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  1. Woodwanter
    it depends how big they are. I am splitting some small stuff - 10 inch which is a faff and needs accuracy. The best for you would be decent sticks say 300 wide which you split in half then pick up the 3= m lengths and drop straight where you want it. I managed to make a lattice of these for drying quite easily. google the cone splitter vids, you will soon see how easy or not it is!
  2. Woodwanter
    I looked at this but was quite a bit of cash. admitidly I just want to break up bigger bits so a different job so opted for a cone splitter which can still move logs about
  3. Woodwanter
    Mine is on a 7.5 t and works very well. You need the gear box to be fitted to something to stop it turning!
  4. Woodwanter
    Hire a cone splitter on a 360 - would soon split that up?
  5. Woodwanter
    Trouble is then moving the 'infected' timber X miles to do this. If some of it drops off along the way the uk forestry sector could then face another foreign caused problem. would have been better to build the station at the port!
  6. Woodwanter
    Not suprised. The cost of chip will go up I think, supply and demand. Folk with chip boilers who got in late may find it's almost unviable to keep running them. what surprises me is how fussy some of the boilers are, need chip within a few % and consistant size with no shards.
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    Whilst I don't disagree , the situation is NI was different. They had no Tier 2 meaning they had no back stop and could literally burn non stop. the tier 2 here will make it un economical or break even, at best, for most systems. This alters the finance a lot the RHI was dreamed up by Chris hulmn, the disgraced mp caught up in the purgery scandal with his wife. Rumour has it he has large shares in a large N American timber firm. The uk now has many boiler hooked on high quality wood chip which I imagine will soon be supplied by imported timber once the remains British woods are felled / thinned out.
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    Made a start on this lot today with my new toy - cone splitter - it's slow, as expected but has done the job really well. stiff left thumb tomorrow but better than stiff everything from swinging an axe!
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    In theory it can be done but I bet it will be 2 yrs before you get payments in. my adviceis don't buy if you are relying on the tarrif income soon and speak to farm energy centre about the paper work. It won't cost you huge sums just lots of waiting
  10. Woodwanter
    Feel free to quote me for a years supply! That looks about the size of the east wing ??
  11. Woodwanter
    Out of curiosity, what would say a 25t load of mixed logs worth now? Assume 25% or below (is that too wet?) split but in various lengths?
  12. Woodwanter
    100!? I meant energy in the fuel! based on around half a ton / m3 I'd imagine around 5-6000 kWh depending on boiler efficiently!
  13. Woodwanter
    Have you ever worked how many kWh / cube?
  14. Woodwanter
    What tarrif and size are you on? What fuel can you burn? in theory, yes it can be done. I have never heard one being completed yet, simply down to the time it takes ofgem to sort it out. your buyer may not get any RHI for several years but there is still a value.
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    Do you know what boilers and what MC they are burning at? Are they RHI approved? i guess a lot if those costs is the initial fuel purchase costs?
  16. Woodwanter
    Can you share the break down for that please. what do use for drying
  17. Woodwanter
    Do many farmers deal in firewood? I thought it was mainly surgeons running this as a top up to their felling day job? Just curious really. Spoke to local chap here who has 4-5 gangs out daily, he just processes it himself on the quieter day and pushes it into a windy shed. Crickey. So call it £42 on average x 900 = £37k at 90 t that's just over £400 / ton!? Transport, processing, bad debt / tolerating the general public aside, from the outside that seems like a respectable business model!
  18. Woodwanter
    Completely on my wave length. We only differ by the colour of our boilers and the fact that as mine is for my own use I don't need it processed down as small as you would. how many tons do you sell per annum? V smart website too
  19. Woodwanter
    Take a few on a trailer to a weighbridge, only way to be sure
  20. Woodwanter
    About 300 m2 of surface space in one of ours, yet try it out but could pass air 30-40 degrees 24/7 with RH at 40%. if I stacked it 1m tall I would get loads of air flow, tempted to try half a shed and try about 75t in a batch
  21. Woodwanter
    Thanks for this. my nibbler description was poor, it's like tree shears / pincers but they have sharp points that bite into and split timber, same concept as cone splitter but different design. Pros and cons to both!
  22. Woodwanter
    That's very helpful, thanks i have been looking in to getting one, i 'only' need to break down about 300 t per annum but it's all for personal use and I am not much bothered by length or size of finished product. I am collecting it locally and then trying to get it dry hence the need for a splitter of sorts as it comes in all sorts of lumps. did you look at log nibblers instead? Did you look at any other cone splitter makes, I hadn't considered the cone angle, what do you think is the optimum angle? i have a 3.5 and 7.5t machine, prefer to use the larger unit as better reach and would assume a little quicker?
  23. Woodwanter
    Interested in the cone splitter, which size have you and on what machine? Any idea on price?
  24. Woodwanter
    I am having fire place envy!
  25. Woodwanter
    On a separate point, where is the wettest part of a log? Dropping back to my biology lessons, I always thought the outside ring (xylem or phylum vessels) which transported the nutrients up the stem were. As the tree grew the stem expanded and the centre was retained for strength and support instead. With this in mind, surely the outside 10-20% is where it all going on, the inside would be much drier, so why the need to split!?

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