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  1. gensetsteve
    Every time I have been to the shaftsbury auction in Wiltshire they have a couple of mb's like this one and they make 5 1/2 k . I can remember speaking to someone a few years ago reloading his not sold machine. It had gearbox selector problems and he would have taken 5k not to take it home apart from the gearbox it was supposed to be good and I think it was a 1300 . Probably the same tractor.
  2. gensetsteve
    Or buy a few cheap ones and swap the bits about.
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    Prices are always rock bottom until we have some frosts. Trouble is once people have bought their wood in september for £50 they wont want to spend £100 in December when its in short supply. As with everything its supply and demand we need to be harder when its in short supply and jack the price up. You cant get a flight for £30 with easy jet the day before? unfortunately if their is too many people doing logs we will be giving it away at cost again this year. Lets hope for a hard winter.
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    If you build one like woodworms by the end of the week the extra efficency will pay for one like mikes. I have heard it said a processor with out a deck is half a machine. I would say more like a tenth of a machine. When we bodged one up we did twice the logs with a fraction of the effort and no aches or pains.
  5. gensetsteve
    I think the size of the tractor is more to do with moving the machine safely without tipping up or over. Alot of smaller processors seem to run with a 13hp petrol engine. If your tractors a bit big get an adaptor from sparex ( about £30 ) and run off the 1000 pto with the engine running at just over tick over. I have a hakki running off a 80hp tractor but uses very little fuel.
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    I would say customers dont care how it comes as long as its fully seasoned quality timber. We did ask what customers would like before we committed to the tipper. But some even said there is no way they wanted a builders bag of logs dumped on their drive or left in their way in the garage. With the supermarkets cutting down on packaging it just flys in the face of public opinion. Most people stack their logs in a corner out the way as soon as they arrive. If they want the bags it would suit me down to the ground as we may be selling most of the kit soon anyway.
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    [quote=Alycidon;743191People these days do NOT want a pile of logs tipped on their drive. I find log customers have a totally different outlook in December when logs are running out everywhere else and there is a foot of snow on the ground. In October/ November go on holiday and save your self the stress and head ache. Your reliable early customers have already been and gone in the spring / summer.
  8. gensetsteve
    I often have 4 or 5 cubic metres of saw dust a week but just put it in the incinerator. Shame but anything else I have tried just costs me in time or plastic bags.
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    I would think so, in my mind birch is getting a bit close to softwood in burning traits ( cant spell characteristics ) so bone dry will give good heat for not very long.
  10. gensetsteve
    By the time they ship their birch over hear you could by it cheaper from anyone on here and you would get a better log being a mix of beech and ash etc. Hence a bit of a pointless excercise especially if diago swizavitch does a bunk with your 6k.
  11. gensetsteve
    That looks a good bit of kit . like a chipper but makes something useable rather than waste.
  12. gensetsteve
    Our supply of long lengths of reject planned pine construction timber is not keeping up with our demand. Ideally I need seasoned timber with a square edge. I have thought about small cordwood but would need a machine to strip some of the bark and put a flat edge on it. I have a machine which grabs 6 pieces of planned timber at once and cuts it to 6" automatically. Our kindlet will handle round timber but is best with planned. The bags are dry and ready to go have no bark in and dont go mouldy. I have thought of used scaffold boards but some are treated . I have tried slab wood from a fence manufacturer but it has a high bark content and often alot of sticky sap. I would appreciate any other ideas. Off cuts shorter than 2ft are not cost effective to process.
  13. gensetsteve
    If the bags are too full I bring the handles together with a 2ft piece of rope. a strap across each pair they look the business even then they can have a life of their own.
  14. gensetsteve
    More money in selling stoves and wood processors
  15. gensetsteve
    I have to agree with most of the above posts. Having worked the figures out I came to the conclusion that 40 tonnes of free wood with an axe and chainsaw is worth doing for beer money. 1000 tonnes done with proper kit is worth doing if every other farm in the area does not have the same kit paid for with 1/4 million grants. People doing 300 tonnes a year are lucky to break even and are stuck in a sort of no mans land, the more time you spend on logs the less time you have to earn a proper living.
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    We have a hakki pilki processor but at least half the cord we buy wont go through it. We have a 10 tonne vertical splitter. with one on the chainsaw and the other on the splitter we process 1 cu metre an hour inc lunch break. With the right cord the processor does 4 cu an hour average. So to get 150 cu metres ready is a few saturdays. I would not spend 3k on a processor unless I was going to do 150 tonnes in the next few weeks. If I were you I would deliver and get a Polish lad.
  17. gensetsteve
    If any of your commercial vehicles or vans are older than 2003 it may cost £100 a day per vehicle need to check on line as others have said.
  18. gensetsteve
    I did a trip round the north coast and stayed overnight at Ullapool fantastic little place. I think in November I would go with steves idea. You need to do Scotland in the summer before the midges arrive.
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    He is not that honest as he has forgotten to mention the rest of the problems. Like doors dont fit, heater does not work, cant get the gears when cold, massive slack in the transmission, whineing transfer box, wandering steering, wallowing suspension,
  20. gensetsteve
    I would drive the hundred miles and check it top to bottom and make an offer. If it continues on ebay bid then and dont part with cash until you are stood next to it with keys in hand.
  21. gensetsteve
    I would say its ok. By asking for £200 you know if someone is a time waster within 24 hrs you can relist. I would ring him up and go and see it. Must have 2k in new rubber on it. If you ring him and you cant see it it does not excist.
  22. gensetsteve
    Sorry it just came out
  23. gensetsteve
    When you no longer fall out the tree has to be good mile stone.
  24. gensetsteve
    I collect ofcuts of timber for our kindling machine. I use a piece of rope to tie the handles together in the middle then strap down.
  25. gensetsteve
    Looking at the pics it looks bigger than its 16hp .9 litre engine lets on. I was thinking it would be more ride on lawn mower. Does look more 5k

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