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Dean Lofthouse

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  1. Dean Lofthouse
    Wouldn't look that good Tommer!!
  2. Dean Lofthouse
    They're talking hyperthetical again Gibby, all the conversations always drift of to the hyperthetical mate, nothing personal about you
  3. Dean Lofthouse
    He might have just nicked em from my yard
  4. Dean Lofthouse
    I couldn't stand up in the drive earlier on it was horrendous, I just drove down to my yard and there's a top out on one of the oaks down there. The road down to my yard looks like a war zone with all the leaves and deadwood on it.
  5. Dean Lofthouse
    Imagine pulling down the drive with a chipper on the back of that!!!!!!!!!!
  6. Dean Lofthouse
    Just had a call out to a veteran Ash I have deadwooded over the years, has some big cavities from previous storms but has surcumbed to this storm and will be left as a monolith on tuesday. My foot gives some idea of scale with stones grown into the trunk just above my toe
  7. Dean Lofthouse
    Get back down there quick before the wind subsides and get a big rope round the top of that beech and give it a tug Johny
  8. Dean Lofthouse
    Oh dont you start as well Quickthorn
  9. Dean Lofthouse
    Why not, I'm a grafter and can prove it.. Sometimes I get home and my flask is still full to the top
  10. Dean Lofthouse
    I think thats better than Shreks wee chipper Burrel, it yellow for a start.. Do you get much vibration through your hands on them, I know someone has asked earlier but I cant be bothered trawling back through. I'm starting to warm to this wee chipper idea
  11. Dean Lofthouse
    Spot on
  12. Dean Lofthouse
    200% moisture content wood is: 200% moisture + 100% wood + 300% total or 2kg moisture + 1kg wood = 3kg altogether
  13. Dean Lofthouse
    As above
  14. Dean Lofthouse
    Thats how the moisture content of wood is calculated 150% moisture content is 150% weight of the dried wood. So Balsa wood can have a huge moisture percentage
  15. Dean Lofthouse
    You can have wood with 200 % moisture content
  16. Dean Lofthouse
    Dont rupe, your giving me headache You've got it above though, I know exactly what your saying I just can't put it across
  17. Dean Lofthouse
    The calculation is like workingout vat in reverse isn't it ?
  18. Dean Lofthouse
    I've got brain ache
  19. Dean Lofthouse
    Thats cos your not used to grafting
  20. Dean Lofthouse
    The percentage is of the dry weight of the log. A dry log weighing 1kg when bone dry will weigh 1.2kg with 20% moisture. So you have to do a reverse calculation other wise it works out wrong. The above calcs would mean a wet log weighing 1'2kg minus 20% moisture would weigh 0.96kg
  21. Dean Lofthouse
    Cool Jen ! How do you smooth the hollow bit of the spoon though, must take ages
  22. Dean Lofthouse
    Even doing the cut the new way the banch tip will drop before the butt, an outboard cut is useful to get it to drop exactly flat or even butt first with the leaf sail effect. I use outboard on horizontal and use the "New" method on slighly inclined branches where it may be near horizontal by the time the bottom cut closes and holding wood snaps. Steeply inclined I cut a gob to break about about 10 degrees before horizontal dependant on how much leaf is on We probably have our own little ways we have all adapted
  23. Dean Lofthouse
    I've done it that way on weighty stuff for a long time since I had a saw yanked a couple of times, if I want to cut infront of the undercut to get a clean flat drop on heavy stuff I undo my strop
  24. Dean Lofthouse
    Cheers Ed Once did it with 3 mature 70ft Sycs in a 68ft garden with the customer stood watching, he was a nervous wreck after the second sending them towards his house, but never so much as bent a rose stem in his flower bed Frank, Always better with the customer not present, it would have been dismantled had he been there, but I needed a hit of adrenalin for the day.
  25. Dean Lofthouse
    I'm sure if you immerse the wood in fresh clean water the salt will Osmose out into the fresh water, you just keep changing the water, it would probably take forever to get the salt out but even if you get some out its better than it being left in

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