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  1. Mortimer Firewood
    Won't be doing it again. Lost its shine in the first season.
  2. Mortimer Firewood
    That's not good lucky you caught them before they went has something gone through it that would cause that
  3. Mortimer Firewood
    We have an Atlas and an ifor Williams bought the latter at the beginning of October 2013 with high sides ramps and extra heavy duty tyres is was £5400 the atlas is 6 years old(I think) and looks newer than the ifor. When I change it I'll be getting a Brian James
  4. Mortimer Firewood
    I no it's a little further away but Bucknell nurseries is on the Shropshire/Wales border. Everything we have had from them that has been very good and there very well priced. We had 150!Yew in 2012 that were bushy and 3ft for £6.50 not one failed They do deliveries if the quantity is right
  5. Mortimer Firewood
    I'm sure it's like a lot of things you can get a good one and a bad one. My uncle had a 98 machine ag spec the drive went and it was £4500 fix this machine had worked hard but been well maintained. We have a matbro that looks ruff but is a real work horse the only thing we have replaced is wire in the loom that have broken down. While the matbro was been repaired we hired a New JCB the boom got stuck out twice when the fitter attended he said they had nothing but trouble with this model.
  6. Mortimer Firewood
    Beau yep we had some birch this year prob 4 ton mixed in with some beech. It was dry when split real dry now. I gave our mechanic a bag with 80% beech 20% birch he could not get the birch to burn I just thought he was having a laugh. Tried the bloody stuff and it won't burn even when put on at peak temperature it smoulders away.
  7. Mortimer Firewood
    Our sweet chestnut must be different to your there's an old SC grove next to our old house it's all dead every now and then a bow will drop been dead ages hits the deck at22% mc and still heavy as sin. I split it for mum and although it gets drier it don't seem to get lighter. Mum has to be the fussiest person I know when it comes to firewood and she never complains about it. All the guys I no who have been selling it kiln dried have had great feedback about it
  8. Mortimer Firewood
    Here's my number I'd want to have a chat first as I've passed details on before and when the loads arrived they have expected him to drive two units over a ploughed field. :lol: 07964947272
  9. Mortimer Firewood
    I no our haulier took a load of ash out of high Wycombe to Preston and the total was £1700
  10. Mortimer Firewood
    Does it have a pink tinge to it under the bark??
  11. Mortimer Firewood
    Where are you??
  12. Mortimer Firewood
    From what your describing it sounds more like H C but I may be wrong
  13. Mortimer Firewood
    Has some kiln dried and it was still heavy @ 20 mc burns really well though are you sure it's not horse chestnut as that drys quite light and not very impressive burning
  14. Mortimer Firewood
    Let's hope it was a minor fault and it gives you years of trouble free chipping will be down for some fencing at the end of month.
  15. Mortimer Firewood
    Sweet chestnut is anything but light very dense wood
  16. Mortimer Firewood
    What boiler do you have
  17. Mortimer Firewood
    Very complicated formula think of a number and double it plus 10:001_smile:
  18. Mortimer Firewood
    If the guys new to the machine I'd be thinking 5 days at 200 a day I would snap his hand off. I would estimate there's 140 cube of slit logs so at £100 a cube that's 14 k if you end up paying 1500 to get it processed your still in the money Don't be tempted putting the stuff with unions through the 6 way or you will spend half the time sorting jams out. I'd have a keen you glad on the splitter to take care of awkward stuff. Nothing worse than coming to the end of a processing job and having to do the awkward stuff last. Buy some bags or potato boxes to store it in
  19. Mortimer Firewood
    I'm afraid there's not going to be an easy way to deal with that apart from saw spitter and sweat. If it was me I would find some one with a farmi processor and hire it in put splitter by it break all the big stuff down and feed through farmi. The farmi has the least amount of guarding on it making it the ideal machine One man on splitter one on processor would be a good 4 days getting that done. Be prepared to pay the hired guy a little more than normal as that's going to be hard on the processor. Steve at crown hires a farmi with operator
  20. Mortimer Firewood
    What equipment do you have??
  21. Mortimer Firewood
    You need a good vertical splitter and a lad on a saw to get through that lot
  22. Mortimer Firewood
    All he best Sean I hope your feeling better very soon.
  23. Mortimer Firewood
    Got my aus poles off ebay two sets of 5 for around £70 if I remember correctly great tool
  24. Mortimer Firewood
    Yes like a rolled up news paper that's been twisted
  25. Mortimer Firewood
    A friend of mine does most of the harvester work but yes they do have lots of cutters. The London market is not that strong Jon as the cost is more due to transport time. I no guys selling KD for £125 a cube in the big smoke

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