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Top picture is mostly chip stuff. There's nothing wrong with it, we just find it easier to chip the small bent logs for use in our boiler than spend ages putting it through the processor where small stuff produces a lot of kindling and rubbish. Edit; those pictures aren't the best example because most the trailers we bought in didn't have any small logs. Normally we cut anything over about 6 inch.
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Spent the last couple of days getting logs in and sorting them into stuff for firewood and smaller logs for chipping.
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I expect ryetec will be at lamma, they normally have a good selection of splitters.
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Sorry I was a bit out in that post, I must have changed it from 2 operators to listing the loader separately and forgot to change the number. It would be 45 with 1 operator or 55 with 2. I thought it was expensive at first but even with 2 people it's only £8 a cube. For most tractor jobs it would be the same around here (£30 Inc diesel), I was just giving an example for comparison. It would probably only pay for people doing large amounts but it's another option to consider.
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We use a local company called pach. It's £20 for 2 years domain and £80 a year hosting for our site. They built it with WordPress and I've kept it updated since. http://www.hormannsfirewood.co.uk
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"Prices for processor size Ash,Beech at roadside Hants,Wilts/Glos.
gdh replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
To be honest until I joined this forum I didn't consider it cheap, it's the average price around here and when we put the price up by more than £5 we loose a lot of sales for the next month. I think because we're in a rural area most of our customers always have the option of cutting their own for free and there's plenty of competition around. In the end we price what we need to cover costs not as much as we can get away with which I know I'd want as a customer. -
"Prices for processor size Ash,Beech at roadside Hants,Wilts/Glos.
gdh replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
That's what we pay, maybe £5 more. Average delivered in this year has been £57 and we sell out delivered at £67 per cube for 1.8cube or about 120 per ton which is tight but fine for us. -
I would consider myself pretty good at maths and even knowing the answer I can't see how you can logically get to it...
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For us it said your annual subscription is now due but it only charges for a quarter. I think they just phrased it that way because the fee had only just been introduced.
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I'll be there now in a minute. Wales
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Haha, that to.
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I think it depends on a huge amount of variables - type of file/chain, length of chain, strokes per tooth (I do 5) etc
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I aim to get 2-3 chains sharpened with each oregon file on 84 link chains, even on shorter chains I tend to change after 3. Obviously if I have to file a damaged chain it takes more time and file but that's rare and usually comes from friends and neighbours asking me to do theirs that they've hit metal with. :-)
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I can't see not sharpening being worth the cost. The cheapest, decent, 84 link chain I can get is an £11 rotatech. I can sharpen one to pretty much good as new in the workshop in 10 minutes and get 3 chains from 1 file so that's £1.50 of time and 33 pence of file which is nowhere near a new chains cost.
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It's one of the last consistently funny shows I think but it's all subjective. Father Ted is very good to though.
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Not going out.
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1. In or out Here's some random things I've kept bottled up 2. Kiln dried vs air dried Husqvarna vs stihl 3. I've made a small spelling mistake 10 pages of puns 4. How much should I earn? Run you fool 5. Which chainsaw should I buy? Anything but those useless Husqvarnas, Stihl, Echos... 6. Here's a fun thread Anyone else bored on a day off?
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Saw this a couple of weeks back, took me a while to see how the second part worked.
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I was watching some horses at one of the Princes estates a couple of years ago, it's good to see them working. I bet the poor man stacking by hand there would have appreciated a crane. Out of curiosity does it have brakes you can apply on hills or are the horses able to hold it from running away?
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Yes it's a very clever way of them basically changing the RHI scheme by regulating the fuel. To be honest we sell enough to spread the cost of membership but the paper work in addition is getting ridiculous now.
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It's extremely irritating that they can change the terms without you being able to do much about it. Unfortunately we have no choice but to stay on since we supply ourselves and 2 of our bigger customers but instead of selling everything as BSL we'll just do the bare minimum and carry on as before.
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Rates for Self Employed Handcutters
gdh replied to MattyBuist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I think this is one of those threads where there is no definitive answer. Around here £100 a day is good money, there's not a huge amount of cost to come out of it and it's above average wage. Whereas other areas it's not enough especially when compared to 'easier' jobs. -
Cover them all with one sheet and tie it to the base of the ibcs. Best value cover is silage sheeting. 25mx4m is only £50-60 and that will cover alot of containers. When you're tying, if you haven't used it before, pull the side into a long bundle, tie round it then fold it back on itself and tie the same string around the whole thing then you can pull as hard as you want. Heavy Duty Black Polythene Plastic Sheeting 4M Wide DPM Rolls 300Mu,1200 Gauge | eBay
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That is slow but there's plenty of people in rural areas who are the same or worse. It should be fine for general browsing and usable for videos but you'll want 5+ for watching HD TV. We're on 12mb up and down from wireless broadband which is good for everything, the only reasons you would need more are 4k TV, big downloads like games or multiple users.
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Anyone use vented bags for seasoning, storage and delivery?
gdh replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
If you want to take it out the easiest thing is just a grid at the end of the conveyor but the only way to get it all is to rebag by hand before delivery because you get a lot falling off during the drying process . We don't take anything out because we found you just got different customers complaining that they have to buy kindling then. What we do now is just avoid cutting anything under 5 and then you get better quality wood.
