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  1. Mortimer Firewood
    Exactly our regulars come back year on year at the beginning of the season and buy all the supply's they need we keep 50 cube back in case it's really cold and they run out. This year come Jan our prices to non regulars are going up £10.00
  2. Mortimer Firewood
    Why do chipper & processor manufactures always do demos with nice straight timber I want to see a chipper drag a bendy Hawthorne top through and a processor to split twisty hornbeam that would make them stand out.
  3. Mortimer Firewood
    Fsi cert or from own land I am led to believe.
  4. Mortimer Firewood
    Anything below 19% mc is good if I am honest most of mine sits at around 21 to 23 we have had complaints that the wood is to dry and burns quickly. Can't please everybody all the time.
  5. Mortimer Firewood
    Agreed or let the weather do it just seems crazy to blast wood with high pressure water pushing dirt further in to the wood
  6. Mortimer Firewood
    When we did Arb waste all the big stuff was cut into 10 inch rings and cut in half the small stuff was left in long lengths rings stacked on pallets lift off with tractor to a splitter with waste hight table pallet lifted to hight of table. Lengths were stacked on bearers and put through a saw bench next to splitter. There is no real easy way of doing Arb waste now we just put it through processor and big rings are cut and put straight in the splitting chamber.
  7. Mortimer Firewood
    I don't no any 16 year olds I would leave with a saw or any firewood machinery start putting tractors and forklifts in the mix and it's a disaster waiting to happen. The climber we use could cut more timber than 3 inexperienced guys. As for cleaning off dirt with a pressure washer wtf grab a handful of saw dust and rub soil off.
  8. Mortimer Firewood
    Was that the one on ebay last month? Looks like a good bit if kit
  9. Mortimer Firewood
    I completely agree bob but both the company's I use are local and need to get drivers home so it works for us the bio mass industry in Herefordshire is huge so it's having an impact on pricing but at the moment it's with in my budget per tonne.
  10. Mortimer Firewood
    No I can read just amazed how different one part of the country is to the other all the drivers I know do long distance work. Herefordshire can not sustain it's own supply of firewood so most of it comes up the m40. Yorkshire must have more timber than I thought?
  11. Mortimer Firewood
    I think it is you that should be in spec savers.
  12. Mortimer Firewood
    Location location location?
  13. Mortimer Firewood
    You learn something new every day:001_smile:
  14. Mortimer Firewood
    Flats will have square post bolsters that can be taken in and out so trailer could take goods the pop bolsters in for return journey. Lots of boys running flats like that now. Plus you get more weight on as there is no crane. Some forestry guys like to charge for loading as it ties the forwarder up for half hour. All the timer hauliers round me do long distance apart from two retired guys who run 8 wheelers to keep there hand in you no when they been in the yard as it's all graded in sizes and problem pieces put in a stack:thumbup:
  15. Mortimer Firewood
    Took a hedge out this week and noticed a pigeon getting rather aggravated the closer we got to its nest so checked the nest and found two chicks never seen it this late before.
  16. Mortimer Firewood
    Buy a timber grab and get a flat to deliver half the price more weight win win.
  17. Mortimer Firewood
    What?
  18. Mortimer Firewood
    A local guy i do a bit of business with has a kiln for drying logs in he is making some serious money out the rhi and charging £160 a cube £30 more than seasoned. Its something i really want to work towards but 100k investment is serious money plus if you want to carry 2000 tonne of timber its 90 k plus haulage 20k plus all the associated costs like yard for an operation of this scale in a prominent position is 200k so your in to 450 k mega money to find. i got a40ft insulated container i am planning on turning in to a kiln still in the planning stages
  19. Mortimer Firewood
    Ram is not retracting all the way saw dust behind ram cover is it running hot as well.
  20. Mortimer Firewood
    If that was one of the drivers visiting me they would be shifting that wall with the grab.Plus both the yards are a pain to get in must have a different bread down there. Our drivers are regularly down there if you let me know where you are I'll ask the boss he is not cheap but if he tells you it's going to be done it will be done.
  21. Mortimer Firewood
    How do you unload your bags the other end.
  22. Mortimer Firewood
    My truck is not suitable if it was it would save me buying another trailer as I have a tipper.
  23. Mortimer Firewood
    I have a power point on the truck for charging battery on tipper so going with 12volt supply I think.
  24. Mortimer Firewood
    Go for the bigger one as it's quarantead once you have bought it you will get a job removing dead elm or eucalyptus and that stuff takes some splitting. Going to get my beer goggles on I'll be back later to abuse every one
  25. Mortimer Firewood
    Putting mine in the middle over the axels so not worried about nose weight it's purely for delivering bags of firewood so does not really mater where it's situated. As for price it's frightening how much there making.

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