log on tommy

Morning all,

We have an oak that is unfortunately in the way for building a new cattle shed. It will be about 10" DBH and about 22" tall. Its got a decent crown and is generally pretty healthy. I want to try and relocate it, the digger man has done a couple before and suggested a fairly severe prune before we dig round the roots and lift it out.

Any tips and tricks on timing etc welcome.

Many thanks

Tom

On 22/11/2021 at 10:50, Woodworks said:

These are the ones I have seen at shows. Looked OK 

50kw WOOD SPACE HEATER WASTE WOODCHIP SAWDUST CARDBOARD LOG WAREHOUSE met mann

WWW.EBAY.CO.UK

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Nominal thermal power: 50kW. - Large capacity combustion hearth. - Grill of the hearth of combustion in steel resistant to...

 

Thanks for that. followed your link and he's wanting £3300 ish for that one. It turns out he's not too far from me so he might be open to negotiation

On 18/11/2021 at 22:02, Squaredy said:

Why not use a workshop heater - plenty of those about.  Pot belly type, or shavings type seem popular.

Looking for something that will move warm air about as its quite a big area, its about 200 square metres and about 5 metres to the eaves.

Hi All,

As the thread title suggests I'm after a solid fuel space heater. Master made one until recently, branded the CT-50 I beleive. There are others available but they all look a bit tinny. I want to warm the workshop when we're in it and create a warm room to dry logs out.

Thanks in advance

Tom

I've had plenty of bulk firewood from chris vicary in the past when I've run out of my own. Based at market weighton, probably give you a price on the roundwood too as he does a fair bit of felling. 07956033116

Anyone had an audit yet? and if so how did it pan out? This whole scheme makes me want to weep, the PA of the inspector has arranged my audit for mid september, can't do any earlier as he's on holiday for two weeks! So let me get my head round this, our subscription is paying for the PA salary, the auditors salary and he decides to go on holiday just prior to log season. Aaaaaagh

1 hour ago, doobin said:

Prepare to be undercut by every man and his dog 🤦‍♂️ Customers don’t give a damn about Woodsure. I know a bloke locally processing a fair few tons a year- own tractor, trailer and processor and does around ten loads a day during the season. He said to me, ‘**************** em, I’m not registering’. I do maybe twenty loads a year to locals in the village- I won’t be either. 

It doesn't seem to happen round here, I sell out every year and have to buy in wholesale just to keep selling. 

4 hours ago, Vedhoggar said:

What percentage increase did you feel was necessary to cover costs related to Woodsure?

I reckon about 7%

2 hours ago, doobin said:

Nothing about oversize timber is easy unfortunately, that's why processor grade commands a premium.

I have to deal with everything thats felled, this year it was a 10 acre piece of ash clearfell. Upside is its always good to tell the customers all our logs are ash!

3 hours ago, Vedhoggar said:

Suggested options:
1. Cone splitter then the 3m sections through processor.

2. Cut into 1m lengths/split with reasonably fast vertical or horizontal splitter to <15cm dia, stack billets/pre season then sell as 1m billets or put through processor when seasoned/light enough to manually lift and cut to required log lengths.

 

Don’t know of anyone with mobile equipment large enough to process those oversized logs.

 

We've been doing option 2 during the summer when the forwarder operator (me) has accidentally put an oversize on the trailer and its not economical. At least with the cone splitter option its all mechanised.

I've finally got round to registering with woodsure, its a complete farce but there we go. As far as the complaints procedure is concerned, did most of you just copy a standard template of the web?

I put my prices up at the beginning of last season, something I don't particularly like doing, but with the extra admin, insurance and not to mention the subscription I can't see any way of avoiding putting them up again. At least this time I can pin the reason for the price hike on the bureacrats!

4 hours ago, doobin said:

I'd say the cone splitter on the digger then through your own machine will be the cheapest and least work overall.

You could be right but I don't think it'll be easy. When the lengths are split into quarters they won't roll on the log deck for example.

2 hours ago, Vedhoggar said:

What sort of lengths of timber to process?

3 metre lengths

Morning all,

Does anyone know of anyone operating a large mobile processor in northern england? I've been grading out all the timber too big for our processor this summer and there will be 60 ton now I should think. It's all ash and ranges from 12" up to 30". My digger man has a lasco splitter that we could break it up with then put it through our processor but I'm not that keen.

Any thoughts or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Tom

25 minutes ago, andy cobb said:

Yeah tink still got same number, but hes been isolating after getting back from Spain.

Think he's free to roam after this weekend. Yields on wolds land havnt been to bad, but definitely no records broken, and don't think wheat will make milling grade.

I'll keep trying him then. Any milling varieties worth keeping separate this year i reckon as the millers might have to take what they're given when they finally realise theres none about. 

1 minute ago, andy cobb said:

Your probably right Tom, am slowly getting used to it. If you want a free demo you can pop down to my yard and run it for a day!

Hows harvest going? Weve got about 120a of a barley to finish off, so shouldn't be far away by sat night.

Bit stop start to say the least, start again sunday or monday i think. yields are moderate to poor and the straw looks like we've chopped it! Been trying to get hold of tink, has he got the same number?

On 31/08/2020 at 18:54, andy cobb said:

I just cant get on with a posch 360.

I bought a Dunn 420 from Wilson's a couple of months ago and they're still waiting on a hydraulic component from Italy, they very kindly sent me a 360 to play with while I wait for mine.

I think I was maybe expecting it to be the best thing since peephole bra's but I really don't like it.

It hates timber with any bends at all in it, and if you have to jiggle the log from the deck to the infeed you cant reach the joystick to send it along.

The log clamp doesnt seem to have enough time to work before the blade starts moving so sometimes it starts to cut before the logs clamped.

Don't think you can readily adjust feed speed of the blade for different timber.

A lot of dust and chip is thrown back at the operator.

A large proportion of logs bounce when they hit the splitting chamber, needing to be corrected.

The outfeed doesnt slew ( maybe an option)

When  moving with a forklift it less balanced than a scotsman at hogmany.

 

On the plus side it seems incredibly heavily built and if you have nice straight timber its fantastically quick.

 

Maybe I'm being a bit harsh on a machine that I'm not fully up to speed with but I expected more for a machine that comes at a premium compared to others.

 

That got derailed pretty quick Andy. I think most of those niggles you've got with the posch i have with my ryetec. But having operated it for a couple of years now you steadily learn how to work around its limitations and get the best out of it. If there were a processor that could cope with twisty stuff it would sell well in the uk market but all these toys are built for the pencil straight bog brushes that grow in the forests of bavaria.

got about 4 acres of woodland to survey as it is in a long thin strip alongside a road. some of the larger trees could make contact with houses too so we need to complete a survey and do the necessary works to satisfy the insurers

can anyone recommend a decent tree surveyor in the York area?

many thanks

tom

hardwood £100/m3 retail £70 wholesale. softwood £80 retail and £55 wholesale.

that's an educated guess at best

Where are you Mr Tipper?

On ‎06‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 11:16, Alycidon said:

  Early indication on cost this year suggests about £10 a crate cheaper due to the exchange rate to buy,

interesting, its not my game to bring in firewood but i'd heard the opposite. roundwood over in eastern Europe is coming up to our levels so imported logs won't be easy to make a margin on.

Just out of interest why are you selling them? are you changing your method? we use spud boxes but ibc crates would be better for airflow I think

Yes they will, but as others have said the side and top supports are critical, we use potato boxes of different shapes and if we are too lazy to alter the supports between sizes that's when they get broken.

rotators aren't dear though I picked mine up for about £700 at a sale. pity you weren't closer because the spud merchants I collect stockfeed from are selling their old one.

Anyone know of a seller of used builder's bags in either Kent or East Sussex? New are a bit steep, particularly if you don't always get them back

There's a user on here called rye oil I think who sometimes advertises used bulk bags. do a search and see if you can find the thread. From memory he was down your way, but I consider anything south of Lincoln "down your way".

Tom

I am looking for a splitter if you could pm me somemore details that would be great

thanks

likewise, that japa is exactly the sort I've been looking at. if it's available any time soon I could be keen

tom