northumbriaforestry

Are you a plumber Nifty?

That's right yes.

Hi All, As many of you know, we've been building our house this last year. A simple off grid timber frame & straw bale house in some of the woods we manage. We've had a hell of a time, trying to run our businesses & self build the house, with a tiny budget, difficult location & very limited skills & experience. Anyway, we're getting close to completion now & are preparing to take delivery of our cooker. We need some advice from an old school plumber, someone who understands gravity fed systems without pumps. The design we have is simple but seems to have our local plumber ( a customer of ours) a bit flumoxed, not his area of expertise. If you have the knowledge & time to help us, we'd love to hear form you. So many people told we couldn't do this, & we nearly have, we're tired now & desperate to get in, we really do need some help with this. If you think you can help, drop me a line here & we'll contact you with more info on what we have in mind. Thank you in advance to any wood be helpers! You see what I did there? Wood be! wood be, ok I'll get m' coat, TAXI!

We allow 10-15 mins per cube, if they have a decent store with back & sides & it's within easy reach of their drive way, we can easily do a cube in 10-15mins. That's included in the price. We don't charge extra for it as 10 min is nothing if they come back again and again, & they do. Sell them decent wood, at a decent price, with a decent service, look decent, talk decent & act decent, people appreciate it. Just our experience of course, but it works for us.

We're lucky, we don't have any greys in our woods, but if I see one, click click, bang bang!

Ah yes, it's good in this weather to warm the cockles more of a pint of Hobgoblin girl myself. Just checked the thermometer 5 below now & not looking like getting any better. Can't even have a shower, damn them frozen pipes!

no thank god!

Our thoughts & best wishes are with you. Nathalie, Justine & Kezz.

Today is much like yesterday, but colder, grrr. Trying to help a few disorganised customers who forgot to tell us they were low, by doing a few sunday deliveries. Whilst trying to sand the floorboards we just laid in the house we're building with all our spare time, with a hire machine that we've had to rig to stay "on" because it's f***ed. Thought it might be nice to have a coffee, but the pipes in the traielr are frozen, of course they are! It is cold!

Hello, a 110, big winch, big wheels, snow plough, sankey on the back & big boots!

Snowing. bring it on baby, ya don't frighten me, I've got a Land Rover!

Lmpo! Brilliant. Mind you, if it's as cold then as it is now, I might not have a choice!

I can't grow a tit tickler, can I get an upgrade?

About 30m3.

Softwood, it's the future, I know I've got a ball & everything!

Tom, what average diameter is it, & what length is it cut to, what do you want for it roadside? Cheers.

Honestly, I think it safer, faster & easier to work with someone else.

Never going to make a commercial woodland out of it, too small. Make a nice self managed contin cover area & take advantage of the tax dodge, as for making money out of it, employing people etc, nah. On the up side, wish more people would buy woodlands & manage them with heart, it's what we need. If you can afford to sit on it, go for it!

The land you have available will tell you what it wants to grow, go with that I reckon.

I contacted you about these over a year ago..........

Let it dry out for a year. Burning it green will just mean you get less product out as you've burnt more of it to get the kiln hot enough top dry what's left out. Charcoal is hard enough work as it is, you should at-leastget a as much return as you can. let it dry, fill every inch of the kiln, get it hot, keep an eye on it & wait!

Kenny at Forest Machine Services I Wark, Northumberland I Suppliers of forestry machinery I Comprehensive workshop to modify and engineer soultuions to exsisting forest machinery had a few TC trailers, & he's a really good guy with an excellent business.

We have a Tc1, use it behind the quad in sensitive areas & love it. Before we got it, we said some fairly negative things about them, but really needed something of that ilk. All the similar trailers are sooooo much more money, which we just weren't prepared to pay. We've had ours over a year, lost count of how much timber we've moved with it, a good couple of hundred tonnes at-least & it's given no bother what's so ever, it'd been a tremendous buy & wouldn't hesitate to recommend them. Like everything they have their limits, but you get used to it & learn how to move stuff way out of it's league with practice. If you need any more info, just shout! Cheers.

Hello, we do, you can find us at http://www.northumbriacharcoal.co.uk we're just south of the border at Lindisfarne, Northumberland. Let us know if we can help. Cheers.

On occasion we also use a similar rig for moving anything big from sensitive areas. We've moved some HUGE timber with this. It's also great to use for loading long timber onto the mill.