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  1. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  2. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  3. sandbach-sticks
    Will post vid when i have time
  4. sandbach-sticks
    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
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    700mm circ saw and splitter - comes with operator

    Japa 375 pro good for cordwood better with circ saw and splitter if it is Arb waste you have?

  6. sandbach-sticks
    where in west midlands
  7. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  8. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  9. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  10. sandbach-sticks
    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
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    £1.5 less than 100 bags 1.4 >100 this has resulted in most my customers going for 100 bags. Co-op idea would mean we could target BBQ etc. Would mean members could get up to £1.60-£1.70 a bag, probably have to produce 2000-3000 at a time. Do you use cord wood for kindling or offcuts from timber yards etc?

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    Im in the same position as you, want to expand, but the bigger you get the more you can get messed about. They will try and knock you down to £1-£1.2 a bag. I decided to target all independent garages, garden centers etc etc and it is paying off. Good luck and would be interested to know how you go. It would be great if there was an Arbtalk Co-op where we could supply nationally and keep more profit for us :) I suppose quality and consistency are the issue.

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    Be careful when supplying these, i have heard good and bad. someone i know supplied 7.5 ton full of kindling only to be told order was now cancelled and had to go and pick it up!!

  14. sandbach-sticks
    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.
  15. sandbach-sticks
    where are you based unimog
  16. sandbach-sticks
    Look good but expensive, i picked some some for less than half that. At the right price would be interested as they are really good!
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    No
  18. sandbach-sticks
    I buy offcuts that are sorted for me. Use the circular saws with a trough so push 8-10 pieces of waste a time through into a box next to the kindling machine. Do 3 cube get bored, then do three hours on the kindling machine, get bored, load the bags onto a trailer and deliver. Then start again. From start to finish we can do around 50 bags an hour, I pay £20-£30 a cube, but the wood is well sorted and stacked neatly on a pallet, it is kiln dried so gets processed and then straight out, consistent and although not a huge profit keeps us ticking over.
  19. sandbach-sticks
    Not syrup but iv'e made birch sap wine lovely!!
  20. sandbach-sticks
    I put one of these on after every 6 months of burning, then sweep 2-3 wks later. Works a treat sticky residue does become brittle. I live in tall vic terrace, and got 2 bin liners of clinker type material fall down, in 15m of flue liner.
  21. sandbach-sticks
    Busier now than in Feb-March. Just done accounts and still investing everything i earn, two more purchases and hopefully next year I will start making a little coin! Kindling going better than logs (maybe all the logs are wet around here? and need a bit of persuasion with a few sticks). I am a chimney watcher and there are a lot of fires been lit around here at the moment (sad i know), much busier than this time last year.
  22. sandbach-sticks
    I am shifting a lot of kindling at the moment £1.30 + 20% VAT could get 300 bags up to you will be delivery charge (depending on mileage). Best regards Rob
  23. sandbach-sticks
    I have just started supplying kiln dried logs in IBC crates. Still trying to get pricing right, but would be interested in supplying wholesale.
  24. sandbach-sticks
    50cm by 40 cm
  25. sandbach-sticks
    We get 60-80, depending on how much waste is generated after we cut 1m3 into 6inch lengths. I would say 80-90 per m3 if already cut.

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