slack ma girdle
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Beginners guide to rigging.......
slack ma girdle replied to Adam Bourne's topic in Rigging and roping
It should be standard practice to let all rigged pieces run as far as possible with gradual and gentle breaking. I expect my groundies to stop the piece just before it hits the ground where possible. I do not like nasty shaking in the tree, and it reduces the excess loading on my equipment. Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first. -
Advice on how to process first thinings
slack ma girdle replied to Treemover's topic in Firewood forum
I would make up an A frame for the back of your tractor like this: This will enable you to skid out the trees in whole lenghts, or if they are small diameter trees, then in bundles of 6-10. If the trees are not going to be split, then they need to be stored off the ground, otherwise they will rot quickly, particularly Sycamore, Birch, and Alder. Smaller diameter timber will also not need splitting, but it will take longer to season. 25 acres is probably going to produce more than you will have time to deal with, so you will need either to sort out a buyer wholesale, or divide the wood up into 3 or 4, and do it over 3 or 4 years. Good luck
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It is most likely the lime hawk moth, but the Eyed hawk moth also has the a blue tail on its rear end, but it does not have the red flecks on its sides.
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If you are having to clear the line first, hand dig the post holes and set them properly, then i recon to do about 100meters a day by hand.
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I use my rods for everything less than 60 feet, as it is much quicker, i get the branch that i want, and there is no tangling. It also means that my groundie can start cutting branches whilst i am climbing up.
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Weather permitting 4-5 days of work, around Swansea. (No gimping this time) Either P.M me or ring/ text for the low down. Cheers very muchley Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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I paid £80 for my Browns table of death at a farm sale
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Ere you go Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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I have started using the plastic hooks from lobster pots, that wash up on the beach. Much heavier duty and free.
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As a regular user of a Browns death trap, i do not have a problem with them. They have there querks, which take a bit of getting used to. The first time i used it i was scared witless, working that close to a spinning blade of death. But with practice i have become used to it, and it now longer scares me witless. It now takes me less than 20 minutes to cut enough logs to fill a M3 section in my trailer.
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If the blade is not a TCF one, they are easy to sharpen yourself with a file, and will only take about half an hour. Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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Timber extraction
slack ma girdle replied to slack ma girdle's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
:D Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first. -
Are you sure that you haven't just been sick in a customers garden, and you are now trying to discuise the evidence. Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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I can, but the P & P from west Wales will be a killer.
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Having had not a brilliant day, the nuffield got stuck twice. I decided to film the mighty Nuffield had at work pulling out trees for fire wood, quality is not brilliant as it was filmed on my phone. I also had to drive a bit slower so that i could hold the phone and film. Most of the steering was done with the brakes, as the ground is very slippery (lots of clay). I new that that was going to be the hardest part of the wood to extract from, and i should have cleared it first, but a servear case of C.B.A (Cant be A---D) Bobs barking is important as it aids the Nuffiields traction. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e06EyIrI2ww&feature=plcp]Knowles Wood - YouTube[/ame] [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qo9Ov-ALZs&feature=plcp]Knowles wood 1 - YouTube[/ame]
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Alder coppice
slack ma girdle replied to New Forest DEAN's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Alder is very rot resistant, but it must be permanantly wet/ submerged, otherwise it will rot completely in less than 18 months. It season quickly, and splits better than Ash. If it was mine i would leave it for 15 years and start harvesting it. Lucky you. -
Plant smaller trees, in ten years they will be over double the height of your larger trees.
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It's Lord Luken riding Shergar Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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There is not any one thing that is particularly bad, but: Adjusting the depth of cut is abit fiddly. I use a steel rule across the top and measure up to it, allowing 1 3/8" for the thickness of the tube. If you over tighten the bar clamps you can bend them, TCF sent me some new ones FOC to replace the bent ones. Since then i have welded in some wider spacers which solved the problem. I sent photos of what i had done, and i think TCF have changed the design. But as i said earlier it will mill you timber.
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Finally found somewhere comfey Sent from my Galaxy arse using tupping talk. Check ALL the simple things first.
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I like that, it puts into perspective how efficient using a crane can be.
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Allergy / sensitive to softwood sap!!
slack ma girdle replied to David Riding's topic in Firewood forum
It might be a cumlative thing, and all dust is carsignagenic. It might be worth wearing a dust mask for a few days to see if that stops it. Different people react in different ways, i react very badly to Laburnham, and i won't have anything to do with it, and Weston red cedar always leave me feeling tight chested even with a dust mask. Larch hairs in the bark make everybody itch. -
I have had a logster lite for two Years. Yes it has it bad points, but you learn to live with them, and it is £150 cheaper than an Alaskan. At the end of the day they both mill timber.
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Wot this one: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycTz89FEa4c]Spider-man Parody - Jack Black - YouTube[/ame]
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This might help: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/46605-mass-defoliation-sycamore.html I am not convinced that it is sooty die back, but think it is a combination of the terrible weather we have had in the last six months, have provided the worst growing conditions.
