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eBay bargains do happen, I bought £3000 worth of baler on there for £700 last week, but you've got to go and see it! It was only cheap because farmers won't buy things out of season. By the same token anything firewood related should be going for a premium at this time of year. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.....
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What do you charge for your briquettes Phil?
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I agree totally renewablejohn, its alot of capital to outlay, even for a small set up, but processing costs would then be quite low once running. The attraction is earning £350/ton for something I've had for free. What I'm more concerned about is will I be able to find anyone to buy it? With logs and sticks there has been such little set up cost that it doesn't really matter if I don't sell any at all! - with something more specialised I would need to know that theres a market for it.
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Is there much of a market for briquettes now, what sort of prices do they command and is it worth having a machine to make them? Seriously considering getting one soon, but would like to know if there'd be any interest in it. I'm in the South Wales area. Thanks in advance everyone!
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We attached a bar to the splitter with a string to the throttle of the tractor, wasn't great, not sure it would have saved you anyway by the time the tractor shut down. seriously best seering clear!
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The more you buy the cheaper they are, I buy them from a local packaging supplier in lots of 100 for about 12p each +vat. I think they're meant for carrots or swedes or something. try the 'bay or a local agri supplier.
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I'm selling it to shops for £2.50 for a net of about 3Kg, small quantities though, 20 or 30 nets at a time.
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we had one for a few years, it was a "Barkbuster", we had terrible trouble with it bending the shaft the cone is mounted on. dangerous things as well when they grip the log, especially with knotty softwood. spend the same money on a hydraulic splitter.
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thats probably great if you've got a kindling machine! It wouldnt be worth my while doing it for that by hand, I suppose you'd sell them enough to justify having the machine though?
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Appologies, I didn't mean to offend anyone
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Well that's me advertising myself as "cheaper then the uk's leading hardware and garden store!"
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Grow wheat for food, use the straw as Biomass, seems quite straight forward to me, any land that can't grow crops plant up with trees and/or graze sheep on.
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Trying to sell kindling in west Wales, but finding it really slow going this year. any ideas how to speed things up a bit? anybody else finding the same?
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It's time to wake up - and switch to Aspen Fuel
pembswoodrecycling replied to Aspen@AAOIL's topic in Aspen Fuel
sorry to quote you IC TREES, I didn't mean to do that. -
It's time to wake up - and switch to Aspen Fuel
pembswoodrecycling replied to Aspen@AAOIL's topic in Aspen Fuel
"Naturally occuring" in gasoline? I think you'll find that gasoline is a very carefully controlled blend of several product streams. and Refiners of oil are desperate to put as much benzene in petrol as they can, from a chemical point of view its the holy grail of petrol components, dirt cheap and has unequalled RON and MON values (Octane values to those who don't do chemistry) also, feeling sick is nothing to do with benzene content, thats all to do with Carbon Monoxide as a result of incomplete combustion, so in fairness to aspen perhaps their fuel does burn more completely, thereby makinfg less sickness inducing CO. Most refinaries have alkylation units now, it seems to be the way the market is moving anyway. -
Not sure that's very fair, food prices may be going up but farmers costs are going up quicker. Plus most of the extra cost is the fault of the supermarket, more transport costs etc. The land that should be planted up with trees is the hillsides and moorland that can't be used to grow crops anyway.
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post hole borers are fantastic machines, we have one, it gets used for planting trees, putting down that difficuld fence post and even putting up columns for new sheds. **** Be very careful with it on a compact tractor though, keep the engine at low revs because if it jams you want it to stall the tractor rather than dragging it over backwards, don't rely on a shear bolt to protect you from this******
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No wonder the price of lamb went up!!
pembswoodrecycling replied to rovers90's topic in Firewood forum
My father is a great believer in getting the "calorific value" from his rubbish, but a nappy or the mess the dog left on the carpet in the bin and it stinks to high hell, put it in the rayburn and it disappears without a trace, its just incineration. we also burn alot of willow, not by choice...it's just what we have on the farm, and if you get it dry it doesn't burn too badly. Although the occasional ash or oak from neighbours woods are always welcome! -
This photo is not my land, its just one I nicked off google so you could see what plant I was talking about. The land in our area is quite poor, six inch of top soil and then clay as deep as you can dig, so it gets very wet in the winter, but sets like concrete in the summer - chains and 4wd are not a problem! we used to bale reeds for bedding, the trouble is you need to let the muck rot for several years or you just spread the seed and the problem. my query was mainly about the fuel value of it, it seems like a quick growing resource that nobody has really tapped in to, was just wondering if there was any particular reason why not...
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would it be easy to sell then? and what sort of value?
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trouble with composting, or using it as bedding is that you spread the seed when you put it back out on the land
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Hi all, I know its not quite a firewood query, but I figured someone may know something about Biomass in general... I did some work on a dairy farm last year, and by way of an experiment we used Miscanthus grass as bedding for the cattle (it was being sold cheap because the biomass plant that was meant to use it broke down). this got me thinking, since Reeds (or to some people rushes) are the bane of every small sheep farmers life, is there any way that reeds could be used as a source of biomass fuel the same as Miscanthus is? if so is it worth cutting, drying like hay, and baling them up? there is a field next door to us, 4 foot tall with reeds and I'm sure if I offered to take them away the farmer would be delighted! Picture below to see the sort of plant I mean, so theres no confusion. P.s. ignore the sheep .
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How much would you sell these nets for and who would you market them to? I don't think 'logs for toffs' would sell very many! If you were certain you could sell them then there would be no question about getting one of these machines.
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Wouldn't last long with the winds we get, believe me I've tried!
