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csservices

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  1. Keep your eyes and ears open, use your common sense and if you don't know ask
  2. Tad windy, rode it out this afternoon in the top of some big laurels that needed topping out, plenty of trees down round here, been to look at one on way home thats sat on a camper van
  3. I planted a load some years back on some rough ground, then other commitments overtook me and they never got managed, have got a few good ones out of them but most are well over 20ft now with no shape to them so their up for thinning this winter.
  4. +1 for the Erbauer I've got an 18v combi one, main reason for buying it was the all metal gearbox and also came with 3 yr warranty, one of its main uses is drilling gate posts for hinges to save lugging a generator about, will put a 19mm auger bit through an 8inch gatepost no trouble at all
  5. Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Hazel although have just started burning some corsican pine I had on the yard and thats giving good heat and reasonable burn time
  6. Good on you for having the balls to post about it mate, its too easy to get complacent in this job, on the plus side take it from me your nose heals quick, mine had a run in with a 9 inch grinder left me with 14 stitches, there will always be those who will preach that you should'nt have done it, but at the end of the day nobody's perfect you've learnt a lesson a hard way but in doing so you've given us all a wake up call, heal quick mate
  7. I used to live on a steady diet of ibuprofen due to a constantly bad back, they don't touch me now and I can't take cocodamol as they make me sick as a dog, back is alot better these days still gets bit stiff now and again but I know the warning signs, but if I get a headache now I have to take migraine tablets to get any sort of relief
  8. I use up to 3 inch as I burn mine in an oil drum and anything over 3 inch doesnt tend to charcoal properly, plus anything over 3 inch is firewood
  9. You also need to use the right swing and remember to let your forward hand slide up and down to allow the full momentum to be transferred to the log, same as swinging a sledgehammer
  10. All of the above will make good charcoal, alder is another one thats traditionally used, small diameter ash always makes nice charcoal and burns hot as anything too
  11. Hi mate the I've got the same saw 028 AV super, had it since new in 1987/88 spent a short stint in retirement but is back in action as its the only saw I've got thats running at the mo, thier good little saws and will take some abuse
  12. Got an old roughneck axe about a 4 pounder i think does most stuff also got a big 7lb axe as well but thats bit overkill but did pick up a a maul from homebase last year thats got a decent profile and doesnt do a bad job, think that might be a roughneck too.
  13. My couple, need good clean as other half made me put the in the garage out hte way of the kids, though saying that you could still shave with the Bowie favourite knife was a little Bruseletto Troll palm skinner but I lost it and don't think you can get them anymore
  14. Exactly my point I would burn more of it if I could get it, I'm burning mainly willow at the minute, its just the way people have been conditioned with regard to what is and isnt good firewood
  15. Haha yep my brother dumped them in the shed while doing his house up and I decided they would do as a temporary side til I get the tin sheets on it
  16. Trouble is as I've said before theres to many people chasing the same spec wood ie processor size which has helped push up the price, plus there is the firewood "snobbery" where everyone wants ash,oak,beech, syc etc but not faster growing coppicable woods such as willow, alder and hybrid polar/eucalyptus which can be cut on say approx ten year cycles because joe public has been told these are poor woods and so there is a general reluctance towards buying them.
  17. The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett, other half buys me a few Pratchetts for birthday and xmas so keeps me going, nice break from reality too
  18. Bulit using some 4"x4" timbers given by a customer, some 3" x 2" s leftover from a job and som secondhand tin sheets I had sat on the yard, pallet floor and pallets round two sides too allow good airflow
  19. I know a few hedgelayers who have been doing this for years they go to the dealer and buy whatever stihl or husky is on offer sub £200 run it for the season and sell it on due to the hammer they get hedge laying, reckon these mitox saws might well be worth a try at that money
  20. Not tried any from seed but I usually rescue any seedling trees I find on jobs that are in the way and transplant them elsewhere
  21. Sheds a bit empty at the minute, mind so's the yard which is why the shed aint filling up
  22. <p>Hi, might be a bit far for you but if your stuck I can take the chip and the timber, yard is at DE56 2LW if you want to look if its any good my numbers 07974 197820, Cheers Ed</p>

  23. There really is no hope for the human race
  24. Blowing alot harder than last weekend odd bit of rain too, was a tree down on the A6 just outside Belper on my way home with police directing traffic, typically didnt have a saw with me
  25. 4-5 ton tops, thing is with farm tipping trailers is that say for example you have a 6 ton grain trailer, people think if its full with whatever its 6 ton, but the size of the trailer is based on the load of grain it can carry, whereas if its filled with wood/soil etc its denser and therefore end up with more weight in the trailer, so as in your case you get a better deal

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