Woodworks
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Cant say I am fussed. Make less through firelighter sales in a year than on just one cube of logs, it's more about offering a service. If there was someone selling much the same for a lot less it would have been nice but looks that's not the case unless large orders are involved.
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Thanks all. Due to the quantities required (ie the lack of them) I think I will just get some more CW flamers in this time around
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Sounds like concrete or back to hand balling. Got a rotator on the current forklift. The rotator is ace and nought wrong with the forklift if we had a massive concrete yard but the G machine will be far more versatile with what we have. Yes your sister keeps coming back so I guess they are happy with what we sell.
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One more question while we are at it. How much push does a loader have to have to load a bucket with logs? Do you need a lots of HP or can a smallish loader pickup a 1m3 bucket of logs? No concrete floor so will have to skim over the bottom layer of logs
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I cant see why not and feel stupid for not thinking of that. Thanks very much for a much better plan
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Now that's sensible talk Sam.
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I can live with some discolouration but fur is a no no
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Yes that's instead of the forklift. May have tracked down a SH one so shouldn't break the bank
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Is that inside a building? 2 panels on each side. Is that overlapping for strength or a very big cube?
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Yes shame about the mould. Dont really want that but might be liveable with. Looking to relieve the tractor of heavy loader work due the problems we have had.
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Yes that's the plan with the slats on the inner face of the barn. The uprights are 6" so there would be the outer metal cladding then a 6" gap then the slats.
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No man handling planed. The idea is to fill the barn in the quiet times in the summer so all the crates will be filled and the barn. Come the winter time I struggle for time to keep all the crates filled. Planing to fit the prospective Gehl pivot steer with a 1m3 bucket to reload the crates quickly with the partly dried barn logs so they should be dry for back end of the winter. And no I dont know what species the go mouldy as we have never had a problem with mould to date.
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Yes empty IBC's are becoming a pain. Tried stacking them up but they blow over when we get any gales.
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So I am looking at ways to up production without buying loads more IBCs. We have a barn that could be cleared out to take lose logs. My thought is to chuck some pallets on the floor and some slats around the edges of the barn to allow air to circulate and load up inside with lose logs. I doubt they will dry that well in there but the idea was to then load them into IBC's when they become free as the first logs start going out. Will the logs in the middle go mouldy or should they be OK? Presuming it maybe species dependant as well so what is best? Thanks
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Yes 800 would be just a tad too many for our logs business. Thinking along the lines of 50 maybe 100 boxes of 50.
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We dont sell many firelighters but it's nice to be able to offer customers some. We have just finished our stores of flamers and wondered if there are any other similar firelighters out there that might be a bit cheaper. Thanks
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Guess we have very different customers. Never had a complaint about the logs being too small but occasionally asked to make sure there are plenty of small ones in the load. Suits us as the small logs dry faster and go further ie less kg or roundwood per m3 of logs.
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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.
