renewablejohn
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Andy Sorry for not replying. Majority of my output at the moment is not from Virgin Timber sources so cannot be used in domestic stoves only commercial Waste Incineration Directive approved boilers. If your still interested send me a PM
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Rob D I normally supply standard IBC containers for collection and pay minimum £5 per tonne for MC of 8-12% we can accept higher MC but we do not pay for water. Chainsaw milling is ideal for briquettes but a bit coarse for pellets.
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Personally I have not received a penny only aggravation and grief.
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Rob D All I am asking from the statement above is to establish the price which is acceptable for the right stuff. On previous threads on Arbtalk I have quoted a price we are prepared to pay for sawdust so I do find it slightly unreasonable for the charity card to be thrown in and expect Arbtalk members to give a product away free when it is actually worth money to them. I apologise if I have come over as antagonistic but offering to supply timber of a quality to make briquettes is not something a competitor normally does to allow a new entrant into the market place.
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How am I being antagonistic ?? A simple question of how much they were prepared to pay for the sawdust. A offer of G30 woodchip which we would be able to supply An assertion that they could afford to pay a reasonable rate for their sawdust given that they are advertising on ebay a price in excess of £500 a tonne. I like many on here are not a registered charity and cannot afford to give a valuable product away free of charge. Skyhuck I am already in the business of producing Briquettes and Wood Pellets from sawdust bought at market rates. The grant I am currently applying for is to convert Arb Waste into Torrefied Briquettes and Torrefied Wood Pellets which are equivalent in energy content to coal.
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Buy a wood gasifier for your tractor and a pto generator and then sell your electric into the grid.
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So why are you selling briquettes on ebay at £14.99 for 28kg in my books thats over £535 per tonne
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We can dry G30 spec woodchip to a moisture content suitable for briquette manufacture but we certainly will not be giving it away for nothing when you are selling briquettes at £500 per tonne. I am surprised you are able to get sawdust free as commercially we have always paid for clean virgin sawdust.
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How much per tonne do you pay for your sawdust
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Highland Forestry I am pleased you are happy with your accountant. As a qualified accountant myself its always nice when people appreciate how much an accountant can help and assist a business. Unfortunately not all accountants come up to these standards but when you do find one stick with them. I wish I could comment more but giving general advice is now taboo as far as the accounting bodies are concerned.
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Just be careful with the claim for use as home as office as the taxman could come after you when you sell your house for the tax on the capital gain of the business element.
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Baz
I normally pay £15 plus vat for the IBC cage and £20 plus vat for IBC cage including the plastic container. Obviously the containers are used but some have been only 3-4 months old.
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Where do you get spare parts from? at the moment I am using A C Price but it is quite a long journey for the odd bits.
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I use IBC container frames for stacking logs 3 high safely and IBC with the plastic bottle still inside with the tops chopped off for storing woodchip and wood pellets. Forklift has pallet rotator for emptying containers.
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new stove and fuel spec
renewablejohn replied to firewoodman's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Installed a Dunsley Yorkshire day before the snow arrived. Thankfully does exactly what it says on the packet and have been warm as toast all winter. Only downside is it gets very hot if you have kids it will need to be guarded and even opening the door you will need to use the proper tool otherwise you will burn your fingers. -
So where are all these people. Is Arbtalk not populated with people in the North West? those who have already posted I thank for your positive comments but for something like this to work we do need physical support in the supply of woodchip the end result being a product equivalent to coal which can extend your product range and make you a good profit.
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On the farm we would lay the stumps at ground level and plant a new hawthorn hedge on top of them. If the stumps sprout all well and good you have a nice thick hedge within 5 years if not you have a nice thick hedge in 10 years. Certainly would not consider doing it now if you want the hedge to survive. Nice warm job for the middle of winter.
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I can see this being a temporary problem as within 5 years there will be a ready market for arb arisings and chipping onto the floor will be a thing of the past.
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So long as it is fresh virgin timber then no it can all be turned into torrified wood.
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Asplen The funding is a 4 million pot with a minimum 1 project from each county so Cheshire,Lancs,Cumbria,Merseyside, and Greater Manchester so the Arb communities would need to be organized by County so I suppose my 25 mile should really cover the whole of Lancs. Min grant is 200k and max 500k with grant award upto 70% hence my interest.
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This is my biggest fear. Funding is available in the North West for my torrefication process however to qualify I need a community of tree surgeons willing to provide the raw material. If I was in France we would not have a problem as it is normal to operate coops particularly in the wine industry. Here such arrangements are treated with suspicion.
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Fair point Dean but I was trying to point out that it would no longer be waste as a commercial product would be produced from the arisings Can a moderator change the title
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Looking to set up a CO OP or community of tree surgeons initially within a 25 mile radius of Bolton to process your Arb waste by torrefication and convert it into torrefied briquettes and torrefied pellets. The idea is similar to contract haymaking whereby a proportion of the hay is retained by the contractor as payment for his services. Could this work or am I missing something.
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Drop as much as you like at our farm as we have the Environment agency licence to handle it but it must be clean arb waste not contaminated with beer cans and lunch wrappers which we have had in the past. PM me with contact details and I will give you my address but we are between Bolton and Bury.
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Be careful with your land rover some VAT inspectors are very hot on which types are allowable for VAT reclaim. Best advice is double check with a reputable land rover dealer that your chassis number is eligible for Vat recovery. I always find a simple Purchase and Sales day book keeps the VAT inspector happy and then post into a computer system to get your management information. It is quite normal to get a Vat inspection after you submit your first claim so that the inspector can assess your understanding of the Vat accounting system.
