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Last load I paid £57 delivered for 8-16" sorted hardwood. Mostly ash and sycamore. Mixed size stuff a little less. We feel paying a little more per ton for sorted timber works out cheaper than ending up with half a load of 6" and down which takes far longer to process on the tajfun. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yeah as long as it's dry it burns well and hot, leaves a load of ash in my experience though. Takes for ever to dry naturally though! Most customers wouldn't be able to tell one wood species from another anyway but I'd only include it in mixed hard/soft bags. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chip for our chip boiler costs about 2p per kWh we reckon if we chip it ourselves. But that's only cos we bought the chipper for £800 initially. Also includes a sharpen of the irons at £35 a time. So it won't last if we put 100t a year through it. Even buying it in its costing us about 4p per kWh. If you've got an efficient log burner and buy in big enough bulk I don't see why you couldn't save money but most people aren't interested in that. I'd say 90% of customers just have it for effect and the enjoyment of it. It's not a money saver. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They're not kiln dried but a friend I met at uni who is visiting his home country of Poland just posted this picture! That's a lot of timber! Wonder where it's all off to!? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Do you sell the willow in with all your other hardwood? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If they have any kind of decent customer service, call them and they should replace it for you I would hope. If they won't you don't want to be buying from people who would leave you with crap product anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Completely agree, all the arb lads round here are selling 'seasoned' timber and all customers are getting is soggy rubbish that won't burn! No wonder people want the guarantee of dry wood kilning can give them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Frank Mattocks kindling over in Cumbria. Top bloke, top product. Do a search on Facebook for his page. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As long as you're running it at the correct PTO speed there should no issue. Its running a pump not a power Harrow gearbox or similar so power should be an issue. Especially if it's got an emergency cut off button like the Tajfun does. Fancy trying it on the old TEF20 ourely out of curiosity mind! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We use our 400joy on a 6400 or 6800 Deere. Absolutely nothing slows it down! The splitter ram has already returned before you can pull the saw back down its that quick. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What capacity and reach is the merlo? Is it hydrostatic or geared? Our neighbours is a great machine. Rated at 3.1t lift but easy lifted a 3.8t concrete panel. Crap in soft going, but good visibility, reach and lift capacity for its size. You'll need atleast a 6m reach to fill a walking floor wagon I think. Local contractors jcb 310s articulated Jobby struggled quite a lot. Think that has 5.8m reach. Definitely want a big old bucket or you'll be there all day too. 3m3 one does a grain wagon in 18trips usually. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We're currently running 17" Oregon pro lite bars on our Tajfun 400. Probably adapt it to fit 18" sugi hara or similar in future as the 17" isn't very easy to get hold of. Running Oregon multi-cut full chisel chain, I think it's 64 links of 3/8" 0.058" kerf. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Can't glen farrow tell you the consumption? Surely they must be able to project how much it'll use? Our chip boiler is running within a few ton a year of what the supplier calculated when running at capacity. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I blame the mindset of the general public personally. If they had the brains to order ahead and store their wood, rather than calling up asking for wood immediately because they are 'desperate'. There wouldn't even be the kiln dried/fully seasoned market in the first place. I'd far rather just process straight into the trailer and have the customer store it rather than messing about with bags and crates. Aside from that, we sell at a sensible but affordable price, and the business stands up alone without the RHI which really only covers the drying costs, which are really quite small. About as much as one load of timber a year. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great idea for the off cuts the Tajfun clamp won't hold at the end. They'd fit perfect in dads big inset stove!! [emoji851] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Try gilbertsons and daughters over Hexham way. They're timber hauliers but will have lots of contacts I'm sure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

In the round or already split? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We did it to start with but it didn't suit our set up, we didn't have the suitable storage for a days worth of processing at the time and we ended up with too much getting soaking wet. We've got better storage now but it's still better having our own and being able to do a couple of hours/an afternoon here or there when we have time. We probably don't make full use of the processors output currently but it's a long term investment anyway after all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's good for anything down to about 4" diameter. Anything smaller and even if you get it right under it it still moves as the saw comes down. I think it's the curve of the end of the infeed belt that's allowing movement to be honest though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As with any chainsaw, if you keep the chain sharp and the bar dressed up and free from burrs on the cutting side it'll very rarely jam unless the log moves. Tajfun and other brands have log clamps to minimise this occurrence also. I can't possibly see how circular blades are cheaper in the long run that chains, even if I bought 20 chains and 10 bars it'd still be cheaper than a new circular saw. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

North east we'd pay up to £48 per ton if it's all 6-16". Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As far as I'm aware you get 60cube stacked in a 40ft container. So around 22,000 cube!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Plenty of stove fitters round our way are building inglenooks on the outside wall and knocking through then using a double lined flue up the external wall! Looks good and takes up no extra space in the house. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Nope just a manual winch! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We're at the end of our first full year having sold out first bags in October 2015. Only got into firewood by accident really as we had a chip boiler fitted to modernise and heat our pig unit and houses more efficiently. We knew we couldn't get all the sheds hooked up straight away so also put in a room heater for the workshop too. We then realised how much timber gear we'd need to make better use of the available RHI rather than buying in chip. So timber grab for the excavator and 1m PTO splitter later we decided we'd spread the cost of that and sell some firewood too, utilising our own 10 acres of woodland thinnings and bought in roundwood we set off with a simple operation. Using the mostly underused workshop heater we built a small basic kiln that does an ok job but is slow. I then had a wood burner fitted to my new house and got chatting with the fitters, who this spring opened their own store. They've gone from nothing to the busiest stove supplier in the area in a matter of weeks and recommend me to all of their customers. I was soon inundated with orders and went from 50 cube all last season to 40 cube a month at the moment. Sold my car to buy a Tajfun 400 and now having to build a bigger kiln to keep up with the demand! We luckily already had tractors and a 360 for handling Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk