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I can’t imagine sheeting would help at all, more powers rollers perhaps. Maybe only a belt/chain system would be better or some of the big firewood factory style machines have a ram/pusher on the infeed. Still would be useless on really bendy stuff. 6”? Only if they pay extra for it. That’s a lot of extra cutting to do and wasted timber really!

No, there isn't. Thats its flaw currently. Thats and excellent idea actually. Personally I'd rather have a hydraulic rotating piece at the bottom of each rail like most active decks have but that'll have to be a spring addition. I want to change the log lifter for the slightly better deck that @gdh has for his 480 with the 3 powered rollers. Ours with 2 is a pain, I'm forever having to go round the end and push logs off the passive rollers. The deck is currently loaded with our mustang skid steer as its in the shed. Out next to the stack in dryer months i'll load with the 360 and grab. The straight ones roll a little too fast down the rails for my liking at the moment but we make do for now. We only have the 8 way head as Kilworth didn't recommend the 12 way on the 400. It would probably manage with certain timbers but if you hit a knotty section mid log it would cause issues i think. I though about modifying an 8 way so the top half had an extra cutting edge for those big logs but for now It's no hassle to take a few bigger pieces off the top of the wedge and put them back through. Still makes decent logs.

Cheers, needs a little more modification to improve it yet but it serves a purpose!

Got the Mrs on the job today, speed things up so I can keep the cages refreshed and the deck loaded! Some nice 10-16" sycamore.

If they want it gone you should offer much much less. Softwood prices maybe at best. You'll make less profit on it that decent timber. You're doing them a favour really or they'd have sold it already. If it's small diameter, chunk it and sell it online for meat smokers. I get loads asking for big chunks of fruit wood for smoking. Most shops do it as chip and it's only any good for tiny smokers. Or get a big chipper in and do it in g50 or g100 size.

Toptex log sheets are what you need 4m wide by 4-20m long. Breathable and water shedding. Stack your crates or IBC's in a triangle so it runs off either side.

If the bag holds a 1m3 of sand it holds a 1m3 meter of loose timber too. Builders bags are all minimum 850kg around here in a 90x90x90 bag making the 0.72m3. FC say in their documentation that 1m3 of loose timber is 0.66m3 stacked. Can't get wrong off anyone if you stick to that calculation regardless of what bag size you use. We work off IBC volume and then decanted into bags just for delivery. Everyone gets a equal volume that way and don't have to worry about reusing stretched bags. Not that decent ones stretch by any noticeable amount imho.

Would you not be Better off buying your own insulated container and speccing the heaters and fans etc yourself surely?

Not had one but bought some logs off someone using half a dozen of them and I've never seen such poor 'kiln dried' firewood. I wouldn't have sent seasoned out that wet, never mind kiln dried. You can do it far cheaper with the right advice on your own.

£54-56 per ton delivered at the moment for decent sized sycamore/ash/beech/oak/birch Paid £45 for one load earlier in the season. It was huge oversize stuff 30" plus mostly though so nobody wanted it obviously as it had been sat there a year! It's made some great logs so far!

Low RH isn't necessary for drying wood. As long as the air isn't saturated wood will dry. Heat air flow dry accelerate the process. You need high RH in the initial period of drying or the outside if the log dries too fast and you get case hardening (moisture locked in the log) Just put up the poly tunnel and let nature do the work. Vented bags are ok but neat stacks or IBC's are better for airflow.

They don't remove nearly enough water even with a large desiccant dehumidifier. You need plenty of heat and good air movement to coax the water out of wood at any decent rate.

On forestry commission documents they say 1m3 loose equates to approve 0.66m3 stacked. Work from that and they can't say anything against you.

Builders bags are definitely not 1000 litres. More like 700. Big log bags tend to be about 800 and only actual cubic metre bags are a 1000 litre All assumes no stretch though of course.

Starting to pick up a bit now, which is fine for now, got harvest to finish first before I want to be busy delivering. Currently rely on word of mouth, but crucially it's from the stove fitters themselves and we get a good portion of their customers from day one, just need to keep them happy and we're fine. Will however be doing sone Facebook ads, it's excellent value for money if you target it to the right audience. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would suggest a skid steer/tractor/excavator with a bucket matching the volume (or a percentage of struck) of your delivery bags. Then make or buy a bag holder so you can tip directly into the bags with no misses. Your quality control should be during the processing stage imo. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We store in IBC's outside, uncovered. But then again we kiln dry afterwards so it just helps to make that quicker. We can stack them 4 high with the skid steer as long as the hardstanding is flat. Have nearly 100 in stock currently but a scrap dealer friend is on permanent look out for more for us as we expand our operations year on year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Approved hydraulics are excellent to deal with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Made our lift on/lift off set. Work great. Can't comment on their road legality though. We just use it for moving logs from one spot on the farm to another. It gets a half wagon and drag load on it. Trailer is a 14t herbst. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They certainly don't seem to be made to the same exacting tolerances of other well known chains. The links feel stiff even just in a loop to me, can't complain at the way they cut though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Might go back to Oregon multicut for the processor in that case. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is this a common occurrence with Sugi bars? Cut about 12 cube with it on the tajfun processor, obviously the chain runs faster than most saws so it'll get hotter but didn't expect to see it on a higher quality bar? I am running rotatech chain on it so it could be that but at half the price of Oregon, it's hard to not see the benefit (unless it's wrecking my bars of course) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi spud. I have an old 034 stihl and a spare 550xp that's out of warranty now. What can be done to these saws and what are the costs? I tried searching the thread for more detail but didn't find what I was after. The 034 currently runs a 18" bar and cuts well but it's sluggish on the uptake and bogs down easily. It'd be nice to run it on a slightly bigger bar for oversize logs and felling the odd bigger tree, even if it meant running skip tooth on a 24" perhaps? It may be getting worn but it's not had a huge amount of use. The 550 is basically a backup and would be interested to hear what it could be capable of if modded ? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you used that kind of stuff, make sure you use timber lats or sonething similar along the edges to spread the strain of the wind. From our experience with straw stack sheets, if you use eyelets they all rip out in a strong wind but if you sew in a tube or staple it to a timber Katy every other 4 ft you should do fine. Gale breakers are good but expensive, you can easily fold them back on a dry day though. Personally I'd Yorkshire board the shed down to 3ft off the floor. We've just done a 132ft shed with 10ft boards and they were about 52p per metre if I recall correctly. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk