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Really interesting thread this, thanks for posting. I'm betting on 15 being the peak.
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We're probably going to cross 2000cube this year so financially speaking it's better to improve the drying than find more shed space, it will also allow us to react to orders for different sizes faster. We are trying to cut the wood dryer by moving stacks to windy areas and sheeting them but improving the drying to save heat (and money) will be a bonus anyway. Currently we can dry about 160 cube in 3-4 weeks but that gets hard when the weather's colder. Our first thing to do is add more more insulation and radiators to make it hotter but that's a bit pointless if the air itself remains damp.
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Yeah, everything I looked at used way too much electric, I want to use natural condensation if I can but don't really want to waste heat by venting the shed.
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In an ideal world I would but we had to switch to a heated shed to keep up with demand during the winter. It works but I think it would be more efficient if we could pull the moisture out rather than letting it find its own way. Currently we use the front doors as condensers but we could do with speeding up the whole process and minimising heat loss.
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Looking for some advice on how to remove moisture from our log drying shed (which is basically a kiln). Has anyone had any experience with this or tried to make anything? My first thought was to use a dehumidifier but I reckon we need to remove 1600liters a day so there's nothing reasonable available. I don't mind spending a bit on installing a system but don't want to be spending too much on running costs. Any advice is appreciated.
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We don't import but we're always getting offers. The last lot we were offered was actually £85 a cube delivered for ash which is way more than we would charge for it although I expect that's a stacked cube. Obviously the exchange rate has had a big effect recently.
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Haha, I didn't notice that. It must've been fixed because it's alright in the next pictures though. 20 years later and there's still 6 cracked patches in our yard where they left that volvo full and idling over dinner.
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Was looking through old photos today and found some from when my dad started selling wood 20+ years ago. The photos are after we got a splitter, before that he made stakes by hammering in wedges and selling the off cuts. Luckily I was too young for that work. Found a few pictures of putting in tracks, our first 'processor', a forestry open day and our processor tractor when it used to leave the shed. Anyone else got any interesting photos?
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It's a shame that in this day and age people still can't tolerate that people have different beliefs and have to insult each other instead. Religion, like everything, has positives and negatives but in the end it's just a way of grouping people with similar beliefs together and if it helps people to be happier by being Christian, Atheist, Muslim or whatever then good for them, it certainly shouldn't be a reason to look down on them.
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It depends how big your trailer and fan are, we do 10cube in 20hours.
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Definitely worth it. You'll be able to fill 3 bags (probably 6 if you vary the speed) in one go and if you're filling a trailer it will save levelling a big heap. Off the top of my head I think it's 8-10ft of swing at the end.
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You need to force hot air through it, we use a trailer with a false vented floor with a fan/radiator connected. Make sure any chipper you get produces the right grade chip for any boilers you supply to.
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Have you looked at the Xperia z5? It runs android so you'll be used to it and it's waterproof and dustproof. You can also change the memory to whatever you want.
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£200 a ton for firewood? It's about £45 and that's only if it's cut into straight lengths and a reasonable diameter... I think someone's been exaggerating to you, if it's not cut up tidily there's plenty about for free.
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Might be worth looking at a sherpa as940. They're ride on and remote and will go on steep ground. Price with remote is 15-16k I think.
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Been there a while by the look of it.
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Anyone use vented bags for seasoning, storage and delivery?
gdh replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
Agreed, the minimum order for most types is 50 but bag suppies is the best place we found. -
Haha,I'll give it a miss then. In all seriousness thought we bought ours just for that sort of job. I haven't had a long go yet (got 50acres plus neighbours to look forward to in the spring) but it works really well and will do about half an acre an hour reduced to nothing so it might be worth hiring one then keeping on top of it by hand.
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Not a scientific test by any means but we dried a load down to 6-12% surface moisture and after a month or so in a normal shed a lot was back up to 16 in December although that seemed to be the highest it got. The flip side of that argument is after the dry and very windy week 2 weeks ago, despite a wet month, our uncut wood was 14-20 in the piles (but 28-32 inside the logs).
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Shame I'm not closer, we use a remote control brushcutter for our brambles. After they passed 12ft high I had enough by hand.
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We've been using them for a couple of months now and we're pretty happy, they cut fast, last a long time (25 cube of 9 inch) and sharpen as easily as any other chain. Only major issue is they stretch a lot at first but all in all they're very good value for money and we've switched completely to them. I did a very brief video for our page this morning https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=293828747686533&id=260687344334007
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Annoying for those of us who buy timber in but if people can use their own wood or free arb waste they're probably making a decent profit and if the customers can dry it they'll be happy to.
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We work off 1.8cube to a ton and that matches what we get from a stack although I have seen some people say less.
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If it's in tidy lengths and not too much over 18inch or under 6inch diameter then hardwood is around £40-45 but it will all depend on who's buying. We tend not to buy softwood roadside but I think about 25 would be right, I'm sure someone will correct me though. Delivered in we're averaging 57 for hardwood and 35 for softwood both plus vat.
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There's no cost to set up a page, you just go to create page or something like that on your personal one. If you want to you can then pay for advertising which it keeps offering you. For example it will show your post to 5-13k people for £24 and you can target it by gender, area and age groups. Personally though I just use ours as a gallery of what we get up to and we although we only have a hundred page likes because of likes and shares each post gets between 100 and 1500 views which you can see below the post.
