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Would be interested in some info. Wether our haulier can get it here for cheap enough is another matter! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It all depends if the boiler was put in purely for log drying or other purposes. For those of us who installed them for heating multiple houses and animal buildings the saving on gas and electric alone is worth the cost of putting a boiler in without the RHI. The RHI is just a nice incentive to help it pay back faster. We have extra capacity so we use it to power the kiln. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The only way a mobile kiln works is if it's fully mounted on an artic trailer or hook loader lorry. If you have to dismantle and de-mount, the convenience soon stops. The cost of buying the equipment would probably be far too much to make it worth it in reality let's be honest. Never mind what you'd have to charge and a big user of it would just put their own in, assuming they had space. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

About 3ppkwh for us in woodchip then the expense of the installation and how far you want to spread that out. Initially it's probably rather a lot but if you're doing 500 cube a year over 10 years say it's maybe £1-2 a cube. Cheaper than putting up a shed to season it in! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Only have one customer that struggles with 10" logs so next load she gets will be cut to 8". Her husband recently had a stroke though so will just do it at normal price. She complains about softwood smelling when it burns even though she smokes like a chimney in the house and I come away stinking even though Ive only been there mere minutes [emoji85] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Absolutely, great idea. 40ft flatbed with a boiler in a 10ft container and 30ft insulated sideloading shipping container (kiln) on it. How commercially viable all that layout would be is another thing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There's already quite a few wholesalers of kiln dry stuff. Not going to name any names because I wouldn't recommend them to anyone after the experience I've had. Once our own kiln is up and running properly, I plan on offering such a service to a select few people. What do you charge though if it's just drying and they supply the wood? It'll have to be crated up or moved into IBC's etc. Do they cut it at home then have two lots of transport? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Puts ours to shame! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

For the price they are you're better off risking damaging a few IBC's. Especially if you have a tractor/skidsteer/telehandler rather than forklift. Unless you can come across a cheap one that is. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Why will they not let you? Once the boiler is in, you can alter the installation slightly at least, its more a question of timing to make sure you don't miss out on payments. If you send in your application the day after one of your quarterly payments hits the bank, they should process the application within that quarter and at the most you'll be delayed a single payment rather than 6 months worth. It may depend wether that possible augmentation of the system is within the bounds of the original installation. Our heater/kiln upgrade from 7.3kw exchanger to 90kw of exchangers, is. We plan to use it far less anyway as it'll be much more efficient. If you've got an insulated container that will work with recirculation you might be best off with exchangers and fans. Bigger the heat exchanger the quicker you'll get up to temperature. I looked into the wet route for ours but struggled to find any radiators that would get the air temp up to a suitable temperature. You also need a lot of air flow to get the air moving through the logs particularly if they are loose filled rather than stacked. Jim Morgan (Jimmorganengineering) guided us to start with on ours and Jerry from Tomorrows Air Solutions is providing the exchangers and fans in a ready made plenum box -hopefully before Xmas as I've got customers shouting at me for logs! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

IBC's are far better imo. More airflow, easier to stack, longer lasting. If you're any good with the merlo you should be able to tip them out without doing too much damage. Pick it up from the wide side (you need 1000mm forks at least) tip it over onto its side gently all the time keep the bottom edge touching the ground. Keep going forward slowly as you lift up and tilt. Once it's laying on its side pick up gently from the bottom and lever it up so you are holding it through the pallet tine spaces. (You could lay it partly on a pallet to start with so you can get under the edge easier maybe) Then you can lift it away upside down tipping the remainder of the logs out. You might want a groundsman to direct you with the merlo but it's a piece of cake on a skidsteer where you can see what you're doing better. You can pile them up , tipping multiple out in this way quite easily. Only disclaimer is, the plastic bottomed ones are less likely to get damaged doing this, the steel ones though- it might slightly pull off the tube bottom ring as the joints for it are in the middle on the longest side. I solved this by either welding them to the pallet spacer feet before or after I tip them. You'll need a mig welder though or you'll just melt them. Most second hand IBC's have most of their damage here in my experience anyway. I can't see how a box tipper works out economically when it's so easy to do. You do need a tractor, skidsteer or merlo to do it though so you have enough boom crowd angle. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

100t of softwood for the chip boiler for Busy Daddy to chip in spring. 25t of ash and sycamore with another 15t behind it ready to process for logs when I get a minute! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Let me know if you do decide to sell! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Is that to fit your tajfun? Would you sell it? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Going well Brian! Fair enough, horsey types are his best bet. Take a card or a simple leaflet round some horse yards locally, I bet they'll not be able to get enough of it! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We'll take it and mix it in with our woodchip for the boiler if you want rid Brian! Horsey types would buy it if it was dust extracted maybe.. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We store and deliver in dickinsons 1m3 vented and non vented barrow bags. They're worth the extra cost as far as I'm concerned. Only had one fully split on me after being used multiple times. If you lift from all 4 corners all the time you'll have no issues. Barrow bags get damaged by customers dragging them. I normally put them exactly where they want them to avoid this. Takes time but saves my bags and customers appreciate it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We'd rather not ever have to bother with the expense of that. Plus I do a lot of deliveries down small streets and back alleys packed with cars. You cant beat this little truck for that I don't think. Appreciate the advice though! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Drag it off the back of our, new to us last week, Nissan cabstar currently. We have a manual crane lift thing to fit to the back this week. Not bothering with an electric hydraulic just yet, for cost and load capacity loss. Start simple and see how we go. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

£5 Deposit on the bags, that covers the cost. £2.50 for barrow bags. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I get about 400 10" long 2-6" wide logs in a 1m3 bag filled properly like this - Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Doing about 10-15 cube at the moment which is fine as we're trying to get our upgraded kiln built. Not doing any advertising at all either, all via word of mouth and from stove installers. Once the kiln is done I want to be at least double I would think. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Buy one and sell it you'll probably not lose anything on it if you can wait to sell it till next summer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

On top of it's think yeah. Get so used to talking about prices -vat I can never recall which ones had it on! Only came from 6 miles down the road. Last lot came from even closer but not sure what we paid for that. Maybe £56p/t. Wasn't sorted though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We have a few stacks around our place all with varying levels of exposure to the elements. stacked at the highest part of our land on big bearers with extra depth dug out between them, with the end of a logs facing the prevailing wind we can get softwood down to 20% moisture ready for the chipper within 8months. Always drys better if harvested by a machine, the feed roller punctures let the moisture out for certain and even better if the bark has fallen off too. Never had hardwood down below 25% at the time of processing yet, even stacked in the exposed spot. I prefer sycamore or beech from a big tree to burn in my own stove. Or Hawthorne, my favourite for long burns! I could absolutely do without ever having oak, very rarely feel like it burns properly on my stove. Could just be the stove though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk