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My Japa is 2 years old now so could probably do with a blade sharpen sooner rather than later. It's still cutting fine though 200T down. Did you send the blade off to Fuel Wood or elsewhere?
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It is always best to be entirely open with people regarding costs and then they can make a meaningful comparison to say electricity and gas prices. I always issue full VAT invoices and have on the back a breakdown cost illustrator for weight, volume and energy delivery. The link for this data is at http://www.calu.bangor.ac.uk/Technical%20leaflets/050108woodfuelenergycontent.pdf. Then the customer knows how much it's costing him and at £100/m3 for seasoned ash it's around 10p/kWh which is favourable compared to other fuels.
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I was paying £60/T + VAT delivered last year for hardwood cord but being offered £55/T this year from the same supplier. Some good comes of a mild winter.
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I include the bag price in the delivered price but tell the customers if I don't get enough returned I'll be adding £5 to the price to cover the bag cost. I get about 50% find their way back.
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I heard from this crowd a year ago and asked some questions and never had any response to the questions I raised. They used to have a web site running but that appears to be down. That doesn't instil a great deal of confidence that it's an organisation going forward and here for the long haul.
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At £360 for 2 days you must be working long days to make it worthwile. It really does depend on the volumes you are looking to process as to whether it is advisable to buy over rent. Processors if looked after don't depreciate fast but you'll still be looking at £600 to £1000 a year in depreciation. So if you work out the costs per m3 you want to process, that'll tell you if you should buy or continue to rent.
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It's the braces that are a bit suspect. Stick to animals - it's much safer. So I use a beaver on my logo. Mind you, they have their own connotations.
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I got asked the same question by someone in my local except they were expecting much more than 5% off as it has been such I mild winter. My retort was that fortunately, my logs don't have a sell by date.
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Is that rounds or round cordwood or rounds or cordwood or rounds and cordwood? It may help if you mention what you are prepared to pay and what quantity so people know that the are less likely to be wasting their time when tendering.
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Just come accross an ebay ad for reconstituted (from sawdust and shavings) logs that are actually selling for £600/T delivered. I have loads of bags of sawdust that the bunnies have been getting - sod that they are on bare boards from now on. 60kg Stumpeys Heat Logs, Fuel for Wood Burning Stoves & Fireplaces Free Del | eBay
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That because sand can come wet so that should be the dry weight. Bit like logs for water content really; anyone selling by weight should knock 20 - 50% off. Best stick to volumes.
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I take it you weren't doing the hot coals walking to judge the perfect feel or were you referring to the barmaid? On open fires I'd go for more how the wood spits. In a stove you can stick a thermometer on the side so you can easily see that wet wood drops the temperature by a good 20C. As for my own offering, nothing over 20%. Hardwood cord cut one year, split next and sold the following year so it tends to range 12% to 18% on the meter.
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It looks like diggers have all kinds of uses which is good to read. I'll see how it is tackling the wood without a grab first as they seem to start at about £800. Tracked down a couple of companies that do replacement glazing as I'm sure there will be a few logs that end up knocking on the windows. I'll start playing this weekend after I've serviced it, oil looks like its been there a while and the water looks like its been filled up with pond water. All round though looks like a reasonable ebay purchase.
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I'm having a 3T digger delivered this week for digging footings and general jobs around the farm. At the moment for cord I run off a pile onto telehandleer forks. I was wondering if the digger may come in useful for pulling logs down off a pile and pushing them onto forks. Has anyone every tried this with a digger to good effect or otherwise?
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I do a leaflet drop once a year with my daughter in tow, during the August bank holiday weekend. That always kick starts things and usually brings in within 2 months around a 5% return. I get such a good return as I target rural areas and houses with blackened chimney pots. There's no point posting the 3rd floor of a block of flats after all. So, you could try a leaflet drop and pop into your local post office, newsagent, coal merchant and petrol stations as they would all be potential retail outlets for kindling. Also, if you only do kindling pally up with your local log suppliers.
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Looks a little strange to me how a 1000T+ per year business for hardwood firewood can operate from only 20T cord stock and softwood cord at that? I would expect you to have several hundred tons of hardwood cord stock or have you been splitting 1000Tand selling the very same season? That'd be a 1,800m3 log pile if you were storing to season. Mind bogling.
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£20/T is an absolute bargain, you should be able to arrange haulage at most £15/T. I and lots of others have been paying £60T for delivered cord this year. Reads to me like you are asking for seasoned wood, processor friendly at around £20/T delivered. I'm going to go read my Alice in Wonderland book again to bring me back to some sort of reality.
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This guy has it well sorted, V shaped car and for the smaller logs in between the legs.
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Log splitter for splitting very knotty,beech, oak etc
baz replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Screw splitters love knotty wood. Screws split wood that would have a hydraulic stopped in it's tracks. I use a processor for all the straight stuff and a screw for the trunk ends and knotted parts so nothing is too tough to to split. So I'd stick with your Hycrack every time for the tough stuff. If you are finding strands with the hycrack splitter then let the wood dry a bit more and you'll probably find it falls apart. -
The bargain just got better. £10 pice drop super bargain now. Only 21 hours remaining on the auction so not much time left! The tension!
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I've got about 15m3 of **** in my septic tank - good fertilizer. Any bidders to come suck it away. I can just picture my ebay ad now.
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Thats got to make for interesting loading. Post the pics of a 200kg trunk going onboard. Hope theres no hernias to follow.
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If you reckon that drying figure is accurate then £45/T for hardwood is a bargain. Lots of wood is being sold this year at £60/T delivered for freshly felled. Pity I haven't the space to store any more at the moment.
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You haven't said who you are using as haulier. We are in Shropshire also and we have used Benbow Brothers in the past. Often not the cheapest as they seem to price on how much they need the work rather than by the job. They do have HiaB trailers so are well set up for offloading at delivery points that don't have their own log grabs. If you get more hardwood available next year please give me a shout - I'm all sorted for cord this year.
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Good luck with this. I got quoted by one of my timber suppliers that has their own trucks £200 to move 20T 8 miles and £250 to move 25T 25 miles. Max loading is just over 25T for cord but start at £10/T for haulage and negotiate down from there.
