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Ours closed last night then reopened to sell essential supplies this morning when they realised that.
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I think R J Fukes near us have got a press but that's mid Wales. Is there an agri dealer near you with a decent workshop?
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Make sure there's no oil on the blades if they're coming straight off. We had the same.
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It could be worse, we have a £300 travel fee before they even start. ? We do a lot of our servicing for basic stuff but a fresh pair eyes and more experience is usually worth it. The bill above shouldn't have been out by that much though.
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They allow a very small percentage of red if you're dipped, we had a visit after they found a trace when we were dipped and they said it's because the tanker has some red left in the pipe as it changes to white (we have red and white tanks). Apparently it's happened to a lot of people so I would hate to be the fuel company. ? At first I didn't really mind if red changed to claiming it back instead but the more I think about it red diesel seems a much simpler system to enforce.
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I'm assuming it's just felling odd trees? For clearfelling or thinning you would pay them a standing price and sell the wood. There's a company near us who take down overgrown hedges for free and have the chip. The other way to do it if you don't think it's worth it is to put in a quote for clearance and felling and let them keep the wood to sell.
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I think that's because they contain two types of moisture, free water and bound water, but that's beyond my knowledge of drying. ?
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If they're both the same moisture they should produce the same KW. How it's dried won't make much difference.
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I think it's more that anyone who's already selling is reposting the adverts to take advantage of the news on the new regulations. I've seen some for sale that are a few years old but unused so they obviously haven't been able to sell them yet.
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I don't often use hot but I think our electric cleanwell is only a few litres an hour to run it on hot. If you want to save a little bit you can use heating oil instead.
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I'm in mid Wales and that's exactly what we charge for a box (1.8 cube) of processed and dried firewood if it's collected. Tidy hardwood is £70+vat delivered in. Personally I would pay £20 for arbwaste up to £35 for rings if I was collecting. It's not worth a huge amount because it takes so long to process which is why from a commercial point of view I don't bother.
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Whether they're claiming RHI or not I have no idea but they won't be any more if they get an audit. Running them flat out is their loss anyway as the payment rate drops about two thirds after 1300 hours maximum.
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Yeah, it wasn't too bad. I would much prefer straight, long logs though. They had a 4ton digger with a thumb grab. Not as good as a grapple but a good cheap solution.
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Probably 25 hours of processing. It was for private use, he had spent a winter taking lower branches off all his trees and thought it would last him for years as firewood so he processed it all.
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You need an invoice from whoever you pay then put it against tax like any other cost.
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£55 a ton is reasonable for straight, tidy stuff. You could say £60 because it's been down a while so will be lighter.
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You must be having a good week at it, looks like tidy stuff.
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300kg sounds about right for a cube of dry wood. If you were relying on wood you probably would buy bigger loads though. I think with our prices it would be 8-9p a kw with a 4cube load. Woodchip for comparison is 4-6p a KW on a contract.
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Cleanwell make good machines if you're looking at bigger ones. Cleanwell High Pressure Washers Limited WWW.CLEANWELL.CO.UK
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Haha, it was 4 days but only short ones because the owner was preparing stuff in the mornings, I don't think I could have taken much more. I was fed up of finding new ways to get bent bits stuck in the machine by the end of it. ?
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Glad you got it sorted. Yes, never push harder than its cutting, the excess force will push the chain against the rails of the bar harder. I've found nearly all bar wear comes from trying to cut with a blunt chain. It's always tempting to try and finish without changing a chain. ?
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Milling wood is going to vary massively around the country. It's dropped a bit recently after a big rise but we're still being quoted £60 for chip wood and there's people paying £40+ standing.
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Is it definitely the right chain for the bar? I have seen the wrong one put in the box before and if it's lose in your spare bar it could be slightly too narrow. Also work double checking all the teeth are the same length if you've been struggling to sharpen. I use an old bar screwed into the side of the workbench to sharpen by the way. It saves playing around with a vice each time.
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Nearly all processors run standard bars but wear relatively fast because you're always cutting in the same spot. They also tend to wear more heavily on the one side because the log falls one way. Have you tried turning the bar upside down to rule out a damaged rail? Or putting an old one/spare on to rule out a bent mount. I'm assuming you've tried a different chain and the sprockets fine.
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It's going to depend on how tidy the trees are, for decent ones I would pay them £20 a ton standing. If you're selling them you could make a decent profit on 2 acres. That would be leaving the brash but you can get an awful lot done with a big chipper. It might be worth asking around local biomass companies, there's one near us who will chip large amounts of brash for free in return for the chip then your only cost would be heaping it up ready. Obviously hard to say without seeing the trees but it could well be you'll make enough without charging them.
