gdh
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I missed that. Yeah, it looks ok, I only have experience with the firewood ones but that looks like it's designed for finer dust which should be ok unless you get unlucky.
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You could use a firewood processor dust extractor and a cyclone but decent ones will be 2k plus so not worth it unless you're doing a lot of milling. If you go down the route of an extractor fan it needs to be a heavy duty one that can take slithers of wood that might go down the pipe.
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It's an interesting idea and with 10 chains running on a firewood processor plus saws I would be tempted to get someone to sharpen them but I think the honest problem is you wouldn't be cheap enough. An 84 link (24inch) chain takes me 10 minutes to hand sharpen back to new condition (well, close 😉) and only costs £11 new. By the time I'd taken them off and packaged them to send I couldn't justify more than £2-3 for a perfectly sharpened chain. I'm not a fan of the edge the machines leave either The only market I can see is people who can't sharpen or users with damaged chains if you want to go down that route.
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With the 550 I think 15inch is perfect. 18 at a push but I wouldn't go longer personally.
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I think I've snapped a couple near the start but didn't really think about it. The only modification we made was to weld the plates on so they don't come loose anymore.
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This was my best buy for fencing. Much nicer than playing around with chains and less risk of taking one to the head if it snaps. You can do short stretches of netting with two people but I'm normally using a quickfencer or just chain the netting to the digger with our old holding bar https://www.amazon.co.uk/Draper-57547-Fence-Wire-Tensioning/dp/B0002GUM6Y/ref=asc_df_B0002GUM6Y/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=226152056294&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11855480945434765388&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045389&hvtargid=pla-421602825083&psc=1&th=1&psc=1
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I think you're more unlucky to get a bad chain. Out of 80ish rotatech chains I've had in the past 4 years 90% have been sharpened down to the limit and I've only ever snapped 2 when hitting something on our processor which I can't really blame on them as it happens with all brands. I usually run new chains for about half an hour then tighten them. There's a limit to how much anything will stretch so if it keeps happening to the point it comes off then I would check the tensioner.
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Ripper blades are slightly better and were slightly cheaper so we've stuck with them. Stephen Cull is very good to deal with but I believe he's retired from sharpening.
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Plenty of topics on them but in short they're good chains at a very good price. We use them on chainsaws and the firewood processor every day with no issues. Just have to get used to filing at 28° 😉
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I mean compared to crates, even on vented ones they're too fine to let wind through like an ibc or box. I think there would be a market for 1inch mesh bags.
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Bags aren't the best to dry in but I would definitely cover the tops. Rain on the sides won't matter too much but heavy or constant rain will soon run right through if the top's exposed.
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Don't think I've posted this before. Two of our tractors, only 50 something years between them...
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Posch are well made machines but take a look at ryetec as well, they'll make what you want to order and are well built. We've had one for 7 years now and it's done a lot of work.
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Has anyone received the woodsure accreditation yet? Not the ready to burn one, the full one. I haven't heard anything except a confirmation that they got my email in 4 weeks now and I've got 10 big customers and myself wondering if I can stay on the BSL from the first of April. If not none of them can claim RHI. I wouldn't want to be the staff there, I'm guessing it's a bit stressful with 10k applications and logs to test for all of them.
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We just put it through as it comes. It was mostly clean ash but some dirty oak and bits of other stuff so it averages out. It is a 24inch bar so 60cube to a chain is very good but only like getting 40 out of a small processor.
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I did an experiment with our processor last December and kept a record of chain use. 10 rotatech 84 link chains did 606 cube of hardwood firewood without being sharpened. I'm still counting how far they'll go with sharpening but it will be 2000+.
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Thanks, I'll take a look. It's mostly oversized so it's a limited market and only about 20 ton I think so not the end of the world if I cut it for firewood. There's some beech in there but I use the Oak myself. I did post it on here somewhere.
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Where abouts are you? Llandovery, mid Wales.
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I would say £50-60 a ton roadside for tidy firewood ash, more like £30-40 for the beech above because it's a pain to process Wish I could get a decent price for ash sawlogs, I have some here but no one local is interested.
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I don't think we're quite cheaper than gas yet but wood is looking like good value again. Woodchip from us is 6p/KW because it's fairly consistent to work out, and I know big companies will do it cheaper, but the running costs are higher. I've seen the figures for firewood somewhere but it varies more. Our most expensive (smallest load) of hardwood is £86 a loose cube. I'm not sure what that would translate to. Wood prices seem to have stabilized a bit so it's production costs will be the decider for next years prices.
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I'm still dealing with the misery of woodsure paperwork. They require samples of wood and have the brilliant statement of: 'Woodsure is a non-accredited facility, but applies the appropriate testing standards and equipment'.
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We only ever used a circular saw on a smaller machine so I can't directly repair but in terms of a chains I sharpen every 30-40cube on average and change the bar after about 300. We get about half a cube of sawdust from 15cube of firewood which mostly goes for animal bedding (in this case shavings are better than sawdust). We sell about 2500 cube a year and use 200l of chain oil (including saws), 5 bars and 12 chains. I'm not saying circular saws are bad, they have their place and are easy to use but every time I've looked at circular saw machines I've thought the chainsaw ones have the advantage.
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There's not really much difference in cutting speed, on the bigger machines the splitter is usually the limit to speed anyway.
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As long as you can sharpen a chain I would always go with a chainsaw. We upgraded from a circular saw to a chainsaw years ago and our last 4 Tajfuns (400 and 480+) have gone really well for us with no issues with the chainsaw.
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These are the costs
