digga
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great video as allways
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old truck springs make great froes just make sure to make the eye fairly big and get a nice tapper on it
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when you go to make your cleaving break there made different for left or right handed people the pinch being at opposit ends worth taking the time to get the break just right will make the cleaving so much easier if i get time i will try get out the wood and take a few pics of my stand just rushed off my feet at the moment
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needs to be a single cab so my fencing tools fit in the back as im tall i made them long so im not bent over double all day when digging holes plus can drop the tailgate down to carry cleft post and rail but 2nd hand single cabs seem to be like hens teeth
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hi guys after some advice need a new truck as my l200 after 13 years is getting very tired need a single cab but there arent many around went to look at one today for £8500+ vat ( ouch as not vat registered ) couldnt believe how rough it was for the money called into the mitsubishi garage on the way back and had a chat to the sales guy and if i put down the ten grand i have saved could have a brand new l200 for £240 a month over 3 years ? what would you do as there are not very many single cabs about to choose from and never really know what your buying with 2nd hand comercials it could of had a hard life
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managed to catch it shame it wasnt longer enjoy the coppicing side of my work many a happy hour spent making pales and other products
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the panels where probably cut back to straddle underground services or an obstruction like concrete off an old post if there not on an end or a corner . But panels are easy to cut down to size just get some spare batterns save trying to take the ones off the end of the panel
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few ideas and pics
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only limit for uses from coppice stuff is your imagination you can make all sorts to sell some of the old guys i learnt from said they hardly use to have enough wood to boil the kettle use to make bean poles pea stick faggot bissom brooms allsorts
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merry christmas everyone
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chestnut posts last a lot longer when the barks taken off and cleft posts are stronger than sawn as the grain is left intact as with sawn you allways get short grain
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great work as allways
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seem to remember they do the joystick controls on the optional extras list would love to have 1 of these for my coppicing work but there so expensive can but dream
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watch out for the fordson major :-) [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lmE17Dg23w]Fastest Vintage tractor in Rush - YouTube[/ame]
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Ever had a problem with charpening whilst out in the sticks?
digga replied to Xerxses's topic in Video forum
works well grips the sawbar tight use it often -
do a ring count on some of them and see
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looks like some of it may not have been cut for 15years or more some of the small rods wood be usable but only ral use i could see for the bigger stuff would be charcoal or logs but may be able to make the odd things out of them if you find intresting shapes . whats the chestnut like ?
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looks like you got your work cut out for you there mate
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some nice stuff there crafty i should take more pics of some of the stuff i do. jammy i started of coppicing when i was still at school was taught a lot of old school stuff from guys who had been in it all there lifes true crafts men started learning how to make all the stuff then help out an old guy i knew who did fencing i try make all my own chestnut materials 90 percent of my work is coppicing fencing and hedgelaying
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jammydodger u should have fun with your coppicing and let your imagination come up with a few intresting things
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i really enjoy and find it very rewarding with coppicing to be able to take it full circle from cutting the tree down then making the fence materials and finally put it up in a fence or just using the hazle binders in a hedge laying job
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matt when taking the bark off you can do it with a drawknife but will only take off a very narrow strip off bark i use a shave made out of part of an old swap with some tape and wood round it to make handles alllso u need to bend it slightly to get it to work and draw in better
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some coppicing pics
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coppicing is normally done between september and march but some places dont allow me to start before october you want to cut it while the sap is down summer cut chestnut thats used for fencing materials rots out a lot quicker than winter cut
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have noticed deer seem to preffer stuff like hazle ash maple more than chestut think it fairly bitter
