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its still on my trailer and truck atm Dan. I will get some across today sometime. Are you on FB? Couple of photos on my BCM Farm Services group when we had the demo a few weeks back.
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I took the plunge and bought the 400 Joy, picked it up yesterday and going to have to working straight away today. Looking forward to getting use to the machine.
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So whats the price of kindling going to be this year
farmer_ben replied to East Anglian landscaping's topic in Firewood forum
Thanks Tony, where about is Audley End? Quite often hear it spoke about but dont know where it is! -
So whats the price of kindling going to be this year
farmer_ben replied to East Anglian landscaping's topic in Firewood forum
Looking forward to Hullsmill joining in the debate.... -
I echo your reply, and believe my mixed loads are just about right imo. But just wondering if anyone else sells just Ash logs for extra £££
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A chap up the road from me charges extra for a load of just Ash firewood. Got me thinking, my loads are around 70% Ash and rest sycamore, maple, oak, elm. I wonder if there is a lot more to gain from seperating the Ash more and selling 100% loads, at say, 20% more. After all, 100% Ash cord would cost more then a mixed load (i think anyway).
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No worries, this is what I will be doing I think. Will have some long hydrolic hoses made up as well so I can tip the trailer slightly using the tractor powering the processor!
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The chap who was demo'oing the Tajfun said how important a deck is to output. His best suggestion was an old MF 3t tipping trailer. Load with lengths of timber. back it up to the log loader and roll lengths straight off, great idea I thought...watch this space!
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The Tajfun's loader looked very well thought out. Plugs straight into processor, so doesnt require tractor hydrolics. It folds up and attaches to back of processor for transport. And most importantly worked well.
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i had a demo of a Tajfun 400 joy this week, we set it up and filled my 1.2cube truck and 1.8 cube trailer in under an hour. that inculded all sorts of timber, bent, straight, 4" and up to 16" (max) and also included old matey boy selling it showing me and dad how it works and controls. very impressive output. so impressive I put my order in the next day. once I have timber sorted into sizes and different piles I reckon I should be doing 4 or 5 cube an hour with use of the log lift I have also ordered.
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Yeah was very neat and tidy, loved the way the log loading rack could be hooked onto the back of the machine for transport!
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Demo went very well indeed, only had one length of timber that was too big for it. Splitter had unbelievable force imo and split very big bits of ash 8 ways no problem at all. Log lift was good, takes a lot of the hard work out of the job and swinging conveyor is a must in my eyes. Overal very impressed, would take a few days of use to get to grips with the machine properly but yeah good machine.
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I have arranged a demo of the 400 machine this week, looking forward to having a go with the machine. Will report back if anyone is interested.
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TOny i will definately have some. just pm'd you.
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Good reply that Ben, interesting set up you have. Do you have any photos? I have front links and PTO, I was thinking of running the processor on the back and hydrolic splitter on the front for bigger stuff, but you have me thinking about a crane now!
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Eddie, thanks for that. I appreciate you may not have many photos but any you have i would be interested in seeing. The is a fair lump of timber in there! The only query i see at this point is the conveyor doesnt swing across to fill multiple bags.
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Thats not far from me Simon, do you think your friend would let me come have a look? Like I said, they are getting some good reviews, seem very well built and capable of handling decent size timber.
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Eddie thanks for your reply. Yes Kilworth got straight back to me when I enquired and I am hoping to arrange a demo., Have been lots of positive comments on here about them and they aren't much more expensive the HP or Japa I was looking at. Not sure if I would go for electric joystick option or the manual, less to go wrong with the manual?
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Any opinions on these chaps? They look the nuts imo, and hoping to get a demo lined up.
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I weighed 10 well seasoned 0.6cube bags of Ash and Elm, they averaged out at 260kgs each. I am buying the wood off the land owner at £40t and I said before weighing the bags there is around a tenners worth of wood in them bags, not a bad guess!
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show me yours and I will show you mine
farmer_ben replied to borderfirewood's topic in Firewood forum
how do you get on with them types of bags with home made holes? Obviously presume they work well or you wpouldnt use them! -
I think the rent is the killer, if I look at the good firewood guys around me (and I like to think I'm included) they all have yards that are part of somethng else...farm yards, arb guys with a yard etc etc. I dont know anyone who soley rents a yard for firewood. Take the rent out of the equation and you CAN make a decent margin on firewood, just have to be clever, know your costs and set a price that enables a profit to be made.
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just the time of year isnt it? people finished the season and upgrading etc
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your truck looks similar (a rough guess) as my 1.8cube trailer and I charge £150 for that and that is going up this year. I'm £65 for a 0.6 cube bulk bag
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haha Dan!! I'm seriously considering selling 3 levels of firewood this year, premium ash etc, premium softwood and budget stuff (willow pop etc)
