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Anyone out there chipping brash for woodfuel? Is it for smaller boilers or power stations? Any figures available such as extraction costs, chipping costs and any profit to be made? Thanks in advance!
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D A Hughes are agents for pezzolato stuff
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Deere John Forestry !
braco replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Was that from John Deere at Carlisle? I only use them if I'm really desperate, get most things from msa machine spares, keeps most common JD parts in stock and so much cheaper, Stephen there really goes out his way to help too, great to see someone take on the big boys. -
That 150 with valtra sat up here in scotland for at least a year id say at a dealer, it went out a few times but never lasted long because of electrical problems, crane apparently controlled itself, perhaps great if it did as you wished and safely. Miss my 8400 with botex 560, great versatile machine
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If you're going for a magnum then Deffinately go for the 310, the bigger 335 had rubbish front suspension, clutch pack problems and gearbox constantly breaths oil. Pretty bullet proof big tractors just make sure the front axle has been well greased and that it has the modification strips of rubber along the side of the engine and you'll be on a winner, great pulling, one of the comfiest on the road and excellent hydraulics.
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Yes I do, got a keto 51 on a kubota 8 tonner. Based in Peterhead
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I've a big tp also and if the stuffs to green/wet it just chokes, speed it up and feed tip first
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<p>Hi how's it going? I could Deffinately sort something out yes, I cover all of Aberdeenshire but am based at Peterhead, waiting for confirmation of a big windblow job coming off in the next few months which would be ideal for processing and relatively dry. I have 8 or 16 ton tractor trailers to deliver with or could arrange a local haulier. For a 26ish ton artic load to Aberdeen would be £30 a ton, after that I'm unsure how much it would be. We also do kiln dried firewood, don't know how much you could sell this for up your way but maybe another solution with minimal work and a quality product, having the kiln dried stuff down here is Deffinately winning over the competition. </p>
<p> Hope this helps, I'm in France until Saturday but if you want to give me a call any time after then you'll get me on 07977519201</p>
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Any idea on the price/ availability of chip/firewood logs up that way, I'm a harvesting contractor in Aberdeenshire and have a fairly ready supply but would it be viable putting a few loads on the boat from Aberdeen?? Interesting to know
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Currently looking into enclosing the back of the kiln and hopefully the fans will draw in warm air from the pipes, also what are you burning?
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We have the glenfarrow 175 set up but really struggling to reach optimum heat in the kiln due to freezing weather conditions, filling the burner 3 times a day to keep temperature just at mid 70's as opposed to mid 80's a month or so ago. Deffinately worth while doing all your kiln drying in the summer time.
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But I know of 6 glen farrows all within a 15 mile radius of ourselves all going great and bringing great RHI returns, it only needs to pass the emission rules present at the time of commissioning, then its all set for 20 years?
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Arb waste is surely the same as logs, it's part of the tree, it's otherwise left on the ground to rot away, why not utilise this waste of material as fuel, in actual fact, brash wood is more of a biomass than the logs themselves, if this doesn't happen then too much good quality logs suitable for the mills will get burnt, in turn sending timber prices through the roof, i have a harvesting business and see it already, majority of work just now is clear felling areas of perfectly good timber, chipping the whole lot and burning it
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Haven't had a full count up but the boiler was around 15k, 6000 litre tank (insulated and covered ourselves) around 1500 and pipe work, meters etc around 6k maybe. Far cheaper than any chip or pellet boiler and not restricted to expensive fuel, don't know about other ares but in Aberdeenshire, dry woodchip is £100 a ton, pellets around £170. Pallets, tree roots and brash etc make excellent and free fuel. Yes it has to be manually loaded each day but the savings more than make up for this. Also I don't know how well the more conplicated chip and pellet boilers will work in 20 years time?
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Our glenfarrow is hooked upto a kiln which we put together ourselves, a shipping container with two heat exchangers in the end and vent holes, all you need really, glenfarrow are great to deal with and the boiler is so simple to use and well made. RHI also mounting up nicely and a plentiful supply of dry logs, ideal!
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Valmet with roof mount and keto 51 works ideal for thinnings, light machine, great manoeuvrability and reliable, everything you need, on average I get 7 cube an hour out of it. Potentially for sale as the purpose built is just far more comfortable to be in all day every day.
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The gremo at work, what an impressive machine for something of this age !!
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Several questions for all you business owners...
braco replied to luke_mclachlan's topic in Firewood forum
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I'll get some photos once she's in the woods where she belongs! Hopefully parts shouldn't be a problem, guys at gremo seem real keen to help out. She's got her work cut out to work alongside the valmet 8400 roof mount!
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By the sounds of it I was super lucky to get the first phone call in for the gremo, brilliant guy to deal with, just waiting for the lorry to get it picked up, been watching for long enough for a tidy forwarder but seem to be like rocking horse poo!
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Could you forward details of the 1210 or 860 please, potentially looking to upgrade the valmet/roofmount to purpose built Cheers
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I've gotten the chance of roughly 300 tons of mature Douglas fir in the Inverness area, its currently standing and if need be I'll put the harvester up but if someone else in the area can take on the work then perfect, saves me a lot of hassle! Thanks guys
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We were in the same situation, older, purpose built harvesters looked cheap but reliability of these machines was always going to be an issue, a new machine is bad enough to up keep! Next option was a 360 excavator set up, this was expensive and still required another outfit for forwarding, luckily David ridings valmet 8400 tractor with botex roof mount and keto head outfit appeared and I have never looked back, harvest for a few days, then throw the head off, grab and trailer on and away you go forwarding, all with the same base unit. Within days, I had contract work coming out my ears to justify buying the machine. Mobilty, low ground pressure and low running costs, couldn't ask for more once the stability issue was over come, still learning!!
