Logsnstuff
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bag stands too high then when you put the bench onto pallets get the wrong height for working. hoping to change the conveyor though on the processor in the future so can just use that.
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someone tried to say before that other countries dont use bulk bags its stacked crates and various other methods to measure, with 5 min googling i found all the scandinavian countries various mainland EU australia new zealand and canada were all moving onto FIBC bags to sell their logs.
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we use sawbench also for stuff upto 5 - 6" just wish we had gone for a conveyor version we drop the logs into tubs then have to lift into a bag makes it kinda slow, for the odd piece which is bigger we just turn it end on and cut in half with the saw.
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you do need to put in size of bag though many people talk dumpy but some refer to 0.5 or 0.6 and 0.7
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I don't see the problem in using bags as a measure so long as you give the size in your advert and seems the standard for mc is under 25%, with the 0.75 bags I get 220kg to 290kg depending on species, I don't put the scales on every bag unless going fully loaded.
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I deliver anywhere a vehicle can get to with our truck or carrier.
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well with what I can afford to pay myself I qualify for benefits but refuse to take them. there may be some unemployed through bad luck but the majority have taken it up as a lifestyle they are reporting 3rd generation unemployed which is just out of order, if there was no cash, no mobiles, sky tv, free pc's etc only foodbanks and 2nd hand clothing maybe then you would see people more interested in a days graft. people across the street from my sister both long term unemployed, I think they have 3 kids and they don't just have sky tv but have virgin also and she was saying they are getting free shed and a fancy playhouse from the council.
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i agree they dont want to work but for the discussion was giving them the benefit so to speak.
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I buy British underwear its about the only thing left we still manufacture, my shirts come from a factory in fife about 25 miles away, I fail to see the comparison we have the woodlands already growing, we have the population on benefits who could be maintaining the woodlands instead of sat at home watching Jeremy Kyle, we no longer have a diverse clothing manufacturing industry basically underwear or suits. go find something else that is actually widely produced in the UK but we are choosing to import instead and the use that. Almost forgot half my shoes or more are English made. my chainsaw boots are arbortec from Norfolk.
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agree, they told me at the testing station doesnt matter what the vehicle is if the goods/product in a trailer is ready for sale then needs tacho to transport it. timber in the round is exempt but if its split ready for the fire needs a tacho.
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your imports are doing away with the harvesting,planting, drainage, haulage, processing jobs, vehicle sales, fuel, mechanics to name a few examples because all these people will have no jobs when you undercut locally sourced timber, not rocket science to see the potential knock on effects. crates delivered on foreign lorries fuelled on the continent and paying no tax into uk coffers how is this a good thing?
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difference is firewood is being marketed as a sustainable low carbon fuel which hauled from the Balkans is not.
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ahh didnt he move up to Aberfeldy to war with gatehouse
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forgot to ask whos selling at that price.
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do you have a tacho fitted to your truck for that trailer? they had a blitz round perth, put 1 guy of the road for 3 weeks till he got a company card sorted.
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they can try and undercut everyone but like you say no margin can they last long enough to put the existing ppl out of business every time you turn round 5 more have sprouted up.
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similar to how I have been doing it works pretty good if you don't get sustained rain like last year, if you use 1.2x2m tarps you get little bungees which hook into the bags I was using these guys Tarpaulins To Go
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if you don't pre process by several months it's going to limit the quality of your product. majority of my competition are doing what you are and they put out logs 30 - 40%mc I'm doing air dried in bakers bags and getting 12% to 14% it's worth putting the price up £5 a cube and getting no bags back for that.
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I charge £38 a barrow bag min order of 2 and refuse to do steps.
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your £16 timber still needs to be valued at £40 when your pricing your logs or your better to sell it in the round though.
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mesh bags in a polytunnel work great no mold, with the mesh bottom and open ends plenty air flow, I went with 1 meter extensions so can go 4 bags high in the centre 30ft by 90ft including erection 6k ish with highland but they are just using northern tunnels.
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2 more estates round me have bought processors don't know what they will be charging yet. I haven't put my prices up in 3 years still £94 for 0.75m3 and £120 m3 my prices were way higher than the competition when I started but better quality logs and fast service wins and their prices are starting to catch up now. cord varies in price from £35 to £55 although had someone trying for £60 couple of weeks ago. thinking I should pack in the logs and go into tree surgery, ppl wanting £5k to cut 6 Leylandii and grind the stumps.
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720 mile round trip for me so stayed at home.
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I had alot of them 2 years ago had some pine and douglas in the yard had been sitting couple of years was riddled with them so I chopped the stuff up but decided against selling didnt think the customers would like the maggots or the woodwasps that had formed but couldn't get out.
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do you leave the bags open or will you tarp later?
