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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. -
I was looking at big processors at the apf before and other than big logs there's not a big speed increase. You'd be better off with a second normal processor and a worker if anything. Having said that, it doesn't mean I don't want one of those.
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Sorry I don't know anyone in your area and it would be too expensive for us to do I would think. Hopefully there's someone else who can help on here.
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Good of you to share, looks like it spun slightly on the stump. that always seems to happen when you're near something important... I'm guessing you also need to up the idle speed on the saw.
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Been splitting oversized oak and ash for biomass today. 15 tons up to 3ft diameter and only one blockage so a nice day.
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<p>Hi. Sorry for the delay, I've been away. Either me or my dad will give you a ring or you can email <a href="mailto:" rel="">[email protected]</a> and I'll give you all our prices. It depends on the size of bags you use as we usually sell loose .</p>
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Delivered locally is £120 or £100 for 1.8cube or we do bigger loads by tipping another part box in. We normally sell hardwood, softwood is a bit of an experiment to see if it will sell.
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This is how we do it; cut into boxes, put them in our drying shed, stack them and tip into the pickup if it gives you any ideas.
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Check the fuel pipe hasn't perished. I had a tiny hole in mine which caused the same thing.
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Thanks for the reply. We're in Llandovery, Carmarthenshire. It's processed firewood I was looking at selling. Hard or soft (60 or 50 a cube). If someone else handles delivery I don't mind where it go but I think it's 2+ hours to Oswestry.
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It's more personal preference I think. Ibcs are cheaper and a bit smaller. Potato boxes are a bit bigger and can be broken (but rarely - our 160 have had a couple of thousand tons in them and I've only replaced about 5 planks). We went with potato boxes because they can be stacked up to 7 high if needed and they're more stable in general. Nothing wrong with ibcs though and there's some good deals on them.
