armchairarborist

didn't feel it here in dumfries, there was a few shakes earlier though shortly after each back cut, clearfelling big birches so they were falling thick and fast:001_tt2:

make it a £5 a litre, it'll get the peasants off the road, readily available cheap oil got them on the road in the firstplace

then the roads will be quiet enough for the rest to cruise around at the optimum speed for fuel economy, unlike the journey back from a job 15miles away a few weeks ago using only low range 1st&2nd because of queues:thumbdown: stop/start driving all the way with a full load and loaded trailer:thumbdown:

make it a £5 a litre, it'll get the peasants off the road, readily available cheap oil got them on the road in the firstplace

Ed get a 260. Easy to play with and still half a real saw. Just a little one. I'd happily let you play with mine for a day if you wanted

that sounded a bit gay mate, re-word it and i might have a borrow of your chainsaw for a day haha:thumbup:

i keep thinking of buying a tiny toy stihl like a 181? or something for them days i don't feel like having my arms stretched by real saws, my fave is 460 with 16'' bar for firewood.

11hp honda petrol would give it a bit of go £200 because you're a mate, just pulled out of a tracked dumper with 1054hrs

them lampposts look pretty strong:scared:, can you put the tirfor in a wheelbarrow to make the carrying easier? or get a small tracked machine in to carry all the kit and do the pulling? anything to make a job easier:

looks like a midget next to a pile of twigs to me, deans mini splitter all over again? wonder if i could sell the landy as a monster truck with the help of a small dude?

of course it'll fit, i saw a rover v8 in a plastic pig once, anything is possible:thumbup:

i had a similar job a couple of years ago, i charged them 15 days labour and sold the firewood too. pay for it?? why?

i'd rather see the dogs and 13''bar on the 660, that would be SUPERCOOL:thumbup1:

we were dismantling a pop and the sawdust was flying a fair distance, looking over some garages there was a new rangerover being valeted on a driveway and as the valeter drove away the motor was totally covered in sawdust, i went and knocked the door and explained what happened and the guy laughed, i offered to use his hosepipe to wash it off and he made us all a pot of tea:thumbup: only funny folk are funny with you

I guess its the ugly geezer at the back tickling its rear end:sneaky2:

that was the son of the client, his mum sent him out to learn hard labour, we had him loading the trailer with beech rings and digging 3t of beech chip:thumbup:

because the woman isn't into trees so i was magnetically drawn here, now when she walks past she says 'ooh trees, mushrooms, toys, ooh so exciting' in a sarcastic song sort of thing.. yeah i know:blushing:

mines always smiling too:biggrin:

i once had a smiley truck (jap crap) when viewed from the side, the chassis bent under full load, the ladder rack would tap against the cab when loaded:thumbup:

Here's my arb truck. As title of thread;

 

cool, didn't know ldv made a 'smiley'

we used to have 'wind up' all the time, then we put a new starter cord on the hedgetrimmers and its a lot easier:001_tt2:

no problamas dude, don't you hate it when you forget the barrow on a job and have to look round the clients garden for one.. they are useless, flat tyres, broken axle, wobbly handles that dump the load after a few steps and the dreaded skuff-skuff of the tyre on the overloaded body. i love my barrow most because i found it while exploring with the dog one day, cost me nothing except a tyre full of air and a bolt to secure the body.

heres mine! one wheel drive,cheap to run,go anywhere.

free tax/mot and not worth insuring:lol:

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not worth insuring? my barrow has been nicked twice off jobsites, one time they used it as a getaway vehicle for half a tonne of beech (not all at once)..! i had to repossess it both times:thumbdown:

The perfect firewood burns the longest and gives off a good amount of heat

 

As for triangles or squares, I assume you are splitting rounds 8" or larger?

From a processing perspective triangles would be easier to process, as cutting to square/rectangular pieces would take extra time (unless you have a log processing plant), and would result in more waste/off cuts possibly?

 

I would have thought that its the size of the triangle that makes all the difference when being burned. And then you have the type of wood and seasoning to also consider.

 

Oddly enough, last week out of curiosity, I did an experiment with samples from my two year old wood stack. I cut and measured three pieces of Oak, Sweet Chestnut and Silver/White Birch in to rounds that measured 3 inches diameter and 10 inches long. I placed all three pieces evenly apart in my wood stove on a bed of embers, at the same time. I then timed 10 minutes for initial ignition and then checked the wood every five minutes after. The Birch came third lasting only 25 minutes, next the Oak @ 35 minutes and the winner was Chestnut @ 45 mins and still burning. (This experiment had several flaws so I don't want to start a debate about what wood's best etc ... ) and it was a one off exercise so results the next time no doubt vary.

 

It would be interesting to see how rectangles and triangles burn. My bet is triangles will burn slightly longer (taking wood type, size/overall mass, moisture content at the time of burning, heat of the fire/type of fire and probably a few other hundred things into consideration lol).

 

I think another experiment, just for fun, could be on the cards!

yep, everything below 7.5inch is viewed as woodchip, most of the wood making it back to the yard is 2-3ft dia, wasteful i know but the woody woodchip i swap for red diesel with a friend:thumbup:

you will need a beast of a ram/pump but it sounds the way to go, get a long ram and split a few rings at once:thumbup1:

every year is a good year, always thought i'd never live to over about 21 because i liked going too fast.(way too fast). had a decent year this year, my highest turnover ever and without fiddling the books i have a taxable income of £1! i never seem to make money, just get more toys:thumbup:

i find the valorbe ones last loads better than stihl files, get at least three sharpens out of a file:thumbup:

seen it before but i'd need a drink to settle the shakes, one or two and i'd do it, after four i can't stand on a level floor:blushing: