Woodworks

Bad luck Mike. No such thing as cheap visit to the dentist

Delivered logs there and they mentioned the trees being done. Probably won't need any firewood again for some time

Good problem to have though

Is that out at Albaston?

It's great Ian and from what I have seen of your painting will look even better with some colour. Paint the saw Makita blue to avoud saw wars

Thanks Mike

Realy? I like the idea but in all honesty have never seen seaoned wood in the round except softwood.

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700 kg sounds too high to me. Have weighed a crate of wet logs before by batching them through the sheep scales. Can't find the results but think it was around 540k. I am after some 1000kg scales so plenty in hand. Plus our little tractor could not overstrain them with the loader as it would be waving its rear wheels in the air long before a 1000kg

Great just the sort of price range I was hoping to find something in

Did you get to check the scales? If you can share the make it could be handy

Yep. Been thinking this is definitely part of the solution. 5% rise in the new year .

A bit early for this but a wee Christmas joke for you A man in Scotland calls his son in London the day before Christmas Eve and says, “I hate to ruin your day but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.” "Dad, what are you talking about?" the son screams. “We can't stand the sight of each other any longer” the father says. “We're sick of each other and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Leeds and tell her.” Frantically, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. “Like hell they're getting divorced!” she shouts, “I'll take care of this!” She calls Scotland immediately, and screams at her father “You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up. The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife. "Sorted! They're coming for Christmas and they're paying their own way."

Thanks all plenty of food for thought. Gotta agree with Ted on looking after my customers and will endeavour to continue to do this. It may cost a few sales but should keep goodwill which in a rural area is most valuable. Ted we are pretty new at this but are learning each year. Kevin. Like the idea of promoting summer sales but it costs as much to process and deliver whenever it's sold. Pre-payment scheme. Will seriously consider that. Rowan. Billets is what we have used to fill any shortfall but really don't wish to do many as they have proved very labour intensive. On the upside they are cheap as it's one £3 pallet for a m3 in comparison with a £20 IBC. John. Don't know how you do your billets but I can't make and stack much more than 2m3 an hour plus there is all the loose rings to deal with. They just seem so slow to make and later process.

As last year proved but hate to say "sorry sold out" to someone who has spent thousands with us over the years. Was all so easy when logs was just a little sideline and the regulars could be counted on my hands

Keep meaning to get some to weigh IBCs of logs. Seems the easiest way to quickly estimate how dry a crate of logs is. Lots of 1000kg scales ones on Ebay for £80 ish but anyone tried some?

Do you sell to whoever calls first or keep logs back for the regulars? Last year we kept too much aside for the regulars and then ended up not selling it as the winter was mild. Been selling to lots of new customers this year and now looks like we will have trouble supply some of regulars with dry logs. I hate letting people down but don't want to do ourselves out of sales Finding it hard to get the balance right

That sounds like a nightmare. In the past were the prairies stable?

No I can see that but surprised you lose 5m. Thing is around here it's all permanent pasture yet still every hedge you see is flailed annually. Their loss I supose.

eh. Hedges are either flailed, laid or left to grow around here. How does this effect the usable land? Letting them grow gives our sheep good weather protection and a crop of fuel that has prooved more profitable than the livstock Managing the hedges for wood is labour intensive in comparison with flailing every year but not sure it costs much more in the long run when it's all added up. http://www.organicresearchcentre.com/manage/authincludes/article_uploads/project_outputs/TWECOM%20ORC%20Best%20Practice%20Guide%20v%201.0.pdf

If you making lids make sure you cut the angle the right way. Hard to explain but you can get an overhang all sides of the IBC if you get it right

Sadly don't have this displayed on the base model.

Had some useful but depressing advice from an Isuzu service chap (not local dealer). Simple answer forget anything with Euro-5 for doing short trips. He said I could get a garage box of tricks to do a regen cycle to clean the DPF. Not got prices but looks like the only possible option if I want to keep the Dmax. His recomend was older Hilux but does anyone know when the Hilux went from Euro-3 to Euro-4?

Don't know for sure what the trailer holds. Spec'd at 6 tonnes but know idea how you could get that kind of weight on it. Recon with 8' lengths of nice straight stuff 2-2 1/2 tonne and if twisty less. Not sure what the trailer and crane weighs but must be another tonne. The tractor pulls it easily but it's very easy hall of a few hundred meters on a shallow slope. It's made my life so much easier as had to process in the field by the stack but can now set up back in the yard with the processor undercover and set the wood up on a log deck. Yes you can ring up oversize easily too. Just suspend lump over flat trailer and ring away. Then slide rings off trailer onto splitter without lifting.

That's depressing reading. Looked at the cost of the DPF additive mentioned in the first letter but 31 euros for 1 can to add to a tank of fuel would hurt. Probably cheaper to drive a gert big petrol. Think a few on here have been advocating the advantages of big petrol beast for some time and looks like it could be the future.