Woodworks
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Explains some of the variation in productivity given in this thread. 3" x 3" x 9" is the perfect log to most of our customers.
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If that is the case the end product would be unsellable for us. 10"-13" through an 8 way would be a massive log. I would be making minimum 12 logs per ring by re splitting.
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Presuming with 10"-13" wood you have a 12 way splitter?
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On my own rarely do more than 8 IBCs a day but always getting sidetracked with other jobs. Get a mate in to give me a hand and we do between 18-20 IBCs a day with me on the processor and him on loading and moving crates. Invariably mixed sized wood from 3" to oversized that need some ringing and putting through the splitter separately. Making 9" logs and being fussy about the split dimensions. Could do appreciably more in a day if we were not so fussy. No log deck
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Tried one but it was useless on our hardcore yard and kept getting stuck. Could spend a lot of money on concrete but having something that can properly go off road will be very handy around the farm. The pallet rotator works a treat so finding a better machine to fix it too.
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Hope so. Would be nice to get some feedback on them from this side of the water but guess there are not many around yet. From what I have read it's a clone of a German machine Wacker Neilson but now owned by Manitou
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Think I may just push the button on the Gehl 340. Seems a lot of machine for the money and solidly built. Mainly yard use so the ease of transport of the lighter built machine like the Multione would be unnecessary. Gehl dont seem very good on the advertising side of things with there be virtually no decent videos of them in action. Best I can find. Last one is the 540 being pushed too far.
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what logs have you been chopping today!
Woodworks replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
I presumed it was the massive demand for wood pushing up prices. Never had a year like this one (admittedly fairly new to the game). Sold out some weeks back and phone just keeps going. Loads of people trying to get logs but everyone has sold out so i just put the rising prices down to supply and demand. I do think from the native stocks point of view the craze for woodburners needs to be curbed. -
All but the last one. Always thought he was a smarmy lying git. Ooh and didn't have to buy the porno's as there were plenty chucked into our hedges to peruse
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If you send me a picture of one of the blades I will go out and eyeball the grinder to see if it could do it.
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5 degrees for a blade? You sure as thats way finer than any edge I have ever seen on any machine blade.
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I have one of the grinders. Never sharpened chipper blades on mine as mainly used for chisels and plane blades. They are not especially fast but leaves a great edge.
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It's a great album and never far from hand
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what logs have you been chopping today!
Woodworks replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Done 120 cube for next season for us and getting busy cutting for others at the moment. Did a complete lorry load (18T) of awkward oak in the peeing rain yesterday of long logs for biomass so speeds things along. Best thing about the day was the loader the guys had which was a Gehl 340. Know I am hankering after one as it was the perfect machine for the job. -
Working on a farm yesterday and they had one of these http://www.hessle.co.uk/product.cfm?productid=73 . What a piece of kit and made moving large sections of a oak a doddle. Anyone any views on the Gehl machines?
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Just came across this picture in my files. Think it was all mainly fresh beech so a bit heavier than ash
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Dont think we had that much snow but boy did it drift. Then freezing rain today
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Bad enough down here with 5 foot drifts in places. Glad you made it back OK
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Thanks all. OK so it sounds like a plan and Matt I may take you up on the offer. Heard you had a bit of an epic getting back in the Blizzard
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Got a pile of smallish jobs for a digger here but most are weather dependant so tricky to book someone in for a dry period. Wondering about buying a SH machine and doing all the little jobs over the next year and then selling it on. Not sure how big a machine to get and how much to spend (presuming paying a fair price) to loose as little as possible. Dont need anything dinky so 2-3 tonne would be fine for the jobs at hand. Any guidance much appreciated.
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Guess it's regional. Not once had a complaint about loose loads and never seen anyone doing bagged loads in these parts. Long may it stay that way
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Just glorious weather. No rain and hard frost has hardened up the ground for the first time in six months. Thermometer says it's cold but with little wind and dry air it's very pleasant working outside
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Depends where you live Did a delivery the other day where I had to climb out through the window to get to the back of the pickup! Tried a trailer here but it was a complete nightmare. Single cab with greedy boards takes a couple of cube.
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Reckon your grass will be very grateful . Hope the mower is OK
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Sun is lovely but feels like the depths of winter here. The ice has not thawed in the shade all day and the strong easterly wind is biting. Cut the grass with temperatures forecast to be sub zero day and night and snow/blizzard predicted for the end of the coming week?
