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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.
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I just had it trying to upload 4 pics at once, I went back and uploaded them separately, but still just one post and it worked fine. On Android.
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I think he meant biomass or solar. Is it a chip boiler you have?
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It's a heated shed, it's sealed to keep the heat in.. It's got fans in the back and averages 3 weeks to do 160 cube.
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We try and cut to replace whatever we sell, at the moment we have 120/145 boxes full. Unfortunately this time of year we're low on space so we've got wood jammed everywhere. On the plus side we sorted through some logs and have nice stuff for Monday morning.
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Thanks, and to cornish wood burner, I haven't noticed that setting, maybe ours is different, then again there was 40 screens to go through last time we had a problem so I probably missed it. Time to start reading the instructions. :-)
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I'm not sure on whether the extra cost of hardwood is worth it in terms of kws produced (similar argument for firewood) but we only chip 4 inch down hardwood as opposed to up to to 12 inch softwood so it's more to save the labour of cutting small stuff for firewood. I might be missing something but as far as I can remember we've never adjusted our boiler for different types of chip, I was under the impression that everything's automatic - it basically keeps filling and burning until the buffer tank reaches a set temperature,in our case 70c. It's an evoworld 199kw boiler.
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That's interesting, we've got a 199kw chip boiler and we did look at a way of drying the chip as it goes in but couldn't get anything to work.
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If chip is damp you can't store it because it will compost so you have to store the logs instead. We dry ours by forcing hot air through it but we have a customer who stores their logs undercover and we chip them straight into the hopper for the boiler. For boilers you wouldn't generally chip brash because you use a chipper that makes a certain grade of chip for boilers. You can get boilers that will burn anything but they generally need filling at least once a day instead of being automatic like chip.
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We dry ours down to 15% because we use and sell quite alot but if you chip in the summer and keep a stockpile of dry logs for the winter you should get away without drying any. We sell softwood chip and put a mix or just whatever we have in our boiler.
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Same, it's more expensive to buy but it lasts longer. I just chipped 15 tons of small Ash logs for ours today.
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I would say £10-15 a cube less than hardwood since it's only really the wood itself that you're making a saving on. As for actual price it depends where your based and what others around you are charging. Sorry that's not much help. :-)
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Can you get away with having a chain with an extra link?
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Nice idea. Is that a bucket you've adapted into a log grab in the background?
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Both of them will run on our 35hp massey but it won't lift, just drag them. The 400 is about 1200kg I think. Worth mentioning if you jam the splitter and don't lift the guard (which switches everything off) you'll probably stall the tractor but that shouldn't ever be an issue. They both need an electric connection, we had to adapt our old tractor to run it by putting an alternator in. I'm not sure how long they would run off a battery.
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Yeah, I would recommend the 400, it's well built and still cheaper than others and it's a fast machine. The 480 isn't here yet but from what I can see it's just a bigger version of the 400 with a more powerful splitter and the auto splitter. The extra auto adjust etc should be an improvement and they can be turned off anyway. Pm if you want a rough price. :-) I used to cut smaller stuff with our old 1x37 and that was alright because you can slam a manual handle down then cut the last bit slowly whereas the joysticks are a set speed so it might as well be going through a big log. I'm hoping that the 12 way ring splitter on the 480 doesn't make too much kindling when the logs are slightly bigger than the ring.
