woodworm
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In forestry if you do a stack measure the air gaps are alot bigger than you think. All stack measures we do are worked out at total stack area less 40 to 60% for air gaps depending on how straight the timber is. You have said that you got 37 bags @1m3 of firewood from your 18 tonner load. We work on about 2m3 of firewood logs per tonne of timber so that would work out about right. therefore 18 tonne = approx 18 m3 timber = 37m3 firewood logs. I don't think you would get anywhere near 30m3(solid) of timber on that lorry. Maybe someone will be able to tell me if I am right or wrong but thats how I would work it out.
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Me and my mrs started firewood last year and put an advert in the wanted pages of forestry journal. A guy rang me from Kent with a Hakki Pilke 1X37 processor. I looked at it the next day (130 mile trip each way) and then went back the next week with my truck and trailer to collect it. It was (and still is) immaculate. He told me that it had done about 600 tonnes, although I think it had done closer to 60 tonne. It cost £4000 (no vat) and will split up to 37 cm diameter timber. To be honest the few bits that I get delivered in over 37cm are not enough to make me want an upright splitter. The processor deals with at least 95% of my wood and I just chainsaw the rest into discs and throw them in the splitting chamber. Simples.
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I think thats a fair price. If he told you the price before he came round you must have been happy with it, if he didn't you should have asked. If the chimneys had been packed with soot and had taken him 1 1/2 hours you would have been as happy as larry, the fact that it took him under an hour you are disappointed. Its his gain but you have lost nothing. I'm not trying to be funny about it, its just my thoughts. We pay 35 to have our chimney done and I think its good value even though he usually gets about a pyrex jugful of soot out each year.
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The kindlett will only do 10" rounds where as the others do 10". :confused1:
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I dont agree with that, but maybe i am wrong. maybe 30m3 of loose split firewood but not 30m3 of solid timber on an 18 tonne lorry load
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Lets be honest about this. The only reason people cry out for ash and will pay more for it is because of that firewood poem that everyone looks at. If they took their heads out of their backsides they would realise that there are many woods which burn very well just so long as they are seasoned and DRY!! If you can get old of ash in good quantities and are able to charge a premium for it then that great, take advantage of the situation, but in my area we have to pay extra for it but don't seem to get a premium for selling it so mix it in with other stuff like beech, birch and sycamore. That damn poem has alot to answer for but I have to wonder whats going to happen when the supply of ash and other hardwoods becomes limited, is everyone gonna sell there wood burners because theres no more ash, no they will have to start burning a bit of softwood mixed in and then they will wonder what all the fuss was all about in the past. Oh well, thats got that off my chest!!
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Dead elm and beech are the only types of wood to have ever made my woodburner glow red. Have never tried any softwood but might give it a go next winter
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I personnally would not plant or grow a single stem of biomass crops for any uk power station. Look at the Arbre project. I only know of one person who ever earned one single penny from that and thats coz he sold a 10000 tonne stockpile of woodchip to them and the power station paid for it and then closed before they had taken ANY of it. He then sold it again. Many farmers had planted willow coppice for Arbre and were totally left in the lurch. Arbre just proved that it was unviable to run a power station on biomass, UNLESS it is supplying the waste heat as another saleable product.
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John, do you use whole tree chip for pellets including all the needles and leaves or can you only use clean woodchip?
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Phone call I got this week went as follows: Me: Morning, how can I help. Customer: Hi, how much for a load of logs please? Me: 1.5 cube load is £105.00 or 3 cube for £200.00 all hardwood. Customer: Blimey, I normally get about 2 and a half tonne for 70 quid. Me: Well best you go back to your usual supplier then, cos I cant even buy it in for that price. How big is the trailer that its normally delivered in then. Customer:Oh its quite big, Its about 6ft by 4ft and about a foot deep. Me: Firstly, have you ever had a weight ticket with your delivery and secondly, my trailer is 8foot long by 5foot wide and is 43cm deep and it holds 1.5 cubic meters which is no-where near a tonne of dry firewood. Customer: Hmmm. Thats a big trailer. Me: Okay, well I'll let you go and do the maths and then you can order another small 2 and a half tonne load in that tiny trailer. Have a good day. Oh how I laugh sometimes:001_rolleyes:
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I am now charging £25 each for 1 or 2 bags, and £20 each for 3 or more. (for local delivery)
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straight stemmed beech for sale - 25mile derby
woodworm replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Firewood forum
Hi Logbaron, Thats gonna be a superb setup once you get your new crane on, very impressive. Would you sell ex yard if I got a lorry with weigher on to your place. If so how much per tonne? Cheers Woodworm -
What company is that then fella?
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I used to run a Bruks chipper and they said between 0.2 and 0.4mm between the knife and the dead knife (anvil)
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SPOT ON!!! With reference to an above thread, if you have any play in your bearings, don't even get it out of the shed - unless you want an early death:001_rolleyes:
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It makes the best firewood imo. Elm and beech only wood good enough to get my woodburner glowing red. I love it
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kindlet machine available 4 hire sunday 31st jan
woodworm replied to kindlett's topic in Firewood forum
where abouts are you fella? -
They only really want it to process some wood for themselves for the next two years. They are not dealers and I would think they will probably process less than 40 tonne. I know of someone who took a 14 tonne grain trailer full of hardwood to processor the other day and the processor charged him £180 to cut and split it!
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A trustworthy friend of mine wants to know if I would hire my 1x37 to him for a week. I would give him an instruction lesson and tell him he uses it at HIS OWN RISK. Do you think £300 for a week is about right or am I way off the mark. He supplies chain oil and tractor and operative to help him. I deliver machine, he returns it.
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I'm not asking for an exact location but where is it (ie North of London/South of London)?
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I took 2 piriton straight after the sting and have had 4 today and no effect. Haven't tried the cream though. Have just taken 2 ibuprofen to try to reduce the swelling. Who knows?
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Well come on then, we need the recipe
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Last night i put my glove on to open the woodburner and waslucky enough to find a wasp inside the glove. It stung me between my little finger and the finger beside it and my hand swelled up like a puffer fish. Spent 2 hrs in A & E at Kings Lynn from 3am this morning only to be sent home without them doing anything apart from telling me to have 2 days off work. (yeah righ:001_rolleyes:t) Its still swolen now and hasn't gone down at all. How do you guys deal with wasp stings and am I right to think that an epi-pen should from now on be in my first aid kit?
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£3.50 ish
