Tom87

Old thread but I thought i'd share this information to avoid any arbtalkers having their time completely wasted susa.walto on eBay This ebayer regularly has a wireless tipper remote for sale but avoid at all cost, they will take your money and will not send the remote.

It's still not on, it's easy taking photos and uploading your own.

I had a big pile of cedar two years ago and it went like hot cakes. The smell is incredible, a massive selling point. More importantly, when seasoned it burned extremely well. Something I wish I could got hold of more often.

You're right, I suppose moving large £180 loads means spending too much capital for the vast majority of customers. You've already got a box rotator which is a massive bonus and since you've got such a hefty stock I'd personally bite the bullet and buy a hopper, the rustier the better as long as it works. Have a bagging frame (like the fulewood one) fabricated unless you can weld yourself, it would cost next to nothing. At the end of the season if you no longer want them give them a lick of paint and put them on ebay. I have a few potato boxes I use with my box rotator and found filtering smaller loads out the box a lot easier by strapping a large sheet of ply over the top, covering approx 70% of the top. That should stop too many logs pouring into the hopper overfilling the bag.

As opposed to delivering one bulk load in one hit? Surely the logistics are far more profitable as opposed to driving around delivering multiple small loads. £180 for 1.8 m3 load, if a genuine load that being said and seasoned, it is a good price for the consumer.

I can help. I go to Melton market 2/3 times a year and I am well overdue a visit. I've sent you a pm.

I know many people have already said it but you're way too cheap. I do store a lot of my stock in IBC's and I charge £110 a load and they sell. I'm certain there are people who will look at your price and question your product because its so cheap, it will make them skeptical. Up your price to a premium level and they will expect a premium product, which if it is what you say it is you wont have any problems.

Oh and Normandy, since you're so pro UK.. do us all a favor and pop over to Calais as the border control desperately needs help

Normandy, Forestry is under no obligation to state the original source of his product. Neither should his product be a threat due to 'critters', since it's kiln dried. As a matter of fact, have you actually taken into context the volume of timber both soft and hard imported into the UK annually? Maybe you should look at the bigger picture, I think you will find firewood as a small percentage and with strict EU regulations put into place you would be put under fire should your overseas purchase not be valued legal. I understand UK timber imports are 5X the amount exported. Now that's a very arguable matter as to whether our timber is too expensive here cheaper abroad or maybe it speaks for the enormous population on this island that doesn't have the natural resources to provide its own economy with the required product. And what about the 'bugs' imported from that timber? Let alone possible disease risks from imported plants. I think some of the comments on here are extremely ironic. Some people commenting in the past have spoken about the tight margins in firewood, about the shortage of the raw product within the UK or your local vicinity along with the constant moaning about the rising price of cordwood and how hard it is to make ends meet by selling firewood. Yet you're giving forestry a hard time for standing up for his business structure which is selling a quality product at a compatible rate. The shortage of cordwood is because there are plenty of people buying for a start, if you advertised 250 tonnes of hardwood for sale at £50pt online you would be inundated with buyers which shows that we do have a shortage of firewood timber in the UK. However, with the costs its hard to generate a healthy profit by the time you process/store/dry/deliver in the UK. There is a pyramid, and at the top of that pyramid is the customer and he has money to spend but he also has a budget. If you're having to buy/produce/dry/store and deliver and still have to compete it's extremely draining on your profit. Customers want a their monies worth and if buying in a cubic meter of stacked KD firewood costs Mr X £150 with a MC of 15% or buying in a loose bagged cubic meter of UK firewood from Mr Y costs £120 at 20/25% then you're in for a tough time.

Ed, I can't thank you enough. I'll get straight on it tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed it will be simple repair like you mention and won't involve taking the machine to peices. I'll let you know the update too Once again thanks for your help! Tom

Binderberger and Posch make some diverse machines. They're not just a tilting saw as you can alternatively use them as a table saw. Kreissägen | Binderberger Maschinenbau GmbH Kreissgen

That's exactly why I don't own a saw bench, couldn't quite see the point in the machine on it's own but with a conveyor it became far too expensive. That's down to personal preference. I agree if that's all you do that and only that a saw bench might be worth buying, but I personally would want a diverse machine i.e if I had a stack of billets located in perhaps a nearby woodland and the end product needed to be loaded into a grain trailer or any trailer for that matter, the conveyor would increase production time and save back ache. Just my opinion.

I'd only buy one if it had a conveyor attached. As handy as they are, without a conveyor you may as well just use a chainsaw horse.

I run a hakki 1X42 greenspeed on three phase, great machine with no serious issues for the last 3 years. However, this morning I began processing after giving it the usual 5 minutes to warm up the fluid. When cutting the timber as anyone reading this that have ran this machine or similar would know, when you return the cutting bar it automatically activates the splitting ram. Well this failed and has not worked since. Yesterday evening when I packed up for the day everything worked fine which is why I find it slightly bizarre. Once the activation of the ram packed up I tried to work out what was going on and during that process which meant repeating the manual foot lever activation to try and diagnose the issue another problem developed and now the ram has dramatically lost splitting power, yet on return its as smooth as ever. I spoke to a guy at the APF the year before last, he was running a similar machine saying there is a valve that needs tweaking but that's all he mentioned. So before I start taking the machine apart or meddling with it has anyone had a similar problem or can anyone possibly diagnose the issue through experience? Any input is greatly appreciated. Tom

'1M3 DUMPY £85' for kiln dried ash. That is so cheap.

I wholeheartedly agree with what Steve said, offcuts are the best. Although when you do hit a knot on dry offcuts it rarely powers through and jams. I find softwood cord either round of split in half through the processor depending on size is fine but you will need to let it rest with good ventilation, stacking it straight away will cause it to build up a lot of mold which looks awful, poplar gets very moldy too if not correctly stored in a well ventilated environment. Be careful when prepping any joinery offcuts. People forget that kindling actually takes up most of your time during the prep stages and it can sometimes be pretty tedious repetitive work. Take the necessary precautions safety wise too. Last November I had a large skip load of offcuts delivered and the driver dumped it inconveniently right infront of my barn entrance whilst I was out delivering. I worked my way through the pile for the rest of the day in order to prevent moving it twice, by 7.30 I was still cutting away on my bandsaw when I began to slack and start rushing. I slipped and nearly took my entire index off because in my hast I stupidly started rushing whilst ignoring the fact I should have been using push sticks and keeping my hands at a safe distance. I'm a very very lucky person.

Poplar burns great when dry, I ran a load through my kindlett and it was excellent.

That's pretty steep. I've fabricated a dozen trays and just need to weld up the lengths of box section and planned on retailing them for £110-130 plus VAT. They're virtually identical you yours. Perhaps getting them galvanized was expensive?

Nice load! Armstrong bring our sheep down from Carlisle, very reliable firm!

I friend of mine recently got done over for £1600, he believed he was buying some simba press rolls, far to cheap to not raise eyebrows but theres always going to be a few who's hearts start racing at the sight of a good deal. It was very naive and silly of him to transfer the money before collecting them but the seller did have plenty of good feedback. That being said scammers feedback is always positive feedback for purchases only, never any previous sales much like that tajfun auction, they will buy small cheap items just to build up good feedback. I tried to help him with filing a claim through the police and getting the police to try and work along with his bank and ebay themselves, the police were just as useless as ebay were and said they couldn't get any private details due to data protection but I blew my lid and the police finally manage to retrieve the true identity of the scammers. The address and bank details were traced to a house full of Somalians in barnet, most already had criminal records and if they tried to arrest someone for the scam they would keep changing their names and the police said it would be a waste of time. The sad truth is they're extremely good at what they do, the number one rule to purchasing large machinery like this on ebay is to go and actually view the machine before parting with ANY money or just take a bankers draft on collection.

Tajfun RCA 320-2 Firewood Processor | eBay Another one? 2k for a tajfun processor?

HAKKI PILKE 1X37 Firewood Processor Forestry | eBay Probably avoid

Good point A, i'll try and pick one up on ebay. Another good point, I guess moving parts such as a loose grapple will draw attention. That being said I never set off unless the grapple is fixed, hard to see but in that pick the grapple was actually clamping the end of some timber and I hadn't re-attached my number plate (I take it off whilst loading to avoid damage)

Ferguson, nice set up. I wont be loading another over 4 meters though. Thanks for the feedback guys, I think I'll risk it for the time being. Can't see why they would pick on me when I still regularly see farmers pulling trailers stacked with untied bales

I'm doing to odd bit of hauling with my timber trailer on public roads, never long distance 5/10 miles max. I understand that I'm well within my right to be on the road with the trailer but I have one worry, when loaded should I have a light board on the back? I currently have a fully legal and functional set of road lights built into the trailer which are clearly visible even when loaded. My old man still seems to think I'll get nicked.