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  1. timbernut
    I sell about 2000 bags of mostly s/wood charcoal a year, odd complaint about it burning out faster but for the most part people like it as you can be cooking on it in under 10m and it's good for continuous cooking. Not much more friable than birch n sycamore, I think the problem big producers have is it breaks down being handled more if you're selling locally it doesn't matter so much. I started using it when hardwood prices started to climb ( I can make as much on a cube for logs as for a cube for charcoal. )
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    Also isn't one of the reasons for producing charcoal from low value wood to reduce cost of transporting heavy loads out of the woods?
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    There was an attempt at setting up a coop in E Anglia round about 2000 but ended up starting as a ltd co that flopped due mostly to bad management (sending producers on 60 mile round trips to deliver 6 bags, ignoring wishes of producers about packaging). If it had been set up as a coop and the members had been listened to it would've worked. Incidentally wasn't/is Bio Regional a coop? I was asked if I would be interested in burning for them a few years ago but they wer too restrictive about species ie no willow, sallow or softwoods which were the ones I wanted to use because of their low value as logs! Have also considered brick Alexander retort as I'm permanently based in a wood with concrete track access. Has anyone seen one working/used one? I know you have to buy the plans but would like to know if they're efficient it would certainly stop the warping problems
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    Think those retorts made by 'Traditional Charcoal Co.' On the Wirral or somewhere, from memory they were really expensive £15000 or so there was another trailer mounted one that was called or made by 'Viper' and was even dearer?
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    Thanks I'll be in touch!
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    Hi V. I. Have been interested in Exeter retort for a while now, do you know of potential for recovering bi-products such as Stockholm tar ( I char a lot of scots pine ). I'm only about an hour away from you and would like to come hav a gander at some point if possible. Had been thinking of making one with 10yd rollonoff skip and large gas tank but I reckon by the time I've got it workin properly it could cost me near the Exeter price! John
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    Doesn't NEED them but I think rings will make them almost indestructible! Found they do lose the odd splinter of nylon. Also after using several different weights of hammer I found that heavier (over 2.8kg) ones tended to make the shaft jump out of the wedge!
  8. timbernut
    How did you get the rings on the nylon shaft : whittling or brute force ( there's no way my shaft would fit that hole, fnaar fnaar! )
  9. timbernut
    Hi, it's a 390 with mowi 300 forwarding trailer
  10. timbernut
    Not mine but shift a lot of stuff with it every yeardnd
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    Cool! I'm always try to persuade customers to do it with young trees on boundaries and other suitable places. Once they've got away I rub some of the lower epicormic growth as it seems to encourage the top along, they're not the best lookin things for a couple of years!
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    How do find the nylon ones? I found them ok except they absorb some of the blow and occasionally pop out (which is a tad annoying felling a big tree up a mountainside!) still better than the last two wooden ones which both split/sheared on first tree
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    Hi, interested to know if anyone starts new pollards when the opportunity arises? May have been talked about on this thread before ( but it's been going a while n I only just found it ). I've always felt even though old pollards can be managed they're not immortal and if new ones are not 'created' eventually there won't be any left for our descendants to appreciate.
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    Is the iveco on the 'bang tidy' thread not one of these? Think there was/is ex demo one on fleabay about 30k +VAT. Or maybe they 5 tonners?
  15. timbernut
    Thanks I will follow thread with interest!
  16. timbernut
    Is it possible that b Rakes would need up rating as well?
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    Hi Andrew Do you know if that is on new pickups only? If not I'm very interested as always had difficulty justifying cost of getting one that won't carry/ tow payload I need ( I have tended to push luck delivering logs etc!)
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    That sounds really reasonable for the pick up! Am I right in thinking that with the sprinter there are 2 types of upgrade ie a'proper' capable 4x4 one with better ground clearance hi/ lo ratios etc and a simple one that gets you off sloppy building sites. I also test drove transit AWD when they came out and they wernt as good as the old county ( no extra clearance ) I think it's like a viscous 'on demand ' system that only works if you lose traction?
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    Arb blocked!

    timbernut replied to magwick's topic in The Lounge

    My missus wasn't happy when she thought she read 'Rate My Minge' ! : )
  20. timbernut
    Think it would be cheaper to turn 3.5t truck into 4x4! The front axles / transfer boxes on the transit counties were imported from US ( Borg Warner and Chrysler ). Most other bits were fairly simply engineered apart from gearbox which was made by same people who made MT 75 for ford and looked same but had slight difference in internal rear end to allow for connection to transfer box. I'm not an engineer but had lots of fun fiddling with em! Incidentally the new(inferior) AWD tranny was, I believe, designed for ford by Eric May of Countytrac ( formerly County) and they still carry spares for the later countys.
  21. timbernut
    Don't know what's goin on with Otley, they certainly hav enough gear compared with therir 'partner' Easton! Will make enquiries n be in touch!
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    Were on Norfolk/ Suffolk boarder incidentally
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    Matt, Thinking about it one of the guys who subs for me wants to do 32, so could maybe organise training course for 2 to 4 ? I will speak to friend who trains at Easton if your interested? John
  24. timbernut
    Otley , Easton, Lark Valley, Andy Campbell, Chalkie White or any other provider could sort cs32, plenty o trees big enough for cs33 was a pointless excercise as you were just repeating the same techniques ona bigger tree, s'a doddle! : )
  25. timbernut
    States Renault on the bonnet!

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