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  1. Chris Gagen
    Seems a really genuine guy, reckons he making more money from recycling pallets and needed the space that this set up was occupying. When I had a look around his yard things looked in very good order, 2 brand new shiny bits of kit for pallet work so his story of concentrating on that side of the business rings true. Shame there's no picture of the multi blade saw bench, now that really does look useful to this operation as cutting the timber to length has been the most long winded process, but this'll help tons!
  2. Chris Gagen
    Well folks, hope I've done right... eBay - The UK's Online Marketplace Negotiated down to £9600 after auction finished. (2 other interested parties also) Includes existing customer database, and free pallet waste wood. I'm expecting to be able to sell the pallet dismantlers and possibly the heat sealer as I already have a good one of them. Nice and local to me so having his customers should work out nicely... Oh, and yes I do know the price of a new kindlet thanks.
  3. Chris Gagen
    so true, cheers steve!
  4. Chris Gagen
    Begging your pardon, I've just weighed several of my nets, and on average they are just 14kg...
  5. Chris Gagen
    well, i'll put it this way, let me know if you don't buy it and ill update my setup:thumbup1:
  6. Chris Gagen
    i would bite their hand off..., i've not even had to tension the belts on mine yet! (i do keep checking them!)
  7. Chris Gagen
    i would expect you to be able to get a used japa 700 in pretty good nick for £3-4k. my japa 700 is i think nearly 15 years old now, owned by me for 3 years, i would suggest if you're producing <250cm per year this machine would be fine for you. i run mine with two men, one on processor and other on stand alone splitter easily producing 2 cube per hour. have the right timber to process and i would think the rate would double.
  8. Chris Gagen
    I am perceived by the retailers as expensive. My nets match your description for weight and quality and this year I am not selling for less than £4 + VAT each wholesale. I arrived at this price by working backwards from what I sell a cubic meter for: 1cm hardwood = £100 out of 1cm I on average get 30 nets. it takes me on average 90 minutes to bag 30 nets. so £100 divide 30 = £3.33 just for the wood. 1.5 hours @ £10/hr = £15 divide 30 is 50p for the time 17p per net There you have the £4.00 I started selling firewood solely in small nets as I didn't have enough to meet demand for bulk, now the situation has changed to mean that I don't want to work my guts out doing small nets when I can get the money I'm asking for bulk loads. If folks are happy receiving £2.00 ish for their nets of logs then let them be the busy fools. Best of luck!
  9. Chris Gagen
    location please?
  10. Chris Gagen
    PM sent.
  11. Chris Gagen
    what processor is it? would love to speak up, but would need overnight lodgings sensibly... I'm sure you'll get a good response at the rate offered, good luck with it
  12. Chris Gagen
    hiya, bought my loadhandler back in november last year, for the volume of wood i deliver, 70-100cube, i find it very good. i can thoroughly recommend it.
  13. Chris Gagen
    just measured up. allowing for "hopper sides" i've got a space of 1.20 cubic meters. so when you consider that a cm vented bag is tipped in and not jounced in the truck bed (don't like to think what that might do to my springs...) it stands to reason that it will be ever so slightly heaped. so yeah steve, i guess if it were proper heaped you could get 1.5 cube in there. gets me thinking, i suppose by jouncing the bag on the pallet tines when filling i'm actually putting more than one cubes worth of wood in there, when you consider that if you were filling a potato box for instance with an internal volume of one cm the contents would not settle any where near so much when also jounced, hope that makes sense.
  14. Chris Gagen
    what he said... i now tend to have the sheet come up from the floor to just below window level, and pin it there with a stick cut to just jam up nicely between the two sides and touch the ply lined front of the buck, thus sandwiching the sheet between the stick and the ply. this seems to help move the bulk of the load, on a good day they'll be 10 logs to hand-ball out, on a bad day a wheel barrow full. still better than shifting a whole cube though!
  15. Chris Gagen
    ah, now then ben, you have highlighted an important factor that i forgot to take into account... because i use the load handler i have fitted ply on both sides in order to keep most of the load in the in middle and away from the wheel arches. i'll have a measure up
  16. Chris Gagen
    to be honest i tried to get out of doing them at all! i hate netting logs, and i explained to the farmshops and hardware shops that i supply that they have to be that price to be even vaguely worth doing when i can sell a cubic meter for £100. they're adament that my log nets are what their customers like. i get 30 nets to the cm and can do 30 in 1.5hrs, so that makes the wood worth £3.33, add 17p per net and 50p labour to do the bloody things. so as you see, i'm still not even making any more than i would be in bulk!!
  17. Chris Gagen
    i process greenwood into cm bags, then simply tip out bags with tractor into brava pickup (with load-handler fitted or course). doesn't take a moment to empty the bag, and so when calls are coming in left, right and centre in december i can nearly always be with the customer same day. have got production times down to average 25 mins per cube with me and a mate on an old japa 700 and the homemade splitter. £100 a cube hardwood (open fire) and £80 a cube willow conifer mix. £10 off collected orders. just slightly heaped in brava. finally managed to get prices to sensible level for small nets of hardwood, now £4 per net + VAT wholesale. they all have to live with 9-10 inch logs because i process in advance, those that don't like it don't buy. simples!
  18. Chris Gagen
    proper tidy job there, they're so uniform!
  19. Chris Gagen
    nope, just a lull due to bloody rain. got straw getting wet at the moment too:thumbdown: about another 6000 to do yet...
  20. Chris Gagen
    welcome your latest addiction.... you're not very far from me then, in sible hedingham... I'm asking £100 loose cube hardwood this year and £80 willow/conifer mix £10 off if customer collects. be brave, ask for more!
  21. Chris Gagen
    better yields down your way if you're getting 100 conventionals to the acre this year! I've not found a piece that's going above 70 this year yet, and that's with 3cwt/acre straight N. Must admit i've been tempted by the baler's choice folks, not convinced though, need to see a demo and finished product really, and at the moment i just can't be arsed. Story of my life:lol:
  22. Chris Gagen
    this is also a true statement, if somewhat cryptic at this time of night on a friday... had to read it back a couple of times to get it!
  23. Chris Gagen
    to be fair i can see exactly what is meant by egg's quote, trouble is that all too often you can't nesscessarily deter the thieves, merely delay them
  24. Chris Gagen
    suckers of blackthorn will come up like mad from neighbouring plants. have you been prickled by one yet? if it's very quick to go mildly septic then likely to be blackthorn. brilliant firewood:sneaky2:
  25. Chris Gagen
    my 5 month old son is in washable nappies, i mention this because the inserts that soak up all the wetness just look like plain cloth but they are super absorbant and not that bulky, rather more inconspicuous then a bodyform liner would appear...

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