Crazy Cutter
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It must be colder where you are than here! Touched 20 today the second homeowner doesn't think about wood when its like this!
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Stihl seem to have supplied a lot of new saws for the day. Shiny! Anyway i do hope the timber went for something useful and not firewood.
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Riko saw bench with hydraulic conveyor, Any good???
Crazy Cutter replied to Cookie's topic in Firewood forum
Have been looking at the 30 tonne splitter was a bit concerned when this thread came up. Its good to hear happier comments. -
Really has slowed over the last two weeks. 10 to 16 cube per week at present. Did a lot over the summer and it would seem those who want to be prepared are now prepared so will just wait for the cold! The wood will only get better.
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Two things with their website: 1: The comparison page. Any thoughts? 2: The products page seems to imply that seasoned wood is 30 to 50%. Does this mean that only kiln dried wood is burnable? Is that not misleading for the novice wood buyer looking for seasoned wood but has been told to burn 20% or below?
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The Morso one on ebay. No problems just remove battery when not in use.
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Removing the wooden section from a hi-lift wedge?
Crazy Cutter replied to andy_mac's topic in Maintenance help
Put it in the oven on high for 5 mins the wood shrinks and then falls out when you remove it. the same goes when fitting the ring put both shaft and ring in oven for a little while then hammer on lightly when hot bit like a wagon wheel. -
OCT I am too expensive DEC I have run out
Crazy Cutter replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
I agree with all that's been said. I just can't cut and season it quick enough! BUT price again this year seems to be the key here and the customer has faith that you will deliver seasoned for that price! -
You could try me!
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I would let it go if you can. You will get plenty more customers who will respect what you do. I am seeing the same thing this year cheap wood is no longer out there and the customer doesn't like it. Expect this to happen more often as the firewood market attracts new customers who have been used to cheap fuel. Legally you have no rights to collect the wood whether paid for or not and if the customer is an arse will just land yourself in more bother?
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Yes i thought 50%. Just get fed up with people locally bragging how many tonnes they do in a year! I don't work in tonnes just cubes whether split or cord just was trying to compare what i'm shifting to the boys buying it in.
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Well its just the calculations aren't adding up at the mo!
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Could anyone please give me the weight of a green split metre cube? Hardwood and softwood if poss and what percentage air is there in a split cubic metre. Just trying to work out how many tonnes i've done so far and how many more to go!
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The shooting aspect would really worry me. Have yet to find a gamekeeper who is easy to deal with and you will be stepping on his toes! It is very rare to find woodlands where shooting and timber management go hand in hand hence the reason Norfolk has so many under managed woodlands.
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Foxley wood owned by NWT is worth a look?
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The retail price is something we all need to remember. We now live in very strange times prices can go up but it doesn't mean people will pay it. From my experience the firewood customer wants a good sized load, dry but at a cheap price. I'm still getting people hang up at my cheaper prices! I feel the way forward for me is to just knock out more loads without increasing the price too much. It will keep the consultant happy as i will take more wood from him!
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Cos my E reg 110 has done 200,000, has 250.00 spent on it a year, does all i ask it and more, pulls 3 and a half most days, still goes after being turned over, can be fixed with rubber bands and the odd dent doesn't change the price.
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Installing a log burner in a mobile home
Crazy Cutter replied to Tree Man Tom's topic in General chat
We had a piece of slate behind the woodburner touching the wall. The heat got too much one day and radiated through two sheets of fireproof sheet setting fire to the caravan wall. Luckily my father was round noticed the smoke and ripped the wall apart to get an extinguisher in there! Everytime we let the air in the fire got worse but we did save the caravan. Don't those powder extinguishers make a mess!! Anyway sit it far enough away from the wall, fireproof it and don't lean anything behind it. -
I would say the hardwood price is varying between 65.00 to 75.00 per cube in Norfolk split with mileage on top. Some of us though don't buy our wood in, just standing so our overheads are going to be lower and can charge a lower price. We had disagreements about this on here a few months ago! I have noticed a lot of the smaller 'old boys' doing wood aren't out there this year, maybe been priced out? and the paper has very few firewood advents. Still have not sold one load of softwood!!
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Sell mainly beech i find it easy to split and seasons fast. But if left too long in the woods before stacking it goes spalted which is rotting rather than seasoning! An old lady told me the other day that her stove installer told her all her wood had to have a cut face on every side so she had given away all her round firewood! Does anyone else have any stove installer stories? The big one in norfolk is they tell everyone not to burn softwood, so i don't have one softwood customer cos the installer is always right.
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Not bad at all, maybe just leave your hinges a touch fatter as you have bored the middle. Is that a brown oak and what use will the tree have?
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Staverton Park in Suffolk also has some very high ones which Rackham calls giraffe pollards. They must have been a nightmare to cut with an axe unless they were always cut small? Those french pollards look lovely, and also look as though pollarding was stopped more recently than the uk. Same they aren't here good source of firewood!
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Shredding is the term for the system in france. Personally we need more pollards.
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If the original use was to stop cattle then above 6 to 7 foot is pollarding? But there are coppice stools 3 foot high in some woods above the height of rabbits which resemble pollards!
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Pollarding was rarely carried out in woodlands only used to define boundaries. Pollarding was used in fields or hedgerows where there were livestock. Woodlands had large banks and ditches to stop deer.
