Logsnstuff
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Everything posted by Logsnstuff
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I've a good idea how the timbers free, several timber hauliers & contractors round this area have gone into the firewood game.
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if hes truck and trailer find out if he has a tacho your not allowed to deliver logs with a trailer without one. and check what weight hes delivering as i said elsewhere i got done last week overloading (700kg) thought i was fine with 4 bags 250kg each but i hadnt accounted my weight or the helper the saws or all the junk under the seats. vans stripped down to bare essentials now but think ill still struggle to manage 3 bags.
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my barrow bags are 0.269 m3
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buy it and tell him you want a weigh ticket with it
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no wonder my customers are disappearing in the borders, I'd burn it myself before selling that cheap. I have to go back 7 years to get my price down to £45 3/4 cube and that price lasted only 2 months before decided they pay more or I find a new job because it just wasnt worth it. Hey Jon i bet your here somewhere these thumbs getting such a workout they r like rottne bolster pins now
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8 cube this week 4.5 cube booked so far next week just waiting for the rush to start have seen some of the glens a little north of here with 3" of snow on the 2nd of august so hopefully it will come soon although 28 degrees today It might be a couple of days off.
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have you got tachographs in your landy's around here they just started cracking down on people if your delivering logs in a trailer you need a tacho. I do free delivery upto 150 miles out which pretty mush covers me from mallaig to peterhead down to A69 A66 if you twist my arm a bit, south of that its by pallet which is charged at cost +£5 for banding n wrapping, I just insist they buy enough bags to justify the mileage.
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and once you get the best quality logs you gotta dodge the rozzers they done me yesterday 4 bulk in the van only 700kg overloaded they just had to stop me on a day with rain wet oak for a guy, just as well it wasnt a 6 bulk day or a 19 barrow bag. now I'm running half loads and 8 weeks its a very long wait on the new van
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2 bulk went out friday, 4 barrow bags and 6 bulk to go out this week so with 0 advertising at the moment I'm a little hopeful of a good season.
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I just try to keep a big enough stock that anything cut since may is for next year so I'll worry about mc then. last years logs measuring between 9 and 12% on oak.
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i tested some of my oak on Sunday was 11.8% and the beech was 10.5%
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I refuse to sell unsplit it's more profitable to do the full job and too difficult to source decent timber to sell cheap.
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I was always told old elm don't touch it was like cutting stone. you could try changing the angle your sharpening the chain but I think you did the right thing and walk away.full carbide chain I tried shattered the teeth on a hard piece of timber might have had a stone embedded never did find out though, the multicut is not a bad in between but I prefer to import oregon LGP from baileys Oregon refuse to sell it in the uk at the moment say theres no demand but its pretty good on clean timber.
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I know how you feel 2 yrs I tried to buy an iveco 4x4 tried 2 dealerships 4 times I was told I couldn't afford to buy it without them even seeing a bank statement and twice they told me to buy a defender with a tipping body so I gave in and ordered another sprinter instead.
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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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Possibly looking for some poplar to make kindling in hampshire
Logsnstuff replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
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. -
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.
