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Try Earnshaws of Midgley also there is a guy selling seasoned stuff, number in Yorkshire Post Country Section (Saturday)

I think that everyone is missing a point / trick. I sell around 150 x 10kg bags of compressed biquettes a season along with my logs and how I market them is as an alternative to kindling (which I also sell). They give the customer an easy way to light their wood burner and it gives them a hot base ideal for wood burners and open fires alike. I never try to sell them as an alternative to logs as this would be just silly, logs are my main winter business and I would not detract from that.

Hows this for an answer..... A split Ifor Trailer (4x8') slightly heaped up equates to around 600kg green, therefore you can almost get 2 trailer loads per tonne. I sell that trailer load for £120 per load, so you are approximately getting around £200 per tonne. So if a tonne green wood is £50 of mixed hardwood and processing takes around 20 mins (using a processor) at a cost for 2 men of £30 including materials and fuel, you have the potential to turn an aproximate proffit of around the £120 mark, more realistically you will be around the £80. I hope this helps, it is volume that will make you the money, if you muck around doing 20 tonnes or even 50 tonnes, it is a lot of hard work for jeff all, aim high, do a business plan that aims for this, I have gone from 60 tonnes to 225 in 5 hears looking to do over 500 in another 3.....

Grate / Great Idea, how much does it cost and what machines does it fit?

I was a member of BNI in Harrogate. All I can say is that is a complete waste of time and more importantly money. You spend half your life worrying about finding other people business and then you spend the other half chasing up pointless leads that don't bring you anything in return. Spend your money on a decent advertising campaign and use your existing customer base to act as your referals... Hope this helps

I am paying £55pt for mixed hardwood, same as last year. No change there! Mild winter but more demand so prices the same also fuel has not dropped at all..

Just as a point with regards to the clamp on the Japa, yes it is pants, but what I have found is that the odd lengths of 12 to 18" go into the charcoal kiln and produce great product for what is effectively an ofcut waste

Can I have some at that price, you get alot more for your money on the birch but I agree with the others mix it up. Paying £50 per tonne up here in N. Yorks, buy as much as you can afford at that price!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can hire out my Japa 375 with operator, but you are looking at around 300 per day plus the moving of the machine to you plus need a tractor with pto min 35hp. Can do around 7 tonnes of hardwood per day but as previous comments say, need a loadall with grab to load and that will also cost, so might be worth looking towards the 2nd hand market for a machine that may cost 3k but will be well worth it. Or why not just use chainsaw and petrol splitter!?????????

It all depends on the amount of wood to split, I would always go the petrol way and also towable, then you can take the splitter to the wood and not the wood to the splitter! If you are only doing a tonne or 2 at home then electric will be better for the neighbours as the petrol ones throw out a few dbs

I do 200 tonnes of hardwood a year on a 375 basic and regardless to the other comments, its the bomb, I have 2 chains and all I do is sharpen one every morning and if I have a quiet moment I sharpen the other, it takes around 10 mins as it is only a .325 on 64 links. With regards to the shavings, I use a 1 tonne dumpy bag and lift these into a trailer and sell it to a local farmer for £2 a bag for pig bedding (cash only). It will take a log as long as you can handle and upto 14" in diameter. It is a great machine that is well priced (I should work for them). If you can get hold of a ripping chain then even better... Fuelwoods are a great company to deal with if you have a problem also.

Thanks all, pigs and chickens it is then.... I quite like the idea of composting it down as a soil improver although I will need to build some bays to store it / turn it / bag it / sell it... bugger it, pig poo absorber it is, all the best. Dan

50 per tonne for hardwood (processor size) and slightly less for softwood......

Any ideas what to do with all the chainsaw sawdust from the processor. Currently using it for chicken bedding / pig bedding and burn the rest. Too wet to make into briquettes any thoughts welcome

I think that it is a wood boss. Looking for around 600 cost me 1.5k new.... done some serious splitting.... if you are interested... let me know and I will PM you.... Dan