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Only paying £60 up here for hardwood so nowhere near that cost per cube. I’m working off something like that figure by the time it’s delivered to the customer! We’re lucky in that the timber handling gears main cost is covered by other parts of the business so that is greatly reduced. Good to know my maths was spot on with the cost per cube for imported though. Stil £30 a cube in it for us at that. Which supplier do you use by the way?
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Profit margin on imported is about half as much as doing it ourselves currently I reckon. Might have to get some though as we are already stowed under with orders!
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Yep come across plenty of kiln dried logs like that round here. Customers soon suss it out though in my experience and look for somewhere better.
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I feel like there should be a separate classification for air dried logs if there HAS to be certification. The fact is, if I log is properly seasoned for enough time and not re-wetted in anyway other than due to humidity in the air. There should be no reason for it not to burn cleanly . KD wise. If your logs aren’t well under 20%, you are not fully drying them in the correct manner. Ie stoping part way through a drying cycle one the outside is dry or case hardening them due to poor humidity control in your kiln. Our kiln isn’t some engineering marvel by any means but I know all of our logs are sub 20% if not sub 15%. I don’t need and neither do my very happy customers, some expensive, pointless, paper chase of a certification scheme to tell me they are ready to burn. More over I’m not a crook like some in this business and I’m not happy to sell logs that I wouldn’t use myself!
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Do you hand wind the roller or use a drill/impact wrench?
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The consultation does ask ‘should retailers be made to store wood so that it can’t be re-wet’ at least.
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How many IBC cages will a 25tonne load of hardwood fill
SbTVF replied to kindlett's topic in Firewood forum
Best I’ve done was 52 but that was graded 10-14” mostly ash and harvested in summer. Average 45 like gdh says. -
The government is the elephant trampling over us!!!
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Would highly recommend Ben and his company. He is a sound, honest bloke to deal with and I’m sure he’d be a pleasure to work for!
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Considering increasing our Firewood prices
SbTVF replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
Luckily we secured ourselves a good supply this year and have plenty in with more coming almost weekly but the price have gone up £10 ton in the last 12 months because all the agents know how in demand it is and are expecting more. Prices going up accordingly of course but I’m expecting it to have to do so even more in not too long! -
480 has an automatic knife height option but there is only@gdh in the UK that has that because it’s a £5k option. The rest of it is the same as the 400 but bigger. It’s about as fast as can be for a chainsaw processor, it’s ideal feed stock would be 8-14” material for best output. Capable of filling an IBC in 6 minutes in those situations I can do a 2cube container of softwood in 10 minutes flat but that was 12” perfectly straight 4m rejected saw logs. It’s the continuous nature of your machine that makes its output so good. If I could stand at the controls all day and not have to do anything but operate then I’d wager I’d do 40 cube no problem. What do you do with smaller diameter timber? Still feed it through? That’s always what slows me down. Thinking saw bench and not split would be better sub 5/6”
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I looked into the sawdust fans for our 400 but at £600 they’re a bit pricey when I’m pretty certain this would do http:// https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/cde35b-dust-collector/ the job at a third of the price. The sp10 does a cracking job and quite frankly I don’t see how you could possibly need the product any cleaner than that. Never had a complaint before it started using it! Seems totally unnecessary and I don’t know how you could justify it financially to one use one of those posch log fix things or similar!
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What is the max size of oversize you can drop in the 480? Struggle to get much over 18” in the 400 without it catching on the log stop ram or the side nearest the operator because the split channel isn’t really that wide is it. The uniforest 40/20 really looks appealing i have to say due to the larger split channel. It’s rare that we get much 16-19” timber. Seems to always be smaller or much bigger too ?♂️
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Hell of a testament to the machine to still be going after 20 years, especially with all the switches and sensors that it’ll undoubtedly have! You expect mechanical parts to go after time but electrics can sometimes have a mind if their own after time rather than just break. This type of machine would definitely be the way to go for us too if it was affordable. Just keep the deck loaded and the conveyor clear and away you go. Could be doing all manner of log related things during the day while it did it’s thing. How much saving over new was there on your unit after all your replacement parts if you don’t mind saying? Just roughly, not expecting an exact figure.
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Can anybody suggest where I might be able to buy a manual rotator to fit between my baltrotor BR2 swing link and uni-forest 1500pro grab until we can afford a hydraulic set up? Buying enough timber stocks for the winter is taking precedence over toys currently!
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Mca Kingstone are the cheapest at that size I’ve found. Good quality too. Don’t think and vented bag helps speed drying though. Might get away with it this year but not on a normal year.
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Mca Kingstone are the cheapest at that size I’ve found. Good quality too. Don’t think and vented bag helps speed drying though. Might get away with it this year but not on a normal year.
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Sell it wholesale then?
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Well even if you only do some of it surely the profit margin will be better than selling it as a cheaper firewood? And it’ll last you a few years worth of kindling if you have the storage of course.
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That’s my experience also!
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Just make it into kindling surely? Ring it up and Hire a kindlet off fuelwood or something for a week!
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We just mix all ours with the woodchip that goes in the boiler. Either tip in with the bucket or blow it straight in through the contractors heizohack [emoji106]
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So the owner can get a rough idea of temperature that the stove is running at? Is the temperature in the flue really that different to in the firebox? Also I believe (could be wrong) my liner is only safe up to 400 degrees Celsius so it’s good to have a gauge on wether I’m near there or not.
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Had a quote for £16k plus for the bog standard model.
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A 13t over a 7.5t Takeuchi has very little extra reach, maybe 1.5m at most. You could easily make a small extension beam to mount the grab and rotator on to get more reach and still have plenty of payload to the grab. the hitch and trailer idea is also excellent for moving timber about the yard rather than tracking back and forth to the heap half a dozen times just to fill the log deck.
