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1 hour ago, Welsh cleaning services said:

Having watched the video,I am wondering if your blades are set close enough to each other as they are not cutting the finer branches cleanly,just saying.

I had wondered that too. Maybe I've pushed them out a bit by overloading it?

 

Edit: looking at other videos, green stuff doesn't always get chopped through. The blade spindles are held in place with expanding clutches which look simple enough to adjust although it means taking the whole thing apart. I'll see how it gets on with the logs I have piled up ready for it

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1 hour ago, Welsh cleaning services said:

Having watched the video,I am wondering if your blades are set close enough to each other as they are not cutting the finer branches cleanly,just saying.


Seconded.

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Blades seemed to be slightly misaligned so decided to adjust them. Absolute bastard of a job  - to remove the inner clutch taper you need to hit bolts with a hammer but there isn't enough space to properly swing one due to the frame being in the way. Getting the PTO shaft back on again was a nightmare too - resorted to a die grinder and Dremel to take the burrs off but not until I'd almost broken a finger getting it off. Managed to rig up a strap and run the winch underneath the tractor to pull it off, which helped.

 

Anyway, seemed to make very little difference but it still cuts logs fine. As I said in my video, it isn't a chipper.

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Has anyone tried putting brash through a Bilke? I suspect it wouldn’t even work, let alone give good results but nobody else on the internet seems worried about asking stupid questions so I’ll join in. 

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11 minutes ago, spandit said:

Blades seemed to be slightly misaligned so decided to adjust them. Absolute bastard of a job  - to remove the inner clutch taper you need to hit bolts with a hammer but there isn't enough space to properly swing one due to the frame being in the way. Getting the PTO shaft back on again was a nightmare too - resorted to a die grinder and Dremel to take the burrs off but not until I'd almost broken a finger getting it off. Managed to rig up a strap and run the winch underneath the tractor to pull it off, which helped.

 

Anyway, seemed to make very little difference but it still cuts logs fine. As I said in my video, it isn't a chipper.

Pictures would have been nice; taper lock pulleys can normally be screwed apart by inserting one of the holding bolts into a half-hole-half-thread between the inner and outer parts.

 

I decided long ago that I would be happy to burn sticks between 1" and 4" diameter but I would like them  a length between 7-12" long as long as the length was consistent.

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2 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Has anyone tried putting brash through a Bilke? I suspect it wouldn’t even work, let alone give good results but nobody else on the internet seems worried about asking stupid questions so I’ll join in. 

 

If I needed stuff chipped, I'd get a chipper. This does a decent job at reducing the brash which I expect the Bilke might too but its not designed for it

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48 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

Pictures would have been nice; taper lock pulleys can normally be screwed apart by inserting one of the holding bolts into a half-hole-half-thread between the inner and outer parts.

 

I decided long ago that I would be happy to burn sticks between 1" and 4" diameter but I would like them  a length between 7-12" long as long as the length was consistent.

I was going to video it but 6 hours of me shouting "c**t!" would be wearing

 

There wasn't an intermediate threaded hole. The instructions say to hit with a hammer. Getting the outer bit out was easy.

 

The length is a bit short but it's so much quicker and easier than chainsawing them - even stacked up in a log cradle - lots of sawdust and you have to pick the sticks up. I put some pallet bits through yesterday, straight into a wheelbarrow. Filled it in under a minute.

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38 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Open your mind. People will watch anything presented competently. 

Watching a grown man having a breakdown is probably very entertaining for some but I didn't really want a record of it for posterity

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