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Recently rigged-up using an agricultural hi-tip trailer. Used to deliver woodchip to biomass boilers.......

We sell to a very clever stable owner who buys pellets to put in her stove so pays 5% VAT....

Here in Norway it is actually the farmers who suppliment their income by producing firewood from their own private woods. Most farmers make hay in the summer and logs in the winter! There is a big threat to them from imported firewood imported from Latvia (as discussed on another thread).

Ditto. There is a lot of misinformation going around (even on this forum) about how useless softwood is as firewood compared with hardwood. I think a lot of peeople should think again.

Check out this home-made Fat Boy on Fleabay: heavy duty log splitter for the big ones on eBay (end time 07-Feb-11 22:42:35 GMT)

Are you sure you couldn't get a local blacksmith to make you up one of these, instead of importing all that steel from Canada? A splitter knife from an old processor, piece of steel I-beam and a double-acting tipper ram from an old trailer. Would be a lot cheaper and, if built properly, just as effective.

Do you use the drivers seat for that?

£2k +£2 per cubic meter produced over the lifetime of the machine

Not pretty, but cheap and looks quite effective for yard handling on softer ground. Loader/Forklift on eBay (end time 10-Jan-11 21:29:09 GMT)

Hakki Pilke 1X-37 Tractor PTO Firewood Processor on eBay (end time 21-Jan-11 10:01:06 GMT) Eight and a half grand, or you can wait until next season and get a good second hand one locally..........

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I was thinking of converting one of our Transit tipper to a mini-skip loader to load and unload 1m3 bags of logs. Truck could carry two and unload one at a time. (can anyone make this youtube video work?) <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6SD38dlnKA?fs=1&hl=nb_NO"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6SD38dlnKA?fs=1&hl=nb_NO" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

Castration over Coppicing - hmmmm an interesting concept.