Tom D
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Given its location on the driveway as part of a designed landscape they decided against a monolith, which I did offer them. They have plenty of other dead trees in the woods.
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Mines ag/forestry registered and we do a lot of road miles but thats ok if you're doing ag/forestry work.. The job we did today was for a big estate so no problem there. The problems come when you start doing domestics. That said the firm I used to work for do pretty much nothing but domestics running 2 mogs and a valtra, to the best of my knowledge they still run on red. Just as they did 10 years ago when I was there.
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Nice machine, need some weight on the back of though Oakley..
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re-enforced box frames sunk into the floor, tied into the stretchers..
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Holding the barn doors open while she tips..
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On the road we usually put ratchets on, but I see your point.
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The bolsters are heavier than they look, not sure i want a head board, its easy added though.
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I have "arbized" my trailer, gets lots more on now, wish I had done it ages ago. The bolsters are removable...
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We have already cross cut it Stevie, I did it with a heavy heart, but the estate want it for fire wood.
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It was over 6' across the cut which was high otherwise it would have been stupidly big, Its a 66 not an 88 Jon, 36" bar. The cuts in the face are from blocking out the gob. It will all be getting fire wooded as we we thought it would be rotten as a pear and hadn't considered it being solid, I was amazed at how good the timber was, I reckon a 15 ton stick. I calculated that the first clean 4m weighed over 8 ton. We will cut it into 1m cheeses and lift them onto the trailer.. I haven't counted the rings yet...
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Dropped this dead sycamore today...
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You can't really process arb waste with a 220, I had one for a while, its a decent chipper, but the infeed is about 8x10 inches, my heizo is 16x27 inches. I would say for a cheap chipper with a big indeed one of the morbark drum machines would be the way to go. Not the same chip quality as the heizo but a decent infeed.
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Heizo is probably best for processing arb waste, its about the cheapest of the big biomass brands, but cheap is a relative term. I just bought one, it was £44k....
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After pruning higher Auxin levels are produced in the wood, this causes more vigorous woody Apical growth. Apical growth, where the end bud on each twig is a new leaf / twig leads to dead straight sticks, when a tree flowers the terminal bud on each twig forms a flower / fruit, this leads to Decurrent branched zig zag growth as the new woody material is formed from the side. So if all the regrowth is dead straight this is the cause, you perhaps took too much off! Try a flush of potash in winter, a big load of fresh wood ash maybe.
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We have done a few jobs for the City of Edinburgh flood prevention team, they like to keep the Water of Leith clear...
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198 mature poplars to fell Coalville.
Tom D replied to benedmonds's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
so How long do you think that job would take? I reckon with my setup about 2-4 weeks depending on the spec. How long with harvesters? -
With some of the processors like the Hakki Pilke you can remove the knife and just use it as a circular saw, whit my posch however there is a reinforcing bar behind the knife so it can't be used without. This things probably too expensive for me to justify but it does look handy for all those 4" bits from all the pruning that we do.
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I was thinking its way quicker than a standard circular saw as the operator is off getting the next piece while the first one is being cut. I'd like to see it take knotty bendy stuff though. I have got a big stack of 3-5" cord, maybe 50 ton.
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I was planning on looking at a saw bench at the apf for all the small cord that we have got that doesn't require splitting..
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I was holding a sheet of stirling board to protect some parked cars whilst a friend ground out some old privet stumps. The hedge had been on top of a retaining wall and there had once been wrought iron railings. The grinder kicked out a fleur de lis finial which would have topped the railings at some point, it went through the rubber mat and through the stirling board! Had it hit me in the head I'd have been dead for sure. It missed the cars luckily too.
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I'll be looking for an 18" 3/8 bar for a 357 that I am about to get ported...
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I think just putting up with stress is wrong, you may be able to handle the symptoms that you are aware of but what about what its doing inside. There are well known links between stress and other more serious conditions, IBS, Crohns, heart disease, stroke...... Best get it under control somehow. I suffer occasionally but like others have said you need some kind of release mechanism, what ever works for you. I sleep like a log 95% of the time and if I didn't I'd definitely do something about it, sleep is very important IMO.
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If the police and traffic wardens have access to the DVLA database and can check chassis numbers then I suppose it doesn't matter. They don't like you driving without a plate thats for sure, I got pulled the other day having forgotten to put a plate on the trailer, £100 on the spot fine!
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http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/business-management/7237-stress.html There's loads of stuff on here, some of it may be useful..
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Arb waste takes forever to process, so long in fact that I doubt you could buy it in and make money on it. When its your own by product thats different. I think the key is to try and separate it out in the yard so that you have a pile of thin stuff that doesn't need split, just cut. A pile of processor stuff. A pile of rings that are processor sized. a pile of rings that are over sized and over sized timber. This isn't easy but it does speed things up. As for timings we can do a cube in 5 mins with the processor being fed with rings and lengths simultaneously. on the other hand the oversized stuff takes ages..
