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  1. forestgough
    Best thing ive bought for a long time was a moisture meter from axminster tools, I now monitor the moisture content of my firewood and find it dries quicker than the books say,cost about £15 and gives me and the customers more faith in the product.
  2. forestgough
    All wood is marketable in my opinion,the price depends on the amount of work you want to put into it. You could sell it cheap on your way home in rings[handled only once] or you could take home,split store,season,reload,deliver[handled up to 6 times]for a premium. I like the first option if you can find a customer.As you probably know, the sound of a saw usually brings out a potential bargain hunting wood burner.
  3. forestgough
    Im also a smallscale firewooder,and I can confirm that theres not much margin in it but at the same time it is quite addictive and a useful timefiller on slack days.Even selling it in small feed bags or nets a few at a time adds up.
  4. forestgough
    Have a look at Stanley logsplitters,they work like a guillotine so you decide where the log splits precisely.Ive got a homemade one which is unstoppable.
  5. forestgough
    Ive decided to try making my own log coffin,as a humerous and fitting tribute to a wonderful guy ect ect.I wonder if anyone else has had a go at this. My idea is to use a single log,mill a flat bottom off it,then use the top slab as a natural lid,then hollow inside of log and reattach bottom board.Iknow it will be heavy,but I like the idea of some mates cursing me one last time as they push me to the crem ona loadall.
  6. forestgough
    Try going face to face at your nearest fc office,introduce yourself get chatting and ask straight out if theres anything they are struggling to get done. Its a case of getting the first job .
  7. forestgough
    Hang on that stump is worth millions,thats the face of Pudsey bear in themiddle of a tree,praise the lord!
  8. forestgough
    I was thinking old furniture,chipboard,doors etc?
  9. forestgough
    Do any of you people burn odd stuff on your stoves?In my brain any thing that's wood is good to go,but the stove makers try to scare me off. I s a bit of paint etc really that bad.
  10. forestgough
    A good trick is to borrow someone elses bestest sharpest saw! ps Wonder why ive got no mates?
  11. forestgough
    HI I got a tr110 which munches up to 4 inch stuff.Its about twice the price of the tr70,but if you get a tape measure out and really look at what you are thinking of chopping you soon see the limitations of the smaller one. That comment about losing sleep over it is just what happened to me,but after selling logs for 30 years I treated myself toa branch logger and woodburner ,and just lit my first homefire on sunday. Come and have a go on my machine if you like;im 50 miles below shrewsbury.
  12. forestgough
    With regard to having to many twigs,i tend to pull back on the last section of material as it enters the blades,and chuck that in a pile,that improves the look of the net.We are also putting the fuel directly into dumpy bags until we get a drying shed set up this summer.
  13. forestgough
    Cheers,for the dowling tip. Shame wife not to keen. How much stuff have you put through your 70? we have only just started with our machine.Do you sell any of it? Im thinking of trying to get as many owners together and branding the fuel to help market it better, what do you think.
  14. forestgough
    If you could find someone nearby with a WELMAC BRANCHLOGGER [see internet]they could chop rather than chip your brash. This machine produces a kind of loggette ranging in diameter from nothing to100mm and length 40 to 120mm.Pricesfrom about £3500 depending on size,might make a little business.
  15. forestgough
    I have recently purchased a welmac 110 branchlogger,with the aim of running 1 or 2 woodburners with the branch wood that would usually be left behind or burnt on site[always seemed a hell of waste energy].I wonder if anyone knows of a decent looking top filling stove with glass viewing door. The fuel im producing is pretty random sized and may need tipping or shovelling into woodburner. Any ideas would be most welcome.
  16. forestgough
    chainsaw clamped to bench? Im intrigued,any pics

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