Linnorie Firewood Services
Linnorie Firewood Services (LFS) is your Supplier for best quality Hardwood and Softwood. The logs are well seasoned and ready to burn with moisture contents less than 20%. Green logs to fill the sheds for the next heating period are also available.
LFS sells shavings for animal bedding and offers gardening poducts such as bark, compost, mulch and wood chips.
LFS is located near the Huntly roundabout and delivers to Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray or you can opt for self-collection.
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Procure roundwood
This service can also be provided by the customer. Bring your wood or buy roundwood yourself!
LFS or you can
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Evaluate suppliers of roundwood such as the Forestry Commission Scotland or private owners (including yourself) of hardwood and softwood
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Assure compliance with the requirements of Ofgem for the Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) and the Biomass Suppliers List (BSL)
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Source the wood supply, make sure the roundwood is suitable for the woodprocessor (diameter and shape), negotiate details, sign contract.
Store roundwood
This service only makes sense in combination with the cut and split service.
LFS can
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Store your roundwood until you are ready to get it processed ready for your shed(s).
Produce wood chips
This service must be planned well ahead!
LFS always sorts small roundwood up to 160mm that is ready to be chipped to quality wood fuel.
You may have your own small roundwood.
Season logs
This service can also be provided by the customer. Just use your shed or shelter!
LFS or you can
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Store the logs in well ventilated sheds or under covers (Hardwood needs at least 2 years of seasoning, while Softwood which is cut in the early months of the year is ready by the start of the colder season.)
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Measure periodically the moisture content to garantuee values are under 20%.
Stow away logs
This service can also be provided by the customer.
LFS or you can
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Put the logs from the nearest point of parking the tipper truck to your shed
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Stack the logs in a appealig manner
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Stow away the delivered firewood into your shed / shelter.
As this is not an included service in the delivery, please ask for a quote.
Transport roundwood
This service can also be provided by the customer.
LFS or you can
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Decide on the quantity
(Smaller amounts which are lying by the roadside in our area we can transport ourselves.) -
Evaluate haulers for artic lorry loads
(LFS even has customers who transport their roundwood with a van and a trailer to Linnorie Park to be stored and processed when desired. Everything is possible!).
Don't get your place messy with fallen off bark, stones and other waste that was picked up by the grab crane or by the lorry tyres when the weather in the forest was not the best.
Cut & split
LFS only (for Health and Safety reasons)
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Cut & split the roundwood to your required length up to 600mm
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This is normally done with the wood processor
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Diametres bigger than 420mm or 16'' are cut with chainsaw and split with a manual 18 tonnes splitter on a tractor PTO.
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Chip wood waste
This service can also be supported by the customer
LFS can
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Chips small roundwood (up 160mm), branches, twigs into quality garden mulch
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The mulch is either used by the customer or will be offset against the costs for chipping
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The mulch can be piled, bagged or put in sacks for a sack-barrow.
This service is normally available in a 15 miles radius from our depot at Huntly.
Deliver or self-collect
This service can also be provided by the customer. Just use your trailer or one you can borrow!
LFS or you can make a decision on the right means of transport. This depends on the
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Format of the sales units (loose volume, permeable bulk bags, pallets)
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Quantity (weight and volume)
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Distance
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Access at customer's premises.
LFS can deliver trailers by van, tipping trailers 5.6m3 or pallet / bale trailer by tractor or, for very large quantities, 90m3 artic lorry.
We are always proposing the best value for money.)
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Measure the moisture content (wet basis). Our customers are getting the exact value when their firewood is delivered
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Load the product(s).
Transport roundwood
This service is for quantities where an artic lorry cannot operate economically.
LFS can
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Haul roadside cut roundwood / timber in the Huntly area to Linnorie Park to be stored and processed when desired
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LFS has customers who transport their roundwood with a van and a trailer
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Everything is possible!
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LFS is an authorised Operator and can issue plant passports according to Plant Health Scotland (Forestry and Land Scotland).
Don't get your place messy with fallen off bark, stones and other waste that was picked up by the grab crane or by the lorry tyres when the weather in the forest was not the best.
Cut & split manually
LFS can
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Lift and move heavy logs with the timber trailer
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Cut chunky bits with the chainsaw
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Split with the PTO-driven splitter (18 tonnes of pressure).
Produce sales units
This service can also be supported by the customer
LFS can
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Fill tipping trailers directly with green logs via conveyor from the wood processor. This is the cheapest way as nothing needs to be stored for seasoning and be taken out of the store for delivery. But in this case you need to have a shelter to season the logs.
But maybe you don't want a heap of dumped logs but want to move units after delivery, e.g. from a shelter to the boiler (house). In this case or if you need large quantities it may be well worth considering the services listed below:
LFS (maybe with your involvement)
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Fill loose logs in permeable bulk bags with slings
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Stack logs on pallets with posts
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Stack logs as circular bundles.
Our sales units are described in the Products section.
... big quantities
This service can also be provided by the customer.
LFS or you can
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Transport the products to your premises
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Loose via grain trailer (20m3) with cover or
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In bags via flatbed trailer
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Via artic lorry (90m3) with walking floor.
The services of LFS cover two areas of activities and inherent tasks:
1. Produce and deliver green and seasoned logs and recycle production waste
Firewood and the by-products such as kindling, bark, sawdust and compost.
2. Biomass log boiler consulting and project management and operational tasks
LFS can
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give unbiassed advice to customers who are thinking of installing a biomass log boiler, district heating scheme or setting up energy contracting
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manage projects from the initial idea to planning to commissioning
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offer customers to benefit from the experience and the knowledge we have about saving heating energy.
(We turned our old-fashioned, traditional built houses into well-insulated, cosy homes with a modern heating control system fed by traditional and environmentally friendly fuel.)
Logs are the ultimate answer to save money and we aim to make your project a success!
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supervise your system by remote control to administer the consumption / energy data, report to RHI and replenish the fuel stock
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perform the annual maintenance tasks as specified in the manufacturer's manual (the part which can be done by the operators / users). LFS is not an installer and therefore does not do tasks which require installer expertise or qualifications.
Third Party Businesses - Firewood
LFS is working together with competent partners to provide professional services and to cover a larger area in Aberdeenshire and Moray and to assure best cost-effictiveness to save money for LFS customers. These partners' competences are in the following domains:
- Transport bulk loads of logs
- Operate depots at a distance from Linnorie Park and distribute locally
- Install stoves and biomass boilers.
If you want to know more about becoming one of our partners, then please get in contact.
Third Party Businesses - Tree surgery
LFS is very closely working together with different self-employed persons or companies. From small jobs in a private garden to big site clearences just ask and we will try to get the best value for money for you.
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Felling
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Tree removal
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Stump removal
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Hedge strimming
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Branch chipping.
If you have special requirements or want to know how you can reduce your heating bill, contact us.
The LFS Services are described in more detail below. If you are just looking for 1 to 3 bulk bags of seasoned firewood,
then click the link to Standard Products.
Firewood Services
LFS-Services
Services linked to Biomass Boilers
If you have special requirements or want to know how you can reduce your heating bill.
Prepare the decision
Prepare the decision for your biomass log boiler system project
LFS can
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design solutions, evaluate potential installers and boiler brands
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work out the best solutions for the wood logistics
(Minimising handling as working with logs can be very exhausting if it is not done correctly.) -
work out if alterations to the building are necessary
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apply for planning permission and building warrant
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calculate the savings
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draft energy contracts where more than one party is involved (e.g. tenants)
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prepare the decision taking by the customer.
Support operating
Support operation
LFS can
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remotely supervise the system so it delivers the energy expected
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administer operational data and heat production statistics
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replenish firewood in time
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prepare data for RHI
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assure RHI compliance
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arrange for the installer for services that cannot be performed by a super-user.
Finance
Finance biomass log boiler systems projects
LFS can
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calculate the payments, savings and profitability
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finance your investment and cash the quaterly RHI payments, sum up the RHI remittances over time until they match the LFS investments and hand over the ownership.
Realise project
Manage your project
LFS can
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deal with businesses such as architects, builders, installers
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deal with authorities
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apply for RHI accreditation
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assure the system is up and running as planned, on time and on budget
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assure all the paperwork is done.