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Getting cold tonight! ! Starting to freeze up abit!!
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Yep sorry should have been more clear its a mix of hard and soft wood although we could do just hard wood, and vice verser just soft wood on request
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Nope im wrong these are the new bags!!
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Here are the bags that we do, these are only pics I can find and have the old prices on I think
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whats the best trees to plant
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Haha I like it!!. Is birch prone to rot (I know once felled it can rot quite quick) and is it prone to any diseases beetles etc that should be mentioned. For warned is for armed! -
whats the best trees to plant
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I thought about possibly doing a coniferous plantation so it could be possibly felled for lumber, but not ideal for what I wanted as firewoid. Like I said before the use of the woodland is to depress weed/brambles, and give an income in the future for its timber, im 18 so I should hopefully see the trees get to size where they can be felled, I get an income and can then replant or if thin the wood let it re seed for the next generation -
whats the best trees to plant
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Alder and birch seem good ideas, all the woodland in our areas all mostly hornbeam as it was all planted and coppiced for charcoal. I would plant hornbeam but its abit slow to grow. I plan was to plant saplings either 1 or 2 years old and plant out. If I was to plant birch and alder how far apart do you plant and any other planting tips etc??? And for planting sapling how long untill the trees become quite established and large, I think I heard birch fully matures in around 30 years?? -
With abit more colder weather latley and some more expexted in the coming week, -7 expected tonight according to the weather forecast where we are in Hertfordshire, has there been any sort of surge in sales or an increase of orders, ive been definitely burning more in the last 4 days, most since we had the snow. I say lets hope for some cold and get the ligs shifted!!
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Quite chilli with quite a thick cloud cover, it looks like the cloud that may give out a bit of snow, fingers crossed it does, and theres also a sharp wind!!! So typical winters morning for us, just about to light the open fire!!
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is a 70hp tractor up to the task??
william petts replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Large equipment
Cheers mate good advice, the tractor ive got had a sort of overhaul but stilll needs a few little touch ups, the brakes are the one thing on it that are quite sound where as the other ones aren't as great. I sooke to freind and he said he had an 8ton/ 10 ton trailer on the road with his, fully loaded with logs from tree jobs, that seemed a bit too much to me?? -
Is this too much to ask of a baby tractor.
william petts replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
Hi guys, I have an international 674, been looking on interbet for what size trailer it can pull, I wabt it for the use mainly on road I.e transorting logs from different parts of farm and bringing wood back frim neighbouring farms. Want a tipping trailer e.g like a grain trailer with high ish sides. Any ideas would be muxh appreciated! ! -
Yh there the cubic meter bulk bags, so would hold less that a cube stacked as Iits loose in bag, never actually measured it stacked but I believe there was a thread on here before where guys worked it out at around 0.7 to 0.8 cube stacked if I remember correctly,
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is a 70hp tractor up to the task??
william petts replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in Large equipment
Hi just came across this post. We have a couple of international 674 tracrors and was wondering what size tipping trailer they could pull. Looking for a high sided trailer that can be used moving logs/ maybe even delivering split logs if viable on road. Any feedback would be great!! -
On our farm I was thinking of dotting some small woodland about of current areas wherethere are a few trees but the gound has been ovr run with brambles and in other areas black thorn. The main area which is probably an acre is situated in between two hay fields. It has two small streams/ditches running through it which meet together to make one. Its on a sort sslight slope, nothing to steep and the ground id say is reasonably moist all year round as although it slopes down it does have water from higher up run on to it and as I mentioned there is a stream. Whats the best wood to plant. Im looking for it to 1: supress the brambles etc 2: be fast growing and mature as quick as possible and 3: something that can be harvested for firewood as thats what we mainly do. Any ideas guys. The trees I thought about where silver birch as I like them for their appearance. And I believe there quite fast growing and quite like moust ground. Cheers. William! !
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Yup, thats correct
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Very true, the answer to your questions are no we ddont rent and we already have a truck. I think its the sorta thing like you said, give it a whirl and see what happens!
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Where we are we and most others sell mixed only, we are £50 per cm3 bulk bag or 3 for £130 with a 10 mile radius. The next cheapest are £60 per bag or two for £110 Then the others range between 80-100 per cube I believe.
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Like I said this is just an idea that popped into my head, say a transit load of wood produces around 3-4 vube (would that be a fair estimate) all the person who buys it has to do is split it, I normally split with an axe a truck load in probably 3hrs, and with a splitter abit quicker. So what would you guys pay for a load. I think to make it viable I would need to say deliver in bulk I.e 5 loads per guy, should easily deliver 5 loads a day. Obviously traffic etc etc etc depending
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Sorry *mix of hard and softwood
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Hi guys, I was wondering do you think there would be amy interest in people, maily those who do their own firewood, buying transit loads of ready to split logs, e.g all logs ill be rung up at lengths between 6-12", but most will be around 8-10" as thats the length we sell most of. It would be a big of hard and soft wood that would be green although there may also be a micture of seasoned and un seasoned in there. Asfor price it would obviously be easier for those to collect but was weighing up weather to offer delivery or not, as im only 18 I don't drive a truck so it may not be worth my while to deliver. So prices: what do you think??? This is only at an infant stage, its just that we may find ourselves with too much wood. I thought it may be a good idea to sell it like this as all you have to do is split it which in my opinion is the easier part.
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
It certainly is nice although I think more rain is on itals way, 1st pic is of this morning and the 2nd pic is what I would like the weather to be, then again there was talk of the possible rain turning into sleet or snow! -
what logs have you been chopping today!
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Nice pics guys! And theres not u wrong with some twisted awkward wood from time to time, like you said it turns onto firewood in the end. And its nota bad morning here, abit of froast with an even cloud cover. Main thing is no rain and its abit nippy, so hopefully people with start burning more wood!! -
Same here, a nice winters morning
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william petts replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Was splitting some nice, semi seasoned pear yesterday, kept a few pieces back to burn meself!! What have the rest of you been up to!? -
Out ram fell out of the shaft on our splitter, twice, I was told it was something t do with the nut that holds in in came un done or something so put a locking nut on instead
