Logsnstuff
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No pics yet, can’t get machine across his fields as we have had about 6-7 weeks non stop rain, I will need a few days frost or a month of dry.
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It’s ring shake, it’s on very sandy ground on the top of a hill and there’s been a lot of movement with the wind.
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A parcel of oak is coming up 150yr old trees, thinking about making an offer but not sure what current value is approx 300 tons but there could be as much as 50% shake from the small sample felled.
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I’m charging £128 a cube bag and £98 for a 3/4 and if I had work for the forwarder I wouldnt do them at all, every year there’s more and more starting up slashing prices £60 roadside atm for birch makes you wonder how they can sell at £60 a cube delivered.
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I do logs from Perth
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What’s the running cost?
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If I remember correctly these were hawthorn I cut back in july.
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I bonfired 250 ton of the stuff, found it awful as firewood, only way I could get it to burn was mixed with some spruce. Stick it on the sawmill or chip it.
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Natural Eco Hardwood Charcoal in 2.5kg , 8kg and 10kg Bags
Logsnstuff replied to MP WOOD Company's topic in Firewood forum
looks like latvia -
more importantly they started fast food with street stalls advertising and trade marks calendar currency but you would have preferred roman concrete I believe the stuff used for the Colosseum is still fluid in the centre.
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yes because quite a few come back and tell you how bad the logs were and then next cheap guy they are of again to try him
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best advice is don't do it, as you can see there are many part timers who will undercut on price, there are very few loyal customers most of them always want to try the new cheap guy. couple of years ago someone supposedly started a rumour we had gone out of business and our sales dropped off about 50% without anyone ever contacting us to see if it was true and while you get this kind of thing in all sectors firewood seems to have very tight margins so it can really hurt.
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I did carboard boxes about 5 years ago and like others have said was too expensive.
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wish I could sell more than half a dozen bags of softwood a year, takes me anywhere from 12 min to 40 min to fill a 90x90 depending on where the hardwood came from, usually oak, beech or birch occasional sycamore. treated myself to an infrared thermometer few weeks back and I tested it on some 2 year seasoned beech from the polytunnel with the stove shut down was getting 359C I then tried it with doug fir that's about 7 year old out of the log store and was getting 371C
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I had about 200 ton of hybrid poplar and bonfired about 180 ton of it nobody would take it even offered it free of charge to a guy with a big chipper for biomass and he wasn't interested, from my experience one thing you will find is those saying it burns ok are very much in the minority.
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whos going to compete on price, if we paid wages like the Baltics it would be classed as slave labour.
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what's wrong with a simple standalone conveyor
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nobody in the UK is going to compete with European prices when they pay their workforce 250 euro a month and all the other costs involved at similar levels.
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Anyone use vented bags for seasoning, storage and delivery?
Logsnstuff replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
I'm using the hiab on the delivery truck and just make the strap very short. -
1m billets you gotta watch out being so short when you feed forward and back a few times they can get outa shape and fall between the chains but wouldn't have a processor without a deck
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Anyone use vented bags for seasoning, storage and delivery?
Logsnstuff replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
I don't bother with pallets I do have a ladder but I find the bags don't move even when pulling on them to climb up. the few pallets in the pic were from first filling the tunnel I stopped with them after about 4 rows -
doesn't look any further than my runs to mallaig so I can manage that 8x 90x90 bags a trip with seasoned hardwood.
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I'm selling mine way too cheap then most of my oak goes at £3 £3.50hf
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disagree on selling I have 3 competitors within 20 miles all doing 4m3 around £250 and I can still sell my 1m3 bags at £120, quality is more important to many over price, our region is also swamped with people selling logs but part timers mostly don't do the work to get a quality product
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think your pricing is wrong if you cant afford a bag.
