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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.
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We're going to try and sell some softwood. Hopefully we do sell a bit since it's nice stuff to cut.
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If you want to spend a bit more there's a husqvarna 435 with 15inch bar on fr Jones site for £252 Inc VAT. That's a 40cc saw.
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Sycamore is bouncy but once you get in it should split easily. Just let it dry in rings then aim for the cracks. As said above it's better to use a splitting maul than an axe. It's good firewood, similar to ash I find.
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Same, we use NFU because our farm business was already with them.
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I would go with a PTO splitter but it might add too much to the cost if you only want a small one. Ryetec make decent splitters and they'll manifacture any size, length and features to order.
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Yeah, it's pretty much the perfect site after we took the fence off. That's actually a road but we only had 2 cars pass all day, only downside was we had to sweep it all at the end.
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I was leaving slight tracks so went to turn around, bad decision...
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We've been felling some trees today. Lots of really nice straight oak and all 40ft+ so it's a treat for us and It's nice to be doing something other than putting logs through the processor.
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We're the same, it's been a really good couple of months but we're slowing down now. I expect we'll get one more rush lf it gets cold again otherwise we'll be down to a few loads a week for the summer.
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Yeah, that's the downside of the anti vibration, it's really good on the current saws but you don't get the same feel of something loose as the older models and I do wonder if the engine vibrations are actually higher now. The bolt on the felling spike is constantly coming loose on mine other than that this has been the first thing to come out in 3 years of having the saw.
