ecotreecare
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Bought one two weeks ago. Can't see what the big deal is - its a saw, it cuts wood. Have three 200t's yet the lads all want to use the 201. Will be buying another two shortly.
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Spent the public holiday cutting up the bottom flitches off the mill. Just need to put them through the splitter.
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How many logs have you sold since September?
ecotreecare replied to richardwale's topic in Firewood forum
685 cube... That's bloody good going!! -
Here is the wee loader we use to push the pile up, load logs and load the processor. Not all the gear in the yard belongs to us... its good having friends with toys
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Hope to do around 6000 cube this year. Its a blockbuster processor, forget the model number.
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How many logs have you sold since September?
ecotreecare replied to richardwale's topic in Firewood forum
We use a Blockbuster processor, cant remember what model it is. Its capable of timber up to 50cm. Use a 12t loader or 20t digger to pull the logs off the stack (whichever is in the yard at the time) and use a wee 7t loader to load the processor, push the log pile up and load the truck up for delivery's. -
After receiving a message from Tomatin Firewood, i thought i would start a thread to show some pictures of our firewood production process. please feel free to add yours, be nice to see how others do it.
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We still have it... It goes, it chips wood. We have to keep it for a few years before we can get something else. It's a bit annoying to spend that amount of money and be disappointed with what you get.
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Hi Ian. Maybe I'm been a bit harsh, i am very disappointed with it though. It was a new 95 bought 6 months ago. It seems to get jammed easy with timber, no auto feed, no hour clock, no rev counter, when I first got it the murphy switch kept on engaging turning the machine off. Bits of chip gets caught between the feed roller housing and push into the flywheel bearing. The first two days I had it, it was in the engineers. I was looking at a 990, was wanting a drum chipper but just couldn't afford one. Like I said maybe I'm been a bit critical, but what I expected and what I got was very different.
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How many logs have you sold since September?
ecotreecare replied to richardwale's topic in Firewood forum
We've just about sold 500 cube over summer so far. It's just a sidelined for us but taking up more and more of our time. Moving the processor from where it is to a skid site to process forestry waste. Hope to be doing 60 cube a day 3 days a week to build up a stockpile for winter! -
Hope you get it fixed soon, bloody hard work doing it by hand!
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I made the mistake of buying one (new) last year. One very big, expensive mistake. It feels like I've been lumped with a lemon, will NEVER buy another one.
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:thumbup::thumbup:
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Easy as solution, problem solved. It's down to personal preference. Personally it wouldnt bother me but that's me.
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This is exactly what we do. Do it for our GST (VAT) bill too. Works very well, think last year we had about 10k extra which was nice. Still gutted for you bro, sucks having to sell gear to pay a tax bill!
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28 degrees here, people stocking up for winter. Have 30 cube going out so far this week.
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As far as I'm aware the original post was about someone who rang up for some logs at 7.40 on a Sunday morning, NOT someone calling every 10 minutes, 24/7 for three months! There is a difference between service and harassment. Someone calling you for some firewood isn't harassment!
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Very very true.... I bet you would be complaining more if the phone wasn't ringing at all. If you don't like dealing with people go work for someone else.
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Jerry (treepanda) has one. Not sure what model but think its a 6". Not seen it in action yet so I don't know what it's like. I'm sure he'll give a honest opinion, having own a few over the years! FWIW in my opinion trying to persuade the client to do anything they don't want to is unprofessional. I always ask if they want the chip/logwood but never try to make them keep it.
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Browsing the equivalent of eBay here in and NZ and found this... Do you have firewood to split or not!! | Trade Me Here is a video of it working [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOC8tSb9Yb0&feature=youtu]Top Performing Firewood Splitter - YouTube[/ame].
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:lol::lol:
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I run stihl here just because there's more dealers for em here. I used to use husky in the UK. At the end of the day they both do the job, as long as they keep cutting that's all that matters to me.
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Your thoughts please folks..... We're flat out with work, I've hired a extra man full time yet still struggling to keep up. We currently run a 13t truck with a 9" bandit. I think we're pretty efficiant but the work keeps coming in. We have a wee Vermeer 625i that we use for poor accesse jobs but doesnt get used much and a single cab Hi Lux I use for quoting, stump grinding and such like. Was thinking of putting a chip box on the Lux and having a second crew to do the smaller jobs. The chip will heve to be shovelled off which will be a pain (been there) but will it look a bit silly? Do many guys out there have such a rig?
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Don't you think it's a bit daft that someone can go buy a 088 no problems yet have to produce a cert to buy a 200t? I think the cert is a good thing, overhere you get a lot of gardners using them on the ground, one handed "cos there easy to use"
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Time for a bit of maintenance me thinks!
ecotreecare replied to ecotreecare's topic in Large equipment
I left the machine in the UK when I came over here 4 years ago. Shipped it over at the beginning of the year. Don't really use it too much but it's handy to have for jobs with poor access or when we run two crews. I'm guessing it happened when I was here and the chipper was in the UK. The blades were pretty shot, had to replace them.
