swinny
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Everything posted by swinny
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This has been my view for many years... I do have to question my sanity at times but it does generally work out
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Exactly what I thought! Recently serviced my old teleporter and gave it a good going through. Did the back axle 13 or 18 litres it was. Sod of a position too.... Gluten for punishment as I am... I dispensed from my bigger barrels into a 1ltr tub which has a long nozzle built into the lid.... I squeezed all them litres in by hand! Took a while 😮
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Saw this a while back. Anchored I nto something behind... gone up and stropped in. Silly cut. You can see stem and lad fall after cut, weight goes in his rope and pulls him back a bit before his anchor point snapped and down he goes. Very poorly thought through. Surely the gimps behind the camera on the phone could have forseen this. No support on the hung up stem. And plenty of lads on the ground just watching. No thought of where the hell is the top going after severing.... Piss poor all round
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Your missing a thin tube with the square drive shaft that goes in there. Put in from the bearing end....
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Lot of water in that small drum then 😮 Imagine the amount in a 25ltr tub then dumped into a machine!
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You can't really take chances with kretz... this was only a small area of kretz on surface. Look at the amount of wood affected
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It's the elephant in the room. Can't trust no one nowadays.... Might be worth run the tank low and get a little camera in there for a look maybe?
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Might aswell fuel lines too as only cheap and we don't know age of machine
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Just wondering if anyone knew of a farmi 260 pto chipper for sale at all?
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I had this crap floating around in the tank of a machine I bought back end of last year... that gave me some issues!
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Is there no low drain on it anywhere? Water catchment bowl etc... diesel will sit on top of water.... If you can try crack a drain and see if diesel or water comes out first...
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Won't be a fortune new from l&s engineers I wouldn't have thought
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Most productive pto log splitter under 4k
swinny replied to pembswoodrecycling's topic in Firewood forum
Funny subject log splitters. Once they were cheap and now the cheap are now 1k to buy.... I bought a ktm 10t years ago. 450 quid. Got the wider base plate.... not the best made but works. Been welded and braced etc. Fast ram on it just wish for auto return but recently thought about changing the valve block to do that. Not long ago I welded it to a 6' x28" work bench so it can be loaded up. Recently put it on a smaller tractor but they have good lpm. Shittest video ever (was only a quick one to send to a friend to show it working) Most of the splitters now only seem to split smaller height logs.... the ktm can do 18" high logs no issues works well for me. I always thought when it's buggered I throw it in scrap and get a new .. they're 850-900 now 😆 🤣 20250107_121214.mp4 -
I've this year bought a 1928 road tow as we have the tracked version. The top bar on hopper is awesome very rarely trip it! Great setup. My comment purely just for the top bar in this situation. Also as your going gm, the disc blades from rotatech are peanuts!
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Sure joe westrup one FB made an old 125 entec into a tracked machine before, mounting on a tracked barrow One of the old entec 125 with twin rollers fit the bill for you I would think
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Too many to list but this is annoying. Thought it smelt of diesel strongly.... had a look and diesel leaking from where the wires go into the pump! Must be cheap crap .... did consider removing it, cleaning it up and epoxy resin around the wires but would presume this would seep through again at some point.
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Cheers. How is it then priced per cube? Rough estimates... If you take that figure and work it to metre cube.... if you then divide by 1.5 should this give you rough tonnage? As sure firewood boys reckon 1.5 cube per ton?
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This was a stack that only weighed 19t... I was sure I was up nearer 23t ish Guestimation is crap! But 19t was weighed with a trailer crane
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I will maybe try this from now on. You just measure height and length x2.5m to get volume or is there a more precise way? Still feel a little diddled
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Do you find it takes a lot more wood to get the ton due to the dieback. I had a decent stack of wood this year off one job and thought great, be 23-24t there. Was gutted when it was delivered to firewood man and they weighed it when lifting off and only grossed 19t 😞 volume seemd there but apparently not the weight
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Well I didn't find owt nor did I look properly.... I changed the top velcro pads on the old bashlin spikes.... had a lad climb for me for a few days and he had some panther carbon fibre ones which looked good and weighed bugger all! Can't member the spike placement on them though. Few month back bottom strap bust on my bashlins so replaced them and like new again now! Note to anyone else.... bashlin bottom straps were 60 quid ish.... Buckingham ones 30 quid. Near same thing! Same length and a ring that just turns onto the little loop in the spike frame to attach easy.
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Winching and carting
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2.5t? Really? Videos are deceiving etc but only looked maybe 30" at cut and maybe 7' long ish obv got bigger due to unions. I must get shafted when folk buy and weigh timber from me 😆 Anyway. Bet that was awesome being on the ground and waiting for the pieces to come to sort 😎
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Yup, multi meter straight away. See if it will jump, if it does, multimeter again can tell you alot straight away 👍
