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Hi Guys, We had set our heart on making a machine, but still only half way through the house & putting up with the worst winds I can remember, making one will have to wait! Anyone selling a processor, please drop me a line. Non electric, chainsaw type, cut, split & elevator. If it has a loading system like the Riko tow unit that would be great, otherwise we'll knock up a loading deck. If anyone has a Hud-son Badger, that they like to sell, then I'd really like to know:001_smile:

Hi All, I'm well aware that there's a few Mog nuts on this site, & I'm hoping that some of you will be along soon. Never had a Mog, but am considering one at the moment & wanted some input. It's either a Mog, Big Tractor, Or old Bedford etc. Need to move Timber, so need a crane, need to be able to tow a decent sized trailer & the option of a pickup appeals. Hydraulics to run processors, splitters, chippers etc is a must. It will pay for it's self, so the more versatile the better. Input & pics would be much appreciated. Cheers, Natha.

Softwood is the future, it's the customers knowledge that needs to change, so woodsman need to be more cluey & honest & help there customers get that knowledge . I worry about quangos agreeing to give grants to business that don't have there own timber supplies set up. How did you justify your business's continued viability without a reasonable stab at a cashflow & projected sales forecast. Cutting & delivering logs is the easy bit, obtaining, managing & keeping a truly sustainable supply chain is what will make good quality softwood hold the larger slice of the market, if indeed it doesn't already.

I may be tempted, I gave that line of work up to cut wood, but may do it for the right reasons

I have that effect on folk, so about this gorgeous bird..........

Don't like it, find it annoying, although I like getting Poked:lol:

Ah, damn, we don't do FB.

Good good, details this way

Oh yeah? Is she in the March/Nov in the Stihl calendar?

They certainly do!

I just read this forum is to "be kept clean". Hmmm, with that in mind I should probably leave this topic alone, easy to get carried away

Apart from my chainsaw trousers, it's the only stihl item I own. I love mine & don't miss a year. This year is very good & I particulary like March & November:001_tt2:

Most of the grant system has been pulled now, & I'm not that interested in it anyway. We'd still need to put up 40%or so, & I know we can make something for less than that & I wont have to spend valuable time messing about with cash flow forecast, sales predictions, business plans & waiting 3 months to see through the grant claim & then shell out the whole 100% at once & then wait another month to recover my 40%. If we do it our way, the machine will up & dancing in a couple of weeks for a fraction of the cost & a lot less hassle. We've got enough to do without the added hassle of all that. Plus,as I've said before, we'd rather make one.

Hi Woodchopper, Yes we have over 200 acres of our own woods, plus we contract for UPM Tilhill across the North East, this work also provides us with a good amount of timber for our firewood & charcoal. We do about 500m3 a year of firewood & allot of charcoal too. Our biggest problem has been processing it all as we've always just done it with saws & a splitter. You may have seen on one of my posts recently, we're just about to start building a processor to speed things up. I can't wait for that!

It's a very good job I didn't see this thread title yesterday after my drink with lunch, good lord I could have got myself in trouble! Nice looking box by the way.

If you're buying it in & you've run out, the only thing I could suggest is buy more & buy in advance, not exactly earth shattering advice but there you go. I would strongly advise anyone serious about selling firewood to obtain their own woods or the rights to manage one. Much better control of your product, bringing neglected woods back under control & should keep you costs down& ultimately your customers too. Very important in these hard times, you shouldn't have to be rich to be warm! Good luck.

Quad & small timber trailer with hydraulic crane. If the timbers to big for the crane, we skid it out on a log arch. Quick, cheap, easy to maintain, easy to transport behind the Landy & very light footprint on woodland floor, important as many of our sites are sensitive areas.

Do you work your own woods for your timber or do you buy it in from elsewhere?

Dolche da capo, Riposa in pace Marco.

Big ones or small ones? Bugger, was hoping for something a little more adventurous! Sorry, may have had a drink with lunch......

i love him! Wow, that's insanity at it's very best, genius!

Hey there, Thanks for the reply. We're looking to make some sort of cord rack, we'll pile it on with our little crane. Then the cords roll down one at a time onto a roller based (like a boat trailer) conveyor that we operate manually (not hydraulic) & pull the timber along to a gimble mounted petrol driven saw to cut to our desired length. The cut round then drops into a splitting troft where a hydraulic ram working off an auto kick out lever will split the round into logs & push the split logs onto a conveyor & take them away to drop into bags for firewood,or into the storage area for the kiln. Proper Heath Robinson but will be massively cheaper & easy to tinker with as we find what needs to be changed & adjusted. I understand what everyone says about buying one. But it's on deaf ears,we wont buy one,they're stupidly expensive & we're quite capable of building something ourselves for a fraction of the costs. Plus, we like doing things ourselves. They told us we'd never get planning permission to build our house in the woods too & we did. Then they told us we'd never be able to build it ourselves as we had no experience, & we are. They told us we'd never build it to such a low budget & keep it within building control regs & we are. They told us we'd never build the house,manage the woods & produce enough firewood manually to keep up with demand. THEY WERE RIGHT, SO A PROCESSOR WE WILL BUILD! Come on anyone with a home made machine, get ya pics out for the gal!

I LIKE YOU! Good luck, & I've started collecting parts for my boy to knock something up.

O.K I'll start again. Has anyone built their own processor? For their own use, forget hiring it. If you have, I'd be really pleased to hear about how you did it & what choices you made, or even better, would be great to see some pictures. I can't watch videos as the dongle in the woods here isn't fast enough, grr! Thanks very much in advance.