Big 'Ammer
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Thanks for your reply John. I reckoned a man with a saw and splitter can make about 6 cube in day by this method, your figures back this up. Thats good going if you have a market for them at £100 / cube. But, as Tom points out, you have to factor in storage costs, time, fuel, etc to rehandle and deliver them, and knock off 4 cube for your assistants wages. Nevertheless, worthwhile.
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Out of interest John, you mentioned earlier that you work alone doing the logs. What's your set up for processing the timber and roughly how long do you think its taken to process the 26 tonnes?
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I have no preference, but have always used Stihl, Husqy, Oregon or Millers 2 stroke, in no particular order. Never ever had any problems with those brands. Just use whatever's a good price at the time. Pretty much the same for chain oil, maybe a few more brands from the major oil suppliers.
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A mate who used to race carts told me about this years ago. For example, a 50:1 mix is 2%, In 100ml of mix there will be 98ml petrol and 2ml two stroke oil. a 25:1 mix is 4%, So in 100ml of mix there is 96ml petrol and 4ml oil. Therefore more oil means less petrol in any given volume, hence the mix being leaner of petrol. This was very important to my carting mate, as they used to run mixs of between 12:1 and 18:1, so very easy to screw engines with the wrong set up.
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No doubt 18 Stoner will be on soon........ :lol:
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Crack on and get it moved, its only like a combine or pea viner. Choose your timing and have an escort vehicle with flashing ambers on in front. By the time anyone complains you'll be there and the police won't be bothered after the event. You can tell I'm from a rural area.....
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I'll do you a straight swap of a 357 xpg for your 361 if you don't like it.
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What sort of tractor is it? Double drum looks useful.
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Good advice IMO.
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Three courses of action; 1. Dealer. 2. Take the handle assembly to pieces in a methodical fashion and lay all the parts out on a bench in order to put them back together correctly. 3. Few turns of insulation tape round the grip safety to keep it in permanently, and forget about it. Take your pick.
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I took a lad on and put him through NVQ Trees and Timber at Askham Bryan, like Dean. The thing I liked about the course was that they paid for the training. The paperwork was reasonably straightforward and they come out on site and check what your doing every so often. I used to pay him agricultural wages apprentice rates and then top it up a bit when he shaped well. Its roughly 3/4 of a basic wage, but they are only at work 3/4 of the time, 1/4 is spent at college. You have to persevere though, it costs you more to employ them than you get out of them for a year or so. But with my calm nature and guiding hand he's making a good tree worker. He's doing cs41 on Weds.
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I don't want, or need, to pay to demonstrate to someone else how to fell a tree safely or to remove limbs using a rope and pulley block in a basic textbook fashion. I have already done that and got the qualifications. I am not about to start to carry out tree work in a haphazard fashion, just because my certificates are getting a little dated. I'm learning more every day, because I'm doing it every day. That said, I would be interested in attending something where I could learn some new tips and tricks to enable me to work easier and faster, that took into account my existing qualifications and experience and didn't need to be assessed at the end of it.
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If you are careful you can set it around the stem, same as you would a rope, but its hardly going to be heavy rigging through an old (fully lolered! )cambium saver though?
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Can you just take out the fuse for that side?
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Nowt like a good big felling job! ...but a foot at the bottom's worth ten at the top!
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Yes please Jon, but I think we sussed out what you meant.
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same here, and really slow. :confused1:
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Yes I do, and its proving to be a useful bit of kit.
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Looks a good job.
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Computer studies. Mind you, I was a lot handier with a box of spanners and a gun, than the nerds in the computer room!
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HT 75
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Frank will have felled them before you have finished filling the kettle.
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Mewp acccses- bridging the slabs?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
I would do as Dean suggested and drive it over some long steel ramps to make a temporary bridge, we do that with ours. Use the ones off the trailer it will come on, maybe? Drove one up a flight of steps like this once. -
Why not fit a small pulley into your regular cambium saver in place of the large ring? You have probably got one somewhere in your kit. It won't cost anything to try, will it? I poo poo'd the idea until I tried it, and I think it makes a lot of difference to the amount of effort needed.
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Mewp acccses- bridging the slabs?
Big 'Ammer replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in General chat
How wide is the distance to be spanned?
