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  1. william petts
    I haven't seen country file yer but maybe they should focus on planting trees for fuel in log burners rather than weeds!. I for one would rather see 100's of acres of woodland than bracken, then again they're usually both growing together
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    Yes sorry should have said, it does have a harvester bar which is more heavy duty and longer lasting than a chainsaw bar as for it nipping or jamming, as you can control the speed of the chain u can ease the blade through the log thus eliminating most jams etc, where as a circular saw is a constant speed. Only downfall on the dalen is silly things like the conveyor is a bit narrow and it's prow to letting bits get caught in the roller, but they're new processor the 2060 has seemed to a dress these issues
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    Ahhh not a lot then, dunno why he bothers with such low volumes! !!!!! No seriously that pretty mega I think we do around 1000 cube a year but hoping for a lot more this year, I wonder who is the largest firewood firm in the world!! Is it fair to say certainly wood is the largest in the uk
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    Haha yh cans bottles and aye the odd stuck cat???
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    Bloody hell makes my cricket ball story seem stupid don't it!!!! And letting a tree grow around your bike is one way of stopping people nick it!
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    I have a dalen 2054 and can only talk of my experience with it, I find it very versatile, due to its large infeed area and a large splitting chamber, I find it very effective for processing a lot of our arbwaste we get from tree surgeons and it's very quick with cord. It's well built and don't weigh to much, my 60 hp international drives it around fine, and it's simple to operate and you can control the speed of the chainsaw blade/chain manually with the controls, which I think is vital! I mean I put small branches like 1" through it!!!. Also my one don't have all the safety malarkey with sensors on it so I can leave the guard over the splitting chamber up and just use it as a splitter. Apart from that I love the look of taj fun, and hakki pilke is always up there, below is a vid of my processor. That's another thing I'd recommend watching videos of the machines in a real work place not in a promotional vid!!
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    How many crates or cube would that be, as most of us sell by cube it will give us a better understanding (for me anyway) on the volume your selling! Cheers
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    Looks like you have plenty of wood to keep u busy for a few days! As for nails doing a lot of arbwaste we find all sorts, found a cricket ball in a middle of a log one where the tree grew around it!
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    I'm one who find chimneys rather attractive and houses without them don't look right, a lot of it is money and planning permission to build them I think
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    Sounds like you had fun! How long do you keep the wood stacked up as cord before you process it? It looks well seasoned
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    As the title above states I thought I'd do a thread on firewood processor videos for people to see first hand what the machines are like in a real working environment. Also good to see splitter video or any vids of making firewood regardless of how you do it! Hopefully the link below works!?
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    We have a ktm 8 ton splitter than runs from the tractor hydraulics. Simple machine with one hand operation, does a he'll of a lot of work with minimal issues and is very cheap. Also British made!!!
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    Tbh I was thinking the same thing about only hiring it out with myself as the operator but what if people want to save the money on my labour and use the machine themselves. On one hand I will be earning money with the machine instead of it sitting and I will earn double as I can do other work. Downside it's more liable to be abused and damaged and worse be stolen. Does anyone on here do processor hire and hire just the machine??
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    I also noticed you said you sell around 1500 cube a year. Just wondering what u sell them in I. E bags or loose?
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    Exactly! I for one found the conversation quite interesting it was like an arbtalk version of Brexit! !
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    I always leave my processor set to cut logs at 8". We sell mostly 8" and 10" but have had a few want 6" also had people ask for gigantic stuff that's been like 20" long. But that's very rare. Also not many people have open fires now it seems.
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    We've been doing on average around about 5 bags a day is say, for example did 8 bags today (sunday) Did 4 the previous day, and 10 the day before that, but the day before that did 0 so.......
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    How do you process your wood matt?
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    The dalen has like a 3 piece guard, the end peice/caging was taken off when I bought it as the guy found it more convenient and accessible and I have found it to be a lot easier without it, the guard going over the saw and in feed area I just lifted it up and folded it back and did the same with the next peice that goes over the splitting chamber. I believe with the newer models u can't do this because of all the safety features and sensors??
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    And for the record I'm sitting on the fence I sorta agree with both sides of the argument, could always do some form of log showdown to see who sells the most or who has the least complaints from the customers to settle this "altercation" shall we say!
  25. william petts
    After reading this went to the outide log pile, stuff that was split from this time last year onwards, outside my was 29 percent inner was lower at 20percent, obviously will change a bit when rained on hence y we usually bring it all undercover before now. In the end of the day wood is a product if nature and nature can't all be perfect. U could argue it should be buyer beware, you could argue for mid selling products. In my opinion does it really matter if customers could see all this I think they would stop buying all together as they think they're causing too much hassle/ fights for what it's worth!

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