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  1. monkeybusiness
    Is it just a case of running it flat out when lit, or can it tick over? Any control system at all?
  2. monkeybusiness
    What’s involved in a daily burn? Light it and come back to it a couple of times adding more logs, or get it going and forget about it? Can it be kept in from one day to the next? How many days a year do you estimate you run it off 18 ibcs? What size logs does it need? Sorry for all the questions, I’m actually genuinely interested as we are about to knock our house to bits and I’m working out heating arrangements right now!
  3. monkeybusiness
    I was blown away that it was there - hats off to the organisers. There are only 350 people who live in the village!
  4. monkeybusiness
    The Vulcan flew near to here on its farewell tour and I managed to find a spot in a lay-by right underneath - I was amazed how relatively quiet it was. Another mega plane, very impressive seeing it flying.
  5. monkeybusiness
    What sort of ballpark figure are you looking for? How often do you have to put logs in it? How big a house did it heat? Does it use much electricity? Does it work if timber isn’t bone dry?
  6. monkeybusiness
    Yeah, it was supposed to be back over here again today, but I’ve been tied up elsewhere sadly.
  7. monkeybusiness
    Our local village fete somehow managed to arrange a Lancaster Bomber fly-past today. We arrived (unknowingly) about 5 mins before and wondered why there were loads of photographers with massive lenses - turns out we were close enough for my old iPhone to get a pretty good view!
  8. monkeybusiness
    I’ll have a similar trailer for sale soon Mark - single axle, full width ramp etc. It’s wider than a GH64 though so might not suit your job. I’ll get some pics/measurements next week.
  9. monkeybusiness
    The world wouldn’t mourn any of the perpetrators’ loss, they should all simply be executed IMO.
  10. monkeybusiness
    Newfangled computer controlled nightmare confusedness! At the other end of the spectrum is my whip this week. I bought it as a non-runner and stuck a 200tdi in it years ago. Goes like ****************, practically no electrics, it’s ace! (It quickly gets boring on a motorway though!)…
  11. monkeybusiness
    Hi - I need an ecologist for a nesting bird survey in Leyland next week. Can anyone point me in the right direction of someone please? Cheers, Dan (07970188050)
  12. monkeybusiness
    I think there is a fair amount of confusion regarding this site being for ‘pros’… There might be a couple on here, but they are definitely in the minority!
  13. monkeybusiness
    Forget the saw/getting the trees on the floor @EdGreen - this is the bit you will quickly get tired of dealing with…
  14. monkeybusiness
    I didn’t take your additional ‘power-limb’ into consideration to be honest. (Not sure why you need ramps at all, just crane the loader in and out with the third leg?)…
  15. monkeybusiness
    Those ramps look very good value Mark, but will be massive overkill (and much too large/heavy/cumbersome) for your job. I’ve got a set that are the same length and weight rating for loading diggers into a tractor dump-trailer and they are a real bastard to use - so much so that I tend not to bother, I’d rather climb the digger in/out.
  16. monkeybusiness
    Cut the trees at the bottom and deal with them when they are on the floor, you can’t fall then.
  17. monkeybusiness
    I’ve got a hycrack and it chews it’s way through just about anything tbh - bites very hard into timber and rarely just bores a hole. It’s on a Ford 3000 and also only rarely stalls the tractor. We don’t really use it much any more as hydraulic is faster/easier, but I’d definitely recommend them to someone with a tractor with poor hydraulics.
  18. monkeybusiness
    Whereas before it could barely pull the skin off a rice pudding!….
  19. monkeybusiness
    I laboured on a ‘log cabin’ house build many years ago and it was essentially a complicated version of one of these. It was very cleverly designed and looked pretty good but was essentially a load of crap, and would have been very very difficult to repair when it started to rot out. It wasn’t even cheap - they could have pretty much built a proper house for the same money!!!
  20. monkeybusiness
    I agree - for the money you really cannot fault the quality and attention to detail that’s gone into them. Everything (down to the last nut and washer) is in the box, and the instructions are brilliant. Components are all very accurately fabricated and the quality of the finish is much better than I expected too!
  21. monkeybusiness
    Stack it all up and get the lot whole-tree chipped for biomass. Fell the trees whole where possible and move them mechanically to the chipping point. Will require some thought with regards public access/exclusion zones whilst works take place but so will dealing with 60 trees in a more conventional manner. The bulk of works can then be undertaken from air conditioned cabs, reducing any potential health risks.
  22. monkeybusiness
    I wouldn’t worry Stubby - this guy is clearly a troll looking for attention. Strange MO but the internet is full of weird and wonderful characters.
  23. monkeybusiness
    And enormous gonads!
  24. monkeybusiness
    Where these are designed to be used the wheels are a bit ‘secondary’ tbh - most positioning needs to be assisted with the bucket/whatever is hanging off the front. Obviously 4 wheels massively increases ease of mobility, but isn’t really that much of a necessity ‘in-work’. A firm mounted a couple of big Teupen mewps onto Menzi base units instead of the digging equipment - they were displayed at the APF. Mega looking (and no doubt costing!) bits of kit but I couldn’t help but think in the real world they probably weren’t anywhere near as versatile as hoped as they didn’t have the digging arm to aid mobility/climb over obstacles etc. I’ve no personal experience of the machines in action and hope that my thoughts were wrong as they would be incredibly expensive white elephants otherwise!
  25. monkeybusiness
    This is an evolution of the design, and shows what this style of machine is capable of -

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