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  1. william petts
    Wire and metal cables,
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    I've found all sorts in woods, cricket balls, marbles, the wise was a big iron bracket probably 6 inches long by 4 inches wide by probably half inch thick with 2 very thick and long coach bolts, also had iron and steel like small h sections in middle of trees where it was probably a fence post and tree just consumed it, obviously had dirt and stones in there, barbed wire is another thing I've come across
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    How do u process your wood mark, presumably with some decent kit as it may be a bit if a struggle keeping up with demand with an axe hey
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    Or why nit cut out all the bull go down the yard and have a little chat with him, before you know it he will feel a little ilus easy as you've confronted him and will hopefully pay up or you can have a civilized chat on how your going to sort it out, as they say actions speak louder than words
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    And if scotland were to become independent and same with Ireland thats another reason to start planting especially with the amount of land we have that does relatively nothing
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    Sure by leaving won't it make it harder and more expensive for companies to export their firewood to this country thus hopefully meaning some will start looking out for British wood instead, also I think now really is the time that the government and private land owners start really pushing on with tree planting because we may find it extremely hard to get wood in 20 or so years time and again we should be aiming to be more self sufficient
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    Very good firewood in my opinion dense wood that gives out good heat, also quite a clean wood
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    Still been processing quite a bit lately, just this weird weather we've had that made it a bit stop start for me, one minute hot sun next minute torrential downpours flooding the barn as the gutter couldn't cope then scorching hot sun again, thankfully we havnt cut the hay yet unlike some other farmers I've noticed who may have rotting grass on their hands unfortunately
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    Just out of interest how many tonnes would that forwarder load in the pic above roughly be?? And if u was to sell it what sort of price per ton I'd it worth??
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    I like the fact that it's on a tractor so at least you can do harvesting on a machine you may already have and will be using often instead of getting g a purpose built harvester and having it sit about, also how are those of you that do timber harvesting finding work at the moment, is there a lot of work our there??
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    I have a dalen 2060 and we mainly process arb waste and it's great, the other thing I'd say is that not all arb waste is well waste, we get plenty of nice strait log logs come in which is just like cordwood, I find it quicker than someone on a chainsaw and splitter, also if there's logs that are to big and awkward for the processes I use the chainsaw to ring the logs up and then use the dalen just as a splitter which Is even quicker especially when I have someone passing me the rings, only problem with arb waste is you will get those logs that are dirty and may have nails in but I siluppose u have to take the rough with the smooth, quite literally; )
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    Ohhh but the one above is an all I'm one fixed machine isn't it?? I don't know much about them as you can probably tell
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    I'm only around the corner from Broxbourne woods, I remember walking around there and seeing the cord stacked up but just assumed they used a normal harvester and bloody hell wasn't expecting them to be around 50k, u can get a second hand harvester for that and you'd be sitting in a cosy warm cab!! They also look quite a simple construction so I'd of thought they should be around 20k
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    May be a silly question but can you use them forwarders on the road and if so what sort of speed will they do
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    Hypro processors / harvesters. Was flicking through the forestry journal and I saw a piece on the machine I mentioned above and I became curious of what it was like, saw a couple of vids on you tube and it looks like a blinding little machine ideal for a small tight thinning job and im guessing it would be a lot more cost effective than the big machines, I don't do any form of harvesting apart from a little bit of copping every now and then but I just wondered if anyone on here has one or thinks like I do they look pretty cool machines!
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    Hypro processors / harvesters. Was flicking through the forestry journal and I saw a piece on the machine I mentioned above and I became curious of what it was like, saw a couple of vids on you tube and it looks like a blinding little machine ideal for a small tight thinning job and im guessing it would be a lot more cost effective than the big machines, I don't do any form of harvesting apart from a little bit of copping every now and then but I just wondered if anyone on here has one or thinks like I do they look pretty cool machines!
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    <p>Sorry for the really late reply, it's my dad who's in charge so I'd have to ask him , normally I assume he'd price it up per transit load instead of working out the cm but you would have to speak to him, all our wood is mixed arb waste so again working out the cm would be a bit awkward.</p>

    <p>How would you collect, with a transit type van or something bigger</p>

     

  18. william petts
    Yh we coppice a small bit of out woods around Feb so we havnt got to worry about to much brush and then extract it around now although we've had torrential rain, very weird weather, meant we still havnt harvested the hay yet!! And same with us gdh always plenty to get on with
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    Anyone still selling much wood, what about cordwood, are any of you getting a load in now ready for winter, when do u Normally prefer to but in cord???
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    Also are any of you still busy processing forefoot, I'm pretty rammed out at the minute, just about to go and ring up a load of oak arb waste also got loads of probably 3-5 year seasoned willow, poplar and a bit of ash to cut up as well, all very nice and seasoned and dry near enough ready to burn!
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    I've been using my processor a lot lately as just a splitter, like u said just as quick!
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    Been doing a few logs here and there
  23. william petts
    As it's been a bit cold for the past week got a couple of orders in but nothing to shout out about, been very busy processing though also been busy selling our plants etc at market, aswell as been busy making up hanging baskets for a couple of days, even when there's no logs there's always something that needs doing!!!
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    I've got back into doing some logs again after being busy with other stuff, dud a couple of hours on the axe in a small area where I couldn't get the splitter and tractor in there, my back is reminding me of what u was doing today haha
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    Yh I agree we should push more for growing our own, as for for what I said I did say less so my point was is we effectively only import what we need, besides there was a chat on another thread about arb waste, the amount of arb waste that literally goes to waste and just rots away, all wood that can/ should be utilised and I know people say it isn't viable but when you think the arb waste is free yet you have to pay for cord wood I think there wouldn't be a lot of difference in the profit margin, and not all arb waste is rubbish, we had a lovely load of oak with it mostly of rather straight approx 4ft -6ft long limbs all around 10-14" and it went through the process er lovely

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