TimberCutterDartmoor

Beautiful; with a great forecast for the week

S.O.P for many.

No glypho thanks; this was 1x1m carpet or black plastic. The Seale Hayne Forestry plots were mulch orientated; chip vs nowt vs plastic vs carpet. Then guard types and so on...

Italian Alder was very fast in test plots I remember that but it was mulched.

No poke without smoke! Eat my soot.

Or Aspen / Poplar. Willow is king of guzzlers tho.

Euro 6 imminent...

Thanks for posting MM

So it's lower in height above the bar rails in the same way narrow kerf reduces wood being removed widthwise?

Benzene was the original aromatic (all aromatics have a C6H6 benzene ring) to replace lead for RON but was replaced by MTBE (toxic) which has in turn been replaced by Oxygenates. The previous remain but not for octance purposes. Exposure to Benzene when filling up a gasoline engined car is indeed considerably higher than recommended by WHO. It is important to distinguish between UHC's (unburnt hydrocarbons) as survivors from the fuel and those created by pyrosynthesis during the combustion process. Both are considerably higher from a gasoline engine, partly due to it being more wasteful (constant volume cycle) and said catalysts are designed to convert HC's to more innoucuous substances. Ironic how GHG agenda put CATS on SI engines to convert CO to CO2 (which would happen in atmosphere anyway, albeit slowly) and then CO2 became the measure by which taxation and green credentials were measured. Now diesels produce more NO because they are lean burn so the excess oxygen (which eliminates the CO) increases the NO. Cue Eminox catalysts and urea injection aka Adblue to remove it; yet to come to passenger cars. I don't for a minute attribute 1000 extra premature deaths in the UK to diesel exhaust NOx. Tell me about H2S, Formaldehyde from chipboard, dioxins from barbecues, bonfires, EA emission limits on industrial plant cough cough splutter er hum I never said nuffin!

Please pardon my ignorance, what's the advantage of low-pro chain / sprocket? Thanks.

Bang on.

I was only thinking of such a thread during the drive home:thumbup1: You know what, I don't agree with penalising diesel and I dont think the manufacturers should even be bothering with all the bolt-on exhaust after treatment. Granted it's nice not to see old buses belching out clouds of smoke but where's the publicity about the Hydrogen Sulphide, Ultrafine PM etc from petrol cars? As usual, inherantly efficient compression-ignition diesel gets the bad press. Sod the stupid emissions regs, I was an industrial emissions engineer for 13 years and if you think what VW did is bad, I could tell you a few stories... This will make me more likely to buy a VW, not less. Haha.

Folks, thanks for all the TLC; getting all now. I shall

Is it full of Roundwood, Posch processors, Kilns or hydraulic oil flow though?!

A massive :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: from me! Good on you Sir! I went to this today:

yertiz

We bought an 8002. I've not used it yet but boy it's well made. More magnesium in it than a magnesium mine! Got it new from Radmore & Tucker. When we picked it up from the PDI / workshop, they went to say "see you back when it needs any servicing" but then said "actually we won't, not with that. Maybe if it was a Husqvarna, we'd see you soon". Lol.

Self employment (I went back to being in 2008 after redundancy) is I have to say for me anyway, truly horrendous in stress terms. The first holiday I took in '08 gave me panic attacks - something I'd never experienced before and I can only assume were based on financial fears; the skipper leaving the boat as it were. I've never had a good nights sleep since. I know my reputation as the prophet of doom on here is alive and well! The physical manifestations of just these 7+ years of heartache and dis-stress have made my Wife and I decide that unless something changes by Christmas this year, we're packing it in. Ok, so I've acquired some assets but never a living wage and on parting with said assets they don't add up to what could have been earnt and saved stacking shelves in Tesco during the same time! I have no idea what else I'll do if we do call it a day but atleast I won't be able to loose money as can occur frequently in forestry contracting. Of course I don't want to give it up but as I said my health has gone from being sporty and healthy to one of immune system anihilation, rashes, skin disorders, cancer and so on and it affects your relationships, marriage and everything. In summary, an important observation would be this: don't go self employed doing tree work if you love tree work but hate running a business or are hopeless with money. Unfortunately, you have to be a hard-nosed businessman above and beyond everything else. Those that say they love the work more than the rewards but are demonstrating a well-oiled business are still canny enough to make it work. My mental health has taken a battering and I've probabty been pretty close to a full-on breakdown a few times now; just scraping through with a last minute reprieve. Even the "S" word has cropped up a few times; thankfully I've not taken it seriously nor am planning on doing. But it does crop up.

Take it the 578 is sold mate?

Forecast: Dry / Sunny Spells. Actual: Torrential rain.

Yes the Diesel Kipors are 24 carat junk.

Doesn't he ever...