briquette_seller

..sell the chip for smoking

Aye.

Sells for big money in wee bags.

Smells good also when being chipped

Chipper

This guy is a legend

On the deck in yard. Love sycamore but always have problems with mould

 

Hornbeam is also great but if you get a 14 inch piece with buttresses on it struggles to split as the grain is so twisted

Dont think i have ever had hornbeam.

Is it not generally quite twisted?

There a nation wide supplier of Kiln D that's £48 standing Jon yes you read it right

Good luck to them with that.

Been paying £50 for ash nowt under 12 inch and been down 14 months.

Going to look at a lot of beech / ash tomorrow the guys mentioned £46 it been down since nov

 

Then I hear of a chap up the road paying £29.00 for standing birch and chestnut

We can get chestnut at £34 but the transport from location put £13 on it.

 

Then I no a chap that's been quoted £55 ton in his yard it's going from high Wycombe to Preston

£50 road side?

Beech is nice to process.

Beech and sycamore are my favourites to process

HI MATE thats road side rates yes thanks jon

Aye, road side, processor size.

Big stuff cheaper.

Do you think that's expensive?

HI ALL what the price of ash per ton road side thanks jon

£40.

£45 max.

Cheap, no?

What processor you using?

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Had the family pop down to site which made a change from angry ramblers accusing me of ruining nature

I love an angry rambler

WHY ARE YOU CUTTING ALL THESE TREES DOWN?

WHAT A MESS YOUR MAKING!!!

Larch Sawfly - Lygaenematus erichsoni

The adults are harmless . The caterpillar like larvae eat Larch

needles causing galls, and in large numbers, severe defoliation.

very common in larch

Cost verses reward figures don't stack up cost of machinery higher cost of chip is huge.

 

Would of been ok before the first cut in RHI:blushing:

A lot of farmers round here are investing in biomass chip burners, 200kw, and installing drying floors.

It suits their working life styles as its automated, and low labour costs etc.

Some pay up too £100 for wood chip, per tonne (and still make money)

You can buy chip wood here for £30 delivered and get it chipped for £5-£10 a tonne, so raw material costs are fairly low.

Granted, more initial cost, but over 20 years, the saving in labour etc, must make it pay, compared to hand prepping and feeding a batch boiler?

arb chip has leaf matter in it , biomass is clean wood ,

Ok, iam with you.

Biomass chip burner.

Probably more expensive, but less work/labor involved over the 20 year period.

Do you get chip burners that burn arb chip?

arb wood chip or biomass

I work for a guy who tests drives commercial vehicles for a living and writes about them. Like many of the comments, the nissan seems to be the best quality, reliability, and best bang for your bucks. They had a bad batch a few years ago, but it was about 1% of their uk sales for a particular year.

He didnt like the ford ranger?

The only heat source I could come up with was a waste oil burner as a few friends run garages and workshops so free fuel.

Like everything time to get it up and running cost verses payback or worse failure.

 

I think there's only one route tysons farme 2000

Why not go automated and go for a chip burner?

3.2 ford ranger

Thanks for all the help. In the end I went for a Multech. Its a better machine for what I want though the Riko is clearly a better machine if you see what I mean !

Not a bad choice, although your limited to only splitting a max of 500mm long.

If you'd gone down the Riko route, you could of had a max of 1000mm long.

Requirements change, its best to cover all angles.

Multec is a good splitter though, especially for the moneys.

Thanks guys - that's what I needed to hear. Can anyone recommend a 3 phase machine they have used?

 

Scheppach are the only ones I can find.

 

The workshop has 3 phase and I'd be daft not to use it.

I have a Uniforest splitter, supplied by Riko, which has a 3 phase motor, aswell as a pto drive.

First class machine

What's your power source for the splitter, tractor? Electricity? Forklift hydraulics?

I must add, Multec to an age to deliver, and kept promising me dates, and kept letting me down.

That pissed me off.

After breaking my back for four days with an axe the time has come to invest in a vertical splitter ( will run it off hydraulics on telehandler or bobcat) . I want a waist height table - thinking Multech or Riko circa 12 tonne, Anyone had any experience of either ? Or any advice ?

I have a Multec, forget the tonnage, was one of their very first splitters.

Good value for money and well enough built.

Mine has a side table, which isn't that well made, the steel isn't heavy enough.

I also have a Uniforest splitter that came from Riko, 25 tonnes I think.

Very well made, an absolute beast.

Riko are also a very good company to deal with.