Brushcutter
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Big forestry winch needed - North Dorset
Brushcutter replied to Baxter's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
What is the DBH? Sound timber? Bigger is better. A 6.5 might do it but i'd be happier with a 9 on it. -
I do like the old Valmets. Oh but the new deep metallic green Valtra is a sight to behold.
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For a couple of hundred quid you could be doing IOSH Managing safely and a few other things COSHH and stuff. Probably better invested money. Do some staff management courses and get contracts and things made up by a pro. I don't think it would all come to 10k.
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Yes it is. Common in Scandinavia. They leave it roadside to dry out for a while then chip it into a lorry. They normally put a role of paper over the top to keep the weather off. I did a lot of it over in Finland.
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Assisted fell some 50 or so Lawson Cypress.
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Had 3 days off, it appears to have messed up my ability to write.
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This. If you can get a really big auger all the better.
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Just want to see if there is an Arb/Forestry split on pricing and any rationality. Cheers.
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Marc that one in the hollow tree with the base tie is really, really good.
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Forestry. Going with the filter theme that's going on here.
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JD 648G Skidder being flown out on the BU99 skyline.
Brushcutter replied to Brett's topic in General chat
Didn't Oregon states logger of the year win for a project like that? Very cool. Wouldn't want the tail hold to pull when doing that. -
Chainsaw carvers quite like a 2.4 or 2.6 Larch butt end. Just about hand movable but big enough to do some nice stuff with. Also you get a lot more than firewood money. Winter felled Larch also cuts better than spring/summer felled as well in my experence.
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Was it a butt end? I started taking 2.4 or 2.6 off the end of every tree because they always had weird tensions in that pinched the bands or decided that it wanted to cut a dimension of own. Larch can gum up the band but with a good scraper and lots of lube it does cut well. Diesel works well but i went over to using a water based lubricant neat much nicer for me but not quite a good for the band.
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Like felling Larch easy to dress and it's always fairly easy to process to lengths. I also like milling it, yes you get covered in a lot of sap but it's easy to cut. I hate peeling it before you milling it.
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Thank you. I'm well aware of that. I assumed it was for work. The OP hasn't specified if it's for work or not.
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http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/wis16.pdf http://www.rdmengineering.co.uk/pdffiles/wis38.pdf https://www.ukfisa.com/assets/files/safetyLibrary/FISA%20601%20Circular%20Saws.pdf All of those are worth a look. At the moment as it stands it isn't in any way shape or form compliant with PUWER.
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If you can oxy weld then tig isn't a massive jump. You ruin the electrode if you get too close. Then you have to grind it back nicely. There is a lot of fafing about with more setting. I do intend to teach myself at some point. Again it's one of these things where you need to spend about 700 quid to get a good tig. Tig does think stuff well - but as with all welding the prep is more important that the actual welding.
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Paulownia tomentosa?
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MIG Welder | 240v Portable Inverter MIG Welding Equipment I-MIG180 150amp ish from a 13amp socket. If you have a 16amp socket then even better you'll get the most from it. Unless you want to do serious big welding and lots of it then it's not worth the hassle of running a 32amp socket from the board to where you want to weld which would let you run 180amp plus. The inverter first changes the current from AC to DC and then transforms it to desired welding current. Technically the transforming bit is inverting and the AC/DC bit is rectification. If a supermig 200 is a 200amp machine for around about 300 quid i doubt the duty cycle is very long and a i expect it's not very good.
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I use a SIP 181DP which will kick out 180 amps on 16amp. I run it 13amp so it maxes out around the 130-140 amp range. The duty cycle isn't very good. But being dual polarity it does give you a range of options. My favourite one in the workshop is the BOC transmig 180 but that is from the 1970s i expect. When it dies it will be a sad day because spares are very rare. The 250amp quasiarc company welder died recently:thumbdown: For a new one I'd get an Rtech one decent price duty cycle and quality. 180amp range will do 10mm but you will have to V prep it and do multiple passes.
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Had this for the first time. With Firefox.
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Basically it's just a big gear. Say the drum has 20cm of cable thickness on the drum the outside is 20cm further away from the drive so the bend radius is bigger so the gearing is higher so you get a faster line speed. At the bottom of the drum you get more power but less line speed.
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I've always wanted to do that. I've been up in Classic Wings Dragon Rapide but always wanted a flight in the Tiger Moth. If you've not flow in a biplane before i can be a little bump for the first couple hundred of feet.
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I expect you already know but if you have say a 6.5t winch that is 6.5t on an a near empty drum. If you have say 60m of cable on there it could be closer to 2t just off the drum.
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Unless its worn off....like mine has.
