timberbear
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Put about sixty ton on the deck over the last few days. It's all lovely ash, sycamore, hornbeam and beech. It's all got to stay for it's bio-diversity value ie it's bug food! I think by the end of the week the only creatures consuming it will be those pesky timber vultures!
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I regularly use a top handled saw on the ground. Hedge laying for instance, back cut push em over down they go. Much easier on your back and arms. My recent post on the grave yard job I did, a lot safer in my opinion using the top handle close to headstones. More control than using my normal saws. I think it's more about the competence of the user. My first top handle was the 009t or something like that. Perhaps there should be an additional bolt on to CS31 for those who prefer a top handle on the ground. The last thing we need is another NPTC certificate. After 20yrs of using saws I just couldn't face another course. When I was in collage, albeit a long time ago, we used top handle saws for felling conifers as part of our course!
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So are you dropping your fire wood prices?
timberbear replied to timberbear's topic in Firewood forum
I have absolutely no intention in dropping my prices, it's just the question I was asked, my sales have been slow but constant with new customers coming in. Any timber left over I'll be bagging up to make room for what's needed to be processed in preparation for next year. My other option is to increase my storage capacity. It's a fair point on the price of cord, I had an email today and the price delivered in is the same price as the year before and about four quid a ton cheaper than last year. -
This is the question I was asked last night in the pub. It was simply put " Are you reducing the price of your firewood buy 5% now that the price of gas has dropped". I simply replied no, none of my equipment is gas powered, my haulier doesn't run his 26ton lorry on gas and the nearest gas main to us is five miles away! And as the landlord grinned at me, I asked him when the price of grain falls do we get cheaper beer! There might be a reason to keep an eye on the price of gas, if the price drops dramatically our customers might revert back to gas. I'm lucky 99% of my customers are on oil!
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I've got a couple of geese loose in the yard and I've got there drinking water near the field gate, anyone jumps over and they make one hell of a racket, which in turn winds the chickens up which then starts the dogs off! One dark evening it was all kicking of so fearing the worse I discharged three cartridges into the night sky, no signs of any sly foxes around the next day! It's always good to offer your local bobby a cheap load of logs cause they always call in to see how things are. Try joining your local farm watch group.
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forest,park and gardens [llantrisant,south wales]
timberbear replied to Martyn Amos's topic in General chat
No not yet, there still in the process of getting things finalised. -
Tonight I burning some lovely ash and my two dogs! Sometimes I have to physically drag them away from the fire!
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I think it's a case of when the beer money boys stop knicking the timber! I signed for 20c3 a few weeks ago, when I got there the stack was bare! It was nice WRC, I was compensated with a load of hornbeam.Two weeks later there was an add in countrywide stores offering softwood loads sourced from the local woodland!
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I take your views on board, I'm only hauling about three miles to the yard so my costs are low but Market forces keep my prices down in my area with firewood merchants charging between £45 and £55 a cube for softwood, hardwood on the other hand, well people faint when you tell them the price. I think the era for cheap softwood will be over soon with the amount of new producers wanting to buy the raw material.
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Very wet and windy in Cardiff. 60mm of rain but wind only 60mph. Plenty of timber down.
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My mum said you should never be disrespectful to a begger or tramp incase it's Jesus who's come back down from heaven! When and if I get to heaven I'll tell him I've been fleeced for about forty quid over the last few years. Only last week I gave some poor down trodden chap four quid to get a train ticket, fair do's he bought a ticket for £1.90 and stuffed the change in his pocket! "Spare me a quid towards my new land rover, gov'ner"
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Good woodland boots, it's like having a pair of tanks on your feet, great for kicking wedges in to.
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£80 is an awful lot for softwood, and £40 is what I was charging two years ago. There might be plenty of softwood around, over 10,000 acres within five miles of me but the cost is increasing and in one of our local woodland there's 4000 ton being felled for bio mass! If we can get softwood cheap we can sell it cheap and keep some people out of fuel poverty, if we got to pay through the nose for it then it will be a cold winter for those who can't afford it.
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How's about little icons you can touch (iPad users) or click on to go straight to your preferred forum rather than clicking and scrolling. Not a supporter of the members location if a TGB joins and then raids our sites!
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I'm certainly not the cheapest in my area but certainly the best looking! I spend time with my customers, help them stack and even spare the time to join them for a cup of tea. There always after advice especially when it comes to trees and there gardens. Before you know it, they've paid your asking price and accepted your quote to remove there tree. Rather than squeeze as many deliveries as I can in a day I add a ghost delivery which allows me time to talk and chat. Even after putting my prices up this year I havnt lost a customer. Be nice, be courtious and say I'll be back.
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Tipping down,too wet even to get the tractor out, but all this rain has given me a new use for all my cordwood, I'm going to get a kudus mill and build an "ark", get myself some lynx, and the rest will be history.
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I've just had a Turkey oven bake, all the left over turkey, sausages and all the mini bacon rolls mixed with White sauce herbs garlic etc served with baked potatoes, bread crumbs ontop and baked in the oven for twenty mins. My bagging device made it for me!
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Need standing and windblown timber
timberbear replied to treedweller's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I think the wood shortage may even cause the "third wood war". -
Once processed and dried makes a very good firewood, I get mixed loads Inc Sitka and larch once processed into a big pile and left to dry for six months it's ready to go.
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Eighteen inch chunks of three year old ash, it's so hot I'm now in the other room!
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Mine might be simple and getting on a bit but it can do up 100 bags in a day! (oh and it can cook too)!
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I'm a convert, bought the three different pitch sizes. They are great to use out on site especially when using a log vice. Haven't found a supplier for the centre flat file yet.
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Well it's currently patented! My father in law is a mathematician! So hear goes LENGHT X RADIUS X RADIUS X PIE RADIUS = 1/2 the diameter. So to work out a cubic meter you.....sod it I'll send the measurement. I've got the measurement of the length of stock fence written down in the shed, I'll post it tomorrow evening. All you need to do is cut the correct length cut and join with cable ties or just wire together then using fencing staples just nail it to the pallet in four or five places. In fairness I've seen firewoodman using it but had seen it previously stuffed with brash and straw to create nesting habitat for birds.
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If you have room get a load of pallets and a roll of stock proof fence and make some crates. If you measure it correctly you can make a cylinder that's exactly a cubic meter!
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I've got five acre which we manage for wildlife, grow sacrificial crops etc. Got barn owl boxes up etc. Have a look at my websites Welcome - Leechpool Wildlife Leechpool Wildlife
