renewablejohn
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I have two MB Tracs 1000 6 cyl and plenty of grunt. Normal MB Trac I use for roadwork and the forward control for forest work with Heizohack chipper. Forward control is crab steer and AWS so can get in far tighter corners than the normal MB Trac. Anything goes wrong then yes it is expensive to fix.
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I have both a briquette press and wood pellet machine which could compress the processor waste the problem is the moisture content. The pellet machine will not work with a moisture content in excess of 12% and the briquette press 15%.
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The £140 was a quick Google search which came up with this. Scottish Wood Pellets Supplier, Bulk Blown or Tipped Loads Throughout Scotland At that price I might as well buy in bulk and just use my bagging plant to produce 10kg bags.
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What Christmas tree, real or fake?
renewablejohn replied to normandylumberjack's topic in General chat
We grow our own and traditionally cut it with a bow saw on christmas eve although this year will be cut on the 20th as having to pick up daughter from Gatwick. -
What sort of price are people paying. Doing a quick google the lowest I have come across is £140 per tonne. That is far less than the logs I sell at £100 per cubic mtr. As for being disappointed at "only" making £30 a tonne on selling pellets I wish it was that easy.
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How much per tonne are you willing to pay. I gave up producing as the market was flooded with cheap C**P pellets but I may be tempted to dust the machine off for the right price.
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Dealing with dumpy bag of waste after tree job
renewablejohn replied to PaddyFF's topic in General chat
Have a look on the Permies forum for Hugelkulture. It is growing very rapidly in the US and will eventually take off in UK as more gardeners and allotment holders realise the long term benefits wood can bring as a compost. The beauty about Hugelkulture is that you dont have to shred it or worry about stones etc as it all forms part of the compost mound. -
I pay £1 per IBC container of softwood joiners waste so you wont get very rich selling to me. I could charge them for waste disposal but thats a whole different licensing paper nightmare.
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Dont get me started on HMRC. If it was up to me I would sack the lot of them.
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When we got our Esse there was a fiddle on the VAT. The cental heating version had Vat at 5% whereas the only DHW version had VAT at 20%. Obviously we got the CH version as it was hundreds of pounds cheaper even though the net price was more expensive. I dont know whether the loophole still exists.
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It would be interesting to find out what mixture of Tordon and Roundup he was using. If it was a high proportion of Tordon and a weak consumer strength Roundup then your trees should recover with a regular foliar feed until the Tordon has been diluted. However if it was a low amount of Tordon and agricultural strength Roundup then I dont really fancy the trees chances, However trees are very resilient if given a bit of TLC and I would certainly give a mulch in an attempt to keep the moisture content of the tree up.
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HELP! plumbing advice needed Esse WD & simple gravity
renewablejohn replied to northumbriaforestry's topic in General chat
I am not a plumber but managed to plumb our Esse gravity feed in very easily although I would suggest fitting a Laddomat to keep the boiler temperature up and make the stove run efficiently. PM me and I could run through the pipework we ended up with for hot water and a thermal store. -
I do the supermarket trick with IBC containers. ie Sell at a price per cubic mtr but they get 20% free. Standard IBC is actually 1.2 cubic mtrs so by the time it settles in transport you can guarantee you still have in excess of 1 cubic mtr and you have already built the settlement into the price.
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Have a rescued Springer Spaniel from CESSAR who is quite a celebrity at the petrol station as he sits upright behind the steering wheel of the MB Trac looking like he is the driver.
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If you look at temperatures in the south of Sweden there very similar to that in Scotland admitted they do get a regular Baltic freeze which makes extra insulation very worthwhile but then look at the recent winters here. I bet a lot of people have installed extra insulation as a result of the recent bad winters and the trend may continue in which case Scandinavian standards would be very appropriate.
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I was fed up of having to keep bleeding my MF550 with the fuel tank being so low and the lift pump pulling up the water and muck accumulated over 20 years . Solution :- 25 ltr plastic oil drum hung from wing mirror tied with baler twine gravity feed direct into diesel filter. Tractor is static used for PTO on processor and starts on the button every time diesel problems now a thing of the past.
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I would disagree on the new build building regs giving a good insulation standard. They should be seen as the bare minimum compared to Scandinavian reg homes which should be used as the norm.
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Why on earth are you looking for such a big boiler. If your a new build your heating requirement if insulated correctly would be a maximum 15kw for which size I would install a Dunsley Yorkshire. Personally I would go for the Lohberger pellet range cooker which also does all your boiler and central heating requirements with the cheap option of using standard logs as well as the automatic features of a pellet stove.
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Problem with fluid bed is that you still need fuel for drying. If you have the right equipment you can use the waste gas given off by the woodchip to dry the woodchip and generate electric. Did not say the equipment we have is cheap. if we bought it new the biomass generation plant would be in excess of £2.5m
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Do a google search on Jean Pain who was the Guru on this sort of thing heating his house and extracting enough gas to run his 2CV car. Word of warning he did die very young possibly due to fungal spores.
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what the going rate for trailer hire
renewablejohn replied to firewood jim's topic in Large equipment
Normally hire mine out with operator at £250 per day within 25 mile radius. -
Paid 3750 for my shed of a MF550 to replace my Jinma 204 which died after 6000 hours. Was in two minds whether to get another new 2 cyl direct Jinma import for similar money but decided could not wait 3 months for delivery so ended up with MF. Biggest error I have ever made the MF cannot do a quarter of what the Jinma used to do and is now just a static engine driving my Palax. Would have been cheaper to convert the Palax to electric.
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Tried to become a British farming forum member but they obviously dont want british farmers.
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One of the main gas pipes from the North Sea goes across my parents land so when we started ditching we where reported and stopped within 2 hours of starting work. Apparently we have to get permission from the Gas board prior to taking a digger on site and then a banksman will be supplied to avoid damaging the pipe.
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I think it was down to about -6 here this morning. I stopped using my own diesel tanks when we had a spate of thefts around local farms so I now rely on local supermarkets for standard white diesel. Is there a web site anywhere which compares diesel specs across fuel suppliers. I did think of water as I recently had a bad fill up from a supermarket which I no longer use. It must have been cold as the gear stick was frozen in 2nd gear and I had to wait for the gearbox to warm up before I could change gear.
