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Excellent,that's going to take all the fun out of throw lining ,fun being endless tangles and snagged lines !

Does anyone in Sussex,Preferably Ashdown Forest area,want to go halves on delivery of the Selway Charcoal bags - the Coppice ones,Minimum order is for 200 and that would take me a while to get through !!

Cheers

Steve

I've had one for about eight months and I'm quite impressed with it - you do have to get pretty physical with it - and the cutters need to be sharp - not figured out how to change them for better/cheaper teeth yet !

The brake is crap,the throttle cable has snapped,and most bizzarely the exhaust fell off because one of the studs had sheared ! spoke to Rock,who said speak to local B&S outfit,did this but they were very sceptical about getting it through as a warrenty claim  - said I'd be charged if they didn't wear it,so did it myself in the end.

Good for small conifer stumps,did a 20 inch beech with it once,that was a work out - never again

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Tim,the outfit that did my conversion were Ellis and Sons in Paddock Wood 01892 725720 - really good people to deal with in my experience.

I use a 2mx2m tarp,heavy duty 380gsm or more - they seem to last a fair time and you can't get too much in them that you can't manhandle them into the truck - I do get a bit of stick about it though !

Thanks for the replies,forgot to mention cage sides,doh - but I have just the ground for the job !!!

Has anyone ever put a 10x6 trailer over a weighbridge full of hedgecuttings - I know it will depend on whats in there - say a mix of holly and leylandii,but if anyone has a recollection of approximate weights I would be most grateful as wondering how much I can get in one when full to the brim?

Cheers

Steve

We used to use "W Perfect" flail to pulverise apple prunings. Serious bit of kit and would do stuff a lot bigger than hedge cuttings. Ran on a MF135 so your Ford should cope.

Seen a few on eBay recently for around £1500 used but decent.

 

Top tip, wear safety glasses and don't look behind.

Cool - like the look of that !

I have used a flail hedge cutter that i use on a farm near me to cut there hedges to chop my heap of hedge clipping up it works well.

That's a thought,get one of the hedge cutting boys to do it when they are passing!

Thanks Goaty - I'm guessing they might need a fairly hefty tractor to drive them,i've only got a 60HP ford !!

Has anyone ever used a tractor with a flail to smash up hedge cuttings ?

Need to replace my topper soon,and been getting increasingly fed up with the huge pile of hedge cuttings that build up in the yard - so have been wondering about running a flail over the pile to reduce it to a manageable mush - tried it with a rotary topper without much effect,but a flail ???

Yeah - seems to be the way to go - I just wondered if there was any solid basis for their "concerns" !

Thanks

Steve

Does anyone know of any issues from contaminated woodchip,fungi etc.. being transferred to woodland ?

I've got a very good situation where I can drop woodchip on some local community land and it is spread on the footpaths to keep the mud down - a couple of local busybodies are creating a bit of a fuss for deep political reasons within the village and citing that "contaminated woodchip" could harm the woodland (mainly chestnut coppice)

I'm aware of the leachate being an issue for watercourses,but this is not an issue for us.

Cheers

Steve

I've got a chipper for sale on EBay at the moment,one bloke phoned up to come and have a look,when I mentioned that the chipper was at my house for viewing - not my yard - you could almost hear the disappointment in his voice - predictably he didn't turn up !!

Had the same on mine, more often at the other end into the valve block.

Poor design on the manufacturers part,Farmi have changed the design now and do offer a replacement kit, for a heftyish price - which I thought was poor.

In an previous life I used "enots" compression fittings on nylon airpipe,which would be an improvement, just need to get round to sourcing some!

Gets expensive in oil if nothing else.

64 drive links on mine,think its a 13" bar with the fillet bit on top making it the same as a 15" bar.

I've had a good load of summer cut birch cut and split in vented bags for two years after being left in 12ft lengths for 8months,it looked a bit spalted, or whatever the patterns in the wood are! But mixed in with beech and the more appreciative customers are extremely happy with it, loads of great feedback!

Im not surprised were told they could take it, most of it was willow and you can only access it from the main road

Ha Ha - don't think Mums to good on timber spotting,bit lively on the main road I reckon !!!

My Mum lives up there,she spoke to some of the boys clearing up by the old factory on the Cymro road and they said that the locals were free to help themselves - but you've got to be quick!!

Also said that they were leaving the stumps that high so they could find them for grubbing out when the new road cuts the corner off!

Thanks Stubby.

 

Not sure I'm really helping my quest to find a work partner though.

 

People are going to be wondering what they would be letting themselves in for:biggrin:

 

I'm actually no weirder than your average woodland worker and don't dabble in the occult or fantasy worlds, although I do enjoy Terry Pratchett:thumbup:

Looking that good your probably getting PM's I reckon:biggrin:

Yep,thats me - theres a vest under there somewhere,not sure what I was thinking with that mascara though!

er..yes..has been mentioned..sure as hell won't be putting any pictures up !

very good though,thats why I wear it..no other reason,does go well with the leather chaps though!

I swear by these - its a string vest,merino if your really keen,under a thin fleece base/mid layer its fantasticly warm and wicks away a treat.

Brynje of Norway + Bergans Outdoor Clothing - Super Thermo C- Shirt from Nordic Life

I could be wrong - mines only a WP30,but I thought that the chain oil was pumped by the small cylinder by the hydraulic pump,set the stroke of the cylinder to govern the amount of oil dosed each time.