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That would be ideal but I can get hold of sequoia/redwood reasonably priced and I'm aiming for the beds to last 20 years. Edit: are we using different names for the same wood here?
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Thanks for the advice so far. Nice to know you can still get proper creosote. Any alternatives for vegetable beds, I've been told nothing too poisonous.
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I'm about to build some raised beds for the garden and what wondering what treatments others use for wood? Is creosote still any good? We're going to cut the wood here from sequoia and I'll need a lot.
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Had some nice straight oak and already made enough gate posts so we made a few oak stakes this morning. Hopefully they last a few years.
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Sorry, I meant the chainsaw is from a hydraulic motor. There's no belts on the machine.
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Not out yet but looking like about £3k more than the 42 so 19k. That's from talking to the dealer but they weren't sure until later in the year. I still slightly prefer the tajfun but the auto chain tensioning and hydraulic drive is very tempting
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I bought one to but haven't used it yet. It's the new name for piranha chains if you're looking for the thread here.
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Nice sign writing. It's surprising how many orders you pick up from people seeing vans parked.
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There was some impressive processors at APF. The big rabaud 600 on the Ryetec stand was good although as said a 16 way splitter just isn't enough and for £70k you would be better off with 2 small ones and some staff. Hakki pilke have taken a lot of tajfuns ideas with the flaps to hold logs, solid backed splitter and monitoring system but I did really like their auto chain tensioning. Hopefully that catches on. The posche firewood factory was clever but I think it's too bulky for what it is. The problem is, watching these huge machines, unless you've got huge straight logs the output isn't much higher than a decent convention processor. In terms of production speed and design the tajfun was still the best there to me.
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Haha that's the best way.
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That's an impressive pile, nice wood to. How do you load the processor?
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Large hardwood is about the same albeit slightly slower cutting with the chainsaw . As long as you're over about 15inch you get really nice wood, it's just the stuff around 12inch that makes kindling because it just catches the ring on the splitter. To be honest with the auto adjust on that machine I usually use a 6 way unless I have all big stuff.
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We normally cut hardwood so it's much slower unless you do long stuff. Most of our sales are 9inch hardwood and that averages about 4-5 cube an hour. By the time we've moved boxes around and done other stuff we rarely do a full day cutting so it's normally 20 cube a day. On the rare times we hire out the processor and cut non stop we've done 20-30 tons in an 8 hour day.
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Oops, missed that. I was told by a dealer it was cheaper to buy a new saw than retrofit heated handles but he was trying to sell me a saw. It might be worth asking your local tractor dealer. They're more likely to have old stock than a normal chainsaw dealer. The new 560's are very good saws and start easier 90% of the time but they can sometimes be very hard to start and they handle differently to the 357.
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Does it need to be an xpg? As I far as I know that's only heated handles on top of the xp.
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You can normally get a bit off the bigger stuff. Especially if the dealers are next to each other. Interestingly I've had a few emails saying that prices would go up at the start of this month because of the pound dropping. I wouldn't be surprised if the show prices end up just being the current one. Although that's still a saving.
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We're starting to cut a bit more now as orders are picking up. Had some fun yesterday with a rare bit of softwood. With 15-18ich diameter wood I was doing 10cube+ an hour of 9inch on my own although you could hear the little tractor struggling occasionally. Unfortunately we only sell a few tons of softwood a year so it's back to hardwood now with 2 of us doing the work. [ame] [/ame]
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Agreed. It's nice to see an old tractor in the woods and there's something satisfying about doing logs by hand. With a chainsaw of course.
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There's occasionaly young entrants grants and rural development funds for small businesses that could be worth a look but alot of grants are up to 40% and just run until the money's gone so it can be hard to find one when you need it. It's worth having a look around, we got help with a chipper from the European regional development fund but there's also a lot of conditions attached.
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No problem, I like seeing other setups so it's only fair to put some of ours up.
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I only tend to do it once a month but I'll try and film some next time.
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Seems like he's doing a reasonable job. No ppe but that's just personal choice.
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We're picking up slightly but it's been a very slow summer this year. Hopefully we get a cold winter.
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I chose work over going out most the time but that's farming so I don't usually have a choice. I don't think the wedding is the important thing but that you were asked so unless you tried to get out of work and couldn't I would be really nice to her but what do I know. :-)
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Good idea doing Log splitter hire/ log splitter and man hire
gdh replied to Lukey boy1's topic in Firewood forum
Do you mean a small splitter or one for over size timber? Assuming you mean a small one you could get a bit of work if you've got a chainsaw and can turn a tree into firewood for someone. Bigger ones I think would be hard to pay off unless you get a long one then you could try and make oak stakes if you could get suitable wood and there could be some money in that.
