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Ah I didn't realise you meant a business page... How do you set up one of those?
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thats a nice idea but I don't think any of my facebook friends are in my target market! going to go ahead and stock the briquettes though, I'm getting a special deal on them so I can sell them on for £4 a bag, from what I can tell I think thats very competitive, especially for round here. Now I just sit back and wait for the orders to roll in!
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Its a nice idea but it would be better if it was a hydraulic splitter, I like the conveyor filling the truck without unhitching idea though
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Pint of diesel and an old tyre! No right or wrong way really, I have a small set of bellows, that gets a stick or bark or moss or something going a treat, failing that just blow on it!
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Anyone Selling a Log Splitter ???
pembswoodrecycling replied to Bustergasket's topic in Firewood forum
I prefer vertical, the logs don't roll off the side once you've split them. Also with a tractor mounted one I can lower it to the ground so I don't need to lift great heavy rings and break my back! -
I've spoken to the very nice people at Thomas Joinery and I'm going to go and see them very soon. next step is to aproach my existing customers, though I have a feeling that selling briquettes may be easier than selling kindling...
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minus 12?! what does that mean..... antiwater?!
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I've had contact with them already actually, they've offered me the chance to sell their briquettes for them, it would be a bit cheeky of me to ask them "who do you sell your briquettes to, I want to compete with you?!" I could perhaps do with a chat with you WFWales, I'm only just starting up and the processing is no problem, but my marketing really lets me down, or at least I'm struggling to sell anything at the moment
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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.
