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  1. muldonach
    Get a small boat that is stable enough to use a saw out of if necessary, a couple of snatch blocks, tirfors and a quad bike, if available a 3 tonne digger could be useful. Fell the tree over the road and into the water, and extract it from there using the quad if possible to reduce small enough and the tirfors / digger if you have to pull lumps of timber up the bank. It will take a while and be a pita but it sounds do-able given a sense of humour and some determination.
  2. muldonach
    I must be missing something - I thought he had 12 cubic metres? 190 x 40ltr = 7.6 cubic metres in my book - which puts a different slant on the price:thumbdown: cheers mac
  3. muldonach
    If it is kiln dried it should be ready to burn, £50 a cube for kiln dried timber is a bargain.
  4. muldonach
    There is a clip somewhere of a bobcat with a firewood processor on the end of the boom
  5. muldonach
    In summary if you want wood to dry out quickly you maximise the ratio of surface area to volume. Since our customers generally like firewood which is small enough to fit in their fireplaces but not too fiddly to handle we are generally but not always producing logs of 10" or thereabouts. If it is more than 4" thick I would suggest that it will dry out a lot quicker if split. Cheers mac
  6. muldonach
    We made a similar but much bigger frame out of fence posts and 6x2 it takes 2.4 metre logs and is about 60cm wide by a meter high - fill it up and put the 30" bar down through it. Does not take long to fill a trailer at all - mind you we are cutting 50 cm stove logs not small firewood. Cheers mac
  7. muldonach
    It is so poor that it beggars belief - has it had something dripping on it? Chuck it on a fire and see how it goes. Really amazing that it has not totally dried out through the ends! Cheers mac
  8. muldonach
    Another load of old tosh
  9. muldonach
    Sorry but I have seen this posted on previous threads and it just does not match with experience, if you want to season timber then split it, and the thinner you split it the faster it will season. I certainly would not leave 500mm logs at 6" diameter and expect them to season through the ends. Cheers mac
  10. muldonach
    Keep the rain off let the wind through Cheers mac
  11. muldonach
    Always measure moisture content on a freshly split face - which is what your installer should have done. You can worry too much about moisture content but 36% is a bit high - chuck all the big bits to one side and split them down smaller.Get your next supply organised and make sure it is more homogenous. Use some small firewood to get a good hot fire going and you will get rid of the pitch. A visible temperature rise in an accumulator tank over a short timescale does not sound correct - you are heating a relatively large volume of water - it should take a while to heat Cheers mac
  12. muldonach
    £79-108 a cord is high A cord does not consist of 128 cu ft or 3.62cubic meters of wood - rather that is the space it occupies. The volume it occupies is approximately 50% filled with wood thus the space taken up by the stacked wood = 1 cord but that space contains 3.62 x 0.5 = 1.8 cubic meters = 1.08 tonne at 0.6t/m3 which would equate to £38-54 per cord I think you would definitely want something for delivery Cheers mac
  13. muldonach
    First port of call would be whatever the Forestry Commission calls itself in NI - then talk to the major harvesting companies - Scottish Woodlands, Tilhill etc etc. Cheers mac
  14. muldonach
    The volume you get on the artic (or anything else) can be calculated by:- L x B x H x F x N where L = length of logs B = Breadth of stack H = Height of stack F = stowage factor which is highly variable and depends on the taper and straightness of the timber and the skill of the crane operator it will be approx 0.5 N = number of bays of logs of that length on the wagon etc the question you have posed can be summarised as "how long do you think the piece of string I am holding is" A 40 x 8 x 8 trailer will have a gross volume of 72.5 cu mt, as an approximation you should get about 29 cu mt of wood - but it could vary up or down a good deal I think I would be tempted to cut a couple of logs open, check the moisture content and agree a price oer tonne either over a bridge or off the loadcell. Cheers mac
  15. muldonach
    Cheers mac
  16. muldonach
    Is the above what you meant?
  17. muldonach
    Unless there are two separate pine trees a long way apart that does not sound like a likely combination
  18. muldonach
    How on earth does someone who is self employed not "leave within a year"? Forgive my ignorance but is there a trade such as plumber/Electrician/Joiner who requires to retrain every 5 years? Does a truck or forklift driver need to do refresher training? I do know that to keep my marine licence current all I have to do is prove that I have 12 months qualifying sea service in the last 5 years. Just another load of old tosh to extract cash imo. Cheers mac
  19. muldonach
    Yep - you can worry too much about detail. If you want a woodburner to stay in ovenight let it die well down, fill it up and shut it down, if you are lucky it will be alight in the morning. Yes it will not burn efficiently, and yes it will put some tar in the chimney, the aim is to keep it in overnight, accept the consequences and clean the chimney regularly. We have done that since 1985 - with one chimney fire when I got a bit behind, now done spring and autumnn. Is there any record of anyone in the UK being affected by CO from a solid fuel appliance? Cheers mac
  20. muldonach
    Do you have any birch? Soft and easy to work with when first felled - hard as nails when seasoned - not suitable for outdoor use but makes good floorboards and internal panels Cheers mac
  21. muldonach
    I looked at your responses to Steve's suggestions - are you not turning the bar over each time you sharpen? Or at least every day? Cheers mac
  22. muldonach
    Having run a 20KW stove for the last 20 years without the benefit of an outside vent I can assure you that a few holes under doors etc provide more than adequate draft. Cheers mac
  23. muldonach
    Cut it small and stack it so the wind can get through but keep the rain off - then use a moisture meter. It will be ready in a lot less than 12 months is my gut feeling - we certainly do not season softwoods for 12 months but have never put a moisture meter on them up till now. I have a tendency to chuck it in the fire and see if it burns - if it does its ready Cheers mac
  24. muldonach
    I scrapped an 038 a while back but I think I kept the carb - I am abroad at the mo but back in UK in about 10 days or so - if you are not successful by then drop me a line and remind me and we will see if it is still there Cheers mac
  25. muldonach
    Home Cheers mac

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