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    Yea I second walkers, they seem like a very professional setup
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    It's not what he asked for is the main problem
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    Very true! youve just got to wonder when the price rise is going to stop. We are also a timber merchant and decking/fencing timber and sheet material has also gone up around 50/60% at wholesale over the last year with no sign of it stopping. It will always be passed onto the end user but when does the end user just stop buying it. When we started firewood 6 years ago I was buying in hardwood for £40 a ton delivered, now its £80, in another 5/6 years is it going to be £160? Will people pay £200+ for a cubic metre? Who knows but I'm not keeping all my eggs in a firewood basket, try and diversify to keep the business sustainable
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    We went fully over to only producing the softwood about 2 months ago and it's already been a success. It's about 40% softwood to 60% kiln dried hardwood at the moment. Only had 2 people moan that we're not doing seasoned hardwood anymore so far but they both paid the extra £20 a went for kiln dried. We will see!!
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    I'm not sure, works out at £72 a loose cubic metre when buying it in imported. At £80 a ton your looking at £53ish a loose cubic metre before you've even touched it. When you add on everything else there's not alot in it I would say.
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    Importing most of my kiln dried in this year. Hardwood is getting very hard to find around south Wales and prices are getting up to £80+ a ton thanks to euro forest taking every scrap of hardwood from the south Wales area to Kent for biomass. I'm producing softwood as it's readily available, easier to process and quicker to kiln dry. Still burns very well and saving the customer 20% off our old "seasoned hardwood" prices.
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    I can get the outside of the logs to zero in a few hours in the kiln, doesn't mean it's dry. Readings should be taken from the middle of the split face
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    Yes had a load of ash in at £70 a ton..softwoods £55 now too but luckily it's been so dry the chipwoods coming in at 15% when split [emoji106]
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    Yes had a load of ash in at £70 a ton..softwoods £55 now too but luckily it's been so dry the chipwoods coming in at 15% when split [emoji106]
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    There's been hardly any hardwood available in South Wales this year! The last couple of softwood loads came in as "chipwood" with 5/10% ash in it. They are just not separating it at roadside. Heard from a few people Euroforest are sending pretty much every scrap from around here to as biomass plant in Kent to avoid massive failer to supply fines. CW are even struggling to find it. Softwood it is then!
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    I've just ordered a 375! Hopefully here by the end of the month. Will let you know how the half stroke setting works. We are doing a lot of softwood this year so I think the half stroke on 10-12" softwood will be rapid!!
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    We have the whole business insured with NFU and they seem quite reasonable for what is covered
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    Yes south Wales there's nothing. Managed to secure 4 loads of ash bit nothing else on the horizon. Think we are going to offer softwood for the first time
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    I just don't get how they are going to police this "READY TO BURN" sh**e. So they come and test your product, I show them a batch of crates that are all under 20% and I get the accreditation. The next week when they have left I knock out a load of firewood at 30% under the ready to burn scheme? The badge becomes pointless. I've been going for 6 years selling thousands of cubic metres and not once been asked if I have any accreditation. Just another tax and paperwork time cost that will have to be passed on to the end customer.
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    We sold a few cubic metres of softwood to regular customers for £70 a cubic metre when we didn't have any softwood left at the end of the winter. If your thinking of selling to firewood merchants around south Wales by the builders bag your probably looking at £15/20 max a bag delivered. I've just bought a few loads of softwood cord for kindling at £35 a ton and he only got 21 ton on as it was so dry. I'm only in Pontypool and might be interested in it for £35 a ton delivered to put in the biomass boilers if you can't shift it
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    Look at the woodland mills. Speak to Chris at Woodland mills UK
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    Depends on the size of your house but a big woodburner with back boiler can work well. We have a lot of customers that run a 15-25kw stove with backboiler and it runs their heating and hot water no problem
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    I've bought a few nets off Glossop at the end of this winter to keep us ticking over and they've been top quality nets! Couldn't recomend them enough [emoji106]
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    50% of the RHI would be fine [emoji6][emoji23] The only problem you might have now is that the domestic RHI has stopped I think! Worth a try though
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    That's odd as I have 3 domestic customers with 65kw boilers and 1 with 80kw.
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    Whoever told you it was too big for the RHI was lying [emoji848] Domestic would have run for 7 years and if it's a big net very well insulated house you would have got a good chunk on domestic RHI!
  23. ash_smith123
    have you looked at the Farmi for smaller diameter Bent stuff!? The wp36 I have before was rapid on small stuff with loads of space for bent stuff
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    Timed 2 of us doing 12 cubic metres in 2.5 hours yesterday. Ranging between 6-12 inch diameter
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    No they aren't I'm afriad.

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