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  1. Mortimer Firewood
    Sweet chestnut is anything but light very dense wood
  2. Mortimer Firewood
    What boiler do you have
  3. Mortimer Firewood
    Very complicated formula think of a number and double it plus 10:001_smile:
  4. 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
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    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
  6. Mortimer Firewood
    What equipment do you have??
  7. Mortimer Firewood
    You need a good vertical splitter and a lad on a saw to get through that lot
  8. Mortimer Firewood
    All he best Sean I hope your feeling better very soon.
  9. Mortimer Firewood
    Got my aus poles off ebay two sets of 5 for around £70 if I remember correctly great tool
  10. Mortimer Firewood
    Yes like a rolled up news paper that's been twisted
  11. 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
  12. Mortimer Firewood
    Never had a full load of chestnut just mixed in with other stuff. Don't think I would either ok with 5% mixed in
  13. Mortimer Firewood
    There a nation wide supplier of Kiln D that's £48 standing Jon yes you read it right
  14. Mortimer Firewood
    There's a big firewood company paying £48 for beech in the Forest of Dean I know there getting the tops for that but it's crazy
  15. Mortimer Firewood
    On the deck in yard. Love sycamore but always have problems with mould Hornbeam is also great but if you get a 14 inch piece with buttresses on it struggles to split as the grain is so twisted
  16. Mortimer Firewood
    Been paying £50 for ash nowt under 12 inch and been down 14 months. Going to look at a lot of beech / ash tomorrow the guys mentioned £46 it been down since nov Then I hear of a chap up the road paying £29.00 for standing birch and chestnut We can get chestnut at £34 but the transport from location put £13 on it. Then I no a chap that's been quoted £55 ton in his yard it's going from high Wycombe to Preston
  17. Mortimer Firewood
    I'm sorry but I'd struggle to pay him the full amount. I've had lads come work for me before and in my first hour have done more than them. Climbers getting numerous saws stuck then dropping a top on the chipper Lads been left to chip with hired in chipper and leaving it in a field next to property while they went to get a Macdonolds breakfast 16 mile round trip. Neither of thesa two examples were paid what was agreed will I loose sleep over it no just use lads I know now.
  18. Mortimer Firewood
    What was the cost and what's the length out front
  19. Mortimer Firewood
    Jays fluid be careful if it's fresh Tarmac (layed in last 12months) it all stain mix it up quite thick and apply with a back pack sprayer we then use Kombi roter brush to remove
  20. Mortimer Firewood
    No elderly and disabled must use the road wtf are you for real
  21. Mortimer Firewood
    9 or 11 trees out of the headland on all fields on lots of farms It was the higher level stewardship scheme Some farmers took the crap others took the creme
  22. Mortimer Firewood
    A freind of ours works for channel 4 racing and said she'd like to punch producers on a daily basis. Also said things get heated very quickly due to tight schedules and repeating tasks constantly. No excuse for vilonce I know
  23. Mortimer Firewood
    TCD your missing my point all together maybe it's the way I'm trying to put it across. I completely get the law has to be obeyed even when it's an ass. The point I'm trying to make can an officer not use his discretion at when it should be applied.
  24. Mortimer Firewood
    You no a vast amount more than me on the subject Iain but with all the extra building space required for storing chip and pretty big building for boiler and asoceated equipment. This cost has to be considered. Farmers usaly have the building at there disposale.
  25. Mortimer Firewood
    People are usaly offended by any body that tells it as it is. I'm afraid the btitish have become to afraid to say it as it is incase of upsetting anyone. That's why I like Arbtalk so much as people are not afraid to speak there mind.

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