone through a splitter/chainsaw rather than a processor. They will also most likely be green. Talk to him/her in the spring, ask if he would be interested in selling you the cord perhaps in return for you suppling him a cube or two of processed logs. Thrust SSC. I have several customers who use the stove or the Esse Ironheart wood burning cooker as the primary heat source. A small 5kw stove can heat a 2 bed bungalow with no issues as long as its kept going. The 9.5kw Ironheart warms big farmhouses well. I use the Nottingham Energy partnership site quite a lot when potential stove customers ask about cost comparisons. There are a couple of other issues though that people need to be aware of; A, The CO2 emissions, lots of women are very bothered about their CO2 footprints and wood fuel is far and away the best in this area. B, The NEP chart shows heat pumps as being the most cost efficient at present and they may well be, but, no one will warrant a pump for anything more than a couple of years, and the cost of a replacement pump I have recently been advised by a potential stove customer was in excess of 8k + fitting. Wood logs Vs Mains Gas, cost is the same per kw, CO2 emissions far less and we are not reliant on the Russians not turning off the supply. Currently less than 50% of our gas comes from the North Sea, the rest comes mainly from Russia. A

150 tons of cord, so 200 - 225 cubic meters of logs. If you are selling at 100 a cube + VAT at 5% then thats 20k-25k. At £60 a cube then income 12k - 14k. Cost of cord 8k (ish !), bar oil. chains, diesel, repairs etc, say 1k. Time processing?, at 1 cube an hour then 200 hours at £20 = 4k + NIC etc, say 5.5k, less if using a faster set up. delivery costs?, allow 1.50 per mile each way. ( I am starting to charge for delivery depending on volume/distance). So I think you should be making something if you are charging £100 a cube but if you are charging £60 a cube then unless you are getting your cord for nothing then you are loosing money. Food for thought. Might be a better idea in future to talk to your local blokes selling it at £60 a cube and buy some from them then resell a lesser volume at a decent mark up to loyal customers. A

There was a bloke on the firewood forum here selling imported kiln dried pretty cheap about 2 or 3 weeks ago, he looked like he was based in London Docks. Here you are:. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/47216-kiln-dried-ash.htm A

Plonk what you can store straight into a barn, by all means leave some outside but bring them in as soon as you can. A

Perhaps my maths is a bit wonky but, hard cord last time I bought some was £55 a ton (+ vat), as I understand it here you should get 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 bags to a green ton, so my cost of cord per cube bag is between £42 and £37 depending on how much I get. Then you have cost of processing which will depend on how large a set up you have, storage, delivery etc. Maybe you are saying it costs £60 to get a cube to a customers door, I think that would be about right using a big processor. Using a more moderate processor it would be higher. My processing speed has dropped alarmingly processing 3m or so logs from the 1.5m logs I have been used to owing to the way the processor (japa 700) works hence I am looking at upgrading maybe next summer. A

80 cube a day, thats just a tidy processor you must have, any pics?. A

Its the heat level in the fire that is the key with creosote, too much water = not enough energy level left to get the fire hot enough to ignite the creosote. See my earlier post in this thread. Process it, wack it straight into a barn or into top covered arb bags, you will be surprised how fast it dries down. A

Your Pine will burn well, Morso the Danish stove manufacturer use Pine to test their stoves as it burns hotter than most other woods. I was processing some hardwood a couple of weeks ago, that had been felled about 15 months ago through a processor which has stripped some of the bark and allowed the air in. Some of that was 25% when processed, that may be ready to burn late in the winter. I process into bags then barn store. A

split it down to 3 -4 inches - stack it off the ground with a cover over the top and the sides open and let the wind rip thru it and it will dry a treat Good advice. Moisture contents and heat production in wood is an interesting subject. The energy in a given log is first used to dry the remaining moisture out, the rest of the energy is then converted into heat. Wood at 25% ( the maximum allowed under the HETAS Quality assurance scheme) will give from memory around 14 MJ of heat per kg, at 16% the same log will give around 20 MJ per kg, an increase of almost 50%. I am currently selling Pine and larch that I processed in the early part of 2011, moisture contents are around 14%. So your pine will be ok but not this winter. Creosote someone mentioned. All wood contains creosote, this is given off in gas form when the wood burns. Providing the stove or fire is hot enough the creosote is combusted with no problems. However if the wood is to wet the heat generated will not be sufficient to reach combustion point of the creosote, thats when it gets into the chimney and condenses to line the chimney with tar. It the main cause of chimney fires. A

Currently I am buying cord in and sell at 84 and 105 a cube for soft and hard respectivily. Miosture content is around 14%, cut to 240mm, and split in even (ish) logs. Deliver in green Bag supplies bags on a pallet, leave customer the bag and pallet, collect on next drop. I have about 30 cube left at that price, this was stock I processed spring 2011, then the price is going up 10%. I have people here selling at £65 for a .7 cube bag of hard, so I am not far out, I am though just introducing delivery charges. If it sells it sells, if not it can stop in the shed tillit does. I sell a premium stove product and a premium fuel product to go in it. I can demonstrate that my logs are drier than CWs kiln dried ones. In short no point in being a busy fool, I have turned down two orders this week as the customers expected me to deliver 40 miles for nothing. It occurs to me that with the cost of processing equipemt as it is it might be an idea to combine forces in this area to get optimum use out of one machine. Either that or buy ready processed logs in. Thing is I like using my machine !!. A

The Ecofan must be sited on the rear of the stove as it needs a supply of cooler air drawn up from behind the stove to keep the motor cool. On a smaller stove you sometimes have to turn the Ecofan a bit to get the fan blades clear of the flue pipe, thats fine as it just sits on a rear corner. A

I run two trailers pulled by a Disco, I need a tacho but not O licence, operating center, cpc etc, key is keeping the trailer grioss weight under 3300kg. A

If she is turbo'ed just be a bit careful about letting her run at tick over for hours on end running a 400 rpm processor. We have a turbo JD 2850 on the farm, it spends some days a year on a bale wrapper, so ticking over. Excess unburnt fuel when ticking over caused wear in the piston liners necessitating an engine rebuild at 4000 hours. A

I am an Ecofan retailer. There are two sizes, the smaller is £112, the larger £150, both inc VAT. They are designed to pull hot air down from ceiling level, they work especially if you have high ceilings. I would be happy to post you one, if you like it keep it and pay for it, if you dont send it back. 80% of what I send out on sale or return are sold. PM me for details. A