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I am looking for a supplier in the north west, nets must be big at least 6or7 kgs and dry! If they can be put on a pallet I can have them collected. Please pm me

A guy over here was stopped from selling pallet wood kindling, not sure who stopped him though! --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.218269,-4.420784

An open system is old tech but in your case it could be a god send! It means you could effectively simply replace your oil boiler with a wood one. You wouldn't need a heat exchanger water cylinder etc. I'm being very simplistic I know. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.217394,-4.420973

These guys have various options. Eco Angus Wood Burning Boilers - Home Do you have an open/vented or pressurised system currently installed?

Good idea, will look at making one for mine. Have the same splitter, its been very reliable for me and i have had it for 2 years now. I have extended the chopping deck so i have more space to work when its attached to the tractor. But mainly i have it attached to a table made from a telegraph pole and railway sleepers.

LOL I have been burning the sweepings from the splitting room floor, tip it in the top of my stove from a box and burns a treat!

Bundles of fuel are selling really well for me! 4 Nets, briquettes, kindling and firelighters... Can only target a small area obviously but margins are good. Not everyone can store, afford or take on a cube of logs... --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.217748,-4.421089

Where do timber and plastic sheeting roofs stand with planning? I take they should be made so they are none permanent movable structures?

My doctor said i have tennis elbow, i booked myself in with a proper sports physio and he said the problem was with my back. He worked on my shoulders and in between them, this released my tendons down my arms. He then worked on my elbows and gave me warm up excercises etc to do. It took 3 weeks to sort me out and I have not had a problem with it since!

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Shouldnt this be in the Lunge thread?

I sell both, works for me, gives people the choice! £85 builders bag, £120 a vented cube bag

People are loving the to the door service, our island is pretty small so you can group deliveries easily and make good profit from sending the Suzuki CarryAll out with a full load of nets!

Are you guys covering your loads when you take them out to stop the rain soaking the logs? I have had two loads where the client was making a fuss about the wet logs and asking how long will they take to dry. I have a thick tarp that i am going to eyelet and use to cover my loads in future, people dont seem to or afford to be able to plan ahead so providing ready to burn logs is the way forward. Frankly the weather over here has been so dam wet the fact they got a cube bag at all is a miracle as my 4x4 tractor is now strugling in the mud on the field where my bags are stored. Oh how next year will be different, i cant wait to get some hard standing and roads put in! Cant believe how many loads I am putting out a week, also amazed at how popular kilndried logs are to people new to the woodburners and how many people actually just want to buy 3 or 6 nets of seasoned logs at a time. Problem with those smaller deliveries is the time taken finding the persons house the first time you deliver! Once they are repeat clients i find it pretty quick dropping off so you can make loads of net deliveries in a day and the margins in nets is better than for cube bags. Why is it that the house you have to deliver to always has no number or house name on the wall? I went to one delivery today, Number 2 such and such road, I knocked on the door of Number 2 and an old lady came to the door, sorry there are 3 Numbers twos on this road... oookaaay.. and she pointed out the one where the people had just had a new stove fitted.

Me too without hesitation!

The only real solution is to buy another vehicle, you need to have a loader and fork lift to make the process proper quick. I was able to borrow a skid steer and telehandler to fill all my cube bags. I made a scaffold tower will ply wood funnel, worked a treat. Bagged and stacked 20 tonnes in two days on my own. --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=54.217338,-4.421032

A - you don't value your client list then?

Create a Page | Facebook Once you have a business page you can create adverts and target people in your town/city only! Set your campaign budget or pay per click, make your advert a ['special offer' 4 packs of briquettes, net of kindling and firelighters only £20!] people love a deal ;-)

Sales from my business facebook page have been superb, don't be so quick to disregard new sales media! 300 people who like the page is a lot of potential clients...

I gave 20 packs of mine away to people from my face book page and asked them to write reviews for me. Worked a treat, once people try mine they love them and tell their mates. Education is the key, as is a very competative price for a good product.

I am selling loads of them, I tried loads of them and settled on the one i am stocking now. Kiln dried compressed sawdust briquettes. I buy them from my supplier, stack them down the side of my garage so they are nice a dry and can more than double my money selling them at £5.50 per pack of 12. Delivered 25 packs of them today... which was nice.

All my hardwood stock currently going out is 22-25%, i would like it drier but i didnt have the funds in place to buy it till april so its only been drying since the start of may. I have another 40cube that was bought in July, thats was at 26-29% last time i had batteries in my meter about 6 weeks ago. When the time comes ill will offer it forsale and let people know the situation. Some of that stock is getting put in nets next week and stacked in my empty polly tunnel, which i am hoping will enable me to sell it to the net market after christmas. Personally i think 25% is the accepted cut off point, but maybe next year when and if i have some of this years stock left and its less than 20% maybe ill change my mind and become more snobby! ;-) I was at my suppliers on Monday, the nets being prepared for CPL were green hardwood direct from the processer or green softwood direct from the processer. I have also tested my local garages softwood and again off the clock on my meter so 39%+! the crap some people pay £6.40 for is amazing!!!

In France, where my folks live, they stack the logs on a pallet then wrap them with the same stuff. But I think they have to sell by a sacked volume there?

All but 4 valves were bent. Rather than waste anymore time or money on this engine i have opted to change the engine. I have access to an almost identical van/chassis, it crunches into 3/4 but its engine is fine. So i aquired the donor this afternoon and drove it back to the yard, the transplant will take place over the next couple of days. Going to make a braked tipping trailer out of the donors chassis, as i have a well used tipping body that i was contemplating fitting to the donors chassis till this incident happened.

The pulley had fallen off, but unfortunately it was still attached to a section of camshaft! The cam has snapped right at the end!! It doesnt look like the cam has got hot and seized up, and it looks like there is plenty of oil getting up to the top of the engine. As oil was squirting out of the oil ways when were were churning it over to attempt to compression test. Couldnt get the tester to tighten up enough as the plug holes are deep in the middle of the motor! So as far as i can see its not mechanic error, poor lad was working in the dark to strip it down and see whats happened for me.