Chris Sheppard
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Something to bear in mind with a 240 volt sawbench is the current draw on startup - usually you would need a minimum of 16A socket but even then sometimes the fusebox in modern buildings can be a bit sensitive - we usually recommend hard wiring it in or using a cooker type socket.
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The Hawk is a cracking little machine and a few little mods can make it even quicker (we short stroked the ram so it was twise as qick per cycle and just meant the last log each day needed another log to push it throough - a good chunk priceier than a sawbench and they dont react well to wriggly timber. Theres a few others who do single phase or petrol saws for similar or less money than the ryetec one - google is your friend!
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yep, they're just up the road from me - I found it hard work and cumbersome with the guarding getting in the way. Haven't seen many people using them commercially either which says a lot. Welcome to the forum BTW
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I'd rough guess at 2.5m wide, 8 or so m long and 2.5 or so m tall - very rough guess though especially without seeing the lorry oir having atape measure
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I looked at these a few years ago - liked the idea of being able to put the forwarder and harvester ont a 7.5 tonner with a trailer for moving between sites Dunno if I've done this right but there should be two yuotube links [ame=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBv39BmG70&feature=related]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCBv39BmG70&feature=related[/ame] [ame=http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8hGZl5LWws&feature=related]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8hGZl5LWws&feature=related[/ame] Did like the alstor but the vimek would have been better suited to the work we had on i think.
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Picture of me billets drying in the sun
Chris Sheppard replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
makes my stacking look terrible
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Is that a winch mounted on the underneath of the boom? Looks a useful tool
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That's the drawback of being british built.
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oh yes, with how the exchange rate between the pound and the Euro is at the moment ad the economic climate the secondhand market (as with any machinery) is booming.
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no bother - have got more pics on other computer but ior mo if you follow the link you'll see it - the big yellow one click here then scroll down
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I think they do, Im sure Ive seen one with something like 12 way I do like the Transaw, Richard's done a nice job - apparently the one at sandringham they can't keep prince Phillip off it!
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2 of my customers have them and get on well with them - the slewing elevator is a nice touch. Only thing I've heard is the newly designed guarding system can be a bit of a faff if you are used to using other machines. With it having such a big cut, it's worth investing in the extra knives - 44cm diameter into 6 is still huge! As with a lot of processors though, when cutting big diameter into shorter logs, be ready to lift the guard up and stand them back on egde - less of a problem on stove wood but a PITA on "normal" logs. With the available timber for firewood getting bigger diameter, weve seen a definite increase in people billeting - speeds the drying up no end too
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Yep, we've still got it - it's just waiting to go into the workshop. Pasquali, BCS and Ferrari are indeed all owned by BCS now. It's got underbelly and engine guards and is on tall tyres - would make a lovely thinnings skidder but I'm not conviced it will do all what Matt wants - it only weighs 2 tonne and being artic, as soon as the weight comes off the front wheels (when skidding big timber) you loose all your steering. Also, trailer wise, you'd only really get away with something around 3 tonne capacity as much more and it would be loads wider than the tractor. Brilliant on the right type of work but I'd say the self build idea of Ed's sounds a tool and a half - surely there's no reason it couldn't pull a trailer too if need be?
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We had an old timberjack 360 on one estate for a while - it was awesome; what it would pull, where it would go (oh and it sounded amazing - big straight six detroit diesel ) but it was still nothing but a skidder and nothing else and would still have neded lowloading everywhere. Did like my old County - it was a plain old 1164 with jones cab and a smallish FMV roofmount, but it would grip and grip and grip even on worn tyres. If you had the bottle to open if flat out in top on the road it would do something like 24mph but really did feel like it. Bit of a pig in a thinning and needs decent brakes as you spend more time screwing round on the independants than owt else. I know they've gone up a fair bit in the last couple of years but it's still cheap horsepower - mine still cost less than 5 grand with a trailer and a nokka roller processor about 5 years ago.
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Having run both manual and remote control winches, they both have their pro's and cons dependign on what you're doing. 5 ton is a good all rounder but maybe a bit overkill for that size of timber unless you can get some decent size snigs in one hit (such as line thinnings) - most of the time you'll end up running backwards and forwards even with a big winch. Remote control can usually be converted to wireless radio control but are expensive when compared to a manually operated one and one thing I didn't liek with a remote control one was when pulling over leaners you don't get the same level of control as you would ith a manual one - the manual one you feel what the tree is doing a bit better if that makes sense. wireless remote does take some beating when doing a long pul though as you can walk in with the snig and stop it before it hangs up on anything. I know a lot of people want a ratchet brake on a new winch, especially when pulling trees over, but you won't find one now with a CE mark on unless it's an old one. I've only ever used a very old farmi so can't comment on the new ones but have had a reasonably newish 6.5t remote controll igland that was very strong but just didn't get on with it and had a 3.5 tonne uniforest from new which was reasonable money and did all i asked of it (and yes, it was before I worked for Riko ) just my 2p worth.
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From the album: pics
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From the album: pics
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From the album: pics
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Might have a brand new genuine bulkhead for sale in the near future - have had chance of a complete body which seems pretty good so the new b/h might be surplus to requirements.
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We'll be there too.
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By getting the indian potato confused with the other one. you can eat and eat and eat but there's something in the poison that stops you taking anything in from your food and in essence you starve (or somehting along those lines) We're hopefully heading out to Alaska next year and were hoping to go to see the "magic Bus" but apparenlty it got vandalised and they've made it harder to get there now.
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Nearly missed it but just managed to - thanks to Ch4 +1 I like the idea of what he was doing but in reality I think there would only be a tiny few people that could stick it out - the isolation would be unbeleiveable, without any of the other factors Wasn't really sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised. Thought they handled the whole killing to eat side of things well as that's usuaully where the media jump on things like this. What he was saying about the Indian Potato plant was interesting - I'd heard of people getting this wrong before and it being fatal if you ate any decent quantity. A book (or the film version of it) that might be of interest (and based on a true story) and along a vaguely similar theme is "into the Wild" by Jon Krakenauer (i think it's spellt somethign like that).
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we use a local Palletline agent and I'd say that's a good price, especially if you don't have an account with them. Just make sure it's labelled up really well - we had two similar looking machines end up at the wrong addresses the other day, despite them both having the correct labels we put on - the driver had put the palletline labels on the wrong ones
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We're booked in to it and as far as we know it's still on too
