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I was being optomistic at £1000 profit
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The other problem with seasoning for a year or two is the cost of rent and rates if you stuck 4000 ibc containers in a field you would get a fair size rate bill for industrial use. So kiln drying is quicker and probably cheaper. If you had a nice dry building would you store 5k of wood in it or rent it to a small business £400 a month bearing in mind 5 k of wood will have about £1000 profit in it.
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No but even pen pushers are able to work when times are hard. I would offer £80 a day and show them how to work the processor. A few people I have employed over the last 20 years have given me business advice during tea breaks. I am sure this would work the same for you if you felt the advice they gave was worth it you could give them a £400 bonus but at least you would have some logs cut.
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6 out of ten now. If it gets short supply again in dec 10 of 10 even with the 15% surcharge.
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If you pick up one piece of wood and get 4 6 inch offcuts it makes the job efficient. If you pick up one piece of wood and trim the end its very slow.
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The stuff on the right will sell on ebay for £15 in a builders bag its to small to efficiently turn into kindling. Because the stuff on the left is a bit longer you could get 3 or 4 pieces out and feed through kindlet. We are always scouting about for reject timber to turn into kindling but the stuff on the right will earn u a pound an hour so we leave it where it is. Another option is chip it for bio mass.
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I would agree with this. We have a sheppach ox 3 cost about 2k new now 5 years old still like new. I would not bother spending the time modifying and improving something that keeps bending and falling to bits.
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Mike I was in the local scrap yard today and they were half was through killing a brand new hydraulic pack. The motor and pump are still there but they have now cut the tank and filter up. I think the motor must have been at least 20-30kw would need a 80kva genset to get it away but would make a serious log splitter. £400 would have bought the lot and I thought it may suit u. If they get any more complete ones in would you be interested I would have thought the pack would have been 3-4k new.
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It was probably 3000 rpm and wont have the torque on start up different beast. That motor single phase will pull 12 amps and need in excess of 50 amps to start so you wont plug it in next to the iron. I dont get the ebay thing I have put items on with a reserve of £2000 they finish at £500 then I get some geek giving me abuse because I wont take £400 . I dont see ebay as the holy grail of plant and equipment valuations. If I put an expensive item on fee listing day and it does not sell I have lost nothing
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The machine in the video is what I have in the yard. They are about £3-4,000 The faults on ours were bearings worn in carriage that moves film up and down. Some of the programmes dont work. And bearings in deck. No idea if its true not tried it. Yours for £500 if you want it. Its 240 volt 1 ph have been meaning to plug it in for 6 months but its a long way down on my to do list.
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You put a pallet on with your 70 bags and the machine spins round and automatically wraps it for you. I bought a 2003 machine in good faith but the manufacturer says it has 2 faults which mean it sounds like it is only suitable for spinning your pallets. I feel very ill when I try to wrap pallets so this was a good tool. You need to find a supply of pallets and try wrapping and see how long it takes then work out how many logs you could have bagged in the same time. Remember the cost of the pallet the time to source or collect the cost of the stretch film and the time to load the lorry etc.
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Easy to split smells nice burns really quick ideal for kindling. Often used to clad buildings as it weathers well and turns a grey colour.
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Its too warm and too early. I have found the cheapest adverts are often the best. The local paper is £45 for a business card size ad and it was a waste of time. The local free mag £30 for the month but brought in at least 7 new customers ea time. We stopped advertising 3 years ago as we cant keep up when its cold so it seems daft to pay for adverts. We are slow at the moment but thats how I like in November.
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We have tried this but found the cost of pallet, film and labour comes to as nearly much as the kindling to make. Then you have to pay for the courier in the hope you get paid for the hole lot. I would be interested to hear how you got on. I have a rotating pallet machine which rotates but not much else if its any use.
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Nick if you can get that sort of efficency we would be a good customer next year. We are thinking of scaling down firewood so we can concentrate on our wholesale kindling. We have masses of log customers but due to old processor cant justify the time for the profit we make on logs. We could by logs from you and sell some kindling to take home. The only problem I can think of is its a bit tight for an arctic to get of the road but bulkers are often shorter than timber trailers. Once in we have storage for 160 metres in one shed alone.
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green beech flys through my processor and can use the four way split, same size dry and it will tend to shatter into trash so need to drop down to a two way split.
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I read somewhere that woodworm only migrate for a few weeks in the summer in the perfect enviroment. If you gave someone a woodworm problem it would be 2 years before it became apparent.
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It will burn really well and people who buy logs who really know their stuff wont be put of by the dark colour. Nice clean looking logs are often still green and wont burn or produce any heat.
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Same here I always check the tyre pressures and dip the oil at christmas After a slight mishap a few years ago I now check antifreeze in everthing in October.
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Things must be quite if you have time to count logs. When the snow hits we dont have time to count the loads let alone the logs. Things are slow here the recession and weather I dont think are helping.
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The test for flu is if you are laid in bed and the house catches fire if you run out you have a cold if you crawl on hands and knees you have flu. Prevention is better than cure . Healthy seasonal veg, sleep, and keep away from general public especially in offices. Keep away from shopping trolleys and door handles. If one of my kids gets a sniff I pop a zinc pill and possibly an ecinachure but no more than 2 a week. works for me
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Most pickups are good but I only have luck with the hilux. 2.4 na very slow 2.4td much better but heavy on fuel. d4d good engine but think you will struggle to find a mk5 for that sort of money.
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It could be loads of different things including all those above. I would look at fuel system as well sounds like fuel runs back to tank over night causing air lock. If you spin it over in morning and leave for 30 mins the pressure from cranking bleeds system then it starts. Check for blocked fuel filter and minute air leaks in pipe work faulty lift pump hand primer etc. Rusty fuel lines. fuel leaks.
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Mike I like that log deck. I would imagine with 42cm butts you need three motors. Some good ideas for our underworked trailer
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I had some 12" ash cord I cut it into 2ft lengths 2 years previous to last winter just in case I needed it for my house. When it came time to log it was 38% in the middle. Proves it needs splitting to open up the heart wood. The fastest wood I have experienced for seasoning is beech which depending on when its cut can take a couple of months to dry in the summer. Once the ambient temperature drops below 14 deg the seasoning really slows up.
