Thread: Logs coming in wood going out

Love to see some pics of your splitter machinery.
How did you manage to get an extra 4 tonnes out of the logs?
An interesting business you have going there, hope it is going well for you.

Alan...

Hi Allan.
We have about 100 tonne stockpiled we use to top up the trucks,currently processing about 40 tonne per week. Thanks Tim ps you can check out our Facebook Page for photos and videos @manning firewood

As a youngster my brothers and I always went with dad to gather firewood. Dad had a workmate with a tip truck - an old belly lift Austin- and he also needed firewood. local farmers were only too pleased to have someone remove unwanted dead tress and logs from their properties so there was never any shortage of wood.

As a result of this I have a preference not to see green timber cut up for firewood but I do appreciate the amount of work you put in and the satisfaction of seeing a job well done.

I also appreciate that in your position where this is a commercial enterprise chasing up scattered dead logs and trees would make the
product prohibitively expensive.

Nice logs BTW. What species?

I'm not a fan of wasting good timber it just shows what the forestry industry is going through when 800 diameter 14 metre logs are sold for firewood the species is predominantly blue gum and bloodwood at the moment but if I want ironbark or something else that's what they send me

Originally Posted by catpower

Hi Allan.
We have about 100 tonne stockpiled we use to top up the trucks,currently processing about 40 tonne per week. Thanks Tim ps you can check out our Facebook Page for photos and videos @manning firewood

Very impressive log splitter on your Facebook page. I have watched quite a few of your videos, a very impressive operation you have going there.
Do you supply to BC Sands at Caringbah? They are our local firewood supplier.

Keep up the good work, and thanks for posting.

Alan...

I went into our local (Tamworth) landscape supplier while I was there a semi tipper pulled in with split box/ iron bark on board. I just marvelled at how much work had gone into that load. No matter how automated the process may be there is still a lot of sweat and muscle involved. The load had come in from Barraba or Bingara 100-140 km away. The landscapers start bringing in loads as early as February to give them probably over 1000 tonne stock pile that gets chewed through over winter. The bits are very clean, no bark and of good quality. A half meter bucket full is $85 and it wouldn't take long to rack up many $100s just to keep warm. I still cut my own though.

Originally Posted by catpower

I'm not a fan of wasting good timber it just shows what the forestry industry is going through when 800 diameter 14 metre logs are sold for firewood the species is predominantly blue gum and bloodwood at the moment but if I want ironbark or something else that's what they send me

Beggars belief...i wouldn't mind a conversation with these Foresters ,maybe enlighten them a little .What an absurd waste of a resource...MM

Originally Posted by catpower

Tuesday 27 tonne of logs ready to process.
Wednesday cut and split.
Thursday 31 tonne split firewood heading to the nation's capital

Those logs coming in for firewood are better quality than the DanG sawlogs I'm buying and paying a wicked price for... I'll post some pics of the last load - astonishing...

Some more photos of the firewood logs, first photo 600 diameter 4.1 long bit over 1 cubic metre, second photo logsaw loaded up,third hopper full of blocks.

So dissapointing

Originally Posted by Oxbox

So dissapointing

X2

I'm not so pessimistic about this as I once would have been.

Provided the trees were responsibly harvested, they are a renewable resource.

The alternatives to fire wood are to import heating oil or burn more coal neither of which are renewable on the scale of our civilisation.

So many bowls!

Here's this weeks load of logs not as good as last week's but some are over 15 metres long.Tim