doobin
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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.
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I hope you reduced that considerably from when that photo was taken!
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Rothnburger adjustables for me. and knipex for swan necks, nothing else comes remotely close there.
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13t and ripper tooth. Days work depending upon species and soil type can they stay on site? Major extra costs if not.
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Try to find a groundworks company that specialise in it. Not just an idiot with a hired in mini digger. How many stumps, what size stumps and what kind of access? This was this mornings job- dig this yew stump out without damaging the wall. Wouldn't have been possible without the tiltrotator to get underneath it sideways. Getting rid of stumps will cost you an absoloute bomb at the green waste site.
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I have a large quantity of good sized boxwood here. Need to process it down for storage prior to sale. What lengths are most profitable (it's up to 8" diameter), and what's the best treatment to stop splitting? I have a wax spraying gun here. Let surface water evaporate and then spray the ends? Or spray the whole log? Or what? Thanks.
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Do you see what I mean about that bloody long arm? The grab is still on the ground and the boom is already out of lift! Horrible setup.
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Life’s too short! 🤣
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My two yard cats, who spend the whole day doing nothing.
