slack ma girdle
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Which splitter do i get...advice needed please
slack ma girdle replied to farmer_ben's topic in Firewood forum
I have been using a Thor 12 ton hydraulic for the past 3 years. It has never let me down, and the only maintainance it needs is a regular grease. I have modified it so that it can be used one handed, handy when splitting 40" lenghts. We are using a nuffield 10/60 to power it, which is fine, but we have borrowed a 100 horse power tractor which makes the splitter unstopable. This is good for knotty wood as the splitter will cut the knots that do not split. It also has a hammer action if you want to send the pieces into the next county ! -
I might not know much but that is definitely not an oak leaf ! Hope that helps
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Whilst we are on the subject, i am after a 3-4 ton winch
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If you can get through to somebody to get an engineer out, i will eat my chain saw trousers. It is cheaper to break the line and get and get it fixed. Just make sure that every body who will be affected knows that the phone will not be working. Then you can have fun playing who can bounce the biggest piece off the line without breaking it. You will be amazed how much abuse a BT line will take !
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:dito:
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Size also matters. If you catch the tip of the chain on a bar bigger than 18", by the time it gets to the saw and clog it, it is already cutting into your leg. Ye haa, feel the pain......
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AH HAAAAAAA (In an Alan Partidge voice) You mean something like this Topiary Arts
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Wot be cloud pruning ?
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Not todays sunset, but one from january. working just behind the beach, so i stopped to let the dog have a run before heading homewards.
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Dead ivy is worse by infinity than alive ivy. Ivy trees are like laylandii, there aint no easy way, and it make the job difficult, a pain in the backside, awkward, etc etc Have fun !!
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Cedars have floppy tops Sitka spruce foliage has a blue hue to it, Norway does not. Spruce are spikey, firs are soft Larch and swamp cypress is brown in winter
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You need to speak to somebody at either english nature or your local wildlife trust. They will be able to provide vast quantities of infomation about the negative effect of laurel in woodlands. You also need to approach your parish council to lnform them about what is proposed and to spreed the word to the local nimby's, so there will be less outrage at the damage to woodlands. Good luck
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I have finally scrounged enough metal to build my own skidding frame. Carrying on the fine tradition of bodge it and scaper. Or in this case skid. And before anybody points it out, i know the welding is not very good, but it works:001_tt2:
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You don't learn by not doing it. I expect that every member here, has had a nightmare with conifers, particularly laylandii. Always add an extra day to the price and explain to the cliant that this is the top price and if you get it done quicker the price will come down. Most people are happy with this. We keep a photo record with times and costs so that we can match the tree to the photo, which has proved to be helpfull to customers
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Heres a nice pick of said knot. http://www.isa-arbor.com/publications/arbNews/pdfs/Apr07-cc.pdf
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Heres a nice pick of said knot. http://www.isa-arbor.com/publications/arbNews/pdfs/Apr07-cc.pdf
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WPD regs say that climbers, trees and anything else must not enter the live zone, Less than 3m. If your tree is 10m away you will be fine as long as everything drops straight to the ground.
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I found a pig trough which must have been hung up in a fork and forgotten about. I found it with our chainsaws four times. After sharpening four saws we split the trunk to reveal a perfectly preserved pig trough minus four chainsaw cuts
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Try the nuffield and leyland club Nuffield and Leyland Tractor Club For Sale and Wanted Or Tractor and Machinery magazine. They have a huge section of tractors/ spares etc
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Whats the daftest thing you have seen loler'd
slack ma girdle replied to Charlieh's topic in General chat
Does this mean that i need to get my wheel barrow lolered, as i use it to 'lift' logs when unloading from customers -
Cheers for the replys, but i ended up trying Gadd who make them. Very helpfull man said he would put a handfull in the post, and even better than that no charge.
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Does any body know where i can the rivets for joining the various bits of the spencer logging tape together?
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Max respect bro, and all that jazz.
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We sold some firewood to some gypsies, after we delevered it they went through the whole pile too check that there no elder in the pile. The bloke said that his father would not let any elder in the caravan, so they had to check.
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Nice mess
