firewoodman
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QUOTE=Mr Ed;188326]I always hate the way softwood / connifer gets lambasted. A nice dry sappy pine log in a woodburner is a delight to behold. :congrats: i'm sure all this softwood is bad bull, is all propaganda from the FC to put people off cuttin down the woods when they first planted them (imo)
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all wood burns well when seasoned, no wood burns well when fresh in my experience, all these rhymes are wrong, they just rhyme, the wood property tables of 1-5 are not that accurate and most go on hear-say woods burn differntly when placed in a stove as opposed to an open fire, and all stoves perform diffrently. i recommend you burn the diffrent woods and make your own results. but please do tell us what you find, the results may suprise you and others many say dont burn softwoods, i find i get great heat, no tar and quite a good burn time off larch pine and cedar, cant get enough of the stuff. if it ignites, burns and gives off heat then it cant be bad can it!!!
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firewood! i burn it, no probs here, never had any probs with it
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was that not pine he used to produce pine pitch, which was the extracted resin, which was then used to coat and preserve a set of tradional wooden skis in sweden:001_smile: he may have done it on 2 different programs though:blushing:
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good site, straight to the point, nice and clear. well done, you should do well on a personal note, i would not give away so much kindling, but sell it at a reduced price. (work out how much money you could be losing by giving it away) and free delivery on orders over £100 ( would encourage customers to top up their order with extra kindling) free delivery within 15 miles is generous imo, i would drop it down to 10 or just not advertise it and go with what said above. all this is my own opinion and in no way does it mean you are doing anything wrong, quite the oposite,. I started off the same, being very generous with everything, but it soon came round to bite me in the bum when i worked out the losses involved.
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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/2205-bagging-logs.html#post41591 follow this link, or pm gray git, his idea roll of stock fencing around £55-60 and get around 10-11 crates, pick up pallets for free:thumbup:
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the speed where the chips come out the right size, and not too slow that it stalls
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slow down the in feed and have blades spinning faster and adjust til you get the right size
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place i cardiff called sealmasters, they'll get you any seal. diy works for me. seals cost from £2 up
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how many tons of fresh softwood would it take to produce 4 tons of dry wood chip at 20-25% moisture content. probably a Mr Ed question:001_cool: i rekon the ratio is 3-1 but am intrested to know otherwise also what is the current price of G30 chip per ton
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got a 310, good truck and pulls well even when overloaded
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think i'll carry on building the stock fencing type crates then
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whats the price of bags this year then???
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definatly billet it or store in individual crates with plenty of air flow. if you dont and store it all in one big pile then the bark will absorb all the moisture from the wood and start to go all stringy and rot and leave you with one big black wet mess in the log pile, same for pine and any other wood with a very high water content at felling. get the felling i had this happen??? once dry it burns well and had no spitting or poping when burning and gives off a good heat
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never never never would i offer the customer money for his timber after an arborist has gone in. 1, he should've paid you a fair price to do the full work. 2, he should'nt be so tight 3 its my time and labour to move the dam stuff 4, it just encourages doing the work for the wood...(free) i get loads of calls off arb customers asking would i be intrested in buying the wood, their cocky little voices soon go when i say i'll remove it for £25 per hour plus travelling time. i do pick up off site for arb guys though, it saves them a trip and its extra pir of hands for both of us:thumbup1:
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What should I replace my Hakki Pilki with?
firewoodman replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
got a 1x42 greenspeed. its good i thought all processers had belts somewhere or another, both my japa and hakki have them and hydrolics -
please do!! and then i will send it on to some of the pain in the arse numpty customers i have. this year i charge for deliveries on sat afternoons and sundays ( as someones note read.... money cant buy you time:biggrin:..)
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you really need to see the picture that accompanied the story. the pic was of a really old vermeer (i think) with no safety bars what so ever looked dodgy!! pic may not have been of the actual site though
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good idea, but, not all hardwoods are slow burning, i've burnt pine and sycamore side by side and the pine lasted longer both the same size.
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why not??? should'nt we be pushing softwood as a product, as hardwood becomes increasingly scarse and pricy
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good luck with the hardwood, its in high demand and short supply i'm trying to get my customers onto softwood......... gona happen sooner or later
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no! wont be there. i'll be off kayaking. good venue though, on site camping so better than bute park
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what editing software would you reccommend????
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i always try to split the rings in half to speed up the drying and try not to leave them round....every little helps
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Need some help as have to make a decision tomorrow morning.
firewoodman replied to Paper Rustler's topic in Firewood forum
chainsaw evry time. have got both, and prefer the chainsaw, its cheaper to maintain. back up......M.Large and Fuelwood are excellent, cant fault either of them for service and telephone help
