Logsnstuff
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I like the idea but not sure it would cope with the stuff we have over here like the chunk of oak I had to chainsaw off the posch today.
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if she's not a reader she will go lochearnhead then. nice drive about 6am in the summer.
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how about you tell my customers about this snow.
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tell them you can do a bag of green wood that wont burn either for only £35
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I don't see much of a profit for us selling hardwood at £55. from the tests we did last year on green beech only getting 1.5m3 to a ton at £52+vat delivered.
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just A
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thats what we have been doing or cutting into rings and splitting on the verticles but coming round to the idea of the cubic bundles just not sure how desirable they are, have seen a few through spamming google with softwood £65+vat but no hardwood priced.
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lots of talk on which splitter to buy but who sells billets what volume bundles and how are you pricing them. seem to remember a couple of threads a while ago about billet bundlers, just curious if this is worth considering rather than upgrading processor to a larger atm.
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That's the total stupidity of government that a part time user with little experience doesn't need training but if you use a saw day in day out you have to get training and refresher courses why don't they just say pay this tax and save everyone the hassle. did my training at 10/11 yr old just with steel toe cap boots n jeans in the school holidays you would probably get arrested for it now.
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Time to kiln dry firewood down to 20%
Logsnstuff replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
Theres a guy at cumbernauld can't remember the name at the moment used to be a sawmill who's kiln drying his logs to 6 or 8% I get £120 a cube for my air dried & £94 for my 0.73 bags -
Time to kiln dry firewood down to 20%
Logsnstuff replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
we had a customer used to put his logs in a wheelbarrow of water for 2-3 days before he burned them. had another who tried kiln dried they cost 30-40% more to buy and he couldn't see any difference in heat and they also burned too fast so refuses to buy them again. -
frost coming out of the ground, a bit of heat in the sun definitely not good for the log sales here.
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we had the spare wheel removed the chassis cut shorter aluminium bed fitted basically if it could be cut off or made lighter it was and we still lost around 500kg from the payload capacity we have max 875kg now from 1.4-1.5t which means 2 90x90 bags of seasoned hardwood.
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I use a short sling on 1 loop and never have any problems emptying
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it was mostly beech, it was a good price because we got screwed on a previous load but price does seem to be falling here. peaked at 55+vat
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I would recommend if you can afford it going hydraulic if you have many deliveries with walls or high hedges so you can lift over, if you add power you can hang a winch for basement deliveries. height can be an issue for putting in carports and garages if you just have kingpost and boom a 2 boom system would be an advantage there. I also wouldn't skimp on the support ours got a full underchasis frame for support, another merchant here just used a plate underneath to bolt to and they seem to be in at the welders every other week.
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last load I had mid december was mixed beech birch upto 20" £31 delivered down £15 on previous loads.
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did you bore cut?
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varies widely every year, last year was our worst ever barely did 300 cube could have made twice as much driving someones harvester. this year haven't counted yet but I would guess we are 3-400 cube already and it's still not been a great season.
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for 150 miles yes full load doesn't have to be to a single address though as long as they are not 15 20 miles apart so friends can order a load between them, we will do up to 50,60 miles with 2 bags depending on the roads if its all B roads we would look for 3 or 4 bags or you wait until we can combine with another order but we try to get most orders out same day or next day, we put a mileage option on the website and never had to charge yet, people just increase their order to get free delivery.
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upto 150 miles foc delivery. 8 bag load can take less time and fuel to deliver 150 miles away than doing multiple runs of 20 miles down the twisty roads of fife. https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3924/15123529899_ce37f2cc87.jpg' alt='15123529899_ce37f2cc87.jpg'>20140921_111022 by Logsnstuff, on Flickr[/img]
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We found last year burning holes and tarping the top just didn't work, with the amount of rain and wind the water would still get into the bag but not drain fast enough and some of the bags the bottom third of the logs turned black, using mesh bags this year and finding them far superior.
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my target levels are 15% - 25%
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that's the nets of wet softwood labelled suitable for open fires. the ones I looked at were totally green and sitting in the rain.
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mine blew away so often that when it landed in the bonfire I left it there.
