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This is the Walnut before sawdust brushed off, looks even better now.

Will take more pics today thanks. The planks are 2" by just under 2ft and 8 ft long

Just milled for first time have some walnut, oak and beech. Now after adive regarding best place to sell it, as firewood producer and this is new. Thanks Rob

Bit far i would be glad to!

getting more enquiries regarding kindling this summer than we did last summer. Still having to compete with people knocking sticks out at £1/bag dont know how, unless their timber is free!

gensetsteve spot on with costs we are in the same boat and people still ring up expecting kindling for £1/bag if they buy 50 We buy wood in at £40/cube and now sell at £1.40 & £1.60 depending on bag size, but that is about to go up.

we can do 200 at £1.50 + Vat if you collect

I should have put made from timber yard offcuts all 6 inch and put through kindlet cheers rob

50x40 mon orange nets £1.50 + VAT. Timber yard offcuts all clean dry and untreated

I am making a kiln that will hopefully use all our sawdust. 2m3 sawdust burner and greenhouse fan. Will let you know if it works when finished. Just making it to get rid of a waste product and speed up the seasoning of our logs

Firewood business

“The biggest thing about this business, as far as I’m concerned, is that I love what I do. I’m not just doing it to make money. I love the work, and the fact that I make money doing it seems like a happy surprise. I’m passionate about what I’m doing, and believe I’m on the cutting edge. If there was a firewood association, I think I’d be at the top, pushing for regulations and some sort of cohesiveness, establishing guidelines for everyone to follow.”

Jack, 36, has been married for six years. “Jodi is a great wife, very supportive,” he said. His hobbies are physical fitness, hockey, and golf. He’s an avid tournament golfer who plays with a 6 handicap.

“For the first 10 years I worked 10 hours a day, six days a week, and I’m not above jumping on a machine or picking up a chain saw if there’s a need. Recently when I bought a new yard, which had to be ready in a month, I put in 20-hour days.”

“When I work I am totally involved in it, and as a result I can step back and use the rewards that the business affords. I could make much more money, but a bunch of money won’t make you happy.”

Jack said his brother-in-law once told him something that stuck in his mind. “The sign of a successful business, he told me, is being able to step away from it and have it still function as if you were there. I have good people working for me. I pay them well. By being willing to delegate authority, I can love my business without getting burned out.”

mine are 40 by 50 kiln dried made from timber yard offcuts. I strted the year at £1.30 but now up to £1.40 plus VAT

We cut everything into 6 inch length for kindling the Alpine tractor circ saw has 6 inch steel over hang perfect for the job

dont know if you would be in interested in kindling as well?

how many? and we dont supply builders bags but deal in m3, as we have found builders bags come in diff sizes. we use IBC crates.

Kindling orders flooding in now after a quiet summer. Think everyone is feeling the pinch and will leave it until last minute and then it will go nuts, a lot more log burners been installed aronoud here again this year.

I generally deliver for free up to 20 miles, providing there is a decent load on. I have delivered 80 mile 200 bags of kindling, charged for fuel but not time. I don't have many holidays so make a day out of deliveries and take the wife, has worked well so far, we have met some nice folk and had some good days out plus gain orders on the way. I explain to the wife that she is lucky, and needs to work extra hard on the kindling machine to make up for her treat.

I find splitting into long lengths 700mm-1m then through circ saw speeds up process, less time on chainsaw and stress on your back. 3m cube ibc crates on my own in half a day, includes chainsaw into 700mm lengths, splitting and then circ saw into 9 inch logs.

Will post vid when i have time

I had one made and bought a power pack - a good option if your after speed 700 mm travel 15 second return two stage pump on power pack. Cost around £2000

where in west midlands

Just purchased power pack to power homemade splitter rather than use tractor. I have to say one of the best purchases i've made. Two stage pump 18 hp engine, had it running most of the day on £7 of petrol, tractor free to do tractor jobs Long hydraulic pipes to reduce fumes, and now looking at hydraulic chainsaw to run of it. Much more compact and more space in the shed.

I have 375 pro mixed opinion after having used my mates posch with circ saw. Great on straight timber until the last cut, the clamp holding the log in place isn't as good as the posch meaning the log twists and the saw jams. I have the circ saw set up next to the Japa and any that jam split longer and send through the saw. If fuelwood sort the clamping system its a good machine. Nice people to deal with.

Smee timber or whitmore's timber in winsford have just shut down three big timber kilns. I know they are going to scrap them, might be worth a call if anyone is thinking of drying serious amounts of wood.

Try local timber yards, when I have a request for kiln dried i send logs in IBC crates and it comes back 8-9% 4 days later costs £30 but i just add that to price of logs. Instead of £65 m3 becomes £100. £5 m3 for me . I have ornamental logs dried this way, and Swedish candles. Just another option to consider. I have drawn up plans for our own kiln, basically a steel box with fins, where waste wood is burnt. The fins act as a big radiator in a second compartment where 2m3 of wood 2 IBC crates can go. In between the fins two greenhouse fans blowing warm air through the wood. We will build this and when we do will post pics

was cutting logs Sunday wasn't fit for a duck. Looked in the car and it was 4 degrees. Sales as good as they were in Jan, so can't complain. Only downside is a load of kiln dried wood for kindling got wet, same story as many others wind blew sheets off.