Woodworks
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Sounds like ideal wood for production. When I go out on jobs with ours we seem to get through 15-18 tons per day. This is with help loading and the help is normally as knackered as me by the end but less than ideal wood. I have one client where they buy in one lorry load (think it's 27 ton) of ideal softwood much like you describe. This takes me a full two days to do on my own but no mechanical help available on that site. Does the machine for hire have the log lifter? If on your own this can be a great asset. Here is a video from that job.
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A challenge for the collective strength of Arbtalk
Woodworks replied to GardenKit's topic in General chat
Same here Stubby but how do you sign it 3 times? -
All calm now but see that at Berry head on the south coast they recorded a gust of 93 miles per hour!
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Sorry Arthur
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Agreed that there many dangers we all face. The thing I found using the Hycrack is getting sucked into working in a less safe way. Yes this is my fault but I can resist being careless with chainsaws, processors tractors etc but the Hycrack just lulls me into a false sense of security.
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Don't do it Tommy. There is so much potential danger with them. We sold ours as I felt it was only a matter of time before it got me.
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Wild is the word for it. Going to be a lot of damage if these winds are widespread On the upside it's going to give some lots of work
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Oh I don't know. Must Be safer than the ArthurBottlesworth child care service Great table and would be nice to see how those axes are connected to the top.
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Hi Scotty Welcome Demand for wood gets bigger by the day. You have done well to get free wood so far but this may well become more and more difficult. Open fires are renown for their inefficiency. I Read a study somewhere that said an open fire in a home with central heating could actually lower the heat in the home due the convection of heat up the chimney. Stoves are expensive but should give far more heat for the wood you use. Would probably be worth your while sealing up some of your drafts as well.
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Realy? Doing some hedging last week with my old Husky 340. I run it on Aspen as it does not come out very often. It was a still day and the smell made me feel sick so went back to regular fuel.
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Hypocrite here. Was raving about how fast an axe was just 18 months back now total convert to 18 ton vertical splitter. Axe is now rusty and only used to split logs for moisture testing.
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It's alright for us on the hills but bad for your part of the world out on the levels. Did they get them properly dredged over the summer?
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Nice table Paul. Have you got any close ups to see how it's made?
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Just over 2" of rain since 16.00 yesterday and todays forcast looks like more of the same. O well spring is only 4 months away
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Nice one there Hodge As you say "you need to be in it to win it" but from the numbers posted here I am doing second best as never bought a ticket saving over £1000
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For us it's how you advertise. We started with ads in the local rag and got lot's of the sort described. Loads of phone calls with "what's your best price" etc. Set up a simple web page for about the same cost as a couple of adds in the paper explaining why are logs are good with all pricing explained and to date we have had no "Somebody else's customer goodbye !!!" through it. Think we must be lucky though reading the nightmare types that many seem to get.
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Large stuff removed and stacked for owner but multiple pleachers per meter on one side but a bit thin on other averaging about 1 every 2m. The time went in dealing with the big stuff and some largish dense hazel stools. Can probably get some picture as we have plenty more to do.
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Way too cheap. Gotta be worth at least £100 min. I reckon customers judge the quality by the price.
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Don't panic simonm Log sales are very sluggish ATM but no doubt will pick up when the weather gets colder and Tom,Dick and Harry have sold out. You only need to have sold them all by the end of winter and that's 5 months away.
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Just done my first ever payed days hedgelaying (Devon style). Two of us did 45m with quite a bit of large wood to remove. Mate had sorted price out and pleasantly surprised to get £150 for a days graft Is this the going rate or are we onto a good thing?
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Loading up some logs this morning and what do know the shed is full of beech and ash from the same hedge. They have been in there since winter 2013. Moisture content on outside of both reads 20% and inside 22% (very high RH here for last few weeks) Cut out two identical sized samples pictures below. As I understand it the calorific value of dried woods is pretty similar per KG so the beech simply has more energy in it when it burns. Fortunately our customers don't seem to have read that poem and just want dry logs Never burn any wet wood whatever the species as turning water into to steam is simply a waste of precious resource not to mention the damage it will do to your flue.
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Nice one CJM Pete this should help Drive Link: Chain components...
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O dear. I hope it was not my post you found offensive; ment as a bit of cheeky banter about logs
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You're not alone Mark in thinking ash is overrated. It's good firewood but not as good as beech when equally dry. When testing our seasoning logs I have noticed that after a year the beech is drier than the ash. One thing I will say in it's favour is it holds up well left in the round for a few years. Beech and birch will start to rot ASAP and the sap on oak rots out very fast but the ash will hold up really well. Can only think the Delabodge and Huck don't know how to dry logs properly or the ash of a bygone era was different
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Lashing rain all morning here. Got soaked through but finished the job by 13.30 so a nice afternoon in front of the fire with bit of Arbtalk
