Kev P
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Collino comby with 15 ton splitter from Riko looks useful, they have sold a few.
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Digga the best hedge laying I have seen.
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1500 hedging stakes sold since my last post.
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Well worth watching.
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A few years ago we had a mobile mechanic come to our Matbro,he had a funnel that separates the water,debris from the diesel. I see for one they are for sale on Amazon,called Mr Funnel fuel Filter and Water Separator. Would one of these help with some of the problems mentioned.
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One of the tanks on the back stores the fuel.
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I know this bandsaw it belongs to some friends of mine. They do not have a blade sharpening machine hence could be cutting better. It is in very could condition,abit slow yes. But will be a good buy for somebody.
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Large Cone Splitter vs 40ton + splitter for 3ft/4ft butts
Kev P replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
I like the way you can restack the timber,also how it's possible to put the rotating cone against it and role it over. I usually restack the timber with the bark up. -
Which Lasco Cone splitter for knotty 4ft+ dameter butts?
Kev P replied to cessna's topic in Large equipment
We have a Takeuchi TB80 with a 2 speed Lasco. One of our daughters put a video on you tube called "Firewood is born" where there is a few images of the setup. I think for such big timber a bigger excavator might be best. I rarely get timber as big as that and the TB80 is brilliant. -
Thank you Calum we had not used the splitter for a while so maybe you are right, I hope so.
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We put some more oil in it this morning and used it for an hour. No problems. Shortly after stopping it I removed the dip stick come breather,to see a lot of small bubbles.
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Started the splitter up as per usual this morning.Left it a short while,started to use it splitting some 20" long odd lengths .When I realised oil was oozing out of the breather. Just wondered if anybody has experienced this.
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Today the man I mentioned above came and bought 500 stakes,and said he wood be back for more. Whilst delivering logs today I came across a couple of blokes hedge laying they said they pay 60p per stake.
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I know of a contractor who buys big poplar,brings it to his yard ,cone splits it. Loads it straight back on to his lorrys and off to a woodchip company.
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In the picture to the left show me making hedging stakes. All are made from seasoned softwood.
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We ask -55p per hedging stake.They are 5' long pointed 4 ways,tied up in bundles of 20.And one hedge layer complained that was to much money.
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We had the Thor mignon electric and it did brilliantly,after many years of service it became slow,so a friend had it.I replaced it with the Balfor 11 ton electric it's been here over 3 years and seen a lot of wood and still going strong.We think it's the better splitter of the two.
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When we are turning Larch into billets sometimes you can find a puddle of resin underneath the cut length stood up prior to splitting.I will then split it to open up where the resin is.Then cut that billet with a circular saw into logs.Put the logs up on one of the rooves with the resin facing the elements,maybe for a year.Then on a nice day put it in the back of our own log shed.When it comes to burning it, Big J has got the answer.
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We have a clearview vision for 20 years now,and with the aid of a heat recovery system it has been keeping a 4 bedroom bungalow cosy.I paid about £600 for it and I sure if it went on ebay today I would get our money back.It still looks good and runs well and all we burn is softwood.
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That involves my good lady,2 mugs of water in a kettle in just the right place and its boiling in a short time.We put a one gallon kettle by the side of it for the washing up etc.That will be boiling in under 40 mins with a steady fire.We love it.
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It takes 20 mins with a steady fire to get the oven to 200,also makes lovely toast for breakfast on the top.
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With talk of log burners I thought I would give a wood burning cooker we have a mention.Us firewood boys always get wood that is not really fit for sale for one reason or another.Hence we buy a log burner or two.We a year ago May bought this little cooker ,we did not want a back boiler just the cooker.It sits on a 3' by 2' slab ,obviously plenty of info on line.It loves pallets,crack willow , poplar and any softwood.And is really easy to manage with a price that would suit a lot of pockets.
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What is this saw you have?.
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From my memory no it won't,I've sharpened a 2 tpi blade on the bench grinder no problem,have used a blade today a lot cutting firewood.3 tpi maybe a dremel and watch one of the blade sharpening videos on you tube.
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I have sharpened many double hard and silver tip woodmizer blades on my old sharpener,seemed to cut really well and got many sharpenings out of a blade.
