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If you’re on hard standing a wheeled excavator would be ideal. Much quicker moving about the yard and won’t churn it up. Ours is mostly for digging though so w rubber duck would be no use for us. Pallet fork attachments can be had for excavators for about £500 too so plenty of uses. Id be looking for a tb175w 7.5t Takeuchi personally if we didn’t need tracks. You see plenty on motorway work that’ll not have had a hard life but will be high hours and therefore within your budget I imagine. personally would hate to rely on a front end loader for moving timber having had the 360 with grab for so long. They just have so many uses and so much better for loading the Timber deck as you can be much more precise and speed up processing as a result!

Yeah same problem here

Thanks all, the 18” bar off the processor is the same mount so will get an 8 for on that, curious to try one on the processor anyway. Will stick with the 7 on the current 24” bar for now. Will do some research on upgrading to North America spec too. Am thinking of sending it to spud at some point anyway though for porting. Just want to be sure it’s running well as standard for now.

Excellent thankyou! That clears the up. I’ve given it a good clean up and all appears to be in order. Just needs a new sprocket, chain and bar eventually but a good dress up with do for the time being. Its on a 7 tooth sprocket currently which is the same as what our Tajfun runs so I have a spare, will an 8 tooth make the chain speed faster?

Bought this Husqvarna 576 off eBay. Runs well but I feel like it’s missing a piece of the AV system. However, I can’t find the corresponding piece on the parts diagrams so I’m wondering if it is even missing a piece? In the attached picture it’s the bolt through the handle below the AV spring that I feel should have a spring of it’s own or a rubber damper that sits in that cup? pretty certain it’s got a snapped AV spring near the fuel tank though but it’s got half the spring there so I know what I’m looking for.

I saw a figure today saying 7% of homeowners have a wood burner or open fire but they were creating 38% of particulate pollution in urban areas.

Based on the consultation they did I would suspect they’ll ban the sale of logs over 20% moisture in smaller quantities. For example forecourts, supermarkets etc. Then they’ll expand clean air areas to areas other than towns and cities and ban sales of stoves that aren’t defra approved or efficient enough burning I guess. How they would police people burning dry wood I don’t know but stopping it being sold will be a start. Might end up with an illegal wet log black market [emoji23][emoji23]

Both of ours are 2013 and 9/10 times if you put them on the fast idle setting they start first pull. Under ‘normal’ conditions anyway!

My two 550s both did it today. If I didn’t start them back up within a few minutes then of switching them off they would not start. Working round an emergency water supply lagoon and felt like chucking the pair of them in! Had to let them cool in the shade before I could get them started again.

That’d be nice so I could run my two 550’s?

Pm me all the details, delivery address etc and I’ll get you a price?

Do they want it ready to burn or not bothered? Likely to be Regular order or one off?

Would be very interested in your plans if you were to sell them! Keep getting asked for charcoal so it’d be nice to offer it!

How many are they after? Hardwood or softwood?

Just to add to this thread a little more. Our RHI application amendment finally came through today after being submitted back in July 2017! Put the meter readings in and for Jan to April when we’ve been drying nearly non stop the payment is nearly 3/5ths of our entire tier 1 payments! The kiln isn’t our main heat use at all but the low temperatures and high log demand have certainly had an impact on the last quarter!

Cheers! Will be even better when it’s all set up where it’s supposed to be once the processor shed goes up in the next few weeks. Trying to figure out how to get an old 2.8litre Isuzu trooper engine we’ve got fitted up to power it so we can keep the tractors free first though! Yeah the 3rd roller is miles better and the chain feed is fantastic, so much less stoppages! It’s a great little thing, no sawdust gets past it and very few small pieces of log. If the timber had been sat for more than 4 weeks or been through a harvester i’m sure it would sieve off plenty of bark too. You can even shovel the brash from under the post splitter grate onto it and it’ll sieve out all but the thin logs. Makes it easier to keep the work area clean.

Finally got round to using the new deck for our Tajfun that Kilworth delivered last week. Can’t believe we’ve waited so long to get one, makes it all so much easier! Working through a nice pile of 3m long Ash, Sycamore and birch mostly. Excuse all the shit and wet about, still waiting for the land to dry up enough to get the muck spread so it’s bursting at the seams currently!

By the Ton. It’s around about £55p/t delivered for hardwood in our area currently. A wagon and drag load will give us anywhere from 40-50 cube of loose logs by the time they’re processed.

Fresh unless you’ve got a big splitter. Our 22t had no bother with well seasoned big rings.

You could add plenty on to your logs and still be quite a bit cheaper than the wood fuel barn. Might lose a few customers but no point doing it for nothing.

I think you’ll have a job john. Everyone I’ve spoken to in the northeast is struggling with their own supply let alone the capacity to wholesale currently. And certainly not the capacity to supply multiple wagon loads of netted logs on a consistent basis. Most are set up for bulk bags anyway. No offence to you personally John, but those of us who produce our own from UK timber have been patiently waiting for the price of imported to go up until it’s not a viable business proposition anyway to be quite honest! Might be worth trying one of the big boys though like DJ Davies Fuels. I know they do the majority of the prepackaged logs for garage forecourts in the UK. They do kiln dried for mole valley farmers (with their branding) and the quality is excellent. Wether you’d be able to put that kind of thing in at your current price point or have to put your prices up significantly I don’t know. It’s worth an ask I guess.

That was me, Oregon wouldn’t replace it because I used it but the dealer did because it was absolutely shagged from the word go. On to the second chain on that bar now and im pretty happy with it. As above, easily bent though and nowhere near as solid as the Sugi narrow kerf bar I have running 15”. Would’ve got the sugi for the 18 too in hindsight. The 550’s pull both 18 and 15 well but the 15 is pretty much relentless whereas the 18 will bog without trying too hard. Certainly faster than standard kerf though.

Depending on your location try speaking to FJMatt on here.

North of England. That Sitka was sold out of kielder forest.

£90 minimum for 1.2m3 really.