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But carbon that is tied up in rotting wood is not in the atmosphere today or tomorrow either. Sure it will end up in the atmosphere in due course and be carbon neutral but by the same reasoning burning oil is carbon neutral if you look at it in a geological time frame. Surly any carbon we can lock up for a bit is good.
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Maybe we should all be doing what we can where we can and not taking the piss ?
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Anyone know the truth behind this story? It says "Farmers reacted angrily to claims that they were largely responsible for a nitrogen oxide emissions problem." But from what I can tell agriculture in Holland is only responsible for 3% of nitrogen oxide emissions so whats going on? Tractor protest sparks 'worst Dutch rush hour' WWW.BBC.CO.UK There were about 1,100km (700 miles) of jams as farmers reacted to plans to cut nitrogen emissions.
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Tricky equation though. If you burn it the carbon is released immediately but chipped and left to rot you might delay its release 15 years. Tim a branch logger would do the volume reduction with less fuel use than a chipper
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Any chance you could build the extension with long overhanging eaves? If they could extend say a 1.5m you would then have a covered space which you could store the crate on and maybe have slatted wooden gate to hide them behind. A friend did a large extension with a roof like this but it was on a 1 1/2 story build so was in keeping. He didn't have logs stored under them but you could walk in the dry around the edge of his house.
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Sounds about right. Get this with small branch loggings as the gases build up and up and then it all ignites with a woooosh. Probably better to feed little and often so you keep a flame so no build up of un-ignited gases.
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Hi Mark it's for one of these. The client has some very beautiful tiles made up by a fairly well known artist. He had one made but it was not of a high enough standard to do justice to the tiles and very flatteringly has asked me to try and do a better job eeek. My gut feeling is not to have a striking wood but something very pure but featureless to make the tiles the main feature hence the pear. Open to other suggestions though May have tracked some pear down in Somerset
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Glass always looks better than acrylic IMO as acrylic gets marked far more easily. Mind you if you want some acrylic I have loads of 250mm square sheets of 6mm kicking around still with their protective cover from a canceled job. Plain beading with no moulding is very easy to make if you have a PT. You just machine out some square sections and with the aid of a simple jig on the thicknesser table you can machine angles onto them.
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We dry our logs in crates and we find loads of old nests in them come the Autumn. I guess they work well as they offer good protection from larger raptors and have a roof over their heads. Pleased to say not yet found an inhabited nest from our small amount of summer sold logs.
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I work on double but I think it depends how small you split the wood down also the density of the wood species. Smaller (split dimensions) the logs the lighter per cube. At least thats my explanation. I weigh a cube from time to time and never be up to half a tonne but others say they only get 1.6 cube per tonne so log size is my only explanation for the difference
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No way should it be slower than a sharp saw and splitter. Mind you owning a processor is only half the job. You need to keep them running spot on for good production. To the OP as said hire someone in with some experience for few day and get to see what a processor can do. You can either start saving or stick with hiring. I process for a chap who owns nothing other than a truck for delivery. He borrows a tractor for processing days and we get through around 12 tonnes plus a day. Think it works out around £15 per cube for the processing so not expensive in the grand scheme of things
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I milled some boards of Turkey oak for a mate a few years back. Not seen them but apparently they have stayed fairly true with only cracks on the ends. Time will tell as they want me to make a dining table from them in due course. Looked great when fresh cut
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Think of a number and double it! Seriously dont go in too cheap. I made this mistake time and time again. There is always some reason a job overruns but never one that makes it take less time. For wood I always used joinery grade sawn pine. All the PSE was always a lesser quality and needed more drying anyway. Then when it had dried it warped and needed planing again grrrrrr. Joinery grade pine tends to be reasonably resinous so when combined with some clear wood-preserver they should last a good long time. For more a more naturally durable softwood larch would be good. One of the big sellers of durable softwoods was Capricorn Timber if they are still going.
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Presuming the top is going to be attached to the stump can they not even it up with the fixing brackets? Then you would only need to get close. Brackets some thing like this Adjustable Angle Bracket 55 x 70 x 30mm WWW.TOOLSTATION.COM Galvanised 90 degree connector with two slots and multi-hole pattern for easy adjustment. Length x length x width.
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Large, dead ash clearance job. Advice appreciated
Woodworks replied to Big J's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Are we not way past that now? I thought it was everywhere -
Running Skip chain on Firewood Processor ?
Woodworks replied to Bustergasket's topic in Firewood forum
On my little Farmi when cutting larger dry wood is leave the rakers a touch long to avoid it taking too big a bite. Stops it bogging down. Easy experiment -
I am prepared for a slump in sales for few years while ash from local farm hedgerows comes on the market but no sign of this yet with a bumper start to this season for us.
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£250 a processor and 2 men is nuts. I can imagine hiring out a processor to those who have never used one ends in a fair repair bill so maybe not making as much as it might look. I wouldn't consider hiring mine out.
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I wouldn't mind a few more part days haha. It's amazing how that last little pile of wood that the customer digs out at 15.00 just keeps on giving. So most days are pretty full but an interesting way to adjust pricing and would cover much of the prep time nicely. gdh. Most customers are domestic but the few trade ones are a fair chunk of my work. One chap has no kit at all! He buys in the wood and borrows a tractor for processing days and handballs from a pile to his truck. Not sure he even has a working saw these days. I dont want to scare these customers off. I could just do a discount rate for these guys as I can see much over £30 an hour is going to hurt.
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I run a Farmi WP36 and like to think I am pretty efficient with it having been running one for 7 years. Currently rates are £30 hour plus 45p per mile plus VAT but toying with going up to £35 per hour. Now I know this is not exorbitant for some areas but I am not beating customers away at present and most work is a bit cheaper down here. Just find there are many hours of prep and maintenance before and after every job. It's easy to put prices up but embarrassing to have to lower them again if I get no work so what do you reckon is the going rate? Thanks
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Yep the aluminium would expand at a different rate to the steel outer if it was getting too hot so making delamination more likely but it shouldn't be getting hot in the first place. Get good at sharpening and learn how to maintain the bar (lots of threads on here). This will make your life way easier with fast and easy cutting. No need for heavy handed use ?
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Infected ash, roadside weights?
Woodworks replied to Big J's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Just cut some on the farm so with do test the weight of few samples when I get a moment. The lightest I have had so far was the 75 tonne I had from you around a year ago. -
Do tell Steve. I think she is breath of fresh air who tells it how it is for a change
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I have this bar on my processor. Probably done 500 tonnes of logs with it so far without problems so they dont all delaminate.
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Which bar is it? I have a couple of types of Oregon bars and both have been excellent.
