briquette_seller

how many boxes have you got to do?

400 boxes at the moment

How to get logs from potato boxes into bulk bags, quickly and with minimum effort, any ideas?

I have a box tippler.

What's your trade/profession?

Fair point, though what is the point of insert stoves?

The Mrs wanted one, as she liked the fireplace, and saved me a bit of work hacking it out.

Had it a couple of weeks, and iam not Keane at all.

Mrs is happy though, for now.....

Don't get me started! So many people with stoves has got absolutely no idea how to use them.

 

Assuming you have a stove and it's fitted and all is in order, the first thing to get is a flue thermometer. I have no idea how people operate stoves without them - genuinely. I have a big stove and I know that it's running to spec when it's sitting at 450-550 degrees fahrenheit. Too much air and within just a few minutes it can get to 800. Too little air and a few minutes later it's down towards 300 and smoking. Flue thermometers are £6 from eBay and vital - perhaps all you proper firewood merchants out there could save yourself a lot of headaches and supply one free with every new customer's first batch of wood?

 

Also, a small fire can sometimes be counterproductive to economising on logs. Small fire equals less heat, less draw and therefore more air. A good, chock full firebox burning at the sweet spot of about 500 fahrenheit uses very little wood. I've loads of friends with stoves and a minority can use them properly. I had one chap say he didn't want wood too dry as it burned to quickly. Same guy who poked fun at me for filling up the stove rather than waiting an age for the three half wet logs to smoulder into life.

 

Anyway, we got a stove fan on Tuesday. It requires a minimum of 70c to spin and it has not stopped once in the past 5 days. Perhaps the answer for people who struggle to light fires is to get a stove that is nigh on impossible to put out?

Where do you fit a flue thermometer on an insert stove?

But the split billets are light its the unsplit rounds that are heavy and that's where the winch comes in. I don't do a vast amount of billets but with 50 odd cube we do there is no obvious drawback to working vertically.

What splitter do you use?

I chopped and changed my mind a thousand times, vertical/horizontal.

In the end went vertical with a winch, but read a few comments saying the winches are useless.

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The TR110 Branch logger

Anyone use one of those log tumbler cleaners to separate the debris?

Or a Posch logfix? Looks kinda like a star screener. Any good? Worth the thousands?

yer ugo

Buy it all, and sell it on at a sensible price, or is it crap?

Log sales gone mad over the last few days,

All good

Same, struggling to get them out fast enough.

One customer has been waiting two weeks for 16 cube of larch

We put the bags on an old empty bag. they slide along fairly easily, plus van has side door as well, so it's only really the middle bag that has to be moved when unloading. Load up with forklift using one bag to push the next along. Works for us

Thanks for the idea.

Did you have a ramp or something to slide the bags down and out of the van?

We used to have a Discovery & trailer, required tacho. Now use a 3.5 tonne van, can get 3 x 1m3 bags in it, easier to get in places and only takes 5 mins to chuck the logs out, no tacho required!

It's very easy to get 'wrapped' up in the 'need' to acquire more and bigger kit when, sometimes, less is more!

A van with a walking floor, to eject the bags out the back, sounds like a plan

Windy on the East Coast in Scotland. Just about got blown off the wid cart earlier on.

Fair enough if you've heard it straight from them but if you are going by the documentation it strongly suggests otherwise.

 

Its a minefield and this is why I detest these organisations. Bloody B+E, Tacho's, O license, driver CPC. I only want to sell a few logs!

Couldn't agree more!!

then it costs £30/£40 for company card and same again for a drivers card.

Got a tacho in the Fastrac, so already sorted with the cards, that's a start I suppose

Best get my tacho ordered for the new motor

I have a 1x42, and its gravity fed, not pumped, would of thought yours would be the same, could be wrong....?

Pull the hose off and get an air line to blow air through, just to make sure its clear.

The oil will be slightly thicker with the cold weather.

Hope that's of some help?

Can I order one bulk bag of logs, 12 bags of kindling and 10 packs of firelighters.

One month on, same order.......

All these years I have been doing it wrong!

Your meant to relight the fire after every log!!!

So pulling a trailer with a combined weight of over 3.5t, shouldn't you have an operators license, unless its a "dual purpose vehicle"?

Some times, if you didn't laugh, you would cry with some of the crazy things customers say

Our tr110 powers through 4x2 material and similar slab wood. Here is a you tube link to ours going through 2-4" beech....

 

 

This material is the dogs for log boilers and not bad for small stoves either. A retro fitted conveyor would be useful, but 77ltr sacks have advantages too.

Would this work with slab wood?

Do you hire the machine out? Based in Angus.

As you may know I got pulled over by VOSA over tacograph affair in January but because my firewood business is part of an active farm I was exempt and after much chasing I even got £400 back from VOSA for the days they incorrectly prohibited my trailer.

 

My MP, Danny Alexander wrote to Mr Peoples about it and I did even get an apology letter from him!

 

There are some exemptions but you do need to check you whether or not you fall within the categories. If unsure I would contact VOSA to check.

 

For instance if I get a driver to deliver my loads then I would need a taco.

Wow, impressed you got money back.

Did you some sort of legal representative to sort this out?

See my problem with VOSA is, one person tells you one thing, and the other person tells you another, and turns out both are wrong, and then its joe blogs here trying to earn a living that gets stung.

I run a JCB Fastrac, which VOSA love, so i have had plenty of encounters, and everyone working for VOSA was singing different songs.

The other thing i didnt realize, was that they can put a prohibition on your trailer. I thought you needed an operators license before they could prohibit stuff.

Bilke S3?

Log splitting safely and quickly | Bilke

Oak briquettes are very good, as are bark briquettes.

Bark has a strong smell though, when burning