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Most new processors turn off when you lift the guard. On the tajfuns the chain only moves while you're cutting, it turns off between cuts. Jams are very rare because there's a clamp on the log and the chains are always kept sharp. It only jams if the chain blunts or occasionally the log can slip on the last cut but that's operator error to be honest. You don't get the jamming like we used to have with a blade. 84 link oregon or husqvarna chains are usually £20+ but we just got a few for 14. I can't remember what bars are but I think about 50 for the 24 inch. Not sure how that compares to blades, we would have to have a spare to avoid downtime so that would be a big cost and then I suppose it depends how many tips you have to replace.
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On hardwood we change the chain every 18 tons when cutting 9 inch and the bar every 200, obviously longer lengths mean less sharpening. In our experience whether you use a chain or blade you normally hit something in the wood before the estimated time to sharpen. We keep 10 chains sharp and it takes 5-10 minutes to change them.
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Yeah, it's nice to see bent hardwood instead of perfectly straight softwood.
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Interesting fact; NHS walking sticks are made from sprout stems. And yes, they should have taken them back, it's not like they can go wrong.
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Some of my appalling camera work as requested in another thread. I had a bit of spare time today so filmed a few bit and pieces and got my brother to film some. In the video there's a 6 way splitter in with automatic height adjust (measured while cutting) but there's also a 12 way for the bigger stuff we use. Normally we have a row of boxes that we cut into. I was good and deliberately didn't edit out the awkward bits. [ame] [/ame]
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<p>2nd part to avoid limit.</p>
<p>The drying trailer is for chip but it has worked for firewood in the past. It took 20 hours to dry 6 wet tons although I would say it's a very inefficient way of doing it and the middle of the logs wasn't perfect (25% compared to 0/not registering on the outside). The trailer is an old 8 ton muck trailer with a second floor made from vented sheets 6 inches up and a pressure fan (same as grain floors) pushing hot air in. With chip in it will rain from the roof of the shed when drying and is perfect but it's too much power for firewood so we only use it in emergencies. It could be adapted though.</p>
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<p>If you want you can E-mail me at <a href="mailto:" rel="">[email protected]</a> and I can give you some pictures.</p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>We found the installation would be too expensive at around 18-19k 3 years ago for the floor when we could spend 6k on potato boxes and fill the shed. Also every time you handle the wood more bark/shards would fall off.</p>
<p>There's a picture here <a href="http://www.hormannsfirewood.co.uk/the-process/" rel="external nofollow">The Process Hormanns Firewood Hormanns Firewood</a> of our shed, it has 3 bays with radiators on the sides and fans at the back to keep the air moving, it's all powered by a 199kw chip boiler but requires a lot less unless we're using the drying trailer at the same time.</p>
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I'll try and record next time it's going. If you were closer I would say come and have a look but it's a bit far.
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Wait until you see a farmer doing some hedging then help him out for the day in return for the wood.
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The 400 is 15ton and that never struggled on a 6 way. The 480 splits at 15 or if it can't, slows down and goes to 25. You rarely use the max on either but it's nice to have it and it shows the chassis must be well built.
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>In the end we found it was too expensive to do so we went with potato boxes instead and put fans in a heated shed. </p>
<p>We tried cutting vents in a floor and blowing hot air through for woodchip but we found it just dried strips of it so we do it in a trailer instead. I still think a grain floor could work if you could build it so you could shut off sections and pull it up to clean. </p>
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<p>Whereabouts are you based?</p>
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The only fault we had was the hydraulic on the log clamp which was replaced under warranty, other than that we're really happy with it. The auto height adjust on the splitter takes out alot of the fiddle out and there's loads of room inside if you have bent stuff. We've been cutting oak and the 25 ton splitter hasn't failed to split anything yet.
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We cut firewood and do general farm work and have 5 at the moment plus a load of old broken ones and one with a drill attachment ; 357, 560, 576, oleo Mac 962 and a top handled oleo Mac. I try and have 3 on the go, 2 15inch and 1 20 inch.
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Only about 150-200 I think, we tend to cut as we sell so it's slow now. To be honest we're just using it with the 6 way splitter on small 8-12 inch stuff because we only started buying bigger stuff in after we bought it. It's still satisfying putting big logs through the 12 way when we get the chance though
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Nails drive me mad on the firewood processor, we're pretty lucky though since you only tend to get them from hedge thinnings where someone's been lazy with a fence. The worst thing is finding netting in a tree from a really old fence when you're felling. Speaking of stones in trees I blunted 2 chains on our processor (thought the first one had blunted naturally) a few weeks ago on an 18 inch Ash log.
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I think that RHI is a British government scheme not an EU one so hopefully it's safe. I was only half watching the exchange rate on the news earlier but isn't the tourist rate not the commercial rate that's been affected most so far?
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I think as long as the oil price goes up a bit firewood sales should hold up. Although we're lucky that most of our customers rely on wood for heating. The only downside of recent events is that it will be more expensive to import machinery.
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6 months should be fine for Ash if you split it then season.
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It is surprising how many people are realising what being out actually means, especially on the issue of Scottish and Irish independence. The funny thing is we still don't know any more about what's going to happen than before the vote but hopefully in a few days time the pound will stabilise, politicians will get back to business and we'll all move on and find out if this was the right choice.
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Ah yes, I missed that sorry, I just looked at the bottom picture and thought that it was a trailer like the one in my profile pic. I would of thought the trailer type would be better for firewood production and considerably cheaper.
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Forwarding trailers are the same as any other on the road. They'll do the same speed of as the tractor so 50kph/32mph in our case. Obviously no more than the 25mph speed limit though. They also usually have a slewing tow bar so you can get into really tight spaces.
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Nice area but I hope you've got a rock spike on your knocker.
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I just had my wrist done after rolling a quad. The main thing I'll say is take a book, there's often a long wait in a ward even if you're lucky enough to get a morning slot you'll be there til 8. If they're knocking you out completely like I was it's really weird when you wake up because it feels like a dream but enjoy the morphine while you can and try not to say anything stupid. You're guaranteed to feel sick after because they can't get the dose perfect first time. If they offer you medicine to stop sickness then take it because they won't let you go until you keep a meal down. Hospital food isn't terrible but it's not good either so if you feel a bit sick just have a bucket in the car and say you're fine then get out (that's what I did, not medical advice of course)
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We're only selling a few loads a week now and a bit of chip but we've got a lot of farm work on so that's ok. We buy in as soon as we're below the overdraft limit enough to afford it. The problem we have is that we're increasing by 200 ton this year so that's another 11-12k we have to have sitting in the stack for 12 months.
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We have bike races and the ruts are hard to level but as said hiring a 360 with a blade on the front and a good driver will soon get them cleared. The worst thing about bikes is that they don't leave anything either side of the ruts so you do have to dig a bit. For us it was about £700 to do 3-4 miles of track.
