Big J
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The chap I referred to with the Mebor locally is Willie Dobie at Abbey Timber in Abbey St Bathans. He's a great chap and will be more than happy to chat to you about it. I do believe that he went to the factory in Slovenia as well.
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I can't comment on the Forestor machines, but a local sawmill upgraded their set up to a Mebor mill and I believe that he is very happy with it. They produce some monstrous mills.
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That's a very fair point. If it goes into stock, I stick a bit more on it. If it air dries, it goes up some more and if it gets kilned, some more again. Thankfully I don't deal with too many 'single board' customers these days, so timber is often priced on an approximate stack measure (roughly hoppus) but at a reduced rate. I just hate handling timber needlessly!
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That's the best thing to do. Whether you need soon or not, kilning it that prematurely will result in a high degree of wastage.
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"Prices for processor size Ash,Beech at roadside Hants,Wilts/Glos.
Big J replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
That's effing nuts. Time for the idiot public to wake up and see the virtues of softwood. £35 a tonne delivered here for semi seasoned stock. Goes through the processor twice as quickly and dries in half the time too. -
Too soon to kiln. Needs until at least April. You'll just wreck it kilning it now.
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I'm anywhere from about £5 a cube upwards on hardwoods. There isn't really an upper limit as high end walnut and burr elm are worth as much as someone is prepared to pay for them. £5 a cube is for ugly beech/sycamore etc. £6 a cube is a bit steep Will! For regular customers, I'm £3 a cube to contract mill. On clean timber and assuming the blades are behaving themselves, the mill will do 50-80 cubic foot an hour.
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I've really enjoyed my Citroen vans. My Relay is working it's tits off at the moment towing max capacity (and possibly then some) about 300 miles a week. Time will tell. We've a couple of years of warranty left and I wouldn't keep it much beyond that anyway.
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Well the Landrover was fun, but given that we no longer need a 4x4 (not doing much, if any work requiring off road driving) we've traded it in for a 65 plate Citroen C4 Grand Picasso. Dad mobile extraordinaire, but it's top of the range so many toys (to go wrong, I expect). The Landrover had new tyres all round, timing belt and service, front wheel bearings and discs, new fuel sender unit (that one left us stranded when it went) and new brake lines. Probably not the most expensive LR ownership experience, but still a little sore. Proof of the pudding was taking it to the dealership at 24mpg and driving the new Citroen back at 56mpg! Low cost motoring, here we come
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I'm a front wheel drive 2.0 160hp Relay tipper. Goes rather quickly and handles a lot of weight (whether towed, onboard or both) easily. I think rear wheel drive is on it's way out with vans.
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All this talk of fuel tanks is irrelevant anyway as you'll break down long before getting to the end of the tank!
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It's why the second half of a tank never seems to be anywhere near as capacious (accepting the volume of the filler spout).
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Tank is 80, but it shows near enough empty before you reach 75l. It's like my van. I've a 120l tank, but I've only ever managed to get 111l into it. It's set up that way to minimise the risk of running out.
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The trip computer is very misleading. It's an 80 litre tank and assuming about 72 litres on each fill, that's only 31.6 mpg. My Citroen Relay van is the only vehicle I've ever had that does what the computer says it does. I used to get 26-27mpg with the Navara but that was with quite a lot of towing. I remember that when towing heavy it would only do 23mpg. By way on contrast, the van does about 25-26mpg when towing at capacity (or beyond!).
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People either seem to love their Navaras or hate them. So many of them just fall to bits under a heavy work load. How on earth are you getting 37mpg? Driven at normal traffic speeds, 37mpg is nearly impossible (I say this as someone who usually drives extremely economically). Can't be carrying any weight or working it (which might explain why your's hasn't died yet!).
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My 2 cents: Beech in this country isn't very good. It's better on the continent where is grows with an almost softwood like uniformity. I visited a German hardwood mill some years back and they were turning out good quality beech, kiln dried for £7 a cubic foot. Competing with that means that UK beech is already at a disadvantage. It's also not really in fashion with devalues it further. Just my opinion though.
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True. I assumed it was. Why state circumference though unless it's the average?
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12ft circumference is 144 inches. 1/4 girth squared x length: 36x36x23 / 144 - 207 hoppus foot 207 hoppus foot at 26 cube to the tonne is about 8 tonnes
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About 8 tonnes / 207 hoppus foot.
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£2 a cubic foot (£52 a tonne) is about my ceiling for good quality beech. The lump is question is oversized, which devalues it a bit, which is why I think £400 would be quite a good price for it.
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Quite possibly! Some people seem to do OK with them, though I do know two farm managers and a farm labourer that all worked them hard (like me) and all had massive problems on low mileage Navaras.
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Is is actually just a different truck with a Navara body on top? I had 29 visits to the dealership for warranty work in the warranty period. Bloody glad to be rid of it.
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It's an impressive lump, but beech is tough to sell, in my experience. If you get £400-500 for it, you would be doing quite well.
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Getting the firewood into the back isn't the issue. Getting the damned thing to the delivery address is more tricky though - tell me, how many times did it break down en-route?!
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Did you know that nearly half of all vehicular accidents in Sweden are caused by moose? I've not idea why they let them drive. What do you call a Norwegian prostitute? Fjord Escort. How do you get a Scotsman onto your roof? Tell him the drinks are on the house.
