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  1. Mortimer Firewood
    Don't even remember him??
  2. Mortimer Firewood
    precious moments mr fox
  3. Mortimer Firewood
    First thought is scots pine
  4. Mortimer Firewood
    Two cube for £50 nicker wow i feel for you thats a road to no where. Unless we have a cold winter its going to thin a few merchants out up here those paying £70 a ton for perfect roundwood are not going to last.
  5. Mortimer Firewood
    Some times a little too well. Same with silver birch its bark is almost water proof so lets little water out got some in the yard harvester cut 9 months ago half the bark is missing it could be cut and delivered.
  6. Mortimer Firewood
    Ive hornbeam at the yard that was cut April 2014 once cut it will be ready in a month its 14 inch diameter
  7. Mortimer Firewood
    I think the point here is your choice of language i.e. swearing. Allso i think you need to take into account that others might not be offended by what you describe as trolling. Yes that person can be direct and straight to the point and i think sometimes it comes across wrong.But i prefer to have conversation with people that are direct to the point at least you can tell them what you think with out upsetting them. Most of the time anyway
  8. Mortimer Firewood
    And there was me thinking i was not explaining myself correctly again:001_smile:
  9. Mortimer Firewood
    No what I'm saying is if you leave timber stacked for 12 to 18 months then cut and split it the drying time is reduced hugely.
  10. Mortimer Firewood
    So you are talking about your own set up not in general? How much product have you sold not including what you produce to sell back to feed your own kiln?
  11. Mortimer Firewood
    Not to mention carbon foot print which more and more customers seem to be more and more interested in.
  12. Mortimer Firewood
    Not wanting to be picky but reduced handling less storage. Most merchants i know say theres loads more handling involved in Kd as for storage your still going to need the same amount of split firewood to keep up with demand weather its kd or seasoned it still needs to be split ready to go in kiln.IF your selling a couple of hundred loads a year you will keep up. If your doing a couple of thousand it needs to be split. The major benefits with a kiln is when your out of stock of dry wood you can dry more wood ready and the obvious rhi income.
  13. Mortimer Firewood
    Think the wasps all be attracted to it to much
  14. Mortimer Firewood
    I've been told that before but we dry oak logs quicker than an inch a year so who knows:confused1: It may of been standing dead as most of the other stuff looks like a couple of years and the whole load got rejected. It does seem a shame to cut such nice looking stuff up. There's another piece in there 4m long must be 1200mm across not one branch on it dead straight.
  15. Mortimer Firewood
    We had some oversize delivered last week mill rejected one piece of Oak (76.8 ft ) had been down ages lost all it's bark first 10 inch was dry on either end and 6 inch in was dry. After that it was wet but it's been split a week the cracks are opening up and it will be dry in no time. It won't go out till October so by then it will be cracking firewood. Shame oaks got such a poor name most customers say no oak our fire does not burn it. I give them ours in a net to try and there happy.
  16. Mortimer Firewood
    Softwood will dry down to 20% if left for 2 years there's thousands and thousands of tons of chip wood stacked all over herefordshire doing just that. Chipped and bussed straight out to customer. Hardwood needs to be left once split but for weeks not months. Lots of merchants round here selling kiln dried and customer buys one load pays more it burns quicker they feel hard done by and revert back to seasoned. Lots of guys I know with log kilns dry it down to 18 % and sell as seasoned not kd. All because they can't control there stoves.
  17. Mortimer Firewood
    Is it viable at the currant rate.
  18. Mortimer Firewood
    I couldn't agree more if it's on offer take it while you can. I looked into it and found most of the company's installing kilns to be full of it when I found a company that were spot on utilising you a kiln not just bunging an insulated container in it was going to north of 100k. A friend has one we get to dry the small amount of kd we sell. The reason people are so keen on kiln dried is so many idiots selling wet wood as seasoned.
  19. Mortimer Firewood
    I've got cord I'm cutting now that would be ready to go out in less than a month. If it's been cut with a harvester and had bark stripped it will dry in the round stuff that's been hand cut with 100% bark remaining will not dry out. :001_smile
  20. Mortimer Firewood
    Is it straight runs or up and down are you digging the gravel boards in. Two of us can do 25 panels gravel boards a day but we dig our boards in on most jobs. Is there any old posts to dig out?
  21. Mortimer Firewood
    We don't have many beech or hornbeam here either we bus it in from down south last time I bought beech locally would be 5 years ago.
  22. Mortimer Firewood
    In the yard mate
  23. Mortimer Firewood
    I'd say that's a little expensive I'd be looking at paying £37 tops pure birch is worth no more than softwood. IMO it's a mixer wood or I some time put it 50/50 with larch and sell as low grade firewood for £90.00 a cube
  24. Mortimer Firewood
    Correct me... you must own some big property to have a commercial unit there?
  25. Mortimer Firewood
    I was talking to another member about output and they said your were running it off a domestic unit.

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