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  1. Logsnstuff
    I would go barn option too and sit them on pallets couple of feet between rows, we leave enough space to walk up.
  2. Logsnstuff

    Splitting

    Logsnstuff replied to Bird's topic in Firewood forum

    for a day with tractor splitter and a man I would want £350 min
  3. Logsnstuff
    I was thinking about doing that
  4. Logsnstuff
    yep wasn't happy when sank the saw in and nothing there.
  5. Logsnstuff
    Horrible big ash
  6. Logsnstuff
    you will need it for the folding board the hanging flex the hot plate, water and electricity in the appliance and steam
  7. Logsnstuff
    for one thing their employees earn 250 euro a month I think the guy said on here a while back, so starting with those kind of labour costs everything else is going to be pretty cheap.
  8. Logsnstuff
    market is too diluted in certain areas, when we had 6 or 8 merchants here you could make a living when it went over 35 it's been a struggle just to keep going. many are cash merchants and can't compete realistically on price with them.
  9. Logsnstuff
    spoke to someone last week who was telling me their closest competitor now has 8 kilns running and selling 4 cube £250 and they have 2 kilns themselves.
  10. Logsnstuff
    we got a load like that (wont bother to name company) came down from Aberdeen told them max 12" for the processor turned up and most of it was 26-30"+ and about 1/3 of the load was rotten you could dig the centre of the logs with your hand.
  11. Logsnstuff
    you think it will take 20 years? with guys on harvesters cutting 200 300 tons a day that's a lot of planting not being done.
  12. Logsnstuff
    been trying for a year now to get some work for our 890 but nobody is interested seems to be real hard to break back into the industry.
  13. Logsnstuff
    25% or below is ok doesn't need to be 20% most nets from the ones I tested are 35%+
  14. Logsnstuff
    according to FC it's below 30% and hetas has an upper limit of 25%
  15. Logsnstuff
    Hired the processor out once cost £85 to get the blade sharpened when it came back think they must have put rocks in just to see what would happen. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  16. Logsnstuff
    Been cutting some billets which are stacked out back of the yard, not much sun little wind and no cover will net them up and leave in the tunnel till around Christmas time now. Sent from my iPhone using Arbtalk
  17. Logsnstuff
    we cut 3-500 ton a season and only use 1 circular for that it costs roughly £60 a season to re tip and sharpen. I have no experience of chainsaw processor to see how it compares. 9 years had the posch 3200 and other than usual wear&replace the only mechanical failure was a pinhole in the weld on the splitting ram after 8 years.
  18. Logsnstuff
    7" is the shortest so far, we cut them on sawbench from billets rather than the processor much easier, I did say to the customer we would have to put the price up next time as it took almost 25 min longer to cut.
  19. Logsnstuff
    We tried it in the early days people just are not interested, about 5 years ago our database was around 600 customers we offered 30% off in april and we got 11 orders so it's not even the money.
  20. Logsnstuff
    you don't understand when he sells unseasoned wood as seasoned it impacts everyone, if he calls it anything it should be 30% mc kiln dried logs it's not rocket science. most of us have spent years trying to make people understand you can air dry to a suitable level to compete with kiln dried and this undermines all of that.
  21. Logsnstuff
    thank you glad someone understood my point, call it something else and I wouldn't have any issue.
  22. Logsnstuff
    I don't use short pins on the face I use a delmhorst meter where you set species and temp and it's a hammer drive with 3" pins
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    Hetas the approved Gov body tells you to use 25% and below(usual and preferable) they don't actually use the word seasoned they use "dry" but it does tell you what Moisture content you should be burning. http://www.hetas.co.uk/wp-content/mediauploads/Advice-Leaflet-1-November-14.pdf
  24. Logsnstuff
    I don't put MC up because 1 bag is different to the other but if you want to know my logs are dried in a pollytunnel and they measure from 10% to 18% I recommend buying local but I'm willing to supply nationwide it's not for me to lecture where people buy their logs I gave an opinion but people are free to choose. you disagree with the kiln usage give me proof so far you flap your gumns offer no evidence for anything slander/defame proffesional merchants and basically shame the industry with your cowboy antics.
  25. Logsnstuff
    disagree with or inaccurate his seasoned logs are kiln dried so whats the problem in calling them what they are 30%mc kiln dried logs instead of branding them seasoned and impacting merchants who actually provide decent quality seasoned logs under 20% MC and to the other comment he isn't trolling people yes he is, he's made his post knowing exactly the reaction he would get he's been on here a number of years now and knows the divide between kiln driers and air drying merchants and marketing his wet logs with the same reference as others use for ready to burn logs, it's confrontational!

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