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Elder as in Elderflower? Must be tiny stuff? Never seen anything much bigger than 6” and I’d probably say it’s on par with willow and poplar at best?
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Can’t beat a decent SWB 3,5t truck where we are. Too many tight lanes and cul-de-sacs with millions of parked cars on them! As long as your delivery area isn’t too big it’s great. Wouldn’t want to be going too much further than 10 miles away from base on a regular basis.
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Selling a Biomass boiler and transferring the RHI to the new owner.
SbTVF replied to Celtictimber's topic in Firewood forum
I wouldn’t wish the hassle of doing that on my worst enemies! -
A ventilated shed floor usually for drying grain. Hot air blown through the product from below. Usually at lower temperatures than a kiln or traditional batch grain dryer but can do larger amounts in one go (depending on the size of the shed)
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Definitely! If it’s even slightly dirty you’ll get far more cutting between sharpens. It was a huge difference going from full to semi chisel. I’ll only use full chisel on really clean timber now even then it still doesn’t get through enough between sharpens. And therefore, whatever cutting speed you compromise on you will more than gain in more time cutting between sharpens.
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Perhaps it has a release valve that is stopping it lifting too much?
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Semi chisel chains have a lot less of a tendency to pull over and wear the bar. I was getting wear on a solid sugihara before 10m3 through using full chisel Oregon chain but with semi chisel it’s done 50m3 and barely a sign of any wear!
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Have you got a rear weight on? Counter balance is pretty important when you’re lifting anywhere near its limit.
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Close to half a ton wet and around 300-350kg at 20% in my experience.
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Had 75t of hardwood in stock in November and it’s all gone. Drying throughout the winter and only just keeping up. Could sell loads more if I’d had it ready. More hardwood on order but everyone’s after it and the prices are going up and will rise further through the year I would expect. Softwood is particularly in short supply. If you have the money, buy some woodland!
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Coming from the chimney stack rather than the stove I assume? My stove will make that kind of sound on lighting but thats down to the air draw through it while the primary air level is fully open.
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This may be a daft question but... how does one become aware of there being a chimney fire if you’re sat in the house? Especially minor ones, aside from the wall potentially setting on fire I suppose?
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A windy shed will be as good as anything. Especially during the summer! Split it down to your final needed size as soon as you can and it’ll dry out pretty soon.
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Would it not be much simpler to leave it stacked up for 9-12 months? Most species wouldn’t be far off your target by then. Or don’t you have the time to wait?
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My knowledge of the science is limited, but as I understand it the Lower the temperature a) reduces the moisture carrying capacity of the air b) slows the speed at which the water can escape the logs (can’t think of the fancy word for that) I would think it’ll still do a good job. I’ve heard of quite a few people using drying floors for logs. How quick their cycles are or how good their final product is I can’t comment. Why are you only aiming for 25-30%?
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Subfloor prior to lifting into place.
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Rough figures. Kiln is timber framed in a building with 100mm of kingspan on all sides. We have 90kw of heat exchangers with 3 fans pushing 9200m3 per hour through 16m3 of logs in cages. Air is cycled under a sub floor 10” deep and the full width of the kiln (2.5m) Takes roughly 7-9 days depending on outside temperature and how dry logs are on start up, to get them to sub 15% moisture. Gets up to roughly 65degrees within the first 8 hours but gets up to 75 in the latter stages.
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Narrow kerf 95txl is great!
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Yeah we’re already sorted. The latest update to our existing application is with ofgem now. Was all part of the original proposed work schedule as we couldn’t physically do it all at once. I’ll be content to run with our current kiln drying capacity and the rest can all be seasoned as far as I’m concerned. Much more than that and it’ll take over our lives completely!
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Maybe I’m misunderstanding it, but it reads as though unless the applicant was already drying wood fuel with a fossil fuel then its not an eligible use? I’m glad to see waste drying being removed. Heard of people being paid by their council to take green waste, which they were then drying, so they could burn it to dry more. All on a ridiculously expensive chp boiler so the pay back was something ridiculous like 6 months due to being paid for taking the waste! EDIT: read further on to clarify. “The changes described here will apply to new participants (those who apply for accreditation after the new rules come into force), to existing participants who add capacity and to existing participants who inform Ofgem that they have amended their existing heat use to begin drying wood-fuel. These changes will apply from the date the reforms come into effect”
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Thanks for the information I’ll look into it. Any way to save power is worth trying! Just for those of us who are less well informed, how can you tell it’s inefficient from the label? What on there is telling you about its efficacy?
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Best way to split large volumes of logs with a digger
SbTVF replied to Woodwanter's topic in Firewood forum
Stand the log on its end then do it? [emoji23] I find quartering big logs to then put through processor tends to make a lot of waste. Ringing and then splitting makes better product with less waste. Although probably more time consuming admittedly. -
Best way to split large volumes of logs with a digger
SbTVF replied to Woodwanter's topic in Firewood forum
If you’re going to ring them up why not just use a concrete breaker on them? If you put a wider sharper bit on the end it’d be pretty quick to knock them down to a handleable size. -
If they came at us to stop drying I would try and get a heat meter fitted on the pipe loop to the kiln so that could be deducted from total amount. Wether ofgem could be trusted to have that much common sense is another matter!
