davetaz
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None of my customers seem to care about what species of firewood they get (so long as it's hardwood!), I don't think they would be bothered about which timber produces most heat, so long as "it does what it says on the tin" and they come back for more. The firewood buying public need to become a lot more educated about other aspects of firewood before they need to worry about specific calorific values. Sell well seasoned wood (hard or soft) by volume, bacause that's what they want
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Dumpy bags come in all shapes and sizes. My local buliders merchant sells a tonne of sand in a bag measuring 0.8 m each way, hence volume is 0.512 cubic metres. Some bags are exactly 1m each way and so volume is 1 cubic metre. It can be difficult for some people to accept that a bag just 20cm larger each way can have a volume of almost twice as much! The fabric used can stretch a little and so you get a bulged look to a full bag If your are quoting the volume of the bags you use then measure them empty and say that is your min volume - the important thing is not to over estimate volumes. Just clearly( and as accurately as you can) describe your goods eg:- 1 dumpy bag loose logs, min volume 0.5 cubic metres £50
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May be the public aren't so keen on soft wood as it is generally sold as a cheaper product - in their eyes that means poorer quality. I might try putting some out there for a higher price and see what happens! Most properly seasoned softwood burns absolutely fine in a stove, providing the stove works properly as well. Hardwoods do tend to produce a bit more heat over a slightly longer period but I don't think the differences are that significant £100/cube for hardwood or £80/cube for softwood, if I was buying it for myself I know what I'd be buying
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We have been burning pine on our Rayburn 345W, gets hotter quicker than any hardwood and stays hot for long enough to do our cooking and hot water every day (3 hours burning). So we sell hardwoods at a price that makes it worth doing it and use the softwoods for ourselves
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All wood when seasoned properly makes good firewood http://www.calu.bangor.ac.uk/Technical%20leaflets/050107%20Drying%20firewood.pdf Is lime any "worse" than the softwoods that previous threads have discussed as being quite good?
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try this site for local chacoal producers Local Charcoal homepage
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These may be useful advertising sites if you haven't already come across them Environmentally Friendly Free Classified Ads WoodNet
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check these out, glasses with built in vid cam Immortal Video Eye Gear... Prove it!
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or that moment you leave them some where and some one swipes them...
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Processor grade hard wood timber is likely to be more difficult to get hold of in the future, and possibly more expensive
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not sure about their safety credentials but check these out Immortal Video Eye Gear... Prove it!
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I rent a part of a yard on a local farm. The farmer has sold most of his land and rents out all his shed/barns etc. He was delighted when I turned up as not many people want to rent a bit of "waste land". The best thing is we have become good friends and I do some work for him and supply him with logs in return for rent (well for the first two years any way which has saved me £1k/year)
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I don't have a real problem with the price of these logs, you should be able to sell them for what ever you think is appropriate, if some people are prepared to pay that much for them that is there informed choice. What I don't agree with is some of the content of the website (assuming it belongs to the same person!). I feel there is quite a lot of misleading information on there - in the same way that "Many suppliers are only too happy to supply sub-standard and poorly seasoned wood" I like the idea of "our hardwood is sourced only from renewable coppice" but don't understand how this ties in with " we also split larger logs from rings (from trunks that are too large to process cut)", unless the coppice is about 40 years old! I shall leave it there
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I use only barrow bags but haven't used any other mechanism for deliveries. All seem happy with it so far How many people have tried different methods, I would guess it depends on what vehicle you have and what works for you rather than the customer?
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just looked at Firewood Sales, have no idea who owns it but I'm not impressed read through it and see for yourselves but there are several comments about arborist waste that I find rather offensive
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Depends on size of stove or boiler I did some splitting of some 4' rings of Ekki for a customer this winter ... he wanted them min 12" long and 8" across to feed his large wood stove
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0olnyzmsmc&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - SSC4WD the world biggest Firewood Processor[/ame]
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Any one tried charcoal bags, 2 ply paper?
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My husky 240R is about 15 years old and still going strong, capable of cutting through any 40/50mm woody vegetation
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there is a few threads on this site RE woodland insurance (SWOG Forum) , may take a bit of searching though, not sure if RAP is best way forward, my woodland cover is through NFU as is my business cover. PL as a landowner isn't a legal requirement, weigh up the odds to see if its worth having. Anyone putting in a claim against you has to prove negligence any way
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Don't alders bear cones?
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My night-time pins'n'needles has been diagnosed as mild osteo-arthritis in lower neck vertebrae, not CTS as first thought. The diagnosis came after xrays of the spine showed mild "wear and tear" causing pressure on the nerve that goes down to the hand (but only when lying down!). No real pain as such but have been told it is likely to get worse over time. I visit a chiropractor every few months to be "worked on" and this seems to help
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look here at thor splitters Logsplitters - UK & Ireland distributors, Thor, Atika, Italy I have one that splits 1m billets easily
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£100 per cube delivered up to 10 miles whether its one type of wood or mixed hardwood, all costs the same to buy and then process
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I sold over 35T of poplar this winter, and they all came back for more (£100/cube!!)
