Woodwanter
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My insurance are taking ages to resolve an issue, I have a weeping willow about 20 m for a listed house which is suffering from subsidence. Their lazy answer was to fell the tree. The haven’t done any soil tests, just a few movements. We are on clay, there will be slim to no footings, it’s been two dry summers, what did they expect! I’m sure the willow is not helping things out but I don’t think felling it will fix the problem. Access is easy, id like to learn firstly what depth I need to go to help sever the link between them and secondly, what cost and what materials are needed. I possibly have the plant to assist in this, I know the quote for felling and have a bit of clout with the insurers but would welcome some costings? TYIA
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You don’t have to have a buffer but if you don’t your emissions will be awful and the burn will not be as clean. buffers are not expensive and also safer - if you need to dump heat quick you can
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Automation costs though. the beauty of f2000’s is their simplicity if if you do get one get a fabricator to weld some cross bars on the door. They have cut back on steel usage and the door will warp eventually which is a pig to sort. also taller the flue the better. Don’t go tho king that they won’t smoke either - they will! Fuel is key, get it wrong and it’s awful!
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Where are you based? What size oil boiler is currently fiited, what kw size is the F2000? If no one is there to stokeoften then def go buffer tank. many didn’t fit buffers and the boiler cuts in and out as the 3000 litre or so cools and heats. You will find efficiencies drop big time doing this, the best way to use them is hard and fast, flat out and bank the heat.
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Great thanks. i know much depends on the type, size, thickness etc but can you give me a ball park figure? It’s side flailed every few years, 3-4 metres tall
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Anyone interested in at least 500m of hedge laying in Oxfordshire? will probably end up getting 1km to do.
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Got a pile of virgin, unprocessed chip that needs to go so about to have a ring around. What are people getting for artic loads these days, loaded? been offered £12 pt on first call, is that reasonable? TYIA
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Give Nick a call - 07767 480117 he is in your area
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£10 per ton ball park I imagine.
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Never called in but often fancy a go on the kit they have there. 30 yrs ago it was a tin shed, bit different now!
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Pass the police station, over the bridge, turn right and you are on the left? purely curious, there is a company there who I have watched grow my whole life as I drive past, Always makes me smiles as I go by.
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thanks. I need it all for my own use though. id be interested to hear what they paid you though.
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Thanks All, keen to keep it all as local as possible to keep my green miles down.
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Afternoon All, I am after a big chipper to chip about 150 - 200t of arb waste. There is some pretty chunky stuff in there its currently in a shed but we have the kit to move it out etc. can anyone recommend someone local to me please? what's the going rate for such works assuming they aren't kept waiting? TYIA
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that's down to grip though, not necessarily HP. its always funny to watch when a digger pulls out something that a tractor cant!
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Digger mounted Blacks / Lasco cone splitter and grab
Woodwanter replied to Bustergasket's topic in Firewood forum
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! -
Digger mounted Blacks / Lasco cone splitter and grab
Woodwanter replied to Bustergasket's topic in Firewood forum
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 -
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!
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Hire a cone splitter on a 360 - would soon split that up?
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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!
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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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what logs have you been chopping today!
Woodwanter replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
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
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Feel free to quote me for a years supply! That looks about the size of the east wing ??
