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A new size and style of kindling net added to the range
gdh replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Mind if I ask what type of machine you use? We used to do kindling with (I think) a kindla machine run off a bobcat but didn't have enough of a market. Do you still drop rounds down a chute to be split repeatedly or have the machines changed? Don't worry I'm just curious, no intention of making kindling again. -
I'm not sure what's on the standard version to be honest. I think the only other extras are a light to tell you if you have the pto is set right and the display for the amount produced also tells a few other things like oil pressure, voltage, temperature and pto speed. The volume counter needs setting everytime you change length so I don't bother with it. Out of interest why did you get a second 400? Did something fail or are you cutting large amounts? I thought they had only come out 4 years ago when we got ours.
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That's a nice video, I've wanted to do something similar with a camera fixed on a falling tree then following it through the process but I don't have the patience. Your wood looks really tidy. My only suggestions would be replace the kiln dried reference with something like 'all our logs are seasoned naturally so they are dry and burn efficiently' and add a bit with you replanting saplings, not everyone understands that thinning is sustainable. Personally I like seeing the wood taken from hedges on a small scale, makes a change from seeing videos of people in the woods.
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It's working well, overall it's just slightly faster than the 400 but obviously the real gain is putting bigger logs through and the 12 way splitter means you don't have to put anything through twice. Having three rollers on the log table is a huge improvement and the hydraulic winch on the conveyor makes filling boxes easier. The chain is slightly easier to access but the sprocket is harder. We've got the plus model and the auto height adjust on the splitter is nice but not important with the 12 way in. The splitter is the same speed as the 400 but slows down if needed on big logs, it does make our massey 35x struggle though.
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That sounds like the perfect job, shame about the weather. We're lambing on the farm at the moment so we're cutting 6 days a week to try and keep up with orders, luckily our new processor is going well and we've got some nice big straight wood to cut. Just struggling to dry it fast enough now because everything's so wet.
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It's hard to tell because we're always expanding but there certainly seems to be more fires around now and a greater demand for dry logs instead of people cutting their own. We've been going about 20 years, it was just my dad doing a bit but since I left school and joined the business 8 years ago we've increased every year. We should hit 1000 tons this year so there's certainly demand. Only problem we have is a lot of new people who sell wood near the start of the winter until they run out of dry stuff which keeps the prices low. It's good for the customers though.
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It's not a big issue, I usually have 5-10 chains and just swap them and sharpen a few when I get the chance. We did ask about harvester bars but they just asked why I would want to waste more wood and I suppose they have a point. There's plenty of space in this model so you could probably run what you want with very little adapting.
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Yes the processors really well made, had no breakdowns with the old one so hopefully this will be the same and they're cheaper than alot of other makes. If you're cutting clean hardwood for 9inch I would expect 25-30cube out of chain and going up to 18 inch length would double that.
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Few more pics of the new machine and a pile of logs the lorry drivers stacked a bit too high.
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3/8, it's a 24 inch bar with a 19 inch cut.
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If it's 0.7cube I would think 250kg completely dry and 400kg wet.
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Tajfun do a simple version, we bought one but ended up changing the logs we cut so there wasn't enough kindling to make it worth it. I think it's £3-400 RCA Tajfun
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Yeah the splitters brilliant, no more putting big bits back through. I'll try and take some more pictures tomorrow, realistically we're looking at 4-6 cube an hour including moving between boxes. That's with 9inch though when we cut 18inch we should easily be 10-15 cube. I think the key will be to get as many 12-18 inch diameter logs as possible.
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We've just built a log table and now we're putting all the big logs that we've left to one side through our new processor. There's something for satisfying about putting big logs through a twelve way splitter.
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We're £65 for a cube of dried hardwood. We charge £110 for 1.8cube delivered up to 20 miles. We also do larger amounts slightly cheaper, woodchip depends on location and amount and 3-4 foot lengths for biomass boilers. Buying in lengths of hardwood is around £55 a ton and heading upwards as always. Edit: That's in mid Wales.
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The bracketed number is the weight in lbs.
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Which tyres are on the trailer, they look narrow but it could be the picture, wide tyres and good trailer brakes would be my preference if the tractors small.
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It all depends on the amount of logs and how much you want to invest. It ranges from putting pallets down, covering them in 2ft of logs and putting a tarpaulin over to filling ibcs/potato boxes to building a shed and a kiln.
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A simple idea that we use to cut shorter logs.
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10 cube is good going, especially with short stuff. Luckily we're undercover but my eyes are sore to, doesn't matter where you hide a sudden gust always gives you a face full of dust.
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Are you chainsawing and splitting that or using a processor? I'm feeling pretty good today, between the 2 of us we processed 30 cube/17 tons of 12 inch and it only took 7 hours including moving everything. Just got to hope it dries now, it was very wet oak.
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I think most customers have an alternate source of heat, it's hard to argue with oil when logs are 3 times the price. Hopefully customers will watch the news and weather today and start ordering.
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Keeping concrete clean is an upside of the recent weather.
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:blushing:Thanks, it's obvious really, I'm going to go and hide my face now.
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I was wondering if it's possible (or if there's a reason there isn't one) to have a button next to threads that says when there's a new post and that you can press to take you to the first new post. Most of the time it's fine now but if there's a busy thread and it's not on the the last page you have to flick through to find the first new post.
