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Ok I'm running late this year and have about 60 tonne to process. In sunny South Wales. Been wathing the tube and am wondering if just piling wood on pallets will dry it just as good as stacking it in rows? Just dumping off the end of the conveyor about 6 foot high and on a bed of pallets 3 wide x 4 long would save loads of time. Who has tried what and with how much success.

A mower on the front as a tow behind won't get around the random tree spacings

I cut and clear about 60 m3 of logs each year and i have planned on getting some ibc totes. But as per norm they are stupid price and hard to get hold of so I have a plan.... Run a length of wooden pallets 25m long in single file. Then either side put hereas security fencing then block the ends up and strap the top (every couple) and just tip in as I would have done into the ibc totes. Will this act like a really long ibc tote or does everyone think this will fail? Gary

Ok I'm really tight and don't want to spend lots of money on a third ride on brush cutter but the 2 machines I have now can't keep up. I have 17.5 acers of young woodland the planting plan was a Friday afternoon special and some of the trees are in rows the rest.... well they are random. In spaces the rows are 1m appart but in others they go up to 1.2m appart (I didn't plant them it was the last owners employees) I have a ride on flail mower and a ride on brush cutter and they are 1m wide and fit through all the gaps but due to woodland being a weekend and between shift type of job and each year I have only managed to cut the reeds between the trees back in about half the site it's becoming a loosing battle. The site was left untouched since 2008 untill I purchased it in 2016. I need to cut the reeds back as they are killing the trees and in most parts higher than the young trees. My plan: I have a quad and was thinking of getting a 13hp briggs engine and mounting a 18" blade on a hanger to the bottom of the crank (obviously with a metal guard around the blade covering the front of the quad). So it would be like a front mounted mower on the quad. Do you think this would work? I can't afford to get someone in to spend a month cutting between the trees so I have to do it myself. My brother and my wife run the other 2 machines. I have an old hayter condors which works well but is really slow. Any suggestions.

Yeah that's the form I know it takes 5min to do but every year... and I have been visited twice so they could inspect my install. My plumber has to then come to my site to show. I don't mind but it's well getting tedious now. I'm wondering what will happen next when I change the boiler over. Will I be able to claim a new rhi or the next equivalent and do I want to? If the cash back is good then I will have too but I can't see it being as good. That and I have my own wood and want to use my own fuel now and process the material as little as poss. So gasification is the answer in my book.

I was one of the first domestic rhi claimants and installed a pellet boiler in 2013. To be honest I can't wait until my 7 years are up, then the boiler will be ripped out and a gasification boiler will go in. I have access to free wood and when I no longer need to store pellets will have even more space to store the wood. This will cut out the middle man and be less paperwork every year. The intall cost me about 7k all those years ago and I have had my money back and that again in rhi payments.

What type of logs you after arb waste or full lengths. I have about 80tonne of arb waste about 1m long lengths and cut rounds all hardwood. Just off the end of the m4 in carmarthenshire.

I have loads but I'm in South Wales.

I have thought about tracked jumpers but I need a pto to run the machinery and flail mower. I can't have anything too big as I want it to go between the trees to do some cutting of reeds over the winter months so the max width I have to play with is just under 2m but the max height is 1.5 so can't use a wide cabbed crawler type vehicle.

I have wet ground (covered with young trees and reeds about 1m high and really thick clumps) and need to get in to get my logs out. I can only really get on the ground between march and november ,unless like the last month it rains everyday and now there is no way of getting my unloaded tractor on the ground let alone a quad and trailer or even a tractor and trailer. I have seen ISEKI TPC15 (tracked mini tractor) and was wondering if anyone has any experience or knowledge of one of these. I would need it to cut the reeds between the trees over winter ( to give me a sporting chance of clearing the reeds for spring) and also to use as a log mover over winter and not just make a huge mud patch and get my vehicles stuck till spring. Help!!! I have added pics of my land (it was summer when taken) and the tractor im thinking of.

It's stacked and cut into rough meter long splints or 8 inch rounds. It's not just a large pile of wood.

Dbikeguy getting someone in to split is not the problem it's the delivery and unloading the other side that causes the issue and if I was going to pay someone then it would mean I'm getting pittance for the load. This was my sideline and did to the amount sold each year not financially viable to pay someone.

Gobby punkyeah I want it moved on I don't mind 2 or 3 trips to collect but I don't want any more collection trips. As said it's all in about 1m lengths or 8" thick rounds.

Carmarthenshire and no can't deliver.

I have been doing firewood for about 10 years as a sideline and my body has decided enough is enough, and there are easier ways to earn some cash. The issue I now have is.... I have loads of hardwood either cut to meter long splints or a large pile of rounds (8 -10" thick). In total there is probably about 50 - 60 tonne. I know the price I would get for it as firewood but how much to pass it off as a job lot. All the wood is oak, ash, beach with a little bit of holly (at most about a tonne). Any ideas? I'm in South Wales or gods country as I call it.