StephF
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So if I test moisture content of every load, which is recorded on each invoice, I am in possession of felling licences, give storage instruction, I still have to be part of the Hetas scheme?? I sell under 600m3 per year. We wouldn’t have a firewood business if I sold wet wood!!
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My husband gave me one years ago and I managed to put it in my arm, still got the scar[emoji23] I was his human log deck on our first firewood processor, my job to shift 3 metre lengths onto the machine...thankfull for the day I bought a log deck
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No idea where your yard is, but in Newcastle it costs £20 tonne to dump your waste, logs & chip. You should get Arb waste if people find out you are offering to take it. I know where all the free chip & log sites are, but prefer to get it to my yard for own use if travel distances allow..
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Don’t know how many of us, especially the women are still going strong over 50? But not looked at this site for a long time & never seen this thread! Just saying Hi to anyone who looks on it, I’m running a tree business started 1987 by my myself & late husband Tim Fathers, if anyone has heard of him I’d love to hear. Still out on the ground, though not up the trees.. [emoji4] -
My favourite boots, owned 4 pairs now.. always go back to them as they are warm, comfortable & very waterproof without costing a fortune. They are also easy to get in a size 6!
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Thanks, searched thread content & couldn't find that comment.
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I’ve missed the relevance of a 2 cubic metre load? Can someone explain
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What are your thoughts on firewood delivery during current lock down?
StephF replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Only other vehicles I see out on roads are delivering fuel or food etc, coal lorries, oil delivery wagons, couriers, postman etc, it’s still cold and there are homes that rely on logs for heating. It’s not busy, but I’m grateful to be doing deliveries now, I phone before to ask if customer can stay in house, tip logs, email invoice for bank transfer. It’s sad to see people waving at a window, they are lonely and isolated, but at least they can stack logs and have something useful to do? -
Hi Bill, Jen got the first aid course sorted for Friday, so all good. Hope you get a trainer for yours, I will be running an EFAW+F next April if you still need it done.
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Let me know,
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Who is running it Bill?
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Who's running it Bill?
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Bill, just checking Jen can make Friday, if so will get booked. I didn't realise it was this week!
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Hi Bill, everyone has current EFAW+F which I usually get a trainer in for. Just one new person who has not done the course needs it ASAP, could travel together if you go down to Leyburn on 15th.? I’ve not asked if any or how many places left yet. steph
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Member of staff needs to do this course ASAP, anyone in North East holding a course over next couple weeks with a spare place? Thanks in advance.
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Sitka makes good chip, and fuel, if it's processed well. I agree as I've heard story's about chip boilers not working properly because chips too wet or unevenly shaped. Also I know people who have used poor quality pellets and ended up with big problems this year, it must be difficult to source good quality chips and pellets.
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Last April in an FC customer liaison meeting they said were just registering importers for the time being, so nothing was being checked. It may have changed but I doubt it, they were very worried about Ash emerald beetle coming in, but still not checking, they wouldn't have enough money to do checks on all imported timber.
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I'm not going to name anyone but a company that supplies woodchip said to me recently they are 1,000's tonnes short for next year when I asked if they had a couple of hundred tonnes to sell!!
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Yes, I agree, I would like to know who was responsible for coming up with crazy unsustainable policies that pay people to burn wood to make electricity in a country that was not geared up for sustainably producing the timber required!
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I think the days of those prices has long gone...Sitka has been sold at £50-60 tonne STANDING, in last few weeks, in north UK.(£35 at roadside last 3-4 years) the reason is the Bio mass power stations, they are now paying £50tonne and need 7 waggon loads a day at Cramlington power station from within a 50 mile radius, other buyers can't compete so a crazy price war commencing. Gone are the days of cheap softwood here in NE, and probably all the forests as well over next 10 years as no one has been doing any serious planting. Are other parts of UK affected?
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The set up we saw in action had a machine for small diameter timber, one for medium, a crane with cone splitter that split the largest timber and used the screw to load log deck, they seemed to have all sized timber covered, and it was neatly all under cover! Our system is not quite that organised!
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That's impressive. Went to open day at Northumberland based 'Woodfuel barn' early in year, they had 3 feeding into one bagging system and it looked really good. Each machine handled different sized timber.
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Shame so wet! A mud bath by time we left. Not sure We would drive all this way again, much smaller than I thought. Conversations with other contractors pretty depressing, there is no money to be made in small scale forestry, which is supposed to be an area that needs to grow. It won't grow if woodland owners can't afford/ won't pay contractors enough money to run a business! I don't think that all the money made available in grants is filtering down to the contractors, they are getting paid less and have so much more expected of them than ever with machine running costs, labour, training, Health & Safety accreditation etc.
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I made the mistake of working out the charge for ALL my log sales, instead of the BSL invoices with BSL number on for the boiler owners, makes a big difference! Corrected before submitted but if it's something new then it's easy to misunderstand what you are supposed to be doing.
