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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.
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The ratchet shop have next day delivery but I think that's Tuesday now.
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Hopefully it's not over yet, January and February are usually our busiest time. We had nothing over Christmas but we've done 200-250 cube since new year which is brilliant although as always with good sales we're struggling to dry again.
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Usually on my phones browser, very rarely on my pc because I tend to look at my phone first these days.
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Does it matter if the trailer has brakes? I was under the impression that you need a licence if you have brakes on the trailer regardless of weight (although realistically you probably wouldn't have brakes on a small trailer).
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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
