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I’m not yet in the firewood business but I’ve bought some equipment to get the ball rolling. My aim is to sell 100 this coming season and expand from there. With that in mind I’ve been paying attention to what dumpy bags of hard and softwood sell for in my area, which is the North East of Scotland. A Dumpy Bag of seasoned Hardwood is £90+. Soft seems to be £50-£70 If you’re not in the market for buying or selling then how do you know what a fair price is?

Market value prices. Dont like the price? Try and find someone cheaper or do the work yourself. I’ll hazard a guess most folk would rather pay the £90

Is it not possible to make alterations here? I wonder if its possible to run two liners in the same chimney?

Definitely should not be considered a charity that's just taking the piss. Even more so that Capt Toms money grabbing family.

Thanks for the tips. I considered a new Chinese machine which will do bigger Logs but at the end of the day it will always be a Chinese machine with dubious back-up and parts. Hakki said they still have 75% of the parts for this machine available. I see this machine is meant to do up to 250mm, I see some say they manage up to 300mm. How did you find putting anything bigger than 8" though it? I found very little info on it on forums or youtube. I'll mostly be splitting Birch, Cherry, Oak etc from the Plantation. Get a spare what?

So its a win/win then?

Yeh, like the Bandsaw it something Ive been eying up for a couple of years. Kept an eye on ebay etc and although its a baby compared to others I have a near constant supply of the timber its designed for at about £40 a ton. Ive my Splitter for bigger logs at my house. Im also finalising a gentleman's agreement where I'll enter a partnership with the Estate I get my Oak, Spruce and Plantation thinning's from. I noticed he has no time for Processing these days. His Stoves are about as hungry as mine and he burns a cube bag every few days. He also supplies the 11 or so houses on his Estate. He's down to his last 4 bags. So my suggestion to him was I use his Palax processor, his tractor to run it, the Avant, his fuel, his logs, his land, and do all the processing and stacking myself for half the produced firewood. I'm guessing I'll be producing 8-10 Hardwood bags a day and up to 14 Softwood Bags a day. Im now renting half the Barn so I can store about 100 bags there and the rest will have to be outside somewhere.

My plan is to get the missus trained up.

Thanks Dan. Yeh, seems like a nice bit of kit as long as I just put skinny lengths though it. That’s ok though as I have access to 100 acres of plantation thinnings. Seems with the Oil and Gas prices going through the roof it was a good time to invest.

Always been this way, will always be this way. Regardless the colour you vote for.

He’s a broken record.

They’re sold out here in Norway. At least I’m certain areas. There’s reports that people are even buying the wrong kind.

Thanks Dan. Was thinking about the Motorway as that was where he was gonna spend most of the 9 hours driving on.

They’re gun barrel straight and branch free. If it was not for that I’d not bother with them.

Most likely a one off. Clearing Storm damaged trees and his yard was full. I just paid the haulage to my place.

Did you have TV1000 back in your day old timer? 🤣 Softcore before 23:00, hard after. Think Thursday nights was for those batting for the other team.

I just paid £100 a ton for some of the best 30” Ash Sawlogs I’ve seen to date. I’ve also just paid £200 for an 18t load of Beech for Firewood. Pic is just the first 10t.

I’ve done my time with crusty old mags found under the mattress or at the back of the drawers. 🤮

Or any old VPN will do. I need a VPN off-shore for.....reasons.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10566713/Putin-propaganda-channel-Russia-Today-disappear-British-TV-screens.html

Correct. The only State Sponsored propaganda we're allowed now is the BBC.

I cant find anything fresher than this regarding Nord Stream 1. German stakeholder in Nord Stream 1 natural gas pipeline rejects calls to shut it down in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM E.ON told the Rheinische Post that it had rejected calls from Poland to shut down the key gas pipeline over Russia's... Perhaps you're referring to Nord Sream 2?

Is that a no then?

Got a link to that?

I agree, or better yet refuse any O&G from Russia. Put their money where their mouth is.