Logsnstuff

guy does have one of these kindling machines with the axe head welded to a wheel he hasn't lopped his hand off yet but not sure that qualifies it as a safe piece of equipment either.

it wasn't some random guy down the pub it's a guy who's been doing firewood 50+ years id say he was fairly experienced.

guy I know who used screw splitter put me off using when he said he had broken his left thumb like 4 times and the right one 6 times you gotta be mental I guess.

just been quoted today £40 + vat roadside mixed beech birch 4" 14" thats up £5 on the last stuff I got in from euroforest just before christmas.

hows it get on with 10" lengths I thought they considered 18" small.

the winch is great for basement deliveries. With the trailer we can run 8 bags.

any chance of some pics of the sticks rather than video of it working I would like to see what its producing.

from what I was told they will agree a price then when they send the lorry in to collect they drop the price and its take it or leave it usually guys are too desperate to refuse.

We are using the mono nets for the smaller size and woven for the larger size, we found the customers were the same they didn't like people supplying the knitted bags but they are a fair bit more expensive i think we were quotes 12p for knitted and 22p for the woven. 17p for the mono but we don't do large quantity's.

15 bulk and 11 barrow bags this week so far.

We are around 20% also although with 600 acres of hardwood just over the field we can nip and and cut some of the blown stuff now and then on a quiet day.

I've got customers in guernsey buying from scotland said couldnt get good quality down there one tried buying french logs said he got garbage and hes been buying from me now 5-6 years.

are the logs still at roadside down there or floating towards france ah staffordshire guess your safe

It's not the same market his logs are imports and my customers want locally grown. my business grows year on year, I haven't missed an order yet for lack of stock, the cash tied up in stock appreciates in value far more than it would in the bank + read the forum how many people cant get stock now, I have the peace of mind that I have a stack ready for processing in the new year, the only change in market I see is you making an income off the backs of firewood merchants. I look forward to 5 years time when all the people who take your kiln come back and tell us what planks we were not to take you up on the chance, I say we but I'm 5 -6 hrs too far north anyway. my main competitor tried kiln dried and he couldn't sell it because of the increased cost, I got a customer who was buying kiln dried from glasgow said the stuff is too damn expensive and burns in minutes and he would never buy kiln dried again some people might love it but I'm sure just as many will hate it.

have to say I don't see the need in 8 years I've had 1 person ask for kiln dried logs, you don't need 50k for a kiln because you don't need a kiln. it's not a game changer its spin to tie you into unnecessary equipment. I can get logs to 15% in a year and oak in 2 years without burning anything I find any lower and the logs burn too fast. my customers don't want imports so I'm not competing in same market as certainly wood.

I'd be more worried about the repair costs after the 5 years whats the life span of the kiln, cost +20% I think it was that I read the other day.

We got the last 3 loads put over the weighbridge even though the lorries had onboard weighers

i sell my nets similar size for £3 + vat and they sell them on at £5.00 and softwood I do in 50x80 which I'm selling £3.00 because the timber is getting bit old but £4.50 + vat when I buy in fresh stuff next year

lt's fascinating so many people unable to buy hardwood and others still selling it for £50 a cube.

did I not hear on tv last night iraq or iran or some desert country has stolen our snow.

the public will pay the money once you get rid of the beer money cash guys, the guy I started selling to few weeks back was charging £120 a trailer load 1.5 cube turns out but his old supplier ran out and to buy from me he now has to ask £190 hes lost about 10% of his customers who are bargain hunters the rest pay the new price and comment on how nice it is to now get a heat from their logs, quality wins over price most of the time its just getting that first sale to them.

I know gatehouse nursery at aberfeldy switched from pto with his palax, he put a big gene in his shed certainly seems quieter but as to power no idea but he says he does 1,500 tons a year so it must still cut pretty well.

I ship logs from guernsey to shetland and banding up bags on pallets is almost as bad as filling net sacks

my customers prefer builders bags over tipper loads less mess I was using builders bags with holes burned in them last couple of years but have experimented with the mesh bags and same size same stock of logs the mesh are coming in 50 kg lighter so the old bags will have to go. net sacks are too time consuming for me not geared up with staff and equipment to go down that route and too cut throat at least for the moment.