Crazy Cutter
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So we go from the wettest record year to one of the warmest starts! New title needed 'atlantic blast coming' going to be 13 here for rest of week i just can't get my head round it anymore.
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I feel we have a lot more of this to come! 10 to 15 years ago hardwood planting round here used a small dia metal stake and not wood. Can't remember the manu but most estates used them. The plantations i seen over the last few years the tube has fell off but the tree has grown around the stake so beware when thinning.
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Personally for me there is still too much manual handling in the process. Ram speed looks a touch slow as well though larger hp tractor would change that. I'm finding the metre billet system still quickest if storing outside?
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No left as is but advertised in local church mag. Have 50 tonnes of soft which just won't dry and 50 tonnes of hard too difficult to get out so going to call it a day for sales this year. Prices will be up in new year will let everyone else get on with it now have only seen crap delivered over last few weeks. Not one order for barrow bags but still plenty for softwood! Sorry for doom and gloom dave will dry harder next year!
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Hi Jon, 4 cube left to do for family tomorrow then done! All seasoned wood gone winter 2013/14 here we come! Volume down, turnover up, profit same, complaints up, compliments up! Start felling jan for next year have a great xmas everyone.
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Delivered 4 2 cube loads today all the same wood 18% on inside all fine bar one woman or couldn't believe how damp the wood was, been on trailer overnight so yes damp. I kept gob shut and took the money. One of the others had been sold the same softwood by someone else but thought it was hardwood!
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You may make 300 in december but depending on where you are you will struggle to find enough sales the rest of the year. Look at the other recent thread on firewood sales this week. Everything done right but no customers.
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No i don't deliver the dark side of norwich anymore! Sold the last two cube of hardwood yesterday and softwood flying off the shelf so to speak luckily have got some nice seasoned stacked chip stuff at the same price as i pay for standing hardwood. Back to the thread first customer yesterday moaned that i was 15 mins early thought it was a joke then realised it wasn't, kept my cool, let him run on etc then told him we no longer had an appointment. Had saved the last two cube of hardwood for him for two weeks! Drove off with him frantically waving for me to stop. Have a waiting list for hardwood so quick call and off to someone grateful.
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I was hoping you would soon, i base my prices on yours!
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Stock fencers- what order do you strain up?
Crazy Cutter replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Landscaping
Personally i always try and build gripples into the fence so that you can quickly re-tension even on the net. T-clips save so much time on tying off and personally would now use 3.15 plain instead of barbed. Ht means you don't have to have strainers at 50m spacing. Oh and bottom wire first then net and then other two using gripples so i don't slacken the net. Use kiwi's know far more than us. -
It could also be the size of the delivery truck. They haven't got time to think about size of trucks and access. Try a smaller one landrover for one bag? People don't want hassle when buying, they don't like to think, make it as easy as possible. The amount of people i've got who compare load price not load size!
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All so true. Did Herts need another firewood merchant? I know Norfolk doesn't need anymore. Cord will be in short supply in 2013 including softwood so maybe look to sell cord direct to your firewood merchants. We have plenty of people here doing logs but no one can offer volume production of consistent dry product at a decent rate 70 to 80 a cube that will satisfy 95% of the buying public.
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Take the splitter into the woods for a day and you make more moveable timber if access is bad or tight for your timber trailer. I process where the tree falls. Easier for me personally. Those without a splitter a maul and wedges are just as good on beech,ash,oak,chestnut and syc. Summer often syc only takes a tap on the end to split and will be dry in three months.
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No don't stack but then usually get roped into it, such as being elderly, disabled etc so feel sorry but am finding that's most of the population now and i must be a soft touch!
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Polyporus squamosus - extensive white rot.
Crazy Cutter replied to David Humphries's topic in Tree health care
I know this has nothing to do with polyporus but would value all your opinions? Have been to look at a young N. Spruce, mature White Poplar and youngish (30 years) Ash all have snapped at around 3m. Located in different parts of Norfolk so 20 miles at least between sites. No signs of fungus or rot. We had a fairly major gale last week but what could cause the failure? -
Top blokes at Rouse's could i just say that if we all keep buying over the internet top places like that will be gone and we will all be in a muddle when ours saws need fixing in a hurry. We have already lost Robin Smith's i've been told. Rouse's have always given good discount and have always been there when the internet hasn't.
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Stick your hardwood where the sun don't shine
Crazy Cutter replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Firewood forum
I deliver to two americans and a canadian, they reckon they always took hardwood over softwood if there was a choice out there. -
I would say 3.62 - 50% air = 1.81m3 1.81m3 x 40.00 hardwood roadside = 72.40. Add on top delivery for a small volume + handball both ends = 120.00 well thats what people pay me. 50% air was the traditional allowance because it was small underwood in a cord sub 3 inch usually today we have the FC blue book with allowances for each species. I had beech go out recently with 35% air. Currently 40.00 per M3 hardwood roadside seems the norm here still paying 20.00 standing.
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It depends how much you wish to spend. Decent un bent cabs are difficult to find and seem to go for silly money on ebay. The conversion is all quite simple and not too many bits needed. Go to your landrover parts place, they will have a diagram on the computer which has the part numbers, bolts etc on it.
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Gensetsteve you may just be right this time! The phones ringing this time round, so the customers must believe it and they are never wrong?
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i find the keepers won't let anyone in barring their mate who does logs!
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Tony i take it the black stains are also on mature trees, i'm seeing it everywhere at present on oak but no stools?
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Does 47.50 + vat20%= 57.00?
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Aren't you the lucky one! Yeti stated in a thread yesterday he may call it a day! Sad times ahead when know ones left to cut the trees down.
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This year the world and his wife are doing logs! Why because this country is broke, this is not beer money its survival to pay the mortgage, everyone round here is doing logs as a sideline and yes it may not be dry but who cares its not cold yet. The 60 quid load is what everyone wants and they are lapping it up! The trouble is the cordwood is short and the cutters like me are also broke so whats the point in cutting? I took a break as advised by gensetsteve and still the orders don't come. The only people flying past me with loads on are the big farming estates deliverying and hey thats just another arguement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
