Andy R

Ahh, thought as much. Theres no cheaper alternative then..?

Hi guys. We are looking at buying a new japa 385 but aren't sure if there is a better way to purchase one. We have a price from this place Fuelwood Home - manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of forestry and firewood machinery Do any of you buy from Japa direct, or do you have to use a uk distributor..? When we have searched we aren't really finding too much info about who sells them. Cheers in advance..

Many thanks for all your input guys, we bought bobs halki 1x37 so will let you kow how we get on...but in 10-15mins today we filled our dumper which was not expected...lol Got a good feeling about this...

Looking forward to putting some time in on this, absolutely mint bob...many thanks.

excellent bob, expect a call.

any more info on this mate? can we come and see it? have you some contact details..?

Yeah it's a tricky one. @delabodge. We've religeously stacked our timber as it came in the yard in rows, so at least we would know which was oldest etc. Stacked about 3 ft high, with enough room between rows to get a processor/splitter down. So rings and cord is mixed..oops. I guess we can have a processor in one row and the splitter in the next row, cord go one way rings the other...should work out ok. Need to be able to make it a one man operation. @dent. Just as I thought tbh. There isn't going be a piece of machinery or system that will deal with everything, just wanted to know if people on here get enough use from the processor to warrant it's purchase price really.

Hi guys, long time no speak. We are looking into starting to process our timber ourselves and are just starting out looking at processors etc but it's an information minefield out there so I thought I would ask the opinions of the guys who do it...thats you by the way. We have a very lot of timber and it's just not feasible processing it by saw and splitter as it soaks up too many man hours for not enough profit. It's obviously the by-product of our main line of work which is arb, so as you can probably guess we're not looking at rows and rows of perfectly straight seasoned timber here, it's a collection of every type of timber known to man, diameters range from a few inch to a few feet, lengths are roughly 4ft and 50/50 straight/gnarly. By considering a processor would you say we are barking up the right tree..? Or do you, the firewood fountains of knowledge that you are, think it is doomed to fail as an enterprise in the making..? Something along the lines of a palax ks35 is what stood out from the crowd but like I say we have only started reading up on the subject in the last month or so so we really don't know what is out there. Do these bits of kit only accept straight timber as shown in the videos that promote them, or do you quickly learn what you can and can't get away with and are able to process most of your arb sourced timber..? many thanks in advance, and happy new year to you all.

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ditto.