Firewood

jimmie

New Member
Location
North Ayrshire
I am going to buy a farm 2000 boiler.
My idea is to buy lorry load of tree trunks at 3 metre lengths, cut them to one metre and make a splitter to take the metre lengths. Much less chainsawing as the boiler takes these lengths.
Any advice before I start?
Also which is best buy for fresh cut trunks - softwood at £35/t or hardwood at £50/t
 

Ben M

Member
Location
Suffolk
I am going to buy a farm 2000 boiler.
My idea is to buy lorry load of tree trunks at 3 metre lengths, cut them to one metre and make a splitter to take the metre lengths. Much less chainsawing as the boiler takes these lengths.
Any advice before I start?
Also which is best buy for fresh cut trunks - softwood at £35/t or hardwood at £50/t

Jesus, was only 2 yrs ago I was paying £35 t for hardwood.
 

quavers

Member
Location
aberdeenshire
I am going to buy a farm 2000 boiler.
My idea is to buy lorry load of tree trunks at 3 metre lengths, cut them to one metre and make a splitter to take the metre lengths. Much less chainsawing as the boiler takes these lengths.
Any advice before I start?
Also which is best buy for fresh cut trunks - softwood at £35/t or hardwood at £50/t
I would go for the soft wood , you will get a hotter burn and better burn with the soft wood , more chance of the hard wood just smouldering unless you mix it with soft wood.
 
I would go for the soft wood , you will get a hotter burn and better burn with the soft wood , more chance of the hard wood just smouldering unless you mix it with soft wood.
I been doing several experiments over winter with hard and soft wood in our central boiler that heats our houses with the rhi grant.
Fill it to brim with billets softwood (very dry) and by 7am pretty much all gone and nice layer red hot charcoal.
Temperature in water jacket is where it should be so is the water temp going to each house.
Do same with very dry hardwood still all burns out and temps all same.
Diff is softwood costs us nothing or we get paid to take it at gate and hardwood we can cut, split and sell at £100 cubic metre.
 
I am going to buy a farm 2000 boiler.
My idea is to buy lorry load of tree trunks at 3 metre lengths, cut them to one metre and make a splitter to take the metre lengths. Much less chainsawing as the boiler takes these lengths.
Any advice before I start?
Also which is best buy for fresh cut trunks - softwood at £35/t or hardwood at £50/t
We do same but with softwood.
Find local tree surgeon who prob be glad to get rid of it.
And beauty or tree waste is its all cut to length already.
 

Andyb

New Member
We do same but with softwood.
Find local tree surgeon who prob be glad to get rid of it.
And beauty or tree waste is its all cut to length already.
Hi Nick
How long have you had your central boiler for ? Nearly signed on the dotted line for a 90kw but still on the fence as a friend is installing a Glen farrow 175kw for the same money...but getting nearly double RHI. Think the central would burn less wood ? how much wood are you burning to acheive your rhi.
 
Hi Nick
How long have you had your central boiler for ? Nearly signed on the dotted line for a 90kw but still on the fence as a friend is installing a Glen farrow 175kw for the same money...but getting nearly double RHI. Think the central would burn less wood ? how much wood are you burning to acheive your rhi.
Get through roughly 1 cubic metre per day. Bit more when its cold.
Ours is 90 kW.
So far getting just under £1000 per month from rhi
 

Andyb

New Member
Get through roughly 1 cubic metre per day. Bit more when its cold.
Ours is 90 kW.
So far getting just under £1000 per month from rhi
They quote for a 90kw approx 30 ton a year of mixed hard/soft at 20% I was working on 40 ton/year buying in 25ton and sourcing the rest off the farm. But if your using 1 cubic metre/day depending on the weight but even at 200kgs I would need quite a bit more... ? Or am I way off here...
 
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tullah

Member
Location
Linconshire
Nick If you can sell a cubic metre for £100 and you burn a metre a day it's costing you £3000 a month. Get £1000 a month RHI and the real fuel cost is£2000 a month. Would oil be the best deal?
 
@nick channer ,What boiler do you have Nick?
Central boiler..
From america
Nick If you can sell a cubic metre for £100 and you burn a metre a day it's costing you £3000 a month. Get £1000 a month RHI and the real fuel cost is£2000 a month. Would oil be the best deal?
where you get that from...
We burn pure soft wood that we either cut down through our own tree surgery company or we charge people to tip their soft wood at our yard.
Other than labour to split wood is free.
And in 2 weeks with 2 men we prob have enough split wood for 18 months +
All I said was I did an experiment using hard wood to see if it lasted longer.
 

Terryf

New Member
I been doing several experiments over winter with hard and soft wood in our central boiler that heats our houses with the rhi grant.
Fill it to brim with billets softwood (very dry) and by 7am pretty much all gone and nice layer red hot charcoal.
Temperature in water jacket is where it should be so is the water temp going to each house.
Do same with very dry hardwood still all burns out and temps all same.
Diff is softwood costs us nothing or we get paid to take it at gate and hardwood we can cut, split and sell at £100 cubic metre.
Hi I'm wanting some artic loads of wood for my biomass hard or softwood,any about?and how much would it be delivered to Skipton north Yorkshire?
Regards Terry.
 

Terryf

New Member
Hi I'm wanting some artic loads of wood for my biomass hard or softwood delivered to Skipton north Yorkshire, anyone have any available?
Kind regards Terry.
 

renewablejohn

Member
Location
lancs
Hi John I'm looking for a few full artic loads of wood soft or hardwood I'm near Skipton have you any about and how much would it be delivered please?
Kind regards Terry.

You have missed the busy season which is normally Oct to Feb. I will let you know if I here of any clear fell coming up.
 

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