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Setting up a local wood chip fuel supply chain
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<blockquote data-quote="T Hectares" data-source="post: 5501374" data-attributes="member: 2522"><p>[USER=50712]@Doing it for the kids[/USER], I have a local chip delivery round and a few larger customers fairly local who take walking floors.</p><p></p><p>We are competitive with the big boys but certainly aren’t cheaper, there is some very cheap chip around...</p><p></p><p>Using 100% Arb waste is very difficult on many levels, consistancy of product and supply is one, storing piles of stinking rubbish another, but ultimately our customers don’t want it as it doesn’t burn as well or as consistently as virgin chip and once you start supplying chip you are then seemingly solely responsible for any issue with their boiler, arb just exaggerates any of these issues !!</p><p></p><p>Also it takes a bit of management scheduling deliveries to not clash with farm tasks, I’m now proactive contacting customers in advance of busy times to arrange deliveries to not get in the way or on wet days etc, one customer in particular is away all week and quite often rings on a Friday night in a panic...</p><p></p><p>It’s also time consuming and ultimately costly over seeing arb coming in, screening it, disposing of the waste, up to 40% in worst cases, and if there’s any green in it leading to any smoke then customers are not happy, unless you are supplying it at a considerable discount to virgin chip...</p><p></p><p>I use a bit of arb to blend with chip for my own boiler but never in customers, larger boilers seem more tolerant of it than most of our customers</p><p></p><p>Ultimately, the customer is king and all of ours demand virgin chip.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="T Hectares, post: 5501374, member: 2522"] [USER=50712]@Doing it for the kids[/USER], I have a local chip delivery round and a few larger customers fairly local who take walking floors. We are competitive with the big boys but certainly aren’t cheaper, there is some very cheap chip around... Using 100% Arb waste is very difficult on many levels, consistancy of product and supply is one, storing piles of stinking rubbish another, but ultimately our customers don’t want it as it doesn’t burn as well or as consistently as virgin chip and once you start supplying chip you are then seemingly solely responsible for any issue with their boiler, arb just exaggerates any of these issues !! Also it takes a bit of management scheduling deliveries to not clash with farm tasks, I’m now proactive contacting customers in advance of busy times to arrange deliveries to not get in the way or on wet days etc, one customer in particular is away all week and quite often rings on a Friday night in a panic... It’s also time consuming and ultimately costly over seeing arb coming in, screening it, disposing of the waste, up to 40% in worst cases, and if there’s any green in it leading to any smoke then customers are not happy, unless you are supplying it at a considerable discount to virgin chip... I use a bit of arb to blend with chip for my own boiler but never in customers, larger boilers seem more tolerant of it than most of our customers Ultimately, the customer is king and all of ours demand virgin chip. [/QUOTE]
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