Tom D

No TP's are good, I had a 250 pto, and I now have a 160 and a (ducker) 200. I have also had tw, gm, Forst and bandit. TP are up there with the others.

Thats true Stevie because the blades aren't tapered, they do need turning however as once they round over it doesn't pull the stuff in as well. If you haven't turned the anvil its well worth trying.

I have the older version, the 160, its a good little chipper, it pulls stuff in nicely although not as aggressive as a Forst or TW, however the build quality is good and the chip quality is excellent. If I have a complaint with the TP's its that they are a but fussy when it comes to maintenance, they like sharp knives and well adjusted anvils or they don't pull the stuff in as well.

if you want to buy crypto with GBP then cryptosaurus is ok...

You're spot on there, so hard to know when the crash will come, it won't disappear though, the technology is good, so when the crash happens some coins will emerge as the winners, others will just disappear and be worthless. The same thing happened with the dot com bubble, out of that came google, Facebook and amazon. The trick will be knowing who the winners will be.. BTW i just closed my factom margin position, profit from 25minutes exposure was $1100! So today I started out with a stuck timber wagon which we had to unload where it was and then drag out with the mog, so we were late to our job, set the guys going then a meeting in Edinburgh, then off into the borders to grab a snatch block that we had left on another job, then back to the job, couldn't get the Landy and trailer up the forest track so had to mess around with the alpine dragging it up. Then finishing in the dark, plus we didn't get the whole job completed, so the job was £750 but we didn't finish it, meanwhile I just made more than that in less than half an hour with no overheads, and it's tax free! Still dirty hands: clean money and all that.. Mind you I know what I'm doing if my guys do a bartletts and put me out of business.......

I know. Just like a job only makes a profit when the customer pays the bill. I think I'm going to cash out my original investment amount soon, then I'm in for free. I enjoy playing with it to be honest. I margin sold 200 factom 20 minutes ago, its bombing nicely just now. It's nerve wracking knowing when to close the position, but that's all part of the fun.

Well my investment just passed the. £7.5k mark! From £2.8k a few weeks ago. I reckon this tree work game is for mugs..

No, free downloads.

Some wallets are one coin only, others can take multiples, Exodus is the best desktop wallet I have tried, it supports about 20 coins, simple to use too...

Of course they can be stolen, in the same way that your money can be stolen if you leave your cash card lying on a park bench. Hacking into your account is a different matter. The reason cryptos are inherently safer than other types of banking is that they are decentralised. A centralised system works like your bank, or eBay, amazon paypal etc. there is a big computer somewhere that stores a ledger which shows how much money each person has in their account. Any centralised system can be hacked because the data is all in one place, there have been plenty of high profile cases of companies loosing customers data... A decentralised system works differently, basically the ledger is stored as a blockchain, which is a series of blocks of code that detail every transaction that there has ever been. The block chain is stored on thousands of computers, some cryptos allow all wallet holders to store the whole chain. When a transaction is made it is confirmed by different holders of the chain once a set number of confirmations have been made the transaction is approved. Any hacker would have to simultaneously hack hundreds or even thousands of computers simultaneously in order to profit. This is impossible. The wallets that are used to store the coins come in 3 basic types, 1, web based where your private key is stored on a server on the web: hackable. 2,desktop wallets where your keys are stored on your phone or desktop: also hackable. 3, hardware or paper wallets where your keys are stored on a usb type device or a piece of paper in a safe: not hackable, they could be lost or stolen however.

You can get mobile wallets for IOS or android and some exchanges have mobile versions, I like the desktop exchanges better, but the iPad pro is big enough to use the desktop versions anyway..

You can buy in the uk through cryptosaurus, but you will need to have your wallet in place first, I like Exodus, it supports multiple coins and has a very user friendly interface, support is good too. my favourite exchange is Poloniex. its US based which gives me confidence, compared to some of the far eastern ones. Today while I was working I was playing on Poloniex, I made £120 on buying Stellar, then lost £80 on radium before making £80 back on Einsteinium. It fills the gaps between council permissions and quotes..

I got £3k in a PPI claim recently, I invested it in Crypto, I figured I wasn't expecting the money so I could afford to loose it. I actually invested £2800 about a month ago, my current portfolio value is about £4100. So its been ok, its not very easy however to get your money back out of crypto. I have spread my money around in various ways, Long term, short term and a trading fund. I have about £1500 in XRP which I hope will rise at some point, (long term) about £900 in medium term investments and the rest on the exchanges where I actively trade trying to make a buck. I either do this by buying coins I think are rising and selling before they fall, or by margin trading where you borrow someone else coins (at a rate of interest) and then sell them, only to buy them back at a lower rate once they have fallen, you then repay the loan and keep the difference. Margin trading is fun, its also tricky, I have made losses as well as gains, but its all a learning process. With margin trading trades can last from a few minutes to a few hours, I have made £120 in 15 minutes and I have also lost £80 in an hour. Its not a bad way to spend an evening in front of the telly. My advice to anyone thinking of dabbling in crypto is be careful, do your research, and only invest what you can afford to loose. You can make some serious returns though and its fun if you like that sort of thing. ICO's (initial coin offerings) can be extremely risky however they can also bring big rewards. I bought £50 of electroneum at the ICO which got me 5800 coins, each coin is now worth about £0.08 so thats a serious return! Wish I had bought a lot more now, however It could just as easily have tanked, in fact it could still tank tomorrow....

One thought is...is there enough air coming into the room? Some modern double glazed houses are almost air tight, have you tried opening a window whilst lighting?

like others have said use loose dry paper to warm the flue, also use the upside down method... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG_urpcjp7M

Yes it was oak, it was a tree I felled on a site job a few months back..

I did this as a commission for NTS to go up at Corrieshalloch Gorge near Ullapool. It sat nicely in the space. Hell of a long way to go to deliver it.

Thats the problem i had with it, its too grippy. You could experiment with different cords though, you might find a nice combo..

I have an ST8 for sale, it has only done 80 hours and still has 2 years warranty left. I can even help you get finance if you need it. I have been let down by a couple of buyers and I really want to sell it now. It will be back on Arbtrader today. I will sell it for £14500+vat which is a lot cheaper then you will find elsewhere, I really need the cash now unfortunately, I paid £18500+vat just under a year ago so I'm loosing £4k, thats £50per hour . I only have the unimog to console me....

Full forestry spec tyres are seriously expensive, I just put a set of trelleborg's on my valtra, £4K for the set!, on my old valtra I used ag tyres, if you're going down that route Klebers are about as good as you'll get.

The light flashes in a sequence, you note t down and then look it up in the manual. e.g. 3 flashes then 2... most likely cause is the external lift buttons on the wheel arch have got damp. remove them and disconnect and see if the problem is still there. otherwise could be the position sensor..

http://www.stump-grinders.com/tractorpto/ These look ok, the hydraulic extender looks handy...

Good thread, it's not easy to think of something, TD Trees is big enough now that I can be off the tools full time if I want to so theoretically I could carry on right through to retirement. Wether I'll want to is another matter. like others have said, when you're partly off the tools your body suffers, you get weak and then you get hurt when you hit the tools again. I've not really found the answer to this problem yet. And the business suffers when I'm on the tools as running things is pretty much a full time job these days..

We have been splitting logs lately, the timber has been lying in the yard for a couple of years and now we want to get it converted into logs to finish seasoning indoors so we have been busy with the firewood processor. Looking at the pile of logs and thinking about selling it all next winter has led me to consider the best way to market and sell our produce. Since Trading Standards and the Weights and Measures Act 1985 have little to say regarding firewood we are a bit in the dark when it comes to quantities, packaging and pricing. With most goods the law is quite clear and very strict with serious penalties for suppliers who sell goods in quantities or measures outside those prescribed in the Act. Firewood however is a bit of a mystery, I suspect that it falls under the category of solid fuel, but its hard to confirm if thats the case. However it is viewed officially it would appear that the market is wholly unregulated. Logs are sold in a variety of ways, here are a few of the most common: By weight; usually by the “ton” however this is almost never confirmed by any kind of weigh bridge ticket something which is likely to be illegal as far as the weights and measures act goes as one thing they are strict on is selling by weight. There is however a fundamental problem for the consumer with buying timber by the ton, this is simply that the wetter the wood the more it weighs. So there is an obvious incentive for the supplier to sell unseasoned wet wood as this will significantly ‘up’ his margin, if he bothers to weigh it at all that is! Supermarkets have been dicing with the same issue for years when it comes to meat, hanging the meat performs the same function as seasoning logs, it dries out a little and whilst the flavour may improve, and possibly the price per kilo, the lost moisture is lost profit since they bought the meat by weight in the first place. They have got around this problem by injecting the meat with “stuff” to bulk up its weight, and apparently this is ok with trading standards! This has gone on for years of course, in times gone by bakers used to be infamous for adulterating their flour with fillers such as bone meal, chalk, sawdust and even gypsum! Thankfully at the end of the 19th century laws were brought in to standardise what could be called flour, maybe its time they took a look at bacon! (all that white stuff that comes out as it fries is the supermarkets added filler). So back to logs, selling by weight simply encourages the supplier to sell wet wood, and wet wood is not good for burning, not only does it produce little heat but because it burns at a lower temperature the combustion is incomplete, so gaseous tar and soot condense in your flue potentially leading to chimney fires. It would perhaps be ok to buy logs by weight at a known moisture content as happens in the wood chip for biomass industry, but that rarely happens. By far the best way to buy firewood is by volume, this way you get what you pay for, they may still be wet, but 100 logs are still 100 logs wet or dry, so now the incentive is with the supplier to sell a quality product, assuming he wants to keep your business that is. So the next problem to arise is quantifying that volume, a cubic meter is a relatively common unit and should be the ideal but thats not always the case, which leads us to what is perhaps the most common way of selling logs….. The load. So what is a load of logs? Well, anything you want it to be really, and this is where the industry really needs some guidance from the government. The load could be a bulk bag, but these vary in size from 2 cubic meters down to less than 0.5, or it could be a vehicle of some sort, trailer, pickup, 4×4 or even a car boot. From the consumers perspective how are they to compare one ‘load’ with another, does the back of one suppliers transit van compare favourably with another’s trailer? Who knows? The upshot is the poor consumer is left in the dark. With weights and measures regulations so strict on other industries, including coal and smokeless fuel, why is it that logs are still in the dark ages when it comes to consumer protection? The answer may lie in the fact that during the industrial revolution we abandoned wood as a fuel, only to re-discover it in the last 10 years or so, and when the laws on weights and measures were made firewood just wasn’t on the radar. But these days it is most definitely back as a serious contender in the fuel market, sales of wood burning stoves have soared thanks to the carbon neutral credentials of burning wood over fossil fuels. (don’t get me started on the carbon credentials of imported eastern european logs though!) Its time for HM Government to wake up to the burgeoning market in firewood and apply a little common sense to the way in which our logs are sold. We could do with a standardised moisture content for firewood, so that customers can expect to be able to get a certain calorific value from their wood, at least if its advertised as ‘ready to burn’ anyway. Then theres the weight / volume issue, logs really should be sold by volume, and all prices should be advertised by the cubic meter, irrespective of the size of vessel used to deliver them. This way the consumer can confidently compare prices from one supplier to the next. We have found that selling by the cubic meter we loose out to other suppliers selling by the bulk bag, our £60 per m3 has less appeal than a £50 bulk bag even though that bag may only contain 0.6 cube, making it considerably dearer, what do we do, sell unseasoned wood in order to cut our prices further, or try and skimp on the amount we sell?. Sadly the lack of regulation is currently driving quality down as firewood producers engage in a race to the bottom to stay in the game. So if you agree with the views expressed above please share this article on Facebook with your local trading standards office, yes they all appear to have FB accounts! You could also share it with your MP. You never know we may end up with a fairer firewood market in the not to distant future. For some further reading here’s a helpful PDF from the Forestry Commission.

You could be right, it's hard to tell much from a grainy video. Perhaps there was a pocket of rot at the failure point and the timber was actually more solid. If it had been allowed to run that probably wouldn't have happened.