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  1. Logsnstuff
    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.
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    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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    Husky combi cans are garbage these days, green spout lasts 1 fill if your lucky then it will leak tried 3 replacements all the same didn't last beyond the first day, sad my black cap one got damaged falling on the pavement it lasted 20+ years.
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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]
  14. 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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    Thought I would put this up see what other people are doing to help keep the garbage out of their bags. [/img] [/img]
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    multiply the lengths 90x90x90 bags are 0.729m3 we sell currently £94.00 for 1 of these, we don't do bulk discounts 1 bag or 100 I'm going to charge £94 or it stays in the yard and we get orders from all over the country, I've shipped stuff down to channel islands and up to shetland. I do free delivery upto 150 miles with our own van as long as you buy upto 6 bags depending how far out you are. I can't get my head round selling a cube for £60 £70 I didn't sell this cheap 6 years ago. I do find customers rotate through the local merchants always willing to try the next cheap price but always coming back to us because of quality. I also charge £38.00 for the barrow bags I sell 5-600 barrow bags a year but I'd be happy not to do them at all most people who want these have the log store at the far end of a deep gravel path.
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    I'd go this route also, we have a 2.5m horizontal but the majority of wood shatters this way and makes for pretty ugly logs vertical 99% of the time.
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    20% mc is 20% mc whether its been air dried or through a kiln the difference certainly round here is my 1m3 is £125 and the kiln dried is £160, I use a pretty high end moisture meter and my logs are usually 5% lower mc then the kiln dried until you get into mid winter then they all measure the same.
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    S G baker were selling them but they stopped now they supply the white bag you can see in the bottom left corner of that image. We have been using single tarps we found they worked better than using large tarps but we are going to have another go with some 5x6m see how they work out. [/img]
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    Ah well hope it works well for you, heres a pic anyway, it looks low because the spacer has been removed from the bottom reducing the height by a good 5-6" to allow splitting 18" stuff. [/img]
  21. Logsnstuff
    I'd agree buy a moisture meter and with softwood once it's split dries in hardly any time, I split oak in late winter early spring and by oct it can be down to 15% . the advantage of filling bags over a large stack in a shed is airflow. I did try burning some 2yr old grandfather pine this winter and it was horrible. [/img]
  22. Logsnstuff
    in my area over the last 6 years its gone from 5 suppliers to over 32 that's not counting the small holders and part timers working for cash that we see everywhere. never mind the 2nd home in miami not sure these days you can afford the first home. I do seem to be the only one who is full time firewood the rest have garden centres or haulage company's or joinery shops might be time to charge up the harvester and go cutting instead.
  23. Logsnstuff
    I've got the old man working the posch vertical he splits about 1.5 cube an hr depending on the diameter. I recommend getting the table extended though we had the local welder add some wings to it and its now about 4ft wide so when you split something pretty large you dont have to gather it all from ground lvl again.
  24. Logsnstuff
    I agree charge the same I do and I'm starting to get people switching to 100% softwood and giving up burning hardwood.
  25. Logsnstuff
    I charge £94 delivered 90x90x90 bags 15-20% mc

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