IED Solutions

Well that equates to 16 ft in the air if you class it as a firearms... good job it's not firing a 'pellet'. Are slingshots covered by law then? Don't worry about putting the fire out, just food for thought main thing is to get it made, then have a chat with the firearms officer... I also found out that they are used by the navy for getting lines between ships...

Thanks for the info, I'm going to try stainless steel as I remember tons of the stuff running around the milking parlours I worked in and with all the farmers going out of milking their should be some going cheap! If not the micro breweries i've visited have it as well so I could always have a new excuse to visit them again. 25 years ago I made a paintball bazuka out of drainpipe and a piece of chrome pipe from b&Q , and that was pretty effective, I used to go to 60 psi then let it rip, only thing was the adhesive degraded after a few years in the shed and it fell apart. p.s. sorry B and Q for the splatted paintball on the floor.. it got stuck when sizing barrels and I blew it out a bit too hard! I will get the pictures up, once it's made....

I've just seen the original one in action and found yours.... any chance of letting me know the size of pipe you used for the barrel as you've obviously got it right.

ok, didn't realise it was for wedging on a floor. I thought it was for a job good luck.

When I've weighed my bags they start at 425 to 520kg ish depending on the wood density, so I couldn't put 6 on a normal ifor williams trailer.

have you been over a weighbridge with 6 bags on a trailer? I assume your talking 1 cu/m bags?

Hi, you can hire one off me if you wish and try one, i'm near Alton Towers. I have a hand tirfor T35, which is 3 tonne lift, 5 tonne pull, it's moved concrete trucks before... good for 1 off's but not if your planning on moving something a long way. I also have the smaller Tirfor as well. Also a hydraulic 4 tonne winch on a 3 point linkage frame, which you can use a petrol hydraulic power pack, much better for moving distances as it takes petrol, not sandwiches.

I'd recommend what you have mentioned, Hiab and bags. log bags are filled by the processor in August, stacked on pallets 3 high for storage inside and then delivered by Hiab, best thing ever as I work as a 1 man band on firewood so it's really easy. I leave the bag with them and they bring it back when empty, no mess on the floor for them and I do drop them over hedges, hot tubs etc. As for unloading I cannot get them inside garages, but it's never been an issue. A bonus I found is time, massive reduction in handling. and consistent log amounts, no more guessing if it was 1 cu/m, just a bag or half a bag. As for my 'personal wood' I put the bag on a trolley and push it into the log shed, so I don't even unload it until it's going on the fire. I learnt years ago that arriving with trailers meant lost time as you have to get them off and they usually rock up with a dodgy wheelbarrow and want to barrow it off the trailer up the top of the garden, I could loose 30 mins easily. One more thing, you can also keep your tipper and 'tip off ' the bags, I can get 2 on my tipping trailer and get them off upright and safe, by using a sling and rope as it tips, so you don't have to get the hiab straight away. Try ex-council for vans with hiabs, their looked after and well modified to do the job, I nearly bought a water board 'bin wagon DENNIS lorry ' converted with a 'staff sized cab, a solid workshop, with side tipper body and rear hiab off ebay for less than 3k, best of all it was a 'special vehicle' so could run on red, and be driven on a car licence.

I agree with keeping the same, everything is 15" bar and 325, the processor, and all small saws, upto 60cc. Then it goes 3/8. I found the multicut the same as Stihl chain, but lasts longer, I cut 30 tonnes of firewood and never sharpened it, the cutters were sharp and polished... but don't use narrow kerf oregon, I could get through a bar a day on the processor, and the chain is poor as well.

mine works ok day and night, their is another chat on cameras which i posted on, I would recommend a remote pir. I had firewood being stolen 100 yrds from a roadside in a private woodland, didn't catch them red handed but 99% sure who it was...

I don't know why it doesn't fit but I'm happily running oregon multicut 325 on a Sugi bar and 8 pin drive sprocket, really well balanced and so how about trying it unless you have a pile of 3/8 chain to use up?

I usually break it down into an hourly rate for operators, minimum of 1 hour, + a separate charge per cubic metre of chip for waste disposal because it's not free to dispose of the chip (waste handling licence, dragging chip around and record keeping is not free) + some for the chipper and fuel. It gives the customer to chance to keep the chip then, so you don't have to drag it off site and move it far. I usually find that when you get a call like that, they have just priced a skip to take it away and got a shock! you also have to realize that they won't have cut it up to suit your chipper and the way you work, the last one I did had cut a conifer up down to 2 inch stems, which means loads of picking up rather than bunging a 5" tree through the chipper in one go.

I've used one to try and catch a cord wood thief, it didn't catch him in the act but the pictures were really good from 12 ft up a tree. They are a pain to set up, but high up in trees is good, I would recommend finding one with a 'remote pir' which is wireless if they do one because I could find great vantage points on trees to take the picture of the carpark and access etc, but getting the unit to be 'triggered' by the person was well tricky where as a remote PIR could be across the gateway and camera anywhere. My farmer mate runs PIR 'door bells' which messages him, and he loves them, and uses them to know when unwanted people walk over his land, he said that when he turns his foxing lamp on out of his bedroom window at them 500 yrds away they tend to 'go home'.

Where I live a load of small blue 'camera's have appeared at major round about's on lamp posts, i'm sure their ANPR cameras, anyone else seen them? Some of them have 'anti climb' spikes on the posts underneath them and they appear to have two lenses looking at the front of the vehicle. Their on the junctions around Alton Towers on the A50.

hi, the bahco box will fit a pile of 15" bars, in the top, sorry no saws. here's a picture for you below. Ed

Steve, That's proper old engineering, I like it. How a 13 year old with existing war wounds on his finger would handle that is doubtful, i've seen newly made ones on youtube but they were horizontal and didn't split anything near as good as yours. Thanks for the vid as well. Ed

I can Recommend 10mm Ocean polyester (tried 8 and a bit fiddly), using a distel. Childs play, as you can see! my 4 year old wanted to climb our tree today, so I went back to a prussic on a spare rope as he nicked my stuff, I forgot how bad a prussic is! As a dad it was an absolutely priceless day. He got the hang of coming down and going up really quickly. I tie my own lengths and keep them as short as possible so that the 'sit down' to tighten the knot is minimal.

Any change of a picture or two of your 'flywheel' machine Big Steve? My friends are looking for the next step up from a 'hedgehog' billhook, and so the aim is to do a scrapheap challenge jobbie and see what we can come up with. I like the idea of a flywheel. Ed

New Chassis, defo! My mate runs a garage and thinks nothing of swapping the chassis, just don't forget you will fit extras like brake lines and bushes so add a bit for them. I have two friends who have painted the galvanised chassis so they don't look so blinged up, one who took the body off himself with some scaffolding and wheeled out the chassis. ED

I usually gladly give it away because of the sap, yes it burns fine but it deposits it's sticky stuff everywhere, like log baskets, light switches, doors, fireguards, etc so having small kids it's no fun scraping it off their hands, then tracing where they have stuck to around the house. It's better that chewing gum at sticking to everything, so much so that you only have to put your hand on the end, and the log sticks to it, best thing we find when burning is to buy a pair of leather gauntlet gloves ( I use TIG welding gloves) and wear them when handling.

I'd recommend a unimog! or at least use it for justification to the missus as to why your buying one. Seriously, my dad has had a few and i'd have a listen to them running if your going to use it in a garage, some he's had are painfully loud, so much so that I've put them outside to run. I'd look for an old 'proper made' one, which chugs away, I had an upright atlas coptco one which was sound and had a cast iron pump, and cost the same as the Aldi ones today, it was 4cfm which is enough for blowing out. Generally it takes roughly 1hp to create @ 4cfm, so if you find someone selling one and you don't know the cfm, ask them for the motor hp.

I've tried a few ways of carrying stuff, but I noticed that keeping 3 types of chain in a box was a pain, and I wanted to keep them seperate and sharp so I looked for ages for something which had compartments for chains , and i'm really happy with the current one. I've bought a Bahco PTB303440 17” toolbox with 3 drawer compartments, it's really good as you can fit 15" bars in the top with spanners, brushes, etc, and the draws take up to a 20" chain in each compartment of the 2nd drawer, and anything longer I keep in the box in the bottom drawer. 1st drawer is for sharpening kit, all 3 types. It carries really easily even when fully loaded with all the spare chains, and makes a nice seat as well. If I broke it I would buy another straight away.