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  1. gdh
    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.
  2. gdh
    I think he meant biomass or solar. Is it a chip boiler you have?
  3. gdh
    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.
  4. gdh
    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.
  5. gdh
    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. :-)
  6. gdh
    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.
  7. gdh
    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.
  8. gdh
    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.
  9. gdh
    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.
  10. gdh
    Same, it's more expensive to buy but it lasts longer. I just chipped 15 tons of small Ash logs for ours today.
  11. gdh
    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. :-)
  12. gdh
    Can you get away with having a chain with an extra link?
  13. gdh
    Nice idea. Is that a bucket you've adapted into a log grab in the background?
  14. gdh
    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.
  15. gdh
    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.
  16. gdh
    We used to but they tend to go sideways or catch on the chain and we found that if you only cut bigger stuff then you ge a lot less rubbish in the wood. We've got a Tajfun 400, probably about to get a 480 plus though. It's a really good machine, done at least 2500 tons in the last 3 and a half years and no big problems.
  17. gdh
    Yes, I can imagine. I'm only joking, our woods pretty good in general,it's just that we usually have reasonably straight 8ft lengths. All of our 16 ft logs get cut in half to fit in the shed so we just cut them on the bend and the short stuff is only a problem trying to stack it on the trailer. Anything below 4 inch diameter we cut with a chainsaw and leave it round because it's quicker than putting small stuff through the processor.
  18. gdh
    I've reached the end of one of our stacks of good stuff so now we get a choice between bent 16ft and straight 7ft. I'm not sure which is worse...
  19. gdh
    No problem. Now I just need to find a use for our plastic ones.
  20. gdh
    Just a thought, if you used the cardboard tubes that come in the middle of sillage wrap you could them to and there's alot lying around at farms who wrap bales.
  21. gdh
    The split wood is for another customer but we have a 199kw chip boiler.
  22. gdh
    It's 4ft, most the cost is in the ram and we only want to split 3-4 ft pieces for biomass boilers so we thought we'd save a few thousand and go for a short one. Ryetec build to any spec you want.
  23. gdh
    It's a Ryetec. We had to make a few changes to the log table because it bent when it flipped up during splitting but other than that it's a really well built machine.
  24. gdh
    We looked at both a couple of years and went with a splitter. The main reason was we don't have a 360 and a cone splitter big enough to split 3ft diameter plus needs a very high oil flow which we couldn't get from either of our loaders. Also our 40 ton splitter goes 8 ways and you just keep pushing more through whereas a cone splitter takes multiple pushes just to split in half. Of course if you have a 360 then you can get a cone splitter for 4K but a standard splitter with a few extras like ours is more like 16K and a cone splitter would probably be better for bent stuff and could do longer logs.
  25. gdh
    Same here, even the sheds are soaked because it's going sideways.

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