Making birch faggots

[Mark Bolam]

Apologies.

Let us know how you get on.

Pics would be great.

[Joe Newton]

1 hour ago, Acerforestry said:

I can see we are going off topic with humourous banter which is fine, but anyway some good replies there I will check out youtube, it seems all that is needed is a pimp clamp and some spare time

There's no need to be gay about it.

[Will C]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Pics would be great.

I’m sure if you google “pimp clamp faggot” you will get some fair pictures, feel free not to share them!

[sime42]

My kind of faggots;

 

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

Who the Faggots are?🫣

[openspaceman]

3 hours ago, Acerforestry said:

I can see we are going off topic with humourous banter which is fine, but anyway some good replies there I will check out youtube, it seems all that is needed is a pimp clamp and some spare time

The pimp engine is really just for the fire lighters, I have posted a picture here in the past of the one my mate's father and he used to use making kindling from vegetable crates for sale, back in the 50s,

 

Up until about 30 years ago a local firm, Chris and Vic, would come and cut birch for horse jumps when cleaning forestry plantations post planting for free. They cut with billhooks and made fairly loose bundles under their arms which they secured with a birch withy twisted and tied. When the time came to assemble them in a jump they were pulled together in a frame with a land rover with extra faggots stacked in the space created.

 

For tight faggots a pair of sticks with a chain between them was used before tying. the first 2 minutes of a slow demonstration,

 A dudckduckgo search on "binding faggots gets various images of clamps.

When I tried to mechanise making hazel faggots for revetment work by clamping the bundle in a grab before tying they were rejected as being too tight as they wanted the water to flow through and be slowed down so the silt dropped out to stabilise the bank.

Edited October 2, 2023 by openspaceman
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[Acerforestry]

That's great, thanks

[richyrich]

Faggot - Wikipedia

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[richyrich]

Just now, richyrich said:

Faggot - Wikipedia

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Interesting how faggot developed into an insult- etymology section 

[Stere]

An impressive use of faggots or facines -   (fascines  also the symbol for mussolinis facists and Ancient Rome )

 

 

 

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