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Yeah its crazy, that you'd have to take all of that land out of food production to make energy, rather a waste in my book. Biomass seems a better, more environmentally friendly approach due to not needing to put much more food land into energy use instead. We've not heard mention of this from our installers, I'll make sure it is checked now. Thanks for the heads up!

Ahh ok, that probably explains the slightly higher prices as the two estates are pretty equidistant from us. I'll be speaking to the forester on monday so I'll be able to find out if he'll move on price if that is not the case. I believe the cheaper load of hardwood was more birch than anything else. Yes a lot of us are using renewables to provide our heat/energy. It makes so much sense with the RHI payments the government are offering along with the savings we'll make on electricity AD is the expensive way to go mind, hell of an outlay setting that stuff up by all accounts.

Hi, apologies if this is a repeat thread, if so would someone mind pointing me to the right one. If not....I'm a farmers son about to start doing some firewood as a sideline to keep me busy in quiet times and to make use of our (in the process of being installed) biomass boiler, for which we'll build a log drying chamber. I've used chainsaws around the farm for about 10 years now and am pretty confident in their use and day to day maintenance. If i'm going to be using one a lot more often and perhaps taking advantage of local wood that might be available from other farmers; it might be prudent to get some sort of training? Would it make a difference from an insurance point of view in case of accident? I've had quotes from local providers for the basic 2 or 3 day course of around £300-£350. I would assume this is always a good place to start with chainsaw training? What are the differences in qualifications as some have different letters after them for different training bodies I assume? Ideally I would like to get to the point where I can start climbing trees to fell them as we have a number around our farm that would be better felling this way to avoid the limbs falling on buildings/in the lake! Any advice would be most welcome. I'm in the teesside area so providers we've approached are Vicky Anderson training, Bishop burton college and another one I can't recall... Thanks in advance.

thanks for your reply. The prices I've got are from suppliers within about 40 miles. We are in the Teesside area FYI Yeah I'm aware of that, however we are putting in a biomass boiler to heat pig buildings and the farmhouses; so are building a drying chamber to both make sure we have enough wood for ourselves and to sell the excess. Therefore any wood we buy now should be bone dry after a few days in the drying room going on data i've seen from others. I should say it's misty large sycamore and ash we'd be buying also. Does that have a bearing on price or if it's classified as hardwood does it all come under the same price range? Just trying to figure out our potential profit margins from the respective prices.

Hi, Just wondering what the going rate for roundwood is currently? Ive had a few prices as follows: £38 delivered 27t load softwood, and a price of £52t delivered hardwood (processor sized) and £50t ish undelivered and had a quote of £11.75p/t to have it delivered. Does that sound about right? Thanks!