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Perenniporia fraxinea or more likely Rigidoporus ulmarius??

I am most taken by the one in the last picture of your original post, what is the maker and style? I have one laminated billhook, Stamforth Severquick, which only shows up because it has been hammered on the back of the blade.

I had a look a while back and would still consider for larger clearance works on a 8t+ excavator but for domestic stuff it doesn’t suit, primarily because you can remove the stumps but chasing lateral roots would be impossible. If it’s going on anything less than perfectly flat ground I feel it would be damaging on an avant or similar carrier over time (lateral stresses). We once thought putting a log splitting cone on a Vermeer would work great, which I feel is the same principle - the reality was it didn’t work and we consistently sheered fixing bolts (we tried free swinging, couldn’t get the weight in the log before it slipped), we were going to eventually damage the arms so scrapped it.

How do you know? I think you are right but it is very rusty and the makers name may not survive cleaning.

I remember seeing an early demonstration of a becker in around 1988, impressive at first but soon blunt? I had the same thoughts about the Dipperfox, how do you keep it sharp and what weight does it need to feed it down? With a conventional TCT cutter tooth you can normally keep going through something nasty and then swap the tooth for a sharp one.

If you want to gamble on new coins before they go mainstream, yes.

Do you mean brush axe, horrible bent metal head with a straight removable blade that never hits at a sweet spot and rattles when you hit a branch?

Thanks for the replies. Our local builders yard on Uist is selling 6x2s at £35 or possibly more now. I've been treating the timber I use myself with Boron and so far it seems to be ok. It's only sprayed on though. We burn all the off cuts ourselves and if theres too much I can easily sell it. My wife has horses so the sawdust gets used up no problem. Horse shit and saw dust makes great compost for the garden.

Avoid anything caustic - very common in ultrasonic cleaning fluids. It will turn cast alu a nasty black colour.

Steam fair was always great for picking up stuff, ive a fiskars bill hook ,axe, . Sandvik brush hook - what ever that is , then the standard pattern bill hook found in a skip.. but ive never had or owned Yorkshire pattern double edged billhook

The Honest eSIM allows you to roam quite a few apps including nav and messaging, I don't have it but was working in Lincolnshire this week and the phone signal is rubbish on my network up there. From £3.75 a month might be worthwhile in Wales? honestmobile.com/smart-sim

Worth a punt is it Weex.

I dont have one, but it seems to be the one that everyone uses.

Good points, and the little I’ve been able to glean over the internet points to operation not being as easy as the vid illustrates. But I could sell the Bandit and buy this without losing money. Take it to work on the back of the truck rather than a dedicated trailer.. Can’t seem to find any first hand experience though.

I purchased one of those hard wallet ledgers yesterday steve (Ledger nano X) You do not have to give out any info to use it. You would need to sell any currency to a third party not through the exchanges to keep under the radar though. You know far more than me about this stuff.

Another day, another handle.

I have for the first time used the angry emoji. But the trouble is will it be clear that I am reacting angrily to the subject not the fact that it was posted here. Or am I just over-analysing…?

Big fan of Steve, national champ Devon style last year and reserve supreme champ. Really passionate and an excellent teacher

I use crypto.com and Weex. Any of the big exchanges going to take your details, its the law. Weex is a bit different. Fees are lower, but the software isn't quite so user friendly as the big names. You can find lots of new emerging coins on there before they make it to the exchanges though....by the time they make it there, you've usually missed the boat, so theres opportunity to get in early with Weex.

Anyone pulling their money out of crypto right now and putting it into Gold is most probably selling at a loss to buy something thats peaking. QE coming into the US markets imminently which will change things

They do look impressive in the video, but: Not easy to use, for removing lateral roots, I'd guess, compared with a conventional grinder ? At £13k plus per unit, you'd need to be grinding a few stumps to see a return on your investment. Looks like they would need a wider base carrier machine too -no narrow access jobs. I couldn't find a figure for replacement blades on the Dipperfox, but I'll wager they will be more £ and less resilient too? The wood-waste produced by the Dipperfox can't exactly be used for mulching Mrs Miggins flower borders.. We've got an old Becker stump blade (uses a slightly similar principle) somewhere in the back of our shed. I must check and see if it's taken root there(!), since we last used it over a decade ago.. Sorry, I'll get my coat.

Have a big driveway that woodchip can be tipped on. Just need to know in advance to make sure we don't have any visitors cars/they can be moved off

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