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At last someone who knows how they should be driven:thumbup:. Breaks on our old 764 have never been touched and it gets used in the tightest of spots
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Most mills will have a weighbridge which is how they normally work out what they owe you for that load. If not the lorry weigh link is normally accepted. Best thing to do would be to phone round the mills and let them know what you have and an idea of the quality. They will let you know what sizes they accept i.e. 4.9m (4.85cm-4.95cm) 20cm min dia - 55cm max dia. If its sawlog quality probably best financially going to the mill cheers
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Paragraph 30 I think in Scotland you still need to let SEPA know, if keeping it legal
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Oh its based on a ford 4000 and fitted with a 4tonne double drum winch. Its good in tight spots and on rough ground, not the strongest
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at 50-100cm its a whole lot of work to make into firewood
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Hi Miker Its a Roadless 118
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I don't know why you would want to let it season if selling it in the round? that's the total opposite of what any contractor or woodland owner would want to do. Sell it when its fresh and got more weight in it and get more money. Its used for fencing and construction markets. The bigger the diameter the more limited the market but all depends on the mills near to you
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Hi Mac, sorry. Glad we agree I bet the powers that be have very little forestry background so common sense probably wont prevai:thumbdown:l. I looked over a 3000tonne standing sale the other week and the guy looking at buying it said he could shift a lot of the sawlogs to Europe not the uk market. and its not FSC but they really don't seem to mind as long as its millable cheers
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I think its about 6t perhaps and very solid looking and they still make them Google Translate Its pto driven with its own hydraulics, I picked it out of a scrap pile. will get it going soon and get some photos up soon
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Hi John, its a bit of a rubbish picture I'll see if I've got any more. The tractors a JD 6930, cheers
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I picked up this one for free, its got no cable on it yet so not tested it out yet. Made by SCHLANG & REICHART made in Germany apparently.
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Wood consumption world wide sustainable/unsustainable
County 764 replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
There's a good article on this very subject on the inside front cover of the Forestry Journal. Well worth a read. You'll always get unmillable timber and can expect at least 30% chip wood from a conifer clear fell. That material has traditionally gone to the panel board and pulp industry which don't have the grant assistance that the biomass users do. -
:thumbup:That's the best sawhorse I've seen in a while. The guys using one of those £80 chainsaws of ebay by the looks of it
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Wood consumption world wide sustainable/unsustainable
County 764 replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Agree with above. There's also a huge amount of hill ground that could sustain productive planting but its difficult to get approval for new planting sites with so many SSSI's & SPA's. The NFU has hit back at the Forestry Commission for planting up grade 1 farmland and I think has put a halt to it. Its interesting to look at the Land Information Search on the Commissions website as it highlights the lack of hill ground that hasn't got some designation. -
chemical site preperation for planting?
County 764 replied to Dean O's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Fell, Fence, Mound, Plant. What happens next is very site specific, I've never sprayed a site prior to planting but have on many occasions had to cut back Broom, Willow herb & Elder normally around the second year after planting. Pine weevil has been the biggest pest especially last year and you'll find that a lot of nurseries offer treated plants. -
Off-road capabilities of two wheel drive vehicles
County 764 replied to j.symonds's topic in Arb-Trucks
I've got a Sprinter flatbed with a hiab mounted behind the back wheels the weight helps a bit but been planning on getting some big chunky 4x4 tyres for the back as its still shocking the places it can get stuck. -
Nice bit of kit Arbwork Hate to think what FISA would think
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The 250 looks good. It was in the forestry journal about a year ago. The guy said it had the pumps rebuilt and also engine rebuild I think. Was going to take a look at it myself at the time but was the outher end of the country
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Ok so after a bit of trolling if your under an approved forest plan as a producer then you can supply to a trader registered on the Biomass Suppliers List? http://www.biomassenergycentre.org.uk/pls/portal/docs/PAGE/PRACTICAL/REF_LIB_PRAC/GRANTS%20AND%20SUPPORT/RENEWABLE%20HEAT%20INCENTIVE/NEW%20DOMESTIC%20RHI%20BIOMASS%20SUSTAINABILITY%20REQUIREMENTS%20INFO%20SHEET.PDF Definition of Legal and Sustainable for Timber http://www.cpet.org.uk/files/2013%2005%2008%20-%20CPET%20Deft%20Legal%20-%20Sustainable%205th%20ed%20-%20Final.pdf/at_download/file
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What do you have to be confused about? Have you ever submitted a Forest Plan? and If you've put timber into mills or on the open market you'll know that you'll get asked for a Licence reference number or FP ref that's How could you possibly assume that timber sourced in the UK has been felled under the existing planning laws and thus already confirmed as meeting sustainability criteria and compliance with UK Forestry. We have been under one of the group FSC schemes but not currently as price benefit per tonne in timber sales soon diminished. Oh ye and there's a fee to be certified so as a grower ye danger of showing a profit was low
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Just noticed this thread and some interesting stuff. What I don't get is why timber would have been sourced from a certified woodland?? In the UK you must have an approved forest plan in place or a felling licence by law which stipulates how your going to replant the felled area or if its being managed under a Continuous Cover system. All the FSC Certified woodlands I've been involved with are managed in exactly the same way as non certified. I think we should have a system where once a forest plan is approved then the woodlands are Certified as they meet the criteria. That would probably make life easier for growers and processors
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Roundwood at £85, fair play. Id rather be burning the electric at that price. Biomass will fall flat on its face at this rate. Buying direct at £85 plus haulage and maybe VAT isn't a saving, that's paying a LOT more for the pleasure to cut it up yourself
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No one came over at the Wilsons demo but it was a busy day and I was kind of glad to avoid any sales pitch. Would be interested to know the prices of the lasco splitters and see them in big fresh timber. Might drop in by Caledonian Forestry's tomorrow as never seen there stuff, did they have any of the small scale forwarders and harvesters on show?
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would be good if the forestry industry had the same voice as agriculture sector, might then be able to ditch some ridiculous amounts of red tape
