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I have to agree. The woodbioma sample was far better than the CPL, Certainly wood or wood wool UK firelighters I’ve tried. Easier to light, burns with a stronger flame, generally a more even size for each and don’t have any kind of odour to them either.
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If you cant run over the logs/pallets to push up into them then you’ll struggle to fill a 1m3 bucket without a telescopic boom. Particularly if the heap isn’t very high. It can be difficult to fill a normal sized bucket with the skid steer on a concrete floor. Would imagine you’ll be smashing the crap out of the pallets underneath every time you go to scoop up.
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Will be doing in late summer for certain! I’ll pm you nearer the time.
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Why not? We’re all friendly here and We’re not in local competition. I’m not about to be buying firefighters with another firewood company’s logo on them if I can get them from source with my own logo on.
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Where did you get those made?
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I would have thought that as long as there is some air circulating through there you should be ok. Would also think as long as the logs were processed while the stack and weather was dry you would stand a better chance. I’m going to try the same myself probably. IBC’s take up too much room!
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Woodbioma do an excellent wood wool flamer. You have to buy a crate of 800 x50 though! There’s a good margin to be had on them though but if you don’t sell a lot it’s not ideal. Looking at these myself and they are UK produced. Only contacted them yesterday so am awaiting a sample and price list. https://woodwooluk.com/
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Still running at 16 cube a week because that’s all we can dry. We have sold that solidly since October though so can’t complain. Just wish we’d been further ahead before hand.
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I’d be getting complaints if all the logs were that size. Most people want plenty of chunky stuff and like ash says 10-13” through an 8 way produces fantastic logs very quickly too!
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That is tragic! So many garage forecourts are guilty if this.
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I’ve done an 18t load of 2.8m long reasonably straight beech, a lot of sub 8” diameter though, in 8 hours with our tajfun 400. However that was straight into a barn, no stacking and 2 people keeping the machine fed by hand. Usually on my own I can do 2 IBC’s per hour average. That’s with the bog standard basic log deck and a bodged non-live feed deck so only able to load a cube at a time anyway. Suffice to say it’s the loading and moving stillages that slows things down. Give me a live feed deck and a big empty bay in a shed and the tajfun should clear 20 cube a day easily.
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I reckon for small jobs an excavator with timber grab and a man on the saws could produce a decent amount in a day. I’ve done it on my own but getting on and off the machine is slow. Once you’ve felled a tree you can quickly process all the stem and decent limbs into a stack like a harvester would. Ideal for small woods or wooded boundaries where it’s uneconomical to get a harvester in but you also want to tread lightly but not have loads of man handling. It’s still more viable to buy it by the wagon load unless it’s on your own land!
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It’s the tree surgeons getting paid to take away wood then selling it as logs and those selling any old wet crap in the middle of burning season that are the bottom price around here. Everyone else including myself as a farmers son are within a £30 band per cube. Only 3 or 4 companies in about 50 mile radius here who are able to keep selling dry at this time of year. The race for timber is definitely in full swing at the moment. I think we all buy it from the same few timber dealers/contractors though I’ve been lucky enough to get in with a one man operation who is selling to just us this year. Softwood/chipwood is in very short supply.
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Split a load of big lumps we had delivered in April last year, only just got round to making them small enough to go through the processor. The Balfor 22t horizontal making light work of even 36” diameter beech. Got 9 cube out of it so far through the tajfun with the new 4/6 knife working really well. The sycamore is past its best but the beech is still rock hard for the most part!
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Numbers on mac is a good spreadsheet program. You can store all the information you need on each customer in a database. Providing you store each customers information in a sensible and logical manner you'll be able to search it or order your columns in such a way that you can get the information you need from it. Just be careful of data protection law changes that have just recently occurred. You really need to make sure all the data you store is very very secure otherwise you can be in line for a fine if the relevant authorities find out you lose it or it is stolen by hackers.
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And as much as the paddles do help logs landing square a lot. There are plenty of times when a perfectly straight length of timber will inexplicably end up the wrong way on. Only really nice rounds of ash, sycamore or softwoods seem to land straight most of the time. Birch, beech and other less cylindrical species just seem to go where the like regardless of the paddles
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Just to add, we looked at upgrading to the 480 from our 400 and KIlworth said that yours is still the only PLUS model they have sold in the country as it’s now over £4000 extra for the auto height and CBM counter. Is it justifiable at that?
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Bennett’s are literally 5 minutes from our yard at Teesside Airport, they sharpen our chipper irons and dads woodworking sawblades. Always done a good job of sharpening! They’re expensive to buy new blades from though!
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It was the best thing we ever did. Even ended up engaged to the owners daughters best friend [emoji85] As long as it’s suitably dry they should have no complaints and I’m sure would be willing to try if they weren’t up themselves. In terms of what they use for commissioning, so far they’ve only used less than 2m3 this year. So cheaper than a decent google adwords spend. And that’s fitting over 10 fires a week during the last 6 months! If their growth as a company is any indication of the available market share in log supply, we should do just fine. It’s in their interest to recommend good quality reliable, local suppliers so I’d strongly recommend approaching some.
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I have a good website guy, but thanks. He did our holiday park site and takes our photos too. www.droversway.com if you’re at all interested.
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Not one with more than my contact details on. I did intend to but never bothered as we’ve been so busy anyway it would’ve been a waste of money. Had some good pictures taken and do a bit on Facebook but it’s only really another point of contact. Can however be very useful for targeted ads if you know how to use them [emoji6]
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High quality is the most important thing secondly value for money. You have to be able to keep customers when you get them. Then it comes down having enough stock to service all your customers. After that you need good interpersonal skills, customers love polite, helpful delivery drivers who go the extra mile to make their lives easier. Particularly when they are elderly! If you’ve got all that the recommendations will come flying in. We do extremely well by being good friends with a few stove shops and fitters, they give out leaflets for us to all their customers and use our logs to light the first fire when fittings stoves. I give them as much as they need FOC for fitting fires and they pay a heavily reduced rate for logs for their showrooms. The best advertisement we could have and costs us very little.
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More orders than we can handle here! Was hoping to avoid cutting recently delivered timber to dry but doesn’t look like I will.
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Nothing wrong with Alder. But it’s not the same as beech!
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Try climbing out through the passenger side window. Done that a few times!
