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The funny thing about recycling is that it is addictive. I suppose it's the hoarding instinct but once you start to see the value locked in the waste products from tree work, it is hard to ignore the potential commercial advantages that effective recycling can bring.
Then there is the feel good factor, but you can't bank that, so I will concentrate on the pure business benefits possible because they are more likely to make a compelling case and encourage others to join me in promoting locally grown timber. I started back in 1988. Having bout a hiab wagon to do lots of storm clearance work in the East End of London the year before, I decided that I never wanted to go back to manual loading of timber, so I had to find ways to justify keeping it. First and most obvious was to pick up and store nice pieces of timber.
Of course the wagon and crane saved lots of time and reduced operator fatigue allowing more productive work in a day, but the other potential gain was in the realisation of the potential value of the growing timber stack, once converted.
Conversion can be done by hiring in bandsaws and here again, having a wagon with crane tends to maximise throughput by reducing loading time to the minimum. This is the point at which Oak for example goes from being woth a theoretical £3 per cubic foot (cuft) in the trunk to over £12 per cuft. That means a good sized 60 cuft trunk goes from a value of £180, to a planked but wet value of around £720.00.
So, at that point it needs to be stacked and protected from the weather because it still needs to dry out. Common practice for air drying is ...... To read more Click Here
