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I am looking to get some clear tarpaulin for the roof of my log store, which is basically a car port frame. Letting the sun beat down into it while keeping the rain off will hopefully improve the drying. For the sides I will get some of that breathable fabric that gets used on building sites. It's designed for high wind loads too. Will probably get some of the screen printed variety to save the neighbours looking at the blue tarpaulin that's currently there. It's not too pretty.
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Will importing their firewood become more commonplace?
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<p>Hi John</p>
<p>Are you a commercial forester?</p>
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<p>I am looking for an artic load of firewood. I believe that is about 26tonne and should produce about 65m3 when split.</p>
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<p>Say in 2m lengths, 175-200mm diameter. The truck needs to be able to drop the timber over my hedge with a hi-ab arm.</p>
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<p>I am in Wiston, 9miles from Lanark.</p>
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<p>What can you offer?</p>
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I your gas is mains gas, I don't think you will get RHI
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Thanks again. I fixed the sensor to the underside of the flue, just where it becomes twin wall. here the temp on the probe doesn't get that high. so i might move it to the top so the switch point is a bit higher than 50C. Maybe use a longer screw also. I have to say I am not that impressed with the fixing supplied. For a few pence more it could have been secured by two screws and been a lot more solid.
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Not yet, being holiday season. Will try a couple of leads on Monday
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Ok All wired up now. If I set the flue stat to 100C, the boiler races up to the 90's and the gauges on the laddomat don't move. If I then drop it to 50C, hearing the stat click on the way, The temp on the boiler drops and the laddomat gauges rise. So that all seems good. Question though. What happens when in slumber mode at 90C on the boiler? The thermostat could well have stopped the laddomat pump from running. Is there a danger of boil over on the boiler?
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<p>Hi</p>
<p>Can I ask a question about how the stat operates in conjunction with the control panel.</p>
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<p>The flue stat is there to preserve layering when batch burning.</p>
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<p>So if I have the boiler set to 92C, it completes its burn and after a period switches the laddomat off. When that happens what does your display on the boiler read for the water temp? If that starts to climb to over 92C, will the pump be reactivated to stop boil over? Or do you set the flue fan switch so that the boiler reads a lower water temp value? If so what do you aim for?</p>
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<p>We have got our ember layer sorted and its burning much better now.</p>
<p>Many thanks</p>
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<p>Central</p>
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Hi, Thanks for your feedback. Do you know any wholesalers in the south lanarkshire area that I could buy wood from. I am thinking of storing the timber in pens made up of heras fencing. So I hope to be abl to feed logs into the processor at one end and have them dropped directly into the pens by conveyor. Cheers
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Yes, it's for personal consumption. Up until now we have bought ready processed wood, which is delivered and tipped. We then stack. That was about 30m3. I have a chainsaw and 22ton splitter, which I used to process about another 30m3. Stacked that myself also. I know Jake with the processor. I am trying to shorten the supply chain and use some of the savings to pay for labour involved in stacking. So I am trying to buy direct from foresters. 100m3 is a bit much but I could certainly take 50m. Maybe a bit more if I organise another area.
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Also, if there is anyone local with a Pallax type processor who would like to quote for splitting it and cutting it into 500mm long lengths. Then stacked. Thanks.
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Hi Thinking about next years firewood, and taking a new approach to it. Ie having it delivered in 3m lengths as far up the production chain as I can and processing on site. I reckon I am after the following 350nr larch or softwood poles, 3m long 150mm to 250mm diameter. Anyone in interested in quoting for this delivered to south lanarkshire or tell me where you are and I will get a quote for collection and delivery to me. Best if you local to me. I won't be sending a truck to Dorset!
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<p>Thanks for the info on the flue stat.</p>
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<p>Can I ask what wood you burn? We are having problems with building an ember layer these days. This year we are using larch. Last year hard woods.</p>
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<p>We find that the larch burns off quickly as it embers with the stuff above not embering up quickly enough to add to it, so it never gets to build up to a nice 10cm depth.</p>
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Thanks. I have now it one of those. The wiring diagram shows it is wired in conjunction with a switch. Do I need to buy this also? Can you shed some light as to how to wire it up to the laddomat? Thanks
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We have a log gasification boiler and are trying to eliminate some unnecessary heat losses. The problem is as follows. Boiler runs and heats accumulator tanks to 90C. Boiler runs out of wood and heat demand in the house drops overnight. The pump between the boiler and the tanks keeps running, dumping the heat from the tanks back to the cooling boiler and hence the outside world, until the pump switches off. So we would like to fit a flue fan switch to cut the pump between the boiler and the tanks once the boiler has ran out of fuel or dropped into slumber mode. Are there any negatives to doing this and can someone please let me know the spec of what I need to do it and ideally a parts list, if you have done this yourself already. Thanks in advance
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So far they have survived the high winds we had last week without issue, though ours are well sheltered by adjacent mature trees, a small hill and a good size metal shed. Condensation occurs on the inside so you have it keep the doors open either end. So we left a 1m gap before stacking the wood to keep the wood away from the worst of the driving rain. As for ongoing maintenance, they have only been up 6 months. The one we bought used had a leak on a seam, but we repaired that with tent seam sealant. Touch wood, ok so far.
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We use car ports. 6m x 3m x 2.5m Logs stacked on pallets Car port frames bungeed to the pallets
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SOLD to Josh for £3k Enjoy the profit
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And another, about 8m to where the trunk splits
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Here is a pic
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As Luck would have it, our neighbour has a Tree surgeon/ firewood seller in at the moment. I had a chat with him and he told me He pays £55 per tonne for hard wood He reckons I have about 10 tonnes, which is in line with what one of the guys on this thread suggested. He sells hardwood at £100 per cubic metre So it's worth more to me than it is to him. So question answered. He reckoned I might get 25m3 out of them, which would be good. Will post some pics
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Depends who wants it and how the want it. At the moment I have a cost to fell of £900 Processing costs of £300 How many builders bags that will fill, I don't know. I am looking for some guidance on that from people here who have more knowledge than I do. But if its 10 builders bags, I am at the retail price per builders bag, and I should burn it myself. If its 20 builders bags I can trade at one to one for Larch, giving the merchant 100% profit margin on the elm and what he makes on the larch. He won't have any additional transport costs as he brings me larch and takes away elm. Or I could sell it to the local garages, shops etc, but that's a faff.
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Well, if I knew the answer, I wouldn't ask. So if the answer is that its not possible, them just say. No need to mock!
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Entertaining responses, but still none the wiser as to what that kind of volume of wood is worth wholesale, or what kind of cubic meterage it will yield. I have a crew lined up to take them down. Just need to decide whether we log them for my use or sell it on.
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Well, this has certainly generated a bit of interest,,so thanks for the feedback guys. We use a lot of timber in our boiler, about 30m3 per annum. I have tried softwood, larch and hardwood, and prefer larch of the three. Also, around here, which is south lanarkshire, none of the firewood suppliers have seasoned hardwood. It's too expensive, hence my question as to,what it is worth to a firewood supplier. We do have a supplier in north lanarkshire that sells hardwood for £90 for a builders bag. So about £120 per metre cube. So if I could trade my elm for larch at a fair rate, I would be happy.
