pembswoodrecycling

Thanks guys that's helpful. Don't think I'll be able to fill artics any time soon, but I'll definitely look into garden centres etc especially since I already supply a couple with lit's. Sorry about how I first worded the question, I'll spend a few more hours pouring over it next time!!

Thanks tommer that's really useful. Basically a chipper will pay for itself eventually, and although not a fortune it could generate some form of income from what was previously waste, can't lose! [Thumb up:]

Is that a trade secret?

In his defence the news says arctic is getting smaller!

Okay fair enough, what about smaller outlets? is there much call for chip at garden centres etc?

In the past we've hired a chipper but just used the chip around the farm, gateways etc, applying for the D7 exemption would be the next step (not burnt anything to date), but we may not need to bother with that if we were to chip all our waste. For biomass is just a pile outside sufficient? we have hard standing, not concrete though. is there a time limit? the chip must start to rot eventually? also how would you get in touch with some such company?

thats's neither helpful nor relevant. Clearly I'm asking for advice and suggestions. Still setting up and finding my feet. considering all options, I would say is inherrantly not stupid. Do you, PhilBeech, know everything about everything in the world ever?.........clearly not. "Learning is only the progressive realisation of our own ignorance" - Albert Einstein A stupid question it may be, but could someone please put forward something useful?

Anyone have any thoughts on how and where its best to sell wood chip to? I don't have a chipper at the moment, but it seems such a waste setting fire to all that brash.

Someone should start a fan club for Oxdale.... I'd join!

Still chapter than a whole crawler though I'll guess.

All of a sudden the name Difflock makes sense!

Its a shame to mess about with it, these type of buildings were commonly used as piggeries, damned good sheds for workshops etc.

Apart from the concrete pannels at the bottom it all looks like asbestos to me. I wouldn't let that put you off too much though, Hire the appropriate skip, do it in the rain with a hosepipe running on it, wear approriate PPE (good quality dust mask) and don't go trying to break it up/saw it/ chew on it and you'll manage just fine. Pulling nails out gently doesn't make much dust in itself.

Bump, Bump.... Any idea if this would work with Poplar? just a thought.

Ah the bitter voice of experience! How dare people order logs whilst you're trying to to your christmas shopping!

Fell it, use it, if it's dry it will burn. Plus light oak is probably still heavier than other hardwoods. It depends how desperate you are for it really.

where are you stinkyhinsky, and what sort of quantity are you looking for?

As long as you can still see the wood for the trees, so to speak!

how wet can wood be before you put it in bags like this?

Can the yields really be that good though? some of the websites claim 10ton/acre/year!!! if thats true then that makes just the logs worth about £700/acre/year, thats more than three times what you can expect to make with beef cattle on good clean land. It can't be right or everyone would have already turned their land back into trees.

Sorry to derail the thread a little, but what sort of yield do you expect, in terms of volume per acre, after five years of growth? and is that likely to be the same every five years thereafter?

Go to a scrap yard and ask them to keep an eye out for a starter, people scrap old machine tools and the like all the time, twenty quid would probably buy you one.

I meant that you could do the chainsaw work! :lol: easily, it all burns. offer someone a great big bag of wood for a tenner and they won't say no, nails or not. Also, garden centres are good customers, as well as small agricultural merchants and coal merchants. and even some log suppliers who can't be bothered themselves. Sorry to be writing essays.

....also the remaining blocks from the pallets make excellent logs, but you're left with the nails in the ash, personally I don't mind picking them out, and if you fill a builders bag with them someone is bound to give you a tenner for it.

I think you're on to a winner. Pallets is how I started, use a bit of common sense, i.e. if they're blue, red or green, or smell of anything other than fresh timber then steer well clear, but otherwise its difficult to go wrong. trick is to get all the sticks a uniform length, thats what makes them look really tidy, cut the boards off the pallets with a chainsaw if you've got one, failing that a bow saw (don't faff about with taking nails out), make a jig so that you can then cut each one to the same length (6"-7.5"). nail two 3" planks to a board an inch apart (plywood perhaps), slot your six inch pads into the gap and chop! (I found after a while that a machette was the best tool for the job) - be sure to wear appropriate PPE - gloves, goggles etc and keep your fingers out of the way! Find or make a box as wide as your sticks, that the nets will just fit over, fill the box up, bag over the top, turn it over, bobs your uncle. once you get going you'll learn to do it in batches, I got to about seven nets an hour at my best. you'll never get rich, but its great pocket money, and much more interesting than a paper round!