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  1. cornish wood burner
    I sympathise with the cutters but from an end users point Euroforest are good to deal with and I can see their role in the supply chain. 7 years ago when we started using biomass for heating I set out to buy direct from several sources. However this had many problems. Slab wood was full of sawdust and rubbish including a scaffold tube. When a power station offered a higher price, agreed deals went out the window and we were left short of wood. Prices direct from cutters were higher than Euro forest. Every supplier wanted a different price so that was a recipe for bad feeling as there are no secrets in the wood world. Buying about 3k. Tonnes per annum from Euroforest we have security of supply and price. Negation of price is simple and painless ( for us anyway) I am not sure what the answer is but when you have one large company in the supply chain it will have a lot of say in prices and work allocation.
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    Windy site will do it. Depends on the species and size of course. Covering 6000 tonnes of round wood does not appeal to me and I am sure Dan feels the same. Wonder what the HSE would think about someone climbing around wood piles.
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    That's another way but not for us at the moment. Space, energy and capital outlay would be a significant amount. We have started looking into burning our plant/peat waste and might dry some of that at some point. Looking at a shredder for that on Wednesday.
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    Up to 2 years if we can. MC is around 25% to 30% for round. Slabwood I have seen sub 20%
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    That's the one. Variety of reasons why we don't chip directly into the store but it works for us.
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    We have had bigger but the one we use now is in the region of £250/hour Tonnage depends on how its fed and whether it needs to move, MC of the wood, blown or conveyed from the machine, screen size, size of wood, type of wood and ease of handling it. For us we get about 50 tonnes per hour of 25% MC G50 loading trailers.
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    This may be stating the obvious but a LSD will only help if you have unequal weight or traction on the drive wheels. So across a slope, tight uphill corners or one wheel on mud would make it usefull. Weight and tyres make the biggest difference. You need to access where you go and consider if it will make a difference to you.
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    I hope you were wearing your PPE
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    With a properly designed system ie walking floor and fairly level or level augers then a percentage of fines should present no problem. IMO sweep arms and steep augers have no place in commercial systems, far too fussy and unreliable. In view of the stone and dirt problem, the questionable economics and the loss of nutrients it looks bleak for these brash balers on harvesting sites. Regarding brash chipping I was thinking more of small scale one time only site clearance and trimming operations.
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    Sounds a good MC presumably kiln dried. I normally aim for 20 to 35% air dried but can burn up to 50% at a push. Not really worth much to us at that % though. When we hire a chipper to chip for us we normally aim for G50 or G100 mainly round but sometimes some slab. Problem comes when we get offered chip from outside. Varies from average to rubbish normally. We have used a heizohack in our earlier days and found it to be very good. It makes sense that a small screen when chipping brash is the way to go. Perhaps those chipping brash and supplying biomass or just dumping in biomass stores might like to follow your example.
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    Fines are not our and I suspect most other medium sized biomass users problem. The main problem is long twigs that block the sensor sight from sender to reciever and give a false "the auger is full signal" If this can be overcome we would be happy to take a large quantity of brash chip. We use around 3000 tons per year so a reasonable percentage of that could be accepted. The drier the better obviously which would be reflected in the price.
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    Its all relative. Big cost big hourly rate. Cannot comment on harvesters just chippers but I expect the same applies. A large chipper is the cheapest way to chip if you price it per ton. We have a "mega chipper" chip for us for our biomass boilers and we have never had it beaten for price. We therefore do not mind paying big hourly rates.
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    Thanks aiden Good luck with the business Ian
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    Certainly early K series ( petrol ) had a head gasket weakness. There was a modifoed head gasket fitted later and presumably that applies to the freelander. Not sure of the exact date but circa 03 I guess. Alternator bearings were very weak again certainly on the early ones.
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    My 8 ton electric has never failed to split anything I can lift onto it. Up to 700mm has been no problem. Oak, birch even with knots all goes. In fact it has a dual speed and most smaller rounds or pieces I can split at the faster 4 ton. It has wedges from both ends so saves choosing the weakest end which is probably an advantage but it shows what even low tonnage can do. I would say the lighter 7 ton if you are going to move it
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    Quality any good for biomass? I know its a good chipper on normal sized wood but the reason I ask we have received a lot of rubbish chip from brash so wondered what the heizo was like chipping it.
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    Anything with a seat and wheels will beat a strimmer hands down. I keep a slightly smaller patch down with an old Westwood ride on. I only use my big strimmer around the edges. The mower is ten times quicker and uses much less fuel. Once you have it under control then provided you can travel on the ground then no contest. I cut mine about once a month or 6 inches of growth max. Might be something to consider for the large smoothish areas. No more money than a good strimmer and so much easier.
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    Not going to the APF but as you say the 365 is cheaper and gives more scope for the future. Little heavier is the only downside I can see. Fr Jones is doing a deal until end of sept so good price now. At the risk of stirring things up again a T540xp is top of our list then we will work down to a 365. Regards and thanks for the constructive post
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    You're right of course. We are starting off with a T540XP as the trees are bigger than we remember and climbing is involved We both have and prefer Huskys so not a hard decision. Just wanted to make sure that we pick the right one or ones. FR Jones sale as suggested on here is perfect timing.
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    Near Pillaton if you know where that is. About 6 or 7 miles Callington direction from the bridge. Left at Hatt. Give me a call before you come though . We have other sites and I might be there.
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    Thanks for your info and support Stubby. Helpfull as always you have restored my faith in this forum. Finally I would like to thank everyone who provided usefull information about both saws and leylandii. Kev Thanks for the offer but I am sure you realise my request for a price was a light hearted response to Dog Tags silky them out in a day. Its a huge amount of work and I could never sell that to management while we have the in-house skill. As you are local, if you are ever in the Saltash area and would like to look around at our wood yard and biomass boilers give me a call on 07971794675. Unless you are the Kev that left us a couple of years ago,in which case you are still welcome but probably seen it all before.
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    You can get cutting oil in a spray can, better than WD 40 if you are drilling. As an engineer I approve of what you are going to do. By keeping it simple and mounting direct it will be the strongest solution
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    Not well spoken if you don't even know that a telehandler needs a 6 monthly inspection to lift a man cage. The trees will be dismantled not just tipped over as said so again not well spoken. Please explain what the difference is between the pro on our payroll and the pro that will visit. My man who will be doing the cutting is a qualified tree climber with probabably more experience than a lot on this forum. Personally I have been using saws for 40 years for timber cutting and maintenance then my own firewood so not a complete stranger to felling trees. Obviously we need a 18 inch bar and around 60 cc to drive it ,the rest is variable. The purpose of this thread was to get a recommendation of which saws represent good value and are reliabile from those that give them high useage.
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    Thanks for the info and if you can get details ideal but don't spend a lot of time on it. We have a supplier from a show but its always good to deal with a recommended one. Certainly better to have some info beforehand to ask the right questions.Thanks to all who replied, all usefull things to know.
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    Two pieces of flat (see my post above) would be easier to clean than box especially if you have done some pushing with the blade. Solid square would be fine if you can find or make a good fitting socket.

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