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Love a bit of Larch- photos below of a similar machine building out of low grade logs. The Trak Met's are looking great as well! I think Big J's making a machine nest. I can't say I blame him.....

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I've been contacted about some milling that sounds like it's an Alaskan job. If anyone is keen let me know and I'll pass the customers details to you. It's one Oak butt, approx 80cm x 3m, they'd like components cut out for a table. W

There's a nice passage from one of my old Victorian milling books about evolution of sawing timber, the author talks about the slow and steady old Dutch wind powered framesaws. He says there was a nice benefit that the sawyer could leave the machine set up at night and go home to bed, then come back in the morning to a 'free' sawn log! They're still at it in the Netherlands- [ame] [/ame]

I'm impressed by this setup, very light on machines and people, with surprising output from small logs.... [ame] [/ame]

I think that team Copford are setting one up at the moment. The newer ones that take in a pre-flattened slab are very neat and straightforward, I think the output is deceptively massive. The old German gattersaege/ vollgatters that take a whole log seem to need a lot of skill to operate. It looks like it's quite easy to lose grip of the log and it can roll and twist in the cut, the mills have massive sets of travelling grippers or big feed rollers to stop the log going sideways. [ame] [/ame]

It looks like a petrol engined Lithuanian logger will get to us on the 24th or 25th of this month. I'll start a thread in the firewood section when it arrives....

Sneaky woodcock, if you can spot it! (It's dead centre, behind the twig, head pointing to the left) A bit of a rubbish pic from a few years back, it's the only time I've caught sight of one before it took flight.

What impact does the Low Emission Zone make to people near London with older trucks? Bob Aspen especially....

Luckily they're closing the borders, so all the hairy Brit treefolk migrants will be turned away with the Syrians. EDIT: That site is pretty cool, you can even pick yourself up a new flat pack quality home to go with your serviced site. How organised, how refreshing! http://www.immowelt.de/typenhaus/ksstarterhaus.aspx

Just to make you all feel really happy, this is the sort of property available in Germany: 4 bedroom village house for sale in Rhineland-Palatinate, Simmern (Hunsrück), Germany

Sad to see the old birds killed off, but I feel that LR dropped a massive bullock by not making a stretched Discovery chassis cab from the word go.

A gert lump of mud stuck in the rim can do it, it's not much fun.

I think it's the power line to the cabin on the left, look at the light on the pole and the light on the wall

Does the third service push the yellow plate forwards? Neat.

With saw parts, it might be worth taking a nod from the car breaking dudes- everything gets marked up with a permanent marker or paint, so you don't end up with someone's cast off broken parts being returned

Machine hire. That's the way to check build quality

As far as I'm aware that's including VAT and the delivery. It doesn't look terribly wide at the infeed, maybe 5 inches or so. They are not a machine that's proven (like the Urban range, which I do really like) so I am pretty cautious at the moment about the longevity (or acting as some sort of importer or dealer ). I think they are relatively new to the game..... In this day and age of communication and logistics, I think the factory can cope with dealing with individual users around Europe, and nobody needs another level of complication and cost from a local dealer. They look pretty tidy machines compared to some of the Czech and Polish machines out there, and I'd like to knock out 500 bags or so with one to see if there are any major weaknesses. They are all such simple machines, and apart from the machining of the gears and rotors, all the bits are just the usual belts, bearings and a zap of weld. This is their website if you'd like a poke about- ŠAKŲ KAPOKLĖS, ŠAKŲ SMULKINTUVAI - Titulinis

I've certainly seen that happen with the corners of fields and little work yards at the edge of villages. It seems to be the done thing to make a properly grotty disorganised mess for years, then the locals will be more than happy for you to put a house on the site rather than having to look at it

Thanks for the message Al. It's tidy old timber but needs protection for external use. Sounds like a nice chunky tree, have you got any photos?

Morning all, thanks for the interesting discussion. I've been looking at branch choppers to kindle up all of the offcut slats from milling and planking jobs. The same conclusions crop up about homebrewing something with a purchased core unit, and the cost and machine issue of tying up a tractor on a PTO unit. I've been talking to a manufacturer in Lithuania about a CE marked machine with petrol or electric power and an 80mm capacity. Neat and tidily built on a trolley with a cutout bar on the hopper (for the ignition system of the petrol machine?). It looks like they can hit the UK on a pallet for around £1400 for a petrol machine. If anyone is keen to do a bit of a group buy, then we might get something off that. I'm happy to act as guinea pig.....

testes testes Edit: Cool, thanks Steve.

Our local bike trials club have been running events on rotation for decades in a few woodlands that they own (I believe). Even with a 'woodie' eye, you'd barely know that they'd been in, very low impact on the ground. It's amazingly quiet as well. Any wood that's been used as a 4x4 course is generally a smeared up, porridgey mess within a couple of months. The trees get smashed up and there are loads of problems ongoing with ground compaction and cruddy drainage. People are usually desperate to get stuck and play with their winches, so anything with any gradient or water gets knackered in short order as well. No likey......

I keep eyeing up some of the domestic battery jobbies (mainly the Bosch one). My old Stihl BG was such an awkward thing to store in the bac of a 4x4, they just flop around and take up loads of space.

Ebay classified ads are an excellent 'shop window' if worded well with good images. 30 days with no bidding or messing around.