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I think you find most Esse customers swears by their Esse every time it needs sweeping. The internal flues frequently block up even with wood of less than 20% MC. The flueways are very badly designed and we have had to make up specific tools to get into the awkward recesses. Our stove was so badly engineered you could see the flames through the crack in the door. Esse replaced the door with another which had exactly the same problem. With burning exceptionally dry wood the after burner needs replacing every year.
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I installed an Esse on the basis of there central heating claims. They have since downgraded the output and is more appropriate for DHW only.We installed a Dunsley Yorkshire to take over the role of central heating. Eventually we will replace the Esse with a Lohberger combined pellet and log burning cooker which will also easily do the central heating.
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I dont know what is classified as small scale but my 2 x 20mtr tunnels have a capacity of 200 m3 but annual production through the tunnels is approx 400 m3 per annum as your rotating the stock all the time. The critical sales period is June to Sept as restocking at this time allows the processing to be sold in the current firewood season. I cannot really see any scale issues in using polytunnels and will be adding another 20 mtr tunnel later this year specifically for drying arb waste for power production.
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Your just to impatient. During the summer our solar kilns dry to less than 20%MC in 3 months during the winter it is more like 6 months. Our kilns similar to 18 stoner but with concrete bog mat floors to allow forklift to stack either 1x2x1 or 2x2x2 in tunnel depending on tunnel shape. Processor in front of tunnel to allow processing in Manchester sunshine.
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Have you thought of using a forwarding trailer with shear grab. My Kesla crane will reach 8 mtrs high (double jointed) and cut with the shear grab upto 8 inches. Once you have dismantled the tree to limbs of more than 8 inches then swap the shear grab over for the normal grapple and use the crane as your lowering device. Certainly cheaper than hiring a crane.
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In my opinion a complete waste of time and money. If you can guarantee that all the logs you sell have a MC less than 20% you will have no difficulty in selling your stock even at a premium. My business has boomed since a local cowboy set up selling cheap wet logs.
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Thats the problem I dont see a lot of value in the tree. How many m3 would you actually get out the branches certainly a lot less than the 10 m3 I would need even to breakeven.
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Has anybody actually worked out whether the tree is actually large enough to make the job viable. Say you ended up with 10m3 of logs and 5m3 of chip sold at £100 m3 and £ 4 m3 then total sales £1020. If I was doing the job then I would take both chipper and forwarder hired out at £250 each. Processing of timber a further 2 days at £250 a day plus cost of delivery. If I did do it I would only offer £1 so that the timber became legally mine. Would I do it definitely not. The problem I see with it once on site would be the remaining tree which needs to be taken down. (Whilst your here you might as well take the rest of the tree FOC).
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Turpentine Production
renewablejohn replied to renewablejohn's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Agg221 Thanks for the info I will email you some more questions as it all looks rather positive. -
Turpentine Production
renewablejohn replied to renewablejohn's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ty Thanks for that. Makes my wanting to use turpentine as a 100% substitute for diesel seem rather boring. -
Depends on what sort of mark up your trade customers require. Becomes a joke when they look at 200% markup.
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360 diggers with harvesting heads
renewablejohn replied to elfinwood saws's topic in Large equipment
No have separate stroke delimber attached to forwarding trailer or if conditions dictate the delimber is put on the forward control MB Trac with timber crane on 3 point link. -
If you sell at the roadside around here the council jump on you demanding money for a trading licence.
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360 diggers with harvesting heads
renewablejohn replied to elfinwood saws's topic in Large equipment
For thinning work I have a 3 tonne Hitachi with Kesla shear head good for upto 8 inches. Any larger 360 and I doubt whether it would get in between the rows. -
There is also Figs along the canals in Birmingham
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If you dont get fixed up with Rob give us a call
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Joinery waste for kindling
renewablejohn replied to D.M.Taylor Firewood Supp's topic in Firewood forum
I pay a nominal £1 m3 so it is not waste and I dont need a waste licence. I collect 6 m3 at a time on my 7.5 tonne truck. Use brown saw bench to 6 inch and stack in reusable boxes stacked on pallet. offcut thrown into IBC container when full put through chipper and hammer mill and converted into briquettes or wood pellets. Boxes of 6 inch then put through kindling machine, bagged and stacked on pallets loaded on truck and delivered. All handling done with forklift and IBC containers using rotate facility to make it easy emptying the container. -
Nimby Good info I did not realise it was so rare. Anybody doing a black pop reduction in lancashire I would quite like some cuttings. I have an ideal valley where they could grow without being disturbed.
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Agree totally. I burn nearly all softwood as I can get higher prices for hardwood sales per m3. Really needs to be less than 20% MC and then have very good air control on the stove to stop all the heat just roaring up the chimney
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has any one got kiln dried wood scotland
renewablejohn replied to Time-to burn's topic in General chat
I do but then its only a solar kiln and the wood is actually Swedish candles. That said I have just had an order for 30 x1 inch slices which I will make from the candles. The school want them to router with numbers.. -
Unfortunately you could not be more wrong. Sawdust does not dry out unless provided with forced air like a grain dryer. This is why we turn our timber into split logs and get the moisture content down to the correct level using a solar kiln before chipping and putting through a hammer mill. The alternative which they do with the willow you refer to is to artificially dry it which typically costs upto 30% of the sales price. We dont consider this practice to be economic.
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A £500 fine suggests this is a second offence ie you did the same last year in failing to meet a deadline. Maybe last year your accountant accepted that he filed late and paid your fine bet he wont be so keen this time. If it is only 1st time then appeal as HMRC record keeping is atrocious. If all else fails and it was your accountants fault then claim off his professional indemnity insurance thats what it is there for.
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We have both a briquette press and a wood pellet press which will both handle sawdust but for briquettes it needs to be less than 15% MC and for wood pellets below 12%. There is a great difference in quality of product produced but even the cheapest will produce a product for your own fire for approx £10k for briquettes or £20k for wood pellets. For commercial quality its more like minimum £40k for briquettes and £60k for wood pellets.
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You dont have to stick with oddball sizes you can always get a different set of rims. I have difficulty getting 16.9 x26 for my MB Trac so have just bought a set of 12.4 x 36 for roadwork.
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Where is your nearest pulp mill. Last year you could not give pulp away around us as the mill was full to capacity hopefully this year will be better.
