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Logsnstuff

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  1. 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.
  2. when its for an oven species will matter smoke will effect the flavour of the food unless I have the wrong idea of oven being used.
  3. almost 3 hrs since I filled my stove with softwood, turned right down the rooms not toasty but its not cold either.
  4. Totally agree sad thing is even when they need to mix with coal for the logs to burn they still think they did well. got my winblow finished just before dark farmer should dump 15 ton or so of beech in the yard tomorrow.
  5. the bags I weighed were cut yesterday and the timber was felled this summer so the only way to get heavier is change the species.
  6. I just chop and deliver the stuff I try to keep as big a distance from me and customers as possible it's better for my bloodpressure. as someone said to me the other day business would be great if it wasn't for the customers.
  7. why does it need to be a ton
  8. Decided to mess around in the yard today, bought some new scales to weigh our bags and a 90x90x90 with mix of sycamore, ash & birch approx 30% mc comes in at 320kg tested a bag of 18% oak and came in at 273kg
  9. I do the opposite, the biggest stuff on the horizontal lift it on with forwarder smaller rings go on the verticles
  10. I don't run out had 850 cube ready for this season and 100 ton ready for processing atm, i'll buy some more in for the new year. aim is try to have 1k 1.5k dumpys in stock before july.
  11. just ordered a 1,000 of bakers 90x90 vented £4.25 each
  12. I can only assume they don't buy the timber.
  13. If you want to haul it up to perth I'll take it
  14. I just sold 28 dumpy bags to a trader yesterday £70.50 each £25 doesnt even cover the bag and wood.
  15. £188 for 1.5m3 and if u want it cheaper you gotta buy 30+ bags
  16. or mount a crane can use a hand crank one if you dont want to go for hydraulic.
  17. 28 dumpy bags worth this morning, 9 barrow bags this afternoon
  18. I mean my customers are either hardwood or softwood they don't take both and if I did mixed bags they would move to another supplier. I had someone complain the logs I had delivered wouldn't burn and they wanted an exchange bag when I checked them they were 15% mc but oak so they refused to take anymore oak and now buy elsewhere. had another one yesterday complain the logs are too wet when I checked them was 17% mc sycamore birch beech mix then they refused to pay travelling costs and time 2hrs 80 mile round trip they also will be buying elsewhere in future.
  19. I sell both and tar is only an issue really if you don't season it, I've had several customers change from hardwood to softwood, the main issue is for sure the stove sellers telling people only seasoned hardwood. I prefer douglas & larch for my stove, wasn't too fond of pine and spruce is good on a chilly summer night not sure I'd want it for -20
  20. I wont compete with antz price i dont work for free but I can also deliver glasgow £94 a bag
  21. I charge same price for mine and people still buy it, but no way would I mix.
  22. I use a delmhorst mm think cost around £400
  23. I'm so flat out i decided to go cut some trees instead. https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/1403568_605761482815236_904549208_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/1385041_605759842815400_503811797_n.jpg
  24. used to deliver to a guy who kept his logs in a wheelbarrow filled with water for a day or 2 so they lasted longer when he put them on the fire.

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