muldonach
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currently being offered £21 / tonne at roadside for hardwood, believe eon in Lockerbie are paying £32 delivered - what are you paying down your way?
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get an estimate of volume together and find a decent guess as to the timber density - which will fall off once it is felled, the link below came out of a quick google HTh Wooden Calculator
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It means that the woodland owner has paid the subscription. Cheers mac
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I really don't think so - if you are putting random lengths between 3-5m into a container you will be very luckly to get 30cu mtr of timber into that container. Using your multiplier of 1.5 you will end up with 45cu mt of split logs, as you say after all the work of processing them - and getting them out of the container may be a bit of a chore. I don't see it as being a viable proposition I'm afraid cheers mac
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How much of your 60-65 cubic metre container are you proposing to charge at £73? you are going to lose 40-50% of the container volume to broken stowage, in other words you will get 30-32.5 cu m of timber into that container if you are lucky and neat Cheers mac
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Seem to recall this one coming up before - looks like a good first aid kit could be in order Cheers mac
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Depends on the customer - if it is a pensioner or someone who is obviously unfit to do it we will put them in a shed or whatever and try to smile and remember to bring a wheelbarrow next time - if it is a 20 year old dressed out of a catalogue they get chucked at the back of the trailer cheers mac
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got 3 of them in use and if you have a machine sitting unused for a while would say they are well worthwhile - better than letting batteries gradually drain down and beats jump starting tractors for sure. cheers mac
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when you turn to your calculator make an estimate of the missed volume - the pile max dimensions may be as listed but the pile is not full over all the dimensions. 18T £550 for a local buyer - looks too small to crane, unless you have some kind of loader will have to be removed piecemeal:001_smile: mac P.s. - if you want a second round have an estimate of whats in the botex in the avatar - yr old sycamore / wych elm / birch & a bit of oak - all 2.2m nominal & 1 yr old (been piled in the wood)
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There is no "subsidy" on agricultural diesel - just a much lower rate of fuel duty - which also applies to domestic heating oil I believe. If the claimed health risks of using pump fuel are true then there is a good case to be made for having aspen treated in the same way. Cheers mac
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Chap in question has come on 'ere looking for (and got) free advice in the past and is apparrently alleged to have infringed copyright by lifting pictures off another poster's website, an allegation which he has to date failed to reply to. The first post in the thread proudly announces his first ever sale which he has achieved at a premium price His latest post consists of free advice on how to run a business, given the two points above it is hardly surprising that this is not universally welcomed. Cheers mac
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Aplogies
only just read this message this evening - we can supply both hardwood and softwoods, we have small diameter birch and willow as well as large quantities of lodgepole - all are however on difficult ground and our harvesting at the moment is small scale.
Our preferred method would be to sell as 2.2m cordwood lengths at roadside for you to collect and haul to lochmaben. We can arrange haulage but quite honestly it would be on a cost plus 10% basis.
I would need to make a couple of calls before going firm on price but it would be around 35 / tonne at roadside - there is a weighbridge convenient to the loading site.
again apologies for tardy response
Cheers
mac
Any interest?
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Sorry - just spotted your message re woodburner for mobile home. Could you pm me a couple of photos and a price for her indoors?
Could well be of interest, pickup in or around largs no worries and cash on collection
Cheers
Brian
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8kw log burner advice please
muldonach replied to Stephen Blair's topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
can I ask what make of stove that is since I have a mobile home that is looking for a woodburner:thumbup: cheers mac -
We are currently organising a felling licence for removing a reasonable quantity of birch and willow from choked forestry rides. We can also provide lodgepole logs and spruce windblow pretty much all of it suitable for running through a processor - if of interest pm me and I will provide some photos of timber from the site. and give you an address to check haulage cost from My preferred option would be to sell as cordwood in 2.3m lengths but could discuss your requirements and see what we can do to meet in the middle if necessary Cheers mac
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It could weigh 7t and it will take a serious mobile crane to lift that at 45m - or even half of it regards mac P.S. not got a chainsaw mill yet?
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The only disclaimer that is worth more than the scrap value of the paper is one that you get from your insurers - who you should seek advice from before proceeding. The last thing you need is his insurers coming after you for re-imbursement and your insurers denying liability because you knew it would happen and went ahead anyway. If you have advised him in writing that he needs a structural engineers report before the tree is felled and then you go ahead and fell the tree without seeing such a report then imo at least you have just given your self both barrels right in the foot in the event of any damage arising You owe the householder a duty of care and you cannot absolve yourself of it irrespective of what he signs. Your insurance company requires that you act as a "prudent uninsured" person would. cheers mac
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£50 per cube hardwood delivered up to 20 miles - I can only wonder at the prices stated so far with one or two exceptions. If I asked £100 per cube the customers would die laughing! You can only charge what your customer base will stand cheers mac
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can do them no bother - but you would have to collect and it is a fair old way I'm afraid cheers mac
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A shackle is a shackle irrespective of whether it has an arb worker hanging from it or it is being used to lift timber for joinery purposes. The same can be said for all loose lifting equipment I would expect that the extent and limitations of your qualification would be clearly defined by the issuing body and that the particular operation for which the lifting equipment is used is irrelevant. But you need to be 100% sure on this - if you step outside the limits of your qualification you will almost certainly be uninsured. Regards mac
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A general rule in laying stones is "two cover one and one covers two!" Vertical running joints as so frequently used here are inherent weaknesses. It is also normal to build up the end cheeks and use a line between them to level out the courses. Although it is good practice to stagger the stone size so as to avoid horizontal running joints it is not normal to take it to this extent It would be interesting to see an end view to see if any batter at all has been used Regards mac
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Timber in the round will season much more slowly than timber which is split (just compare the ratios of surface area to volume). I would process the majority of your timber into 10" split logs - I think you will find 6" tedious to produce and liable to present badly to the splitter on the Japa. I would keep a smalll percentage back and let it dry as best it can for any customers who want non standard logs. In order to get hard information on your seasoning get yourself a moisture meter Also not a bad idea to stockpile logs when you feel like cutting them rather than running the processor into the trailer in penny packets - get yourself a front end loader with grain bucket for the tractor cheers and good luck mac
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stanton hope I think - got a supply years ago and seem to recall that was where we got them from cheers mac
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Seconded - also grind into the crack and weld from both sides cheers mac
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Don't take a 339 as a present - we bought one a few years ago and have found it to be pretty hopeless - starter is fragile and easily ripped out. regards mac
