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Climber <£170 Leicestershire - must pass criteria!
gdh replied to beddowtreeltd's topic in Employment
Those are balanced out by plenty of positives and to be honest I wouldn't expect someone to pay me for being off ill anyway. Freedom to work how we want shouldn't be relegated to the 14th century, it should be the future. No point worrying about who it suits more if you're both gaining. Life would be better if we worked together rather than seeing it as two opposing sides. -
Sales have been very good this autumn to the point where we're struggling with drying enough. It's hard to tell if it's the colder weather or, more likely, that we usually put up our prices end of September (and have again). We've sold a lot wholesale over the summer which has been nice although maybe I'll regret it now it's harder to find timber.
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You'll probably get more responses if you post in the firewood forum or general. The 400 is a good choice, we've got the 300. You'll need a minimum 120hp, there's 2 versions - one for hand feed and one for crane. You can carefully crane feed the hand one but I wouldn't want to hand feed the crane version (awkward and dangerous).
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560 for me. The older 357s are great to but hard to find. Easier said than done but I would get 2 saws whatever I got because there's nothing worse than being stuck with a broken one.
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I think you'd have more luck lifting with a digger as you can wobble it to loosen it. A straight upwards pull is surprisingly hard. The downside is access and cost. Would be interesting to try one of those chainsaw winches on a frame.
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It's going to depend a lot where you are the country, here in mid Wales we can dry to less than 10% and it will balance out to 17 in a month or two. Interestingly I noticed recently that Certainly Wood who are pushing for the new regulations only average 20% on their kiln dried. Personally I think under 25 is acceptable and under 20 is good, I haven't come across a log burner that wouldn't burn that and would avoid any that did struggle.
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Sorry, we traded in at the apf. We're having the demo one from the stand so it was a quick deal.
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I am talking about winching and extraction on banks but 2 artics a day is impressive on any land. How about we meet in the middle and I'll pay you £20
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It's a worse price when you consider it's market demand not costs setting the price. Extraction is usually £30-35 a ton plus £20 standing so there's a big step to £70.
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Yes, they said you had been in earlier. Depending on condition /tonnage around 10k.
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I think half of arbtalk was there, we went on Friday and it was a good show. I didn't see any big developments on the processor side this time although we did buy another tajfun 480+. Hakki pilke look unchanged, posch had some interesting stuff and I didn't take a close look at palax.
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You've covered most of the key points, I would say a digger could also damage the yards more and might be too high for sheds but will be more flexible with a grab and can reach up and over into trailers etc. I would think you're looking at an 8ton digger with 4000+ hours on your budget. 13tonners are easier to find but might be too big.
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The gates open at 9, we arrived just gone and only queued 10 minutes but it was up to a two hour wait later so I think we got lucky. Hopefully you get straight in tomorrow but it depends how many people hear about today and go in early. Not sure about the ticket, logically it's no different on a screen though.
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I think a two child rule would actually be a reasonable way of steadying and slightly reducing the population. This fun topic has taken a dark turn...
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I would like to say cure disease etc but in reality I think we need to help ourselves for the most part - if we worked together even a lot of natural disasters could be avoided so I would sit back and just say if you do good there's a place for you in the end. Then I'd sneak up on an atheist and scare them.
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Yes, probably average 6 stakes from a log. We tend to get 15 years out of them before we think of restaking/replacing.
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They cost us about £3 to make for split oak. Strainers I value at £20. Our last lot of cresote stakes we bought was either 3.20 or 3.40 I think. We don't do much fencing, just us and a few neighbours but it's the erecting I find the bigger variable. When you have to start rock spiking you can quickly lose time.
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£5+ for oak stakes, high tensile netting, single barb. Usually a lot of turns. Plenty of people cheaper with softwood stakes near us, Mid Wales.
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I do wonder if this is still happening given recent prices. A lot has changed in the last few years.
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I had to do one once, didn't take any time and was confirmed within a day. Not sure of its purpose, I had forgotten we had one until now.
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Have you considered mounting a rack on the blade for carrying logs? I'm not sure how much weight the rams would take but I know a few fencers carry stakes like that.
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Larch, nice to process and dry and gives out plenty of heat. I'm happy with anything without too much sap.
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Yes, they have a very impressive workshop there. Always an interesting range of equipment with skylines and forwarders being worked on to.
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Branch logging as an alternative to chipping in a forestry setting
gdh replied to Big J's topic in Firewood forum
Biomass customers are a good choice as they're less fussy on size, although usually expect very dry. Campsites is another idea, thin logs are perfect for the little log baskets some have. -
No, we're on a farm a few miles out by Myddfai. I think you mean Rj Fukes, they sell and repair harvesters and machinery. We spend a lot of time there.
