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  1. ash_smith123
    Lyra it's amazing. Better on trail bikes! The blue and red runs are so much fun. You can do a full uplift day and not ride all the trails!
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    Do they? I can't seem to find them on their website?
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    South Wales is where it's at guys! [emoji12] Cwmcarn, Afan, brecfa and bike park Wales and hundreds of natural trails within 40 minutes of me!
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    Unfortunately we can't afford a deck yet so will have to find another way around it.
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    I'm going to be getting a Posch to replace my Farmi WP36 soon and was wondering if anyone knows where to get hydraulic or manual rollers to bolt onto my existing log deck?
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    Sorry Chris! I've been meaning to come and get them but we've been mental this week!
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    Yea Wilsons have a few I'm interested in. Offering a good price px for the farmi so might have a trade. Just wondering people's thoughts on them.
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    Hi, Just wondering what people think of the Posch 350? I'm going from a farmi WP36 and just want something that's abit less manual. Give my right arm a rest! Also can you drop 350mm+ rings in and split? Cheers Ash
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    My kilns been running at around 70degrees for the last few weeks. Blowing a big breeze through it as well!
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    Role of thumb for oak is an inch a year isn't it? So it must of been down for 10+ years!
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    I built my 130kw system for £19,000 and on the current rate it would give you just over £8k a year return on tier 1.
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    Might be the wrong way to think of it but if we don't take it someone else will. There is a pot of money to be used and it will go down to £0 at some point so someone else will be taking the money you could have had. Why shouldn't hard working businesses get something back? I get no help from the government/council any other way, all they try to do is screw every other last penny out of us! At least it's not going to benefit scroungers... (That's another argument for another thread ;-p )
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    But would that company still have some of that quality naturally dried firewood in Feb when it's still freezing? For most people that are air drying probably not!?
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    How do you know you can't sell kiln dried for £120 a cube? Thousands of people buy it for £150+ online. Just because say nobody else in your area sells it for over £100/110 it doesn't mean people won't buy yours for £120 if it's a quality product and you give a quality service. We were one of the first people doing kiln dried firewood around here 2/3 years ago. We were £130 at the time and the nearest to it was someone else selling seasoned for £95. We sold shed loads of it! To new stove owners, our existing customers and stove owners that had previously bought kiln dried online that just wanted to buy it locally. Just market it right and make sure it's good stuff!
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    We have kept ours the same at £120 a cube.. We were buying all our kiln dried in before so now including all processing/drying costs it's working out cheaper to get the product to the customer, and we can keep everything in house and keep on top of quality!
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    That's fair enough, is it the same in the none domestic though? Mine were both none domestic. I still can't get my head around why they don't insulate those glenfarrow kilns. We have had 2 kilns now one in a container and one timber building and the difference with insulation on and off for drying time was over 50%! How many cubic metres are you burning to dry your container load of logs?
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    We fitted 2 systems within a year of each other through the same RHI login and we had 2 different tariffs. 1 on 8.6 and the other on 6.9. Spoke to Ofgem about it at the time too as I heard a rumour that was the case and it's not unfortunately. I think the tariff is going down to 4.9p soon but that's still £8k a year on tier 1 on a 130kw eco angus!
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    What kiln do you have R5log? Is it a glenfarrow? How you getting on with it?
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    I had quotes of £45+vat last year! I think it's come down to £35/40 now but still a far cry from £15/20 I was paying from the same supplier 2 years ago!
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    It burns if it's dry! Dry it properly and sell mixed hardwood/softwood loads. We used to sell shed loads of mixed loads but the price of softwood around here is about the same as hardwood so we don't bother anymore.
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    Our cheap tunnels off eBay lasted about 18 months. 1 got destroyed by wind and the other fell apart from the sun. Worked ok though. Was drying wood in a few months
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    I might be interested! Pm your price
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    Sg baker for me! Used them a few times now and they seem great
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    With decent timber as in every piece 500mm and dead straight maybe, that just doesn't exist. I bet our wp36 would be quicker on 12" and under stuff And actually produce logs that people can fit in the stove or that's not kindling.
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    Think I would rather buy something upto £20K that would take 400ish and chainsaw anything over. I only have a Farmi wp36 and on average we only have about 10% of a load that won't go through. That 10% takes us a morning to chainsaw and split in the wp36. I've just had 5 loads of 1st thinnings ash come in all 4-12" dia. couldn't imagine how long it would take with one of these big machines. With 80k you could buy a decent processor, forklift for inside work. Telehandler for outside work, a decent chainsaw, a splitter and have spare cash for a kiln system!

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