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Ash smith are you air drying your timber in the round? Seriously non sarc

I think it's a great idea to market a spring-early summer promotion selling green/part seasoned firewood for customers (will do it again myself this year). Explain the deal and benefits. Let them make up their own minds, bit of cash flow to help things along. Educating, making some bucks and slowly showing the "Norwegian way" Ash smith I can understand your point but I'm curious as if you could also sell 30% and sub 25% air dried as a separate category? IMO 30% is part seasoned. Would three categories/price points not give you a possible larger market? I'm in the process of building a solar kiln for lumber but may throw in some 4 foot split firewood lengths and market them if there's space from time to time. (Made a small solar kiln a few years back and it worked ok, but going bigger and different design this time) General point being more options, simple defined explanations of products, educational for the public and making money.

👍 Also to add; being proud they bought in advance, got good value and have a nice stack of firewood. I believe it's in the industries (log producer, merchant and stove seller) interest to inform the public of ALL the options in regards to buying firewood.

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👍 good stuff!

With further thought I suppose only certain types of tree can be export-imported that are not kiln dried? Ash etc is non runner. Did I just answer my own question😳

I was wondering if anyone knew what's the situation is from a disease spread point of view in regards to importing firewood logs? E.g. Ash die back etc. Does kiln drying it stop the risk? Is this monitored etc??

Trailer license passed. Less arb more pain in the a### but it's a job ✅

High density styrofoam is recommended because of the steaming process. The polyurethane type insulation should work fine if you're not going to steam the timber. It might "sort of, kinda work" with the steaming process but.....hmm not sure. I have seen it done before. If you have it and you don't mind taking a chance, give it a go. Tell us how you get on. As far as I can remember (check first!!) gorilla glue will work for joints.

Ash smith, do you mind if I ask what the competition was?

Rowan, Do use a winch with the 35?

That's a very neat set up. Double wheels are the biz 👍

It is indeed, well spotted! Runs off its own pump and has served me very well.

It's fine, I had to do some work on the shaft and bearings running off the blade a couple of years ago but I would say the powder coating is very good compared to some other gear I've got in the past. I could seriously do with a conveyor though.

Really enjoyed this thread . Keep the photo's coming . Here's my penny's worth. Go easy!

Thanks guys I'm feeling a little less pessimistic now, I understand the efficiency of the bandsaw mill will out perform the logosol but after hearing your thoughts, it doesn't seem to be the worst idea to start off with the logosol and then if I find that I need a more productive system down the line when Cash is slowly coming in from produce I can always upgrade to a Bandsaw then. I don't think due to the nature of how I work it'll be a machine I'll be at for hours/weeks on end, more than likely it'll be used when I get straight/true bits of trunks suitable to plank and just plank them as I need them (prehaps 5 hours a week?). If I can keep a stock pile going this might be good to keep em in the round for a while before hand. I heard it before that the chainsaw mill will leave a good finish but I'm glad to hear it being confirmed. I do a good bit of carpentry work and "finishing off" wood can be seriously time consuming. Sorry the outlay of the standard farmers mill and M8 carriage will come in just over 2k euro/1500+STR. I think the woodlands is 4.5k/5k euro? So it'll work out a little over double the price. I dunno but I suppose I'm a little bit cautious and it's a brave new milling world for me. Like I said a band mill might be a necessity later but I couldn't buy it unless I knew it was going to be running 3 days a week flat out for investment/risk reasons. I understand the point about fuel but the for the moment I can afford to fill it as I go, compared to not being able to afford spending the extra 2K, if you know what I mean

Hi all, I'm on the verge of dipping into my shallow pockets to purchase a Logosol Farmers sawmill and a M8 carriage for it. The idea and background is that I have a young hardwood forest and I'm trying to be able to get some cash flow going through the summer by making various products with milled wood. I've been selling firewood for a few years and then doing odds and ends to get through the spring and summer months, so I'm hoping this might give me a bit of a leg up in the right direction. The biggest timber diameter at the moment would be 50cm and on average 30cm-ish. I have a Stihl 660 to run on it. I would be grateful for any advice on whether this is a good idea in regard to investment cost and if anyone has any experience with this particular model? Cheers

Anyone any advice on the best rotator grabs for use on a 3 ton digger? Value for money VS Quality etc etc

Thanks, I left a message with them and will post as soon as I get more info.

Toby who distributes the Neuhauser? Very hard to get info on it. Thanks for the help again.

Thanks Toby, I was looking down the lines of a Posch machine but I'll check out the Neuhauser. Did you have any particular issues with the Posch Machine or is it just the general build of the machines?

Any advice on small production post peelers/debarkers? I need a machine that can peel from very small diameter posts (2'') to bigger ones (8-9''). It'd need to be run off the PTO.