Chris Gagen
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May need more than just the bonfire... This pic shows me doing some very basic pyrography on a welly stand that I made. The stylus is a piece of 12mm steel rod heated in the forge, you'll need a really good fire to get the steel red without needing a fan/blower to help. It's been a while since I did any but I seem to recall I could only do maybe 4 letters per heat to ensure a nice firm burn into the wood.
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Are you still using this method Bob? I picked up a turntable pallet wrapper last year, am hoping to load with net wrap to achieve the same results, haven't had chance to play yet. Though it does a great job of wrapping pallets of kindling in the conventional manner! I've got one of the 1490lt black plastic juice drums I am going to cut about to make a bin from but think I may struggle to lift the liner/bin away from the wrapped log pack due to not being able to remove it gradually as the netting goes on and also I think achieving a truly vertical lift with a tractor loader my be problematic. Am thinking it may be worth setting up a block and tackle or hoist or similar to lift the liner/bin vertically off the pack, this would also eliminate the issue of suspected lack of lift height on the loader. Have you had any other issue with your set up that would be worth mentioning?
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don't forget your wheel arches! just thinking on rough measurements as I sit in front of the computer I would estimate 0.75m long 0.18m wide and 0.20m deep so take off 0.372m3 for both arches...
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ah, but is Alcydon refering to the so called " cubic meter vented log bags"? I also counted nearly 500 9" long, up to 5" diameter logs out of one of these bags last year, and I now believe that shaken/bounced these bags actually hold 1.4cbm. Have another look at this thread: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/51295-stop-giving-your-logs-away.html
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Oh I see! Best of luck finding someone, I wouldn't think it would be a problem finding anyone with the money you're offering but apparently it is??!
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Thought it was Atherstone, near Tamworth, not Scotland. Have I got mixed up here??
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Shame you're not closer, I could manage an intensive week's worth @ £12/hour... Logistics simply don't add up though!
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on a small area like you're referring to if you're worried about the chemical hurting the trees why not lay down some plastic sheeting/old tarp of even flat pack cardboard boxes. wont take long to kill off the grass if you block the light out.
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you can't polish a turd
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Fire is a good servant but a bad master
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What's your opinion on wheeled strimmers/trimmer mowers over the more usual type of strimmer/brushcutter? I'm after one for doing large-ish areas of nettle and bramble that are inaccessible/too fiddly for a tractor flail.
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Bear in mind the japa models are also said to be built from tin foil, but there's plenty of them going strong. I'd bear in mind who is using it, if the machine you buy is to be owner/user only then I wouldn't be put off by claims that the lower price machines are less sturdy, it simply means you should avoid being stupidly heavy handed with it...
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Leylandii to charcoal ? It is worth the time and money?
Chris Gagen replied to wrighttrees's topic in General chat
Have to challenge this, we produced somewhere around 20 6ft ring kilns full off softwood offcuts last year, not only does this make cracking bbq charcoal that rivals other woodland produced hardwood charcoal, it also does a very good turn as fuel in my forge... -
A bit like cheating really but we make charcoal here using offcuts from kindling production. Had great results and now have the method for this material down pat, just need to master the marketing side now... Last year was our first season of trying and the weather wasn't on our side for side BBQ charcoal. The biggest surprise with this stuff was that even the smallest scraps made good charcoal, even down to 1" square Looking forward to getting back to production, always good to have some cider on the go and some rabbit and sausages on the BBQ
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Pm sent
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its for this very reason that i built my own with foot pedal operation.
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Have just learnt recently of a clan of Gagen's up in Norfolk, so quite possibly, although I've not had time to digest the family tree that was sent over yet... So not to my knowledge but not beyond the realms of possibility either:blushing:
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pm sent, and thanks egg for the recommendation!
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Type in vented bulk bags. be aware though, although they hold a cubic metre of wood, they cannot be used as an accurate measure as such, see thread titled stop giving away your logs
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Very detailed, liking a lot! do you think it would be possible to harness the heat of a charcoal kiln in some manner? also I have a hay drying fan (tractor mounted) that reckons it produces a wind speed in excess of 80mph! any scope to factor these into a firewood/kindling wood drying apparatus?
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I beg to differ, the loose volume (which if asked is how I sell my cubic meters of logs) is the same, agreed after a bounce the volume is decreased, but this is covered in saying that contents are subject to settling. I don't think the reference to the pint is relevant in that you claimed that the landlord spilt some, hence the volume has changed because of loss of product, not settling.
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There is nothing not sensible about supplying by the cubic meter, we all simply need the same method. The point of this thread is to highlight that the "cubic meter" vented bags hold substantially more than a loose cubic meter dependant on how they are used. Imo they are not an accurate measure of volume when compared to a vessel that has rigid sides. I understand that there is a proprietary frame available to hold the bags open and will produce a uniform cubic meter volume and a stackable unit, but I've yet to investigate this. One could argue that the rigid container could/should be bounced to provide the "tap density" mentioned earlier, but the fact remains that the contents of a bag will settle much more than the contents of a rigid container simply by the nature of how they are lifted.
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Have never used a "tonne sack", I'm guessing you mean a dumpy bag/builders bag, etc? Was getting up to 30 nets out of the vented bags.
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Thanks Chris! Still emptying bag at my yard on to load handler in pickup, glad I am too, as had been said the slack bags look terrible but a properly full one is too much wood to be called a cube... The other thing that has made me think about a different container is longevity, the last batch of bags I bought are completely poo, falling apart after one cycle in some cases
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Clearly this all has an impact on price, stage 2 will give more accurate figures to work with but assuming the bags have 1.3-1.4 cube in them, based on me selling a bag for £100 that'll make a true cube worth around £70....
