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I would go with your surname then a description as it's a good balance between professional and personal. For example we started of with my dad using his name selling firewood alongside the farm then we started a separate business called Hormann's Firewood which meant our older customers know who we are. Also it helps in the bank when people make cheques out to your name for the business account.
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Volume reduction and costs- slabwood stacks to biomass chip
gdh replied to wills-mill's topic in Firewood forum
The volume should increase when chipped. With normal wood 1ton makes 3 to 4 cube but I wouldn't like to guess with slabwood. The only issue I can see is that you'll have a lower quality chip because you have a higher percentage of bark, although your picture does look like tidy stuff. -
We tend to cut about a month in advance of delivery. We have a 160 boxes that we just fill as they empty, except when we fall behind towards the end of winter. We've just caught back up now. We've got about 900 tons of wood ready to cut, now we just need to sell some more firewood so we can afford to buy more unprocessed in for next winter.
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Have you considered getting a second hand flail topper to go behind a quad bike (assuming you have access to a Quad)?
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We're still processing here, it is slowing down though. We're buying in a lot of wood at the moment ready for next year but it's up to £58 a ton so we're going to have to put prices up which will mean a few less orders for a bit until they've phoned around and realised everyone's gone up.
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Haha, he might not win against the kestrel.
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Buy Quality Real And fake Passports, Driver’s License,ID Cards,Visas,
gdh replied to a topic in General chat
Can I claim vat back on this? -
I wouldn't want too many long days but there's nothing wrong with enjoying work if it's your hobby as well, some people go out drinking or watch TV and some enjoy a couple of hours more at work. I get people telling me I need to come out more and stop working but I get bored sitting in a pub or by the beach so I do what makes me happier. To a point of course.
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Old asbestos is very brittle but as long as you don't drop anything big on it you're no more at risk of breathing in dust than living in it.
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Not quite the same but I had some small birds,starlings maybe but I never saw the mother properly, nest on top of the wall about 3ft from where the logs came out the conveyor and hit it i watched them grow for a few weeks, even gave them a worm and watched as they grew feathers. Eventually they started to try and fly and that was the morning my cat killed the lot. I wasn't happy with the cat... Anyway my theories always been that birds wouldn't nest there if they didn't like it,cats aside.
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Kilworth usually have a few old Tajfun processors in stock. They might be a bit expensive because they're usually newer but they're good machines.
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Nice post. When you achieve a lot and enjoy yourself there's nothing better.
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I was just watching it, I remember the early series were quite interesting but everytime I see it now it's just arguments and every little incident is exaggerated.
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Yeah that's why we went with boxes instead of cages, you can stack a lot higher and safer. We paid £60 for 160 with double floors for strength 2 years ago and we've only had to put a new plank on 2 and that's with them being constantly shifted around and refilled so hopefully they're going to last a good few years.
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Nice video, it shows a lot of variety and it's well made with the editing and camera angles.
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That looks good,I'm guessing that the larger logs chip the same but it stop the small ones shredding. Could be useful, Thanks for posting.
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Cubic meter of roundwood to tonnes estimate needed
gdh replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
With 9 inch we work on 1.8 cube from one fresh ton. You'll get a bit more if you cut longer. -
That's a good point, tractors are only £30-40 an hour. I suppose quad work is more specialist and in smaller amounts though. If it's a diesel quad you could knock a fair bit off.
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I don't know the going rate but if you divide the cost of the bike (eg 7K) by 1000 you should get the cost of that. Hard work should be a max of 10L petrol an hour then just add your pay and a couple of quid for repairs and insurance. Based on that I would charge £30, maybe 35, an hour (including £10 for myself) and a bit for transport.
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It depends on the amount and conditions as said, best thing to do is find the value roadside (£45-50 around here) and take away the harvesting costs (around £30 here if it needs winching).
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We're only pulling standard trailers but I found that it's grip not power that's the issue offroad. Off the top of my head our yamaha 550 (very good work bike) pulls 500kg+ and my polaris scrambler 1000 (not a work bike ) is only rated to pull 750kg. I expect if you ballasted any bike it would pull more.
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Fair point, I've been in a similar situation where although you're still the cheapest any increase looks bad. The important thing is that you can survive on your starting rate, even if it's not making huge amounts, and there's so many variations that only the original poster can know if they can.
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Exactly. I'm sure that the original poster knows his costs and is happy with what he will make, you don't have to make a fortune to have a stable business and enjoy life. From the reaction so far he'll have plenty of customers and that's the important thing when starting out.
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Which area do you want to move into? For anything with chainsaws you'll want to start with cs30 and cs31 and look at getting a first aid course ideally. Be warned that the chainsaw courses are pretty expensive.
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Seems reasonable to me but I'm on alot less. It's plus parts so there's minimal other costs and at that price they should keep busy and get happy customers. Just wish I lived closer.
