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Best way to light a woodburner with down draft?
SbTVF replied to sandspider's topic in Firewood forum
One wood wool flamer plus a Jenga pile of kindling on top of last nights ash, (8 pieces plus some thin bits on top) maybe small piece of log lent against the stack either side. Put the door to. Let it get on with it. Paper is a bad idea imo. -
The log shed near Ripon deliver down to Leeds I believe. Their stuff looks good from what I’ve seen.
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Barrows work well for us. Quicker to load and unload and act as waterproof storage with the lids clothes pegged down well. Probably our best profit margin when people take 2 at full price over 4 at bulk rate.
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10” long max. 16-20” diameter mostly.
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How big a ring does the fiskars cope with? My bog standard splitting axe is useless over 12” really. Wouldn’t mind splitting some oversize by hand if it was doable and save buying a vertical splitter?
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It’s all very well getting temperature up very quickly but if you case harden it you’re stuffed. Yo need to hold moisture in for a period at the start or it’ll not work.
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The fiskars one is no more expensive than a boy standard ‘slasher’ around here at £50 ish.
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Insulated shipping containers are easy enough to come by. Might want lining in the inside with aluminium sheeting perhaps but add a heat source and ventilation and you’ll be laughing.
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Into the second hundred but no, not yet!
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I have to agree with the 400 being a fantastic machine. It is easy to use, fast and produces great firewood. We have had a few problems though, I guess that’s what you get with a second hand machine. Had to replace a few major parts but it runs like a good’n 99% of the time. I wouldn’t go for anything else with a chainsaw personally. Welcome to come have a go of ours Matt? The real question is chainsaw or circular saw. Changing chains and stuff can become tiresome when you just want to get on sometimes I have to say but if you start with a sharp chain and well dressed bar every day you’ll get a plenty done before you even notice any difference. I do really like the look of the uniforest Titan 40/20 though. It’s about the same price as the tajfun 480 too and circular saw machine. If we change machine in the new year it’ll be a serous consideration.
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Steering well clear of this. The guy is in and out of jail like a yo-yo according to his Facebook.
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Can you get a contact number please?
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I’ve requested to be added to that sale group to have a look at the post. There’s nothing on the blokes Facebook profile. Why he’s advertising in esh winning when it says he lives in Chester-Le-street I don’t know. If you could ask where the stock is currently located that’d be handy.
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Miles out of our area then. Not even worth calling him!
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That’s not far from me. Might go buy the bloody lot!
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Everyone I know in forestry call it Roundwood or just plain old firewood up here in the north east or Chip wood for softwood lengths that aren’t saw log quality.
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Yeah I’ll get the number in the morning for you. Where are you based?
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Just say product may be partial to settling out?
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Just ordered some in today @ £38 per ton delivered. North east England.
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Can you not decant logs from a solid vessel so you can quote by a definite volume rather than per bag. Doesn’t matter if they’re stretched then.
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First time I’ve had a good 8 hours at it in a day for a while. Near constant chain troubles to start with and a friend operating for the first time so I can keep cages moved and logs coming yet still managed a respectable 2 cube an hour on average 6” diameter!
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Plenty of sellers out there selling kiln dry logs that are more than slightly damp! Like ever garage forecourt in the country for a start.
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How quickly do super dry logs take up moisture?
SbTVF replied to Woodworks's topic in Firewood forum
None of our stock ever hangs about long enough to do this test! Will have to hold a few logs of different species back as an experiment. Just to say when we kiln dry I rarely check moisture. The kiln runs until no more moisture is leaving the logs (confirmed via humidity in the kiln) so our logs are as dry as they can ever be. When we force dried without any humidity control we couldn’t get the logs fully dry in the centre (case hardening occurred) By holding the logs at high RH for the first few days we ensure the whole log is dry. Neither of my meters give any reading at all the logs are so dry. I assume it’s in the region of 15-18% even for the larger logs. -
Figure out how long it takes you to stack them per bag with say a 10m walk to store then charge by the percentage of the hour.
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The extra time it takes the load the kiln alone requires more return than seasoned so it’s a good job I can charge more. Our boiler uses nearly all of our tier 1 payments just heating the houses and log sheds. The kiln tends to use the remainder and then push us into tier 2 payments which only cover the fuel cost as we buy wood in the round then chip. If we bought it ready chipped it’d cost quite a bit more. Round here those supplying both seasoned and kiln are generally £15 a loose cube more for kiln dry.
