renewablejohn
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For the price of a backhoe you could pick up a good 3 tonne 360. There to heavy to tow behind 4WD so are as cheap as chips. No problem for you to tow with an alpine and far more versatile. I have a Hitachi EX30 bought for a specific job of creating a surge pool to stop the house flooding but now be lost without it.
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Anyone interested in Lodge Pole processor size 3mtr lengths but not sustainable forest so useless for RHI and Biomass power station sales. Timber near Bolton Lancs and will be in 3 mtr lengths roadside on good tarmac access road. Its all windblown so trying to work out whether it is economic to harvest. Initial quantity upto 200 tonnes.
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Been looking for a wood for months and finally found one. Owner willing to rent and allow me to extract the windblown lodge pole which is about 75% of the wood. Only trouble is its not in a sustainable forest scheme and the owner is not interested in such a scheme. Am I right in thinking the woodland is worthless as I cannot sell the timber due to the sustainability criteria.
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I dont understand the significance of the calculation is it some sort of vetting to reduce fuel miles.
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I have registered online but still waiting to be vetted
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Yet another bit of red tape to fill in.
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My MB Trac works my Kesla crane well only thing to be aware of is the super thin oil for the standard Merc hydraulic pump. I had to get the oil formulated by Crown Oil and it is Hydraulic 10 approx £50 for 25 ltrs.
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Hope your passport is up to date. -
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Some kind sole put me forward for an advert in the community police speed awareness campaign. He was very pleasant upto the point in time I told him it was against my ethics so would not be dipping my hand in my pocket.
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I will put the specs on for you tomorrow. Its a bit dark out tonight.
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My 6-300 was going to be on the market later this year (APF time) If I can find a bigger Heizo at a reasonable price then I could put it on the market earlier.
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Wish I could. EA are concerned we may contaminate the water by doing that. I can see their point as there is some very large trout in the brook.
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Anyone use a punt for transporting timber along a river. Have a job coming up with restricted access but trees either side a river with good forwarder access down stream.
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I have a little holder tractor which is quite handy.
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As Spandit points out IHT allowable on woodlands but the small print is the exclusion if ancillary to agri land which our FWPS grant scheme is as it was to provide shelter belts. You would therefore think it would be eligible under Agri IHT rules but no HMRC insist the FWPS land has been taken out of agri production which effectively has reduced our IHT relief by 30%. Had we been told the grant would have this devastating effect we would not have bothered.
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Definitely looks like tufnol. Was a poor mans substitute for Lignum Vitae when my father used to use it to manufacture ship propeller bearings.
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Do take professional advice re tax as HMRC have some very silly rules which can easily catch you out. We have woodland as part of our farm but have been caught out with the woodland grants as the grant planted land is no longer deemed as agricultural land and therefore could have implications on the IHT position on our farmhouse.
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Normally not recommended to transfer frog spawn as you could end up spreading the red leg disease. If conditions are right then normally a new pond will have frogs or toads within 2 years.
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Definitely need for a new meter. the only wood you will get at 4% is torrefied wood which is equivalent to charcoal.
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biomass pellet press any info /knowledge
renewablejohn replied to CP WOODFUELS's topic in General chat
What would you like to know other than moisture content needs to be below 12% and you will probably need a hammer mill as well. Mine has a built in reducer but it makes it a very sloooow operation so to speed things up I also put in a hammer mill. Would compare the process to bread making. Given the same ingredients the output can be unpredictable and certainly is not press a button and fill a bag in my experience. -
One option is to keep the tractor weight down and exploit the dual purpose vehicle rules. The holder municipal tractors look ideal for this purpose with 40k capability.
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Heizohack but you will probably need to get screens made for 25 and 35. I think mine are standard screens at 30 and 50.
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At the time Esse had a real problem with a well known country magazine really slagging off their at the time new cooking stove which clogged up at the drop of a hat. All down to moisture content not activating the after burner technology.
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If you where nearer you could have a wasp nest in our loft which we killed off last year. We retained it as there is an old wives tale that wasps will not build another nest within a certain distance of an existing nest.
