Michael C

Well done Egg and Nick Arbtalk needs more threads like this instead of all the back patting.

I agree, and to be fair to both parties, I dont think there is any harm in putting up a link...

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Has anyone got any views on the likes of this for general delivery and collection jobs..

2007 Ford Transit 115 T350M Twin Wheel Rwd Pick Up Tipper With Tail Lift | eBay

Other than the fact that the legal payload will be poor, it looks like a very useful set up.

See this video from about 2.00 onwards, for lots of potatoe boxes!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfUYulmP91U]The Woodfuel Cycle - YouTube[/ame]

Apologies for any mis-communication, yes, I'm looking to buy at this price!

 

Seller describes as 'fill a back of a transit van or a level load of a transit tipper.... approx 4cm?!

I may be all wrong, but I reckon a transit tipper will be nearer to 2.5m3

See pg 19 here..

http://www.mlarge.com/images/upl_files/000325.pdf

I'm sure pushing the lever to extreme right retracts the ram.

tis nonsense

Never joined a forum with rules like that , thats what moderators are for!

 

ohh well

 

Anyone else in the agri industy got any other decent forums?

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Or he might be talking about these...

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If so, dont do it, been there, I should have bought vented bags instead!

Really do sujest you get a shorter shaft and mount it on the arms properly before something snaches and yuo regret it it may well never happen but you sure will regret it if it did !

I agree, and having it on the 3pl would also mean you could have it on a much nicer working height.

looks like a briggs engine maybe a vanguard ?

Or a Subaru 9hp ...

I must point out before I start this reply that I am not selling logs but process them for my own use.

Last weekend I was splitting straight into builders bags along with brother in law so we got equal amounts of wood, we ended up with 4 bags each. A buiders bag is approx 1cube,i threw mine into a cubic metre wooden box and managed to get 2-1/2 bags into box, I didn't stack them but I was carefull how I threw them.

Its surprising how if you stack rather than throw the volume goes down

'Builders bags' vary though, many are only slightly over .5 m3

TBH I dont know

Can you tell from this picture ?

Looks like a 2 lever gearbox to me, unless the third lever is hidden.

1234R on the big lever and low-start-high on the smaller one.

I presume its a 265. Early ones were 8 speed, later ones were 12 speed.

Glass is easily got for Sankey cabs, doors etc are trickier..

S.70330 Cab Glass Massey Ferguson CB12-97

Tell me about spruce! Gone in a flicker; much prefer larch, western red cedar and mac. Got some dead standing douglas coming up - any good?

 

 

 

I cant see that lasting too long in the firebox either!

If it is fresh felled its about a tonne to a solid cube so a solid cube will produce 1.4 to 1.6 cube so you will end up with 14 to 16 cube of loose logs.

I agree with this. Oak is one of the less profitable woods in this regard compared to Ash etc.

Leylandii is shite, alright to fire up the stove with but that's about it. You'll get up every hour to load the stove whereas I'll get up every two hours with a decent bit of Ash or similar.

I'm burning Spruce at the moment and find the same, keeping the stove loaded is a constant job, otherwise you will end up relighting it.

You certainly wouldnt need a laptop for a 590 or 290 anyway! Or most tractors from the 90's either in fact.

I suppose it has to be looked at from the customers point of view too. Its all very well saying that it should be £100 per cube to make a decent profit, (and I am sure this is true) but how many on here would actually be comfortable paying maybe £350 for an 8x5x3 trailer with a slight heap tipped in their driveway?

It takes a LOT of cord to fill the above trailer, but its not a massive load when tipped, and when stacked neatly in a shed, it doesnt take up much real estate!

You have to offer value for money, but doing this AND making a decent living for yourself is where it gets difficult.

I went with the pipe option, works well.

There is no tractor that wont give out fumes, and I wouldnt fancy inhaling them for too long..

http://www.mlarge.com/images/upl_files/000325.pdf

Page 23 as Steve says.

There is no no doubt that there is a few quid to be made if the raw material is 'free' and you have 'free' labour.

Its when you have to pay £50/ton for a year or two before you can actually sell it for firewood, and either work alone or pay wages to help process it, that things get very tight.

Not trying to be negative or anything, just my opinion, from my own experience in recent times!

I botched one together with scaffolding and a few rollers, as already said, makes things a LOT easier and faster and also takes most of the lifting out of the job.

Rollers are well worth it, they make pulling the log onto the processor effortless. I picked up a few from the local scrapman.

alot of medium sized processors can be driven with an 8hp honda. The reason for needing a 40hp is the stability when transporting. Or has the 30hp gone somewhere else.

I'm not sure, but 50hp would drive a serious size of a hydraulic pump I would have thought. Lifting these machines is a different story altogether though, and a 135 sized tractor will probably fail to lift a heavier processor.

Quite a few here. me included use older tractors to run processors. My MF135 would need plumbing for a spool valve me thinks although it has a loader on it.

 

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The hydraulics in most smaller older tractors would simpy be too slow though, the splitter being the biggest problem. I think the independent pump is a vital necessity in a processor really.

Also, when you say 'optional hyrdaulic pump and tank', does this mean the standard model is worked off the tractor hydraulics?

When you think about it, there is a hell of a lot of work and time involved in turning a standing tree into firewood.

Cut tree, sned branches, get it to roadside, transport it to firewood merchants yard, process it, store it for maybe 18 months, deliver it to customer.

If ALL expenses are taken into account, and everyone along the way gets a fair wage, firewood needs to be dearer than it is, maybe so dear that it becomes a luxury rather than a viable fuel, when compared to other fuels.