benbound
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Yeah, thanks all, John was of course first past the post!
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Hi all, had a log enquiry today from someone in Glastonbury, its a bit too far for me to travel, happy to pass this one on if anyone wants to P.M me. The guy wants prices for seasoned hardwood and kiln dried. Cheers, Ben:thumbup:
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I milled an almost identical log a couple of months ago, as recommended got it on its side with some wedges and got several benches out of it, well worth a go
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SG Baker make good bags, nice and cheap with strong handles, the only downside of not having mosquito sides is that logs tend to catch more on the striped bits when you are emptying them. They are nice and tough though.
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My little beauty
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<p>Hi Marie I did send you an email but just in case you didn't get it, my number is 07979896230. Ben</p>
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<p>Hi Nick, I'm after an artic load of hardwood for delivery to BH20 5GB in Dorset if you're able to supply? Thanks very much. Ben</p>
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Mine came within about a week of submitting the form, wife's already spent it!!
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Emptying cubic metre bags into the back of a tipper
benbound replied to benbound's topic in Firewood forum
Thanks for the replies, tried it today loading from the rear, much easier and no spillages. I've tried a few different bag types. The SG Baker ones with the two lifting loops seem to work the best -
Until recently I've been delivering my logs in cubic metre bags on the back of a trailer and flipping them off at the other end when delivering to the customer. I've just been offered the use of a tipper and wondered if anyone had come up with a quick way of emptying bags onto the back of the truck. I use a tractor with a front loader to pick the bags up but once the bags are on the back of the truck, there doesn't seem to be an easy way of emptying the bag. If I use the tipping loops on the bottom of the bag, either the logs end up tumbling off the side of the truck or the loops rip. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks:thumbup:
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I think I read that that winch can provide a 40:1 mechanical advantage which sounds good but does bring anchor point failure into the equation if not managed responsiblly. Like Stubby said quite a lot of us probably come from the wraps around the trunk generation when these sort of forces just werent in rhe game. Dont get me wrong I think that modern lowering gear when used correctly makes the business safer and more efficient but I would hate to read about an accident involving one of these devices where somebody has cranked it all up too hard and ripped half the tree out!
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I'd be interested to hear how you did it with the oil drum, do you have any pics or tips type of wood used etc. Its something ive been thinking of but like you don't want to fork out loads to start with. Cheers
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It was cut by a Rimu mobile mil (not mine) the mill has two perpendicular blades so a load of boards were taken off, it was then flipped over and the sane done on the other side ending up with the tabletop effwctively quarter sawn.
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Good suggestion! 25 degrees in the shade today
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Any ideas what I can do with this tabeltop. Cut from atlas cedar its about 9' long and 5 1/2 feet wide. Cut from a really gnarly lump of timber and has a lovely grain. The farmer that I rent a yard off wants to make a rustic table for his garden. It was felled last December and milled this week Cheers
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Thanks seems to be strong enough so far, put about 10 cube through and no wobbles yet. Definitely much quicker, ive been putting the thin sticks in and billeting the bigger stuff with the X27
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Does anyone have any experience of the Crossfer brand? All the branding says Germany but looks very similar to the Chinese products. I've often found out the hard way that you tend to get what you pay for but didn't want to write these off on price alone. I was thinking of getting the 700mm three phase model to run off generator on the yard. Not seen much mention of them on here but they seem popular on the continent. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=300939556151
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Had a bit of timber left over from another job so put this togther yesterday. The bolsters may need beefing up a little but time will tell! Hopefully I'll get at least one season out of it
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As regards cord if you have say 2 stacks of timber stacks one of ash thinnings and one of pine that are bith 10m by 2m by 2m thats a 40 cubic metre of air that they will both occupy. Because the pine is straighter and stacks well without as much air gaps then there is actually more wood matter than the ash pile which my be different sizes and not as straight so will contain more air. Hence the 55 and 75 percentage calculations. I should say im a tree surgeon not a forester so may have misunderstood the way it was explained to me !!!! Re the trailer, this is purely my experience. If you take big tightly stacked rings and log them up and throw into a bag all the logs are touching but youre introducing all that air space between the logs in the bag as they are tossed in. This is why none of us stack logs in our bags.
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My favourite, the old car tyre trick. Nice straight ash and an X27 that's speedy splittin
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You'll probably get hundreds of answers to this but the quick one is, it depends. If youre talking about realky straight softwood with little air gaps then a cube of that will yield much more split logs than a cube of bendy oak. Forestry commission publish calculators to work it out, I think softwood is about 75 percent wood to air and hardwood is 55? I have a trailer that is exactly 2cubic metres. If I fil it with slightly heaped load of arb waste, eg manageable logs I xan usually fill 4 proper vented metre cube bags if that helps?
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Does anyone have a good conversion factor for cord bought by the metre cubed, then split as logs, i.e for every metre cubed of cord, how many cubic metre log bags can you fill?
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<p>Hi Nick, have you got access to any ash at the moment, looking for a artic load for cash. Cheers, Ben (BH20 5BU)</p>
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<p>Hi Ed, sorry I seem to have lost your mobile number. I know its short notice but is there any chance you could come and deadwood some oaks in a garden with me this Saturday the 4th, got a chipper this time! Ben</p>
