Mark Bolam
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I definitely need to retain that feature. My current splitter has a guide rod that you can manually set to stop the ram fully returning. That’s fine if all my logs were cut to the same length, but they’re arb scraps so I currently cut them for easiest splitting. 12” on straight grained stuff, down to 4” on knotty euc or similar. Being able to stop the ram where I want would be a dream.
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Thanks Dave and OF. Any further pics appreciated.
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That’s good to hear, although I’m happy to sacrifice splitting power for more compact size. I’ve muddled through with a 7t for years! What’s the ram speed like?
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I need to upgrade my tired old hydraulic log splitter, and my budget would just about stretch to the 15 tonne petrol C-Series. I’ve never seen one in action, and the videos seem a bit hit and miss. When splitting horizontally the controls seem a bit of a ballache, twin handles nowhere near the log? Some videos show the ram speed as painfully slow as well. Are they more user-friendly in real life? Can they be converted to one handle easily enough? I’m used to my vertical splitter. My mate has the Oxdale SE400 which is fantastic but too big and too expensive for my needs. Any input/alternatives appreciated. Must be petrol. Thanks.
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Let’s face it, no one with an FAC is going to shoot an owl. Even the most hardened under pressure gamekeeper probably wouldn’t, and certainly not in someone else’s random wood. If it was shot it would be a random cretin with an air rifle. I find that a stretch though. Because of the way owls live, the chances of a sitting shot at one are pretty rare. -
I have carbon Geckos which came with velcro straps top and bottom. The bottom straps were a pita, so when they wore out I replaced them with webbing and buckles and never looked back.
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I honestly can’t remember his name, it was decades ago. I’ll check my paper files and see if I can find a name. It wasn’t the living legend Pardoe! He drove a little jeep thing from memory? It wasn’t you was it?!!!
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On my 38 training I had literally never climbed a tree on rope and harness before. I’d climbed telecomms towers for years, but this was totally different. Day 2 and I’m 40’ up an oak, climbing on both ends of a 45m rope having to tie a bowline or fig 8 every time I moved. The instructor, nice guy, talked me through every step. I was clueless. Suddenly, he pointed out I was completely unattached, his bad. FFS! That was at Plumpton.
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5th, before you lose your shit, further training/assessment is never wasted time or money. You always learn stuff. Getting good people like Terry Banyard or Minty out on a decent sized job is still very much on the radar.
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Huge truth. I’m going back a long way, quarter of a century or so, but I’m pretty sure I was awarded LANTRA for completing the 5-day course? My NPTC was separate, the following week. Just to muddy the waters, when I passed it was a ‘ticket for life’. This renewal bollocks came later on as another cash cow for the training industry. I passed my 31 because I put the chainbrake on every 1.5 seconds. I try not to use it now at all because I’m a tight northern bastard. I’ve actually turned into one of those old pricks that failed the assessment….
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It was a 400’ mahogany. 15’ butt.
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As an aside I passed, but probably shouldn’t have. I was safe enough, but very, very green. I think the assessor passed me because he was worried we’d both get hypothermia, I was that slow. He did warn me I had a LOT to learn.
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On my basic chainsaw course 30/31 there were 4 candidates being assessed. 2 were older blokes who were whingeing throughout about how ‘they’d been doing it for years and didn’t need a stupid bit of paper, they knew it all, blah, blah blah.’ They were both failed after the workshop section, and didn’t make it outside to do any cutting. That was in Newcastle. A long time ago.
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As above Rob. That’s not necessarily a bullet hole.
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One in Normandy Alex.
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