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Yet another reccomend me a wood burner thread!
Woodworks replied to sandspider's topic in General chat
Tentman has a good point. My folks just bought a Burley Holywell and it's great if thrashed but shut it down a bit and it's as good as useless. Think they wished they hadn't changed from a trusty Woodwarm. -
what logs have you been chopping today!
Woodworks replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
It's the best. Cant enough of the stuff. -
Yep sure stoves are getting smaller. When we first started the main selling length was 10-12" now its 8-10". We do a sub 8" and this is all the short ends from processing and a lot of unsplit branch material. Maybe we should look at doing the quality as the rest just more expensive. What's frustrating is when delivery short logs I often see stoves that could take larger logs with ease. Cut all the logs for my folks and that's about 8 cube in the spring and now they have gone and bought a baby Burley
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Cant see how selling wet logs cheap is best for profit. The cord costs the same, processing and delivery are the same. Yes I save a lot of space and an extra handling process but for us that's where the profit is.
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Most of our customers claim to not to have the space to store a whole seasons logs. To be fair for many this is true but for some it's just they have other priorities. Who wants to knock out loads of cheap wet logs anyway?
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Looking to get a single cab, 2.5litre diesel, 6th generation Hilux and be good to know what problems to look out for. Thanks
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It doesn't but you have to burn twice as many of them to keep warm
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Moisture contend is the only accurate way to describe how dry your wood is everything else is meaningless at present. Maybe there should be some guidelines but then it's nice not working in an overly regulated industry.
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Be interesting to see a break down on this but working out the kWh used to dry the wood and wasted burning overly wet wood is beyond me.
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Must admit cant see what the fuss is about calling sub 30% logs seasoned. Loads of guys knock out logs straight from "seasoned" roundwood where non of it's sub 30%. Barn dried, kiln dried, air dried ,seasoned all meaningless in the context of moisture content. Must admit was pretty surprised when CW sent a sample pack of their products and there "seasoned" logs were 40% which is not far from fresh cut. We guarantee average bellow 25% but the centre can be all of that but outside more like 16%. Cant get bellow 20% here in the depths of a soggy Dartmoor winter as the outside goes back up to 20-22%. All Air dried for what it's worth.
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No conflict always dry whatever the species If you burn unseasoned half the energy is wasted turning water into steam and clogging up your flue.
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I don't know I can see why it's come to that. We supply our local stove shop but before us they had tried lots of local places and they had always had to put up with badly dried wood and they get the flak when customer buy wet wood and their stoves underperform. Not saying I like seeing imported wood flooding into the country but can also see why there is a demand for kiln dried.
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Yep
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Kin dangerous as well Not as fast as a decent tractor PTO machine either. Yes the ram speed is not rapid but with a big blade you can cut multiple logs in one go. Never for a second have I been tempted to go back to a Hycrack.
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Nice idea but as Stubby point out lots of small kindling logs in there. If your going to have to work slow might just as well have a decent standalone splitter for larger wood. This way you can make perfect logs every time. There was a chap on here recently running a big firewood importing business and he reckoned cheap labour and quick splitter was the way to go for oversize. Still be interesting to see the Japa set up for making the next size log up as think those all look a touch small. Slightly better video here [ame] [/ame]
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How do you get people to share a competition? Would seem sensible to not tell anyone if looking to win. Guess there is a way please tell
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Earning it's keep. Worse jobs in the world on a day like this
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PWR Bioheat. How are these IDIOTS so cheap?
Woodworks replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
If it's all done on the RHI no need for them to get cheap wood. They are getting paid to dry it via subsidies. Looked at kilns at the APF. No insulation on the b....y things so just RHI generators that happen to dry some logs at the same time. We can argue that this is carbon neutral but not until all the trees have re grown which is however many years down the road. Just seems a waste to burn all that wood to hasten a process which good old air can do in 6 - 12 months. -
The way I did was with an old Quality street tin. Stab four or five holes in the top with a screwdriver then load the tine with dry hardwood pieces. Get the wood burner going really well and with plenty of fuel left to burn, place tine hole side up on top and keep the fir burning fiercely. After a while little jets of flame should come out the holes and these will burn for some time. As the jets die down to like a weak candle remove the tin from the stove with some oven gloves and place lid side down outside to leave to cool. With any luck when completely cooled you will have perfect charcoal in the tin. Have also done it with the tine upside down raised up on logs so the jets of flame go down into the fire and help the whole process. Good luck either way
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Busy busy busy. Plenty of log sales but struggling to keep up with demand for processing for others at the moment. Doubt it will last long but making the most of it.
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Wanted a cheapish blower for cleaning out the processor and Mitox was my local shops recommend so gave it a go. Works fine and came with all the gubbins to use as a vacuum. Does all I need and the vacuum comes in handy from time to time.
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That's great work Mark. Would value that at a lot more than any dishwasher Just the workings must cost a bob or two. As you say good job there are not too many folk like that in this world.
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Any good ways to seal the edge of Loadhandler sheet?
Woodworks replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
Might give that a go. Tried various normal glues but they don't take to what I guess is poly prop. -
This is weird. Only weighed a few crates filled to one cube but none of them was over half tonne. Going to have to cut some fresh in wood and weigh again.
