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  1. Logsnstuff
    my processor is over 5 yrs old now its had 3 sets of alloy guides 2 sets of belts an infeed belt and a blade sharpen each year, never had anything fall off it the first failed part was 2 weeks ago when one of the hydraulic motors started leaking on the conveyor. I would like to know what lengths your all cutting to
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    it definitely slows production when you spend half the day stroking it to keep it calm. the beard that is
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    I'm using posch 3200 think its 12" maybe 13 any bigger you have to cut the back with a saw because the blade cant reach, does 12 cube a day on 4 - 9" stuff holding back the max diameter will do about 2.2 cube an hr with straight stuff near max but you need someone hauling the bags away for you or you can take your production down to just over a cube an hr. manages wriggly stuff most of the time but it does bend the blade on some and chew up your alloy guards and if your like me and slow to replace it will eventually cut into the steel plates at the side as well impressive thing is the blades seem to take it i do around 400 tons before I swap blades and I just picked 1 up yesterday from the saw doctor £44 to tidy it up. Cutting at 8" length obviously 10 and 12" speeds you up a fair bit
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    4 bulk to be delivered over the weekend and 6 for delivery after the 15th
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    these pics 4-5 yrs old so machines not so shiny anymore, not sure what the old mans looking at there, also have 2x 19t posch verticles but don't think any pics here atm.
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    Sounds about right, the last job we did as contractors at the start of the job lorries were taking about a 60% load for 28ton by the time we went out of business the logs were rolling over the top of the pins for 15 ton. pays to get paid by the cube but pay your cutters by the ton. we work on 3x 90x90 bags to the ton obviously high oak content will reduce that a bit so we get £282 a ton so £40 a ton or £50 a ton to buy in doesn't really matter a great deal what hurts more is diesel when we will deliver 150 mile radius at 19 mile to the gallon, never bothered to count the logs in a bag
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    is it cO2 neutral
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    not really just top them off from another bag its a few logs if any.
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    cant give poplar away up here I put nearly 300 tons to the bonfire couple of months ago customers dont want it in their log bags either.
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    bit late now but if your short of a hydraulic splitter and its gnarly stuff would have been easier to rip it length ways 2 or 3 times before you cross cut it
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    I deliver in a 4x4 sprinter panel van just slide the bags down a short ramp usually into their garage and bags will slide on the concrete with minimal tearing. just ordered a new 4x4 dropside with a palfinger crane for delivery in september.
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    I double wrapped my phone its in a rubber case then a leather flap on top gotta keep it handy to tweet jeremy vine.
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    all I can say is be happy you can get Syc I havnt been able to buy any for 4 years or so, so quick drying it almost seasons as it fly's through the air from the splitter to the bag.
  14. Logsnstuff
    Fuelwood do an automatic machine that takes length of timber cuts it and splits it I seem to remember it was pretty expensive and don't know if it was any good FuelFactory by Fuelwood
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    We use oregon in all saws always have.
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    theres a 257xp from the early 90's still runs after being run over with the forwarder and an 070 and 090 from the late 70's using 36" and 48" bars on these for any big diameter stuff that comes in but their fuel consumption and weight precludes daily use. and the valmet saw is 1991 I think
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    Ticks!

    Logsnstuff replied to Bren.'s topic in General chat

    Yep gleggs (horsefly) drive me mental been in the woods my whole life and never had any ticks till last year and i had 3 from moving pallets in the yard by hand. only thing I had to get them out was a spring paper clip then after I used it I read you shouldn't squeeze ah well off for a little nap this tired me out
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    I find it almost impossible to sell logs before october unless I knock 15 20% of the price so I wouldn't worry too much yet.
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    we used to have a 6 wheel 838 they had weak boggies other than that was great machine hauled alot of timber out with it. First machine i learned on was a brun 578 hated the 6 lever system
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    there is usually a rule to leave a certain amount of standing timber with the tops cut for birds of prey and the beetles get a good share of the timber also but some sites they trash the lot. I spoke to one of our old operators couple of months back and he had just finished a job they took the 4.9m logs and the rest went to ground roughly 85% wasted then the next job he's on is run for biomass and he's facing the sack if there's anything over 2" top D left in the rack.
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    I tried the bungee couple of years ago with softwood but you had to drive the blade so low to break the knots that you cut the bungee, now I just buy the sacks in £2 delivered sell them on £4.95
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    I drive past alot of premature clearfells up here, it's 15 years since we were forestry contractors and it seems we were the last that new how to do selective thinning now its just flatten everything and its quite sad to see it. tigercats running out the woods with 25 ton loads not exactly kind to the ground either.
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    My bags shown above were cut autumn last year they are sitting around 18% when I tested a couple of logs about a month 6 weeks ago, they will get tarped in aug/sept when its still warm enough to evaporate any summer rain hoping to have around 1500 bags ready by the start of the season but alot depends on a thinning job coming up.
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    Picture quality is shocking but I have around 800 bags ready scattered about the yard and 350 barrow bags left over from last year [/img]
  25. Logsnstuff
    its held on with 4 bolts its a 90 second job to take it off, I put it on myself although the mat was added later which adds quite a weight. the dross doesn't work as kindling for us when we experimented with filling the bags prior to the filter we had customers wanting refunds I lost 3 that I definitely know left because of it and if you get alot of the powdery stuff and mosses in the middle of the bag it works like a sponge and soaks up all the water if you dont get them covered straight away.

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