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  1. renewablejohn
    I hope you have already registered with the Environment Agency for the various exemptions otherwise you may be in for a nasty shock when the letter drops through your letter box. Site visit was only to suss out your operation the tedious desk work would start when he gets back to the office.
  2. renewablejohn
    My saw bench ran off the PTO and splitter off the tractor hydraulics so no down time. I now do the same with the processor with the splitter used for any rings to large for the processor.
  3. renewablejohn
    Managed to do this online with a mobile phone with a Yaris I was buying for my daughter recently. Had already agreed to pay £900 as a 10 year old Yaris with only 90k on the clock are like gold dust. Looked at seats and they looked tired so asked for MOT history and surprise surprise only current MOT available so input MOT number into DVLA site and out popped all the MOT certs showing vehicle had done over 145k at previous MOT and included failure certificates. Ended up very impressed with the service and saved £900.
  4. renewablejohn
    As a first machine a sawbench and separate log splitter is far cheaper than a processor.
  5. renewablejohn
    Beg to differ. Our local planning officers have run a vendetta against our farm over the last 12 years. We finally thought we had won in Oct 2009 when we had our permitted development barn approved on appeal. However it was subject to agreement on materials used and site levels which they have refused to agree to date. Fortunately we are over the 5 hectare limit but we still had to prove that horticulture could provide sufficient income density for such a small acreage. The county surveyor reckoned you would need a minimum of 150 hectares for a diary farm and 300 hectares for a sheep farm before he would classify them as viable.
  6. renewablejohn
    The alternative if you have a diesel is to make your own from waste veg oil or crush your own oil seed rape using the small production exemption. Otherwise you could mix your own diesel from duty free components but that would be illegal so not recommended unless you want to spend time at Her Majesties Pleasure.
  7. renewablejohn
    Dried in a purpose built polytunnel with average temperatures of 20C-40C and moisture extraction.
  8. renewablejohn
    I charge £250 per day plus fuel plus Vat. My solar dried timber I sell at a minimum of £100 per m3 so work it out. I would certainly not hire out on a machine only basis as the risk of serious damage to the machine is very high.
  9. renewablejohn
    We hire out our Palax with operator based just outside Bolton. PM me for details.
  10. renewablejohn
    Surely you mean Max 20% MC. If you feed an Esse with Min 20% MC it will be tarred up within a matter of weeks and then you will have the fun of trying to clean the airways. As for the W23 it was sold to me as a stove which could provide DHW and central heating and as such was eligible for reduced rate Vat. Esse obviously have now downgraded the stoves to DHW only.
  11. renewablejohn
    You can still get woodland at £500 per acre but it is very rare
  12. renewablejohn
    Not to sure about the circular saw on a pole but Fairmont do hydraulic chainsaws http://www.cue-utilityequipment.com/PDF%20FILES/FairmontChainAndPoleSaws.pdf
  13. renewablejohn
    I have also been disappointed with my Esse W23 even to the point of replacing with another stove. Top of the replacement list so far is this wood/pellet model as it will cope better with our lifestyle. Lohberger Stoves - natural heating As for central heating I cannot fault the Dunsley Yorkshire keeping this big old farmhouse nice and warm.
  14. renewablejohn
    b101uk I am only disagreeing with the above statement in a woodland situation steel wheels would be useless due to the damage the wheels would do to tree root systems. The reason why steel wheels had more grip is the wedge shaped spuds would dig 4 inches into the soil rather than spinning on the surface. The main competition in the wet conditions would be a crawler but it could only travel half the speed of tractor on steel wheels.
  15. renewablejohn
    More like blowing across the top of a bottle the hot moist air is pulled towards the open doorways reducing the speed of airflow within the tunnel.
  16. renewablejohn
    Always wear a mask whenever producing woodchip, wood pellets, and briquettes or handling wood mulch. Father was a wood machinist shipwright died at age 50 autopsy report said his lungs was clogged as if he had been smoking 100 a day yet had never smoked in his life. Analysis proved it was sawdust from Lignum Vitae wood which was used for bearings on ship propellors.
  17. renewablejohn
    The tunnel easily gets to 40C plus aligned North South even with no doors on if you align it East West then the wind goes straight through at whatever the summer ambient temperature is ie 15-30C.
  18. renewablejohn
    Tunnel runs North South so prevailing wind flows over tunnel and not through it.
  19. renewablejohn
    Absolute tosh. My father had a set of corkett steel wheels and made a fortune ploughing in winter when ordinary tractors on rubbers would just spin there wheels. The only problem with them was the tendency to break half shafts as the drive train could not cope with the grip provided.
  20. renewablejohn
    Set up my solar kiln with clear plastic for maximum solar gain open both ends 90 degree to prevailing west wind. Ridge line slope of 1 mtr in 25 mtrs for natural hot moist air extraction. 4mtr x 1mtr concrete bog mats for ease of forklift use. wood stored in IBC cages stacked 121 along tunnel so 25 mtr tunnel stores 100 cubic mtrs.
  21. renewablejohn
    I expect the reason it is being sold is because it is so inefficient compared to modern pellet presses. Production is only 3-4 tonnes per hour with a single die press so all your eggs are in one basket if the machine goes wrong production zero.
  22. renewablejohn
    Does anybody have an old crawler crane for sale RB or something similar. Must be repairable and capable of lifting at least 10 tonnes
  23. renewablejohn
    Will be planting a crop of artichokes to produce my own fuel. Supposed to work out at 600 litres per acre.
  24. renewablejohn
    I thought this could be modified to do big rings if you had a barrel rotator on the end to automatically rotate the big ring in time with the piston. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Hir7E4Yhw&feature=related]YouTube - wood splitter[/ame]
  25. renewablejohn
    I would also like to see pics but in the meantime if you have deep pockets you could have one of these Froling wood chip and pellet firing Turbomatic

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