gdh
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Looking at the government website the only legal requirement is a break of 20minutes if it's over a 6 hour day. It doesn't have to be paid for. Not that that has much bearing on those of us who are self-employed.
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Did some chipping in a nearby bit of forestry today, it was all under 4 inch diameter and 4-5ft lengths so we just chucked it in and tried to keep up with the chipper. Between two of us we did 7 trailers/70 cube and hauled it back so not a bad day. Need a break now though.
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Nice. It's always a struggle to get under 20 with air drying. We had to wimp out and use a drying shed because we could never get them dry if we cut this time of year.
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£57 delivered in for hardwood. That's in mid Wales.
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Are you looking for fresh or dry logs?
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Same for me, brilliant while they work but after a few months the spouts gone too stiff.
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That's how I charge if I'm working for someone. I knock off half hour or however long we stop for, especially since most people round here will provide food. That seems fairest to both sides.
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Stacked vs Loose - sorry! With a twist...
gdh replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Firewood forum
There's less wood as you do bigger pieces, although not by a huge amount, I agree with that. Not sure about stacking. You could cut a cube into an ibc or similar, empty it out then stack it back in to get an accurate measurement. If you think there's 12 cube there you wouldn't be losing out by much since it's so much faster to process and most commercial buyers will expect a discount on bulk. -
My dad sold split oak stakes in the early nineties and started selling spare bits as firewood to neighbours, eventually he got a circular saw and splitter to process a bit more. He got a proper processor in about 2001 and went up to 100-200 tons a year. By the time I left school in 09 the farm which is our main business was losing money so he planted all the rough land with trees and we started selling a bit more,luckily we already had 50 acres of woodland. We expanded 100 tons a year every year, started buying in wood and split the firewood into a separate business so we could invest. Then we bought bigger toys, I mean machinery but could still hire tractors and loaders from the farm to keep costs down. A few years ago we built a drying shed and a chipper so we could keep cutting through the winter and here we are. Machinery went like this: Splitting wedges and chainsaw Circular saw and splitter Palax, no indeed, push onto blade Hakki Pilke 1x37 Tajfun 400 joy Tajfun 480 +
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How wide is the gate? Would you get a narrow ride on through like an as940. It's a brushcutter but it would just do grass short enough. I think it's just over a meter wide.
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Thanks, very helpful. I'll probably leave it untreated then. It's coming from an estate somewhere, one of our regular lorry drivers recommended it and we got a good deal which is why I haven't looked for alternatives..
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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.
