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Thats a real shame surely you have nothing to hide it's just a stack of cord and ready split logs I was hopeing to see some of the bigger suppliers like yourself put some pictures up. Thanks Phil

I'm purely enquiring as to see a few pictures of stock piles:confused1:I will try to add pictures of my mere stack of cord and pile of split logs. Thanks Phil

Lets have a look at some of these stacks of Cordwood and log piles and maybe some pictures of "Arb arisings" ready to be processed. Be interesting to see the August picture then maybe a February picture from same angle. Maybe some pictures of next seasons stock aswell?? Some of the log merchants on here must be carrying huge amounts/piles/stacks now ready for the rush in winter.

That is brilliant. In the last couple of years i;ve personally seen a good few guys have their highly paid lifestyle fall away from them:lol: Me: i'm on the bottom rung of the ladder and i'm pretty happy there:biggrin:

Roughly speaking whats the average consumption of cord that you guys use per annum? And do you buy in cord or use arb leftovers? Thanks Phil

If the timber is relatively green the branch logging machine copes alot better than with dry timber. The largest stuff i put through mines is about 1"x1" which is small i know but i can feed that in like a chipper(not just 1 piece at a time) Thanks Phil

Rustic kindling...... it's the way forward

How do you know what the kindling's like:confused1:When it's selling at £10 a net that's lovely kindling as far as i'm concerned:thumbup: I bought mine for £4000 inc vat. Thanks Phil

Thats the Badger:thumbup: Theres nobody else in this area that supplies kindling in large nets, long may that last:sneaky2:

WOOD:lol: Sorry couldn't resist! I'm using off-cuts from local saw mill mostly

I normally carry around 30-40 tonne of split logs and try to keep 75-125 tonne of cord in stock:blushing: realise what a small setup I must have compared to lads like you. Oh and running the Briquette machine and the SM70 branch logger for my kindling(that machine is awsome a 20kg net of kindling in 5 minutes and the're going out at a tenner). Thanks Phil

Crikey working till 8.30pm!! Is that monday through to friday? you must be mega busy on the logs.How much stock of cord/split logs do you hold roughly? Thanks Phil

Cant get the briquettes wet so thats a non starter:001_rolleyes:It might be worth a few of our local suppliers of logs mixing em in though as their timber's normally that wet the briquettes might soak up a bit and make the logs drier:lol:

Most stove suppliers dont know much about wood let alone waste valuable front of customer time talking about it. And you do what for a living:lol: Soots and tar are directly based on how hot the stove burns, the hotter the cleaner. A stove running all winter flat out on DRY (13-16%) wood be it hard or soft will yield very little soot and no tar. I have an 8kw Morso Panther in my showroom, the only form of heating, it runs from 9am till about 5pm 5 days a week and for a few hours on a sixth day. Last swept it yielded under a kilo of soot from a 10m flue burning from Sept to April. A What happened to the oxygen thing:confused1:sooting/tarring up your chimney it's now all about heat I found brickets to be expensive when compared to logs, yes they yield more heat, very clean burning yes but customers look at teh pennies. I have sold 2 packs of 5 in a year. And you will be asking roughly what for a cube of hardwood logs this winter?? Will that be cheap compared to briquettes? I'm looking at supplying most local farm shops with briquettes that should keep the machine ticking over while logs will be my main source of income if I dont supply briquettes someone else will.

I just love it:lol: Next question has got to be "softwood cord wanted":lol: Thanks Phil

And that pretty much says it all:thumbup:

Because people have nearly always burnt h/wood in this country. Thats why you have been taught the said tar problem by stove suppliers:sneaky2: The cost of having your chimney swept more often will outway the hardwood price and you shoudn't get too much of a tar build up of DRY s/wood keep the vents closed down:001_rolleyes: I wonder if my briquettes will sell very well this year along with softwood logs and hardwood logs:thumbup: Oh and the processor is doing nearly all my softwood so she'll be kept busy.

Many of you guys started softwood logs aswell/instead of hardwood this year. Thanks Phil

demand for hardwood logs will drop off thats for sure:thumbup: Find out whats burnt Sweden, Norway etc and they really know there timber most wood there is seasoned for 2-3 years then burnt very slowly(eg close the air vents on your burner). A friend of mine has just sold 100+ cube of beech and oak @ £67.50 roadside and sold it with 1 phone call. Hardwood is going to cost more than gas/electric soon:blushing:

I bet within a week we will now have requests for softwood cord:lol:

Once general public start to see this years hardwood log prices more and more of them will start to go over onto seasoned softwood logs(i've started doing softwood logs for the first time this year:001_cool:) of which most processors were built for:confused1: Thanks Phil

Hi Jon i've heard something along the lines of 1000m3:lol: being felled just outside Frome:thumbup1: just cant remember the guys number at the moment mate:confused1:

I get people "FISHING" for prices all the time Jom mate???? thats called human nature mate. Are you still after cordwood by any chance:lol:mate:lol:.

I'm struggling to get the moisture content low enough in my sawdust for my Briquette machine anyone got any good ways other than the £5000 blower/dryers. Thanks Phil at the moment in wet Worcestershire:thumbup:

Crikey mate theres a few jumping on this "MATE" bandwagon!!