doobin
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It’s not really a risk especially with a little impact wrench. You’ll get the hang of it. A few ugga duggas. Torque sticks only stop you over torquing it. You still need to check with a torque wrench. If you rely on the torque stick you’ll most likely have the wheel fall of later as it wasn’t tight enough. Milwaukee are much better than Makita for the money on the impact wrench front.
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First thinning of new woodland
doobin replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A thermal is a hell of a tool, but sunlight aiming at the canopy can be hard to read the pattern and it can still be hard to spot a small target like a squirrel unless it's against a large constant background. A lot of the time the squirrel will have clocked you and it'll only be the head poking out from behind the trunk. For winter foxing etc they simply can't be beat. -
First thinning of new woodland
doobin replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Bloody hell that s a good bag for an afternoons work! You must be overrun? -
Yup. Ash is a bitch. I cut my teeth on slow grown ash on the slopes of the South Downs. Teaches you a lot about timber and also depth gauges.
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Sure it's only 1.5m3 per ton? I always thought it was more. If 1.5m3 sells for average say £180 (£120/m) then margins are wafer thin / non existant with it costing £100 per ton minium delivered in.
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****************ers. Sorry to hear that
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Ford Ranger 57 plate single cab tipper - Heavy duty suspension upgrade
doobin replied to Rowan Elwell's topic in Arb-Trucks
Sounds very expensive. Milners airbag kit is an afternoons work at the most by yourself- piece of cake on a tipper especially as you just lift the body out of the way. I run the air hose into the front footwell and have a 12v compressor there for adjusting it. Do not forget to adjust your brake compensator, as the body will ride a lot higher! You should also get a drop down hitch otherwise the towball will be miles too high. These engines respond well to a remap. I have two and they are fantastic trucks, super reliable. Watch out for rust on a Ranger of that vintage too. It's not insurmountable- they usually go between the rear wheels and the back of the cab, so super easy access on a tipper. Just don't overpay. PM me a link to what you're looking at if you like.
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Have you decided yet whether it will be the Seychelles or the Bahamas that you purchase your private island? I mean, with that amount of chip, the world is your oyster!
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The debate’ here is over chip or cordwood. Not processed firewood. What you allude to in your last sentence is what is happening. Chip price goes up, the base price of the timber goes up too, so cordwood price goes up.
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Yes. Although you will not find them on the list as the land is all held in various different trusts.
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Only screened graded chip whole tree chip, not Marks brash arb chip from Mrs Miggins conifers.
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Sorry! Acres not ha! Been doing a quote for a grant last few days and have ha on the brain I think.
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I think if you took the extra counterweight off it might be! best to weld those bolts up I think 🤣
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A mix of species burns best also.
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Then you need cordwood- 2.4m lengths from forestry operations. Tree surgeons, by nature of their job, will hack the wood roughly into whatever lengths give the most expedient way of getting it down from the tree and out of a garden. So the resultant logs will be all different sizes with jagged misshapen ends.
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I love my sawmill offcuts. It’s the sign of the decadent Home Counties that firewood is form more than function.
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But you said codwood! (sorry, old arbtalk long running joke) cordwood usually refers to processor grade straight sticks for making firewood. you are looking for arb waste. add yourself to the tip site directory. processor cordwood will cost you at least £90 a ton delivered in so I’d expect be paid a t least a token amount for dropping off arb waste in this day and age.
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A sister for the e27. Came up on FB silly cheap. When I got there I was pleasantly surprised to see twin rockers on the joysticks. Will need a new hitch and some pins but seems tidy and not all that different to my e27! She’s ten years older. So will add a divertor and extra aux pipework plus an s30 hitch and see if it’s as handy as I think I would be to have two 2.7t machines. It’s always the size you need- the 1.9t just can’t compare and the 8t is a faff with transport etc.
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He’s after processor grade firewood. Arb waste is a different kettle of fish. It might be free but it requires 10x the effort to produce a very ‘messy’ grade of firewood.
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How much kit do you own then? as I thought…
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Depends. Round here the local estate (17,000ha of forestry) pile the brash up for chipping. They still sell the cordwood to the firewood market. A lot depends upon the method of extraction. If you have to extract the tree any distance before you can process it then you may as well cut it into brash and cordwood. Nobody wants to be whole tree chipping skidded trees.
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By the way. There’s no money in firewood! wonder why I bothered dragging this lot out the other day, should have just stayed sat in the digger.
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It’s not more profit though, which is what you alluded to with the use of the colloquial phrase ‘it pays more’.
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No it doesn’t. Tell me you don’t understand the concept of a market without telling me you don’t understand the concept of a market… value of wood is x. Value of chipped wood is x plus the cost of chipping. Customer bids £10 more for chipped wood, value of wood is now x plus £10.
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Wood chip is just bollocks isnt it. Think of all the diesel needed to harvest the tree, chip it into tiny pieces, and then move it to store it in a dry barn before transporting it to another dry barn to be burnt! Carbon neutral my arse OP- call Robin at Felled Wood Transport. Haven’t got his number to hand but a Google should find it.
