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I think I would be looking last of the hd100 Landcruiser Amazons. The new one is too expensive and electronic. I have heard of a few reliability problems as well. The other thing to do is try both Ford and D max and see which you like best. Both are under warranty for your ownership. Does the Amarok tow 3500kg ?

Kindlet well made no plastic. No real experience of the posch but what I saw I would not have the control or access to make neat bags. The posch looked ok if you make random filled bags if you get a knot the only way to clear it seemed to be keep going but they may have changed the design now.

Its time for a lorry. Even a 7.5 tonne with the right body should carry 3500 kg. Pick ups are ok for occasional 2500kg towing but 3500kg regular use I think you will kill clutches and gearboxes. I would have more confidence in a 57 plate Amazon than a new pick up of any make.

Done right it can pay if not it's the same money as logs but twice the work.we gave up logs due to access problems and crazy competition. If u concentrate on less things u will make more money but be less diverse.

Never tried it but I would think 3 ? would be easy to try cut, to bits with jigsaw hand axe load bags

I prefer our TT105 with smaller wheels compared to the smaller trailer tt85 with bigger wheels. The tt85 is great for narrow drives though.

When we sold logs, If questioned by an awkward customer I always offered them If you find more expensive logs let me know and I will beat it.

Axminster had one on clearance. When I collected it from the north london branch they asked me what it was and what it did. When I looked around you could get something similar for about 5k. We fitted a pneumatic guide and conveyor. I have seen a machine that recovers the wood from pallets it has loads of circular saw discs. When I looked into it half the pallet was turned into waste so you needed lots of pallets and would be left with as much waste as kindling. The kindlet will take the odd nail but loads of them will soon blunt the blade pallets also get stones embedded in them and it can be difficult to work out if they are treated.

Ouch ouch ouch hope that has healed well since November. For prep work we started with the biggest dewalt cross cut we could find. But after a few hours it drove me mad and worried me about the attention span after an hour or so. I quickly moved on and spent nearly the same amount of money as the kindlet on a cross cut saw. An upcut machine with guards and semi automatic with blade hidden in box. Long lengths of timber are ideal but short random joinery offcuts are as much work as it is to kindle. Making bags of kindling is twice the effort of logs so the material needs to be near on free to make it pay.

Nothing is as good for kindling as joinery off cuts. Its kiln dried, white, no bark and planed on two sides when kindled. You can make a nice bag of kindling out of round wood but your enermy will be knots and mould. Any species of wood makes good kindling but a nice looking bag flies off the shelf and grabs the sale. The average small village garage we supply sells at least 1000 bags a year. Using round wood the material varies sometimes you get a batch of wood that is stringy and just wont cut clean. If you kindle green timber you will have to lay the bags out for a few weeks.

They will do it but if they are all nice 6" rounds they tend to rock backwards and forwards. The kindling never looks as neat. I work on 80-100 bags to a green tonne of wood 200 bags if the timber is below 14% moisture. 1 cubic metre = 80-100 bags

Or buy their printed bags then wait months to get paid.

Even with a light touch I think they munch chains but good half way through a chain to even the teeth and get the angles back especially with my hand sharpening

I noticed last winter Asda, poundland and homebase were all £1 - £1.60 per kg

Its only where I would start if you get more, good on you if you get less and can afford to do it its all good. Better to be cheaper and eat than expensive and starve round south London if they can afford 100k for a Range rover they can afford £6 for a small bag of kindling.

If I put 9kg of bone dry pine kindling in a decent net I would charge £3.95 wholesale and expect it to sell for about £9 retail. But it depends on area and competition.

I bought one of these about 3 years ago and bought an extra one just to get a spare disc ( lazy git ) been fine and does a good job. You have to be aware the clamp is mostly plastic which can give you a bit of artistic licence which can be a good or bad thing. I have used the edge of a diamond disc to true up the grinding disc a few times but not fitted a new disc yet.

I thought I would put a few of my experiences on as we have been making wholesale kindling since 2009. I hope it does not come across as trying to put people off because we make it for fun and as small wage for my wife it helps not to have all our eggs in one basket so to speak. Other people may have different faster better set up methods and get more out but we dont kill our selves but also dont hang around. We supply a nice well filled neat monofilament bag 40x50 mostly new joinery off cuts. The cost of the material, the transport, the bag and the electric leaves us with about 40p per bag for the labour. With decent timber you can get 50 neat bags an hour out of the kindlet with two people add in the time to cut the timber to 6" I work on we get 25 bags an hour. 25x40p = £10.00 an hour luckily we own the building. I have tried most species and found the best to be pine joinery off cuts. I think poplar makes good kindling and we have bought a woodmizer to plank and then cross cut large butts. However a few of our large customers have expressed a preference not to have pop. The main reason is it can be a bit stringy in the bag and when dry the bag feels light. Unless its bone dry when kindled it will grow black mould on the ends. Our machine was no 200 and something and since then fuelwood have made another 500 machines. I have no idea if there is enough demand to keep everyone busy but there seems to be lots of people starting up in kindling this year. If you are looking to make 500 bags to sell yourself I would look carefully at the maths. if you make them with your own machine you will work 20 hours to save £200 and spent 15k to do it. If you make 10,000 bags you will make £4000 for 400 hrs work.

I use a cheap version of wd 40 give the files a blast seems to help remove swarf

I go round a 4ft bar once or get 2 or 3 18" bars out of a file. You could push them further but how much hourly rate verses £1 file

I had free banking with barclays years ago as long as we had 7k in the acct. Then they changed it. Then they lost 40k of cheques and took 6 weeks to own up and sort it. Then 18 months later they did exactly the same again. They also demanded a six month torture/interigation/interview to see if they could sell you ppi or similar. Been with santander about 10 years no charges no mistakes

Thanks for the post daniel I seem to remember you had a big trailer load with mesh sides ? We have more than enough material to last the winter just got to keep up with demand now. Let us know if you need more.

I have an unlined chimney in a bungalow. I get at least 5 litres of soot every year. Beech logs dried for 3 years. Wet or dry do I care ? No life is too short its only bricks.

50x40 neat filled new joinery off cuts of pine in monofilament bags. £1.80 + vat collected. Pallet freight can be arranged but it comes in at around £60 on top for a pallet of 90 bags. We have sold all the stock we made over the summer and now making it to order first come first serve.

everytime you make a cut you loose 8mm of log and create waste to clear up I used to hate doing granny logs.