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  1. renewablejohn
    Thought you had loads of hardwood in Northumbria. Was on holiday there a couple of weeks ago and the lad in the pub was telling me it was being trucked down to Sheffield unless he meant softwood not hardwood.
  2. renewablejohn
    Be interesting to see if still in business at those prices the market would be flooded with cheap kindling.
  3. renewablejohn
    A Heizohack chipper would do the job but you would need a 10mm screen. I use a standard 30mm screen but was quoted £750 for a 10mm screen.
  4. renewablejohn
    I suppose the best way of comparing sizes would be to weigh a bag or two. Density should be similar as its all softwood.
  5. renewablejohn
    Yes thats right typo error. Really annoys me that he puts on such a big markup but he sells a lot for me and even if my bag is twice the size of yours it still makes your kindling very cheap or it might just be the psychology of a larger bag being better value.
  6. renewablejohn
    I think the Vat situation brought it home to me how underpriced I was. I sell a high volume through a stove centre who retails at £7.50 incl 5% vat so net £6.16. I sell to him at £5.00 incl 20% vat so net £4.17 so he ends up with £1.99 for just stocking my product.
  7. renewablejohn
    Make sure you get a 6 foot free float mast otherwise you will be sticking the mast through the shipping container. We needed similar to work inside the polytunnel. Be careful with type 1 as it excludes most forklifts leaving you only with all terrain type forklifts which are a bit spongy for long carpet lengths. Would be far easier if you had a proper concrete base we got over the problem by using 4mtr x 1mtr concrete bog mats on top of the type 1.
  8. renewablejohn
    Standard 60 x 45 log bags
  9. renewablejohn
    If it was my bags £6500 and the customers resale at £9750.
  10. renewablejohn
    Bit late now 7 years into our woodland grant scheme with large areas of ash. Touch wood no sign of disese yet but it may just be a matter of time.
  11. renewablejohn
    Be aware of stooges at the auction placed to run the price up.
  12. renewablejohn
    Personally dont rate Chartered Accountants I recommended two seperate firms to file company accounts to HMRC and each time the company ended up with HMRC penalties for late filing. Made official complaint to the Chartered Accountants governing body and they dismissed it with no compensation. Ask me there a bunch of crooks.
  13. renewablejohn
    Yes there are systems for doing torrefied wood and running CHP plants. You will require deep pockets though as the systems do not come cheap.
  14. renewablejohn
    Farmer Ben Make copious notes of what you discussed when, where, who with, what advice given etc etc. This is for your own protection at a later date. Sounds like a typical HMRC tactic of playing dumb when it comes to your business this then puts you in a position of having to explain in greater depth the scope of your operation and will be used against you at a later date in terms of "on x date at a meeting with HMRC inspector Y you stated ....". We started off in similar manner 5 years ago on the basis of "nothing to hide" and that is still the case but we are now at the stage of a tax tribunal hearing with barristers involved having to prove we are entitled to the tax breaks all farmers are entitled to. Remember the rules of innocent until proven guilty do not apply with HMRC. Similarly its not upto HMRC to prove your guilty its up to you to prove your innocent at your own expense.
  15. renewablejohn
    Thats what I want to know. At what price is it worth taking to a central chip site ie paid say £10 per tonne just for tipping rather than £3 per tonne and having to load the wagon. Initial thought would be sites with storage capacity of 1000 tonnes with weighbridge and site electric connection of 500KW then to process from site to site with mobile plant.
  16. renewablejohn
    Dont really know whether you would call it a crown pulley but putting a flat rule over the pulley theres approx 1/4 of an inch on either side so not perfectly flat. I presume it will need a longer belt and mount inline with the drive pulley. Certainly could engage disengage with pto but thought from safety aspect would be better If I could still use the idler pulley as the control lever is next to the rack handle.
  17. renewablejohn
    At what sort of price are people happy delivering chip to a central location. ie within 25 miles of your location. Just thinking out aloud whether a woodchip franchise would work.
  18. renewablejohn
    Alec Thanks for that. It is this cage arrangement which is already on the rack saw and still works which I intend to use. The MF 65 pulley I am using normally bolts directly onto the pto shaft using the 4 bolts normally keeping the lifting arms from swinging to wide. I will be attaching the pulley directly to the existing frame using the 4 bolt holes in the pulley mounted to two lengths of angle iron which will be adjusted by threaded rod to get the correct alignment and tension. It will then mean the saw is permanently connected to the pulley so will not need aligning every time we use it and we dont have to be that precise locating the tractor to connect the pto shaft. Hope that makes sense
  19. renewablejohn
    Should be able to prove that shortly. Quick update I have bought the beefier MF65 pto belt pulley and had a pto spline made so I can put on a standard pto shaft. The thing I am struggling with is the minimum length of belt required to operate the drive and idler pulleys. Obviously to short and it wont stay in gear to long and it may slip off.
  20. renewablejohn
    You could turn you woodchip into torrefied wood then grind down to a talcum powder mix with water to form a charcoal slurry which you could use directly in your oil fuelled Rayburn. Unfortunately the kit to do it is very expensive and you would then become a direct competitor
  21. renewablejohn
    If you wanted to own your own Patisserie I know of some excellent thermal oil cookers which run on woodchip and provide all your hot water and central heating but the scale is a bit big. Heuft - Biomass-Boiler To get to domestic scale I have only seen wood pellet or logs. I use an Esse which I will be changing shortly for an Austrian Lohberger.
  22. renewablejohn
    Had an attachment fabricated to fit on my excavator using a large RSJ. Splits into billets rather than just into quarters.
  23. renewablejohn
    New EU rules on traceability to qualify for RHI means most chip can only go to power stations hence prices dropped.
  24. renewablejohn
    Ever thought of an excavator and a shear head. My little 3 tonne gets into tight spots with my Kesla head but take a double bite. ie first cut maximum height of excavator boom 2nd cut at ground level.
  25. renewablejohn
    Does not help at the moment but when the new dryer is installed we will be in the market for chip and paying better prices than that.

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