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Are these the same builders bags you were going on about here: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/3932-log-prices-post88983.html#post88983 You mentioned then that your bags held 300 kg of firewood. Your weights and measure assesments took a pounding that time round...
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The weight/volume comparison of woodchip is not an exact science. As a general rule we use: 1 tonne = 2 cubic metres of solid wood = 4 cubic metres of loose chip* *bearing in mind that chip size will have an effect, contents can settle in transit and density of wood varies.
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Surely you'd need to have some sort of diff-lock to make this work. I have done it many times with a tractor, but you need to lock the diff, otherwise the opposite wheel will just spin....
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What the "housewives" do here in Norway is take a crumpled-up piece of newspaper, dampen it slightly with water, dip it into the cold ashes, then use it to clean the glass. Extremely effective and (of course) environmentally friendly (sorry Gif, or Gip, or whatever it'scalled........)
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Just in case anyone hasn't noticed yet; JAPA 700 professional Firewood Processor (4 months old): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Firewood-Processor_W0QQitemZ260387920769QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL?hash=item260387920769&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1686%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 Japa 370 Firewood Processor (3 years old): http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JAPA-370-Firewood-Processor-Log-Splitter_W0QQitemZ260389282524QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL?hash=item260389282524&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1686%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
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I always think of William Topaz McGonagall (1830 - 1902). For those not familiar with William McGonagall, he was an eccentric figure who lived in Dundee for much of his life. He was revered as "The World's Worst Poet" composing such rhymes as "The Tay Bridge Disaster". However he was very well read and was conversant with the works of Shakespeare, Scott, Burns and other well known writers. Here is an example of his poem entitled simply "Glasgow" The statue of the Prince of Orange is very grand, Looking terror to the foe, with a truncheon in his hand, And well mounted on a noble steed, which stands in the Trongate, And holding up its foreleg, I'm sure it looks first-rate.
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whys arbtalk not working properly in east yorkshire
Arran Woodfuels replied to husqydan's topic in General chat
Ah've bin havin' th' same trubbels fur a wee while noo. Ah dinnae think it's onythin tae dae wae ma language!! Must be a scunner fur thae that ken aboot computers, n'at -
Do you call 07:11am being early??:001_smile: I usually have half a days work done by then......
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You're right, the Kingdom of Dalriada, the Gaelic overkingdom on the western seaboard of Scotland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A1l_Riata
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http://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,10238.40.html
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Yeah, but they are not skilled tree surgeons..................
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Ehh???? We run a Hakki Pilke 37, two guys and two 3.5 tonne tippers. They take turns on the processor, ie they fill thier own truck, then deliver when the other fills his. Keeps the boredom away. 2 year seasoned Sitka Spruce, customers can't get enough of it (at the moment). Charge £90 for a level Transit load, free delivery 25 mile radius. Mind you, it is not a living, they have farm work as well.........
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Are you talking about the bags of logs, or the chap delivering them..... We promote our bagged logs carefully on the island. It is a lot of extra work to fill them and we don't want to detract from sales of bulk loads which are less labour intensive. There is a young lad locally who tried to start-up in competition, selling manaully cut logs and delivering in the back of his van. We now let him sell our bagged logs (on a commission basis), thus cutting out the competition and supplying a segment of the market (bagged logs) without detracting sales from our mainstream bulk deliveries. Gives him a nice wee job too.
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If your VAT registered company buys then (for any reason) you should be paying 15% VAT. Your company would sell them on at 5% VAT (to domestic customers, but 15% to pubs, hotels, businesses,etc). If you personally buy them for your own consumption, then you personally would pay 5% VAT.
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you're just jealous :001_tongue:
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No probs, big man...... We're all here to help each other
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To get around that, state that it is FREE delivery.
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Try marketing it to local farmers as cattle corral bedding http://www.nhft.org.uk/corral.htm
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Well, yeah....... brash goes in one end and a bundle comes out the other..... I was just trying to show that there are better methods to extract brash for CHP fuel than chipping in the forest and transporting buckets of chip to waiting lorries. But Buzz is absolutely correct, and by all accounts, he knows what he's talking about.
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Woodland Values
Arran Woodfuels replied to Billy Goat Gruff's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
1/2 acre woodland for sale in Ticehurst, East Sussex on E-Bay :ohmy: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Land-for-sale-in-England-Ticehurst-East-Sussex_W0QQitemZ280310797737QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_BOI_FarmingEquipment_RL?hash=item280310797737&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A3%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308 -
Just looking at Timberjacks website, I noticed this "Slash Bundler". Every bundle contains 1 mWh of energy and the bundle lengths can be easily transported to the power plant by conventional timber trucks. Assuming the bundles could be ground at the plant, it does away with baling and bale handling.......... [ame] [/ame]
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looking for a new truck have a look here
Arran Woodfuels replied to Tree cutter Stu's topic in Large equipment
You could have a look here (Preston): http://www.jsharples.co.uk/ -
Sky line need Norfolk area
Arran Woodfuels replied to Alex's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
and obviously surfing the net.................. -
Yes, I see your point, and a good enough idea. We are actually considering chipping brash/waste for non-fuel purposes, and I'm interested to hear if you consider the machine extracting the bulk chip would cause less damage than, say, a forwarder extracting the brash for chipping at roadside? Our head forester understandably wants the brash mats left, however there are thousands of tonnes of other timber waste material in there and I was thinking along the lines that only a forwarder could go in and extract. I hadn't really considered sending the chipper in as an option. Bearing in mind we are talking about areas of peat bogs, etc, which may be the extreme.
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Thanks for that, Mr.Ed, and it confirms what Buzz mentioned further up in the thread. I think the point I am trying to make is that if you sell woodchip as a biomass fuel in accordance with the BSI standard (as we do), then including brash in the mix can have quality implications. Selling to CHP plants, say over 5mW, in quantities of over 50,000 tonnes per year, well that is a different matter on quality and specification of chip. At these quantities, one wouldn't be asking for advice on a Heizohack HM 4-300.
