Big J
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Just after a quick recommendation for a new axe for firewood. I'm not after a splitting maul as I already have one, but a replacement for the crappy 4lb 'felling axe' I had from Screwfix who's handle smashed yesterday. I do enjoy splitting, and am quite quick through straight elm, sycamore, oak and beech provided I have the right weapon! There are a lot of axes on Jonesies site, but I'm not sure which to go for. Something in the 3-5lb range, with a thinnish head so as not to sent the wood flying. Thanks in advance, Jonathan
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Nothing makes you stand out more as a Scottish troublemaker than full tartan jumpsuits!
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I tend to use the little electric sharpener from granberg initially, and then give it a couple of strokes free hand after to hone the edge. I use the electric sharpener as milling on a 42 inch bar requires so much sharpening! Jonathan
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this takes me back to those meetings with President Bush. Another thing we used to do
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Tempted?
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IFA Multicar Multitruck 25 on eBay (end time 16-Nov-10 09:31:23 GMT) Even better - tipper and 303 miles on the clock!
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multicar 4x4 skip lorry skip truck 3.5 ton diesel on eBay (end time 14-Nov-10 18:47:15 GMT) Another Ebay nugget perhaps? Currently a skip lorry, but a lot of things going for it, including the stupidly low mileage, pto and crawler gear.
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Let's not forget though Stephen that you will be needing a rugged truck to transport those logs across the treacherous terrain of rocks, inclines, grass and garden gnomes!
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQP3ywU6abQ&feature=related]YouTube - Ural in der 4. Sektion in Hannover 2008[/ame] First step - need to buy one. Second step - I would have to build a course for it in the garden. Third step - I suspect I would end up single rather quickly after steps one and two!
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Even my lovely woman chuckled - very funny indeed!
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Excellent find! Getting sick of Metcheck's total unreliability and the BBC's inaccuracy.
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We have one medium sized stove at home. In cold weather it's almost always on (24/7) - last winter we only put the heating on twice and when we had guests. It keeps the living room at about 22 degrees and the rest of the (3 bedroom cottage style) house at about 12-16. Fine when you consider the wood is free. I'm glad it is though as it chugs through about 3 cube a month. Jonathan
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Scratch that - found the US price list. Might be out of my budget a bit: Log Splitter, Wood Splitter - Super Split®
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Looks very interesting to me. Most of my firewood for home is thinnings (sub 12 inches) - straight and clean. Any idea on price? Jonathan
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The estate sell their firewood by the two cubic metre tipping trailer for £135 plus delivery. I keep saying to them that they could up that a bit, as it's flying out at the moment (5 loads yesterday). If it's going to be a hard winter again, there aren't going to be too many suppliers with timber left come February. Might as well sell it at a better price - if you have some left, you'll seem cheap regardless. Jonathan
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5 tons of beech and 7 tons of ash for free ( Glasgow )
Big J replied to Czlowiek Drzewo's topic in Firewood forum
If I might butt in, I do understand where Martyn is coming from, even if the wording is a little inflamatory! Supplementary training will benefit most people in any line of physical work. If the only exercise you do is your work, you can find yourself on the limit for most of the time. If however, you top up your exercise regime with a little something extra, it can make regular work much easier. I have been there and done that. Whilst you will get a certain percentage of genetic freaks that will grow huge and strong from tree work, most of us will not. That said, these day's I'm just too tired from forestry to get to the gym. I know that if I started again, it would make everything easier, but I don't presently have the willpower! -
I do think that the higher rate of tuition fees can only be a good thing. There are far far too many people going to university for all the wrong reasons, including getting wasted, partying, sleeping around and killing three years. For a significant number, an education is simply incidental to the social scene. Consequently, universities have been offering increasingly obtuse and meaningless degrees in order to attract this new wave of alcohol fuelled numpties - Lady Gaga studies anyone? Now, as a society we are in the comical position where graduates are cheaper to employ than cleaners. In my opinion, there needs to be a far more stringent entry system for universities, do away with all the mickey mouse degrees and there needs to be a return to apprenticeships. Most people don't need to go to uni to fulfil their potential, or make a good living. Why should we subsidise 3 years of alcohol fuelled partying? /rant.
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Anyone need good wide Elm as far south as Northampton?
Big J replied to Big J's topic in Milling Forum
As before, lots of good timber left. Very little dry burr elm left, but lots of nice Wheatly Elm (very tight, dark grain). My kiln is reopening in 3 weeks time and I want to clear some space, so discounts available for large orders. As before, plenty of Elm in the round to be sawn to order. Jonathan -
A cabinet maker friend of mine is insistent that it makes the finest stickers for kiln drying timber as it doesn't react with anything. Hire a woodmizer for a couple of days and turn the whole lot into 3/4 inch and inch stickers. If you weren't so far away, I'd take some!
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Quality standing oak - how much is it worth per hoppus foot?
Big J replied to Rob D's topic in Panther Mill UK
Hmmm. I don't have any experience with buying Oak standing but I suppose I would pay around the £3 mark a hoppus? Works out at about £100 a tonne, which is considerably more than they would get for firewooding. -
Proper giggles for that one - with so many crude and adult jokes (not that many of them aren't funny, because they are), it's nice to guffaw at a joke as innocent as that!
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Could it be argued though that a groundies job is the more physically demanding job, and that there should be some accommodation made for the graft involved in it? Either way, forestry trumps being a groundie or climber! .....I'll get my felling lever and go...
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I'm more sure than ever that the pay is better up here than south of the border. I do wonder why..... I reckon 2/3 is about right. That said, I think it depends on the job.
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Hmmm, still not convinced. If ever I have to employ anyone for saw related work (as in not just a brash dragger, but someone required to operate a saw) I just can't bring myself to pay less than £100 a day. I think that especially with the number of experienced folk around, that people will work for so little. At the end of the day, it might not require a large amount of qualifications to get started in, but arboriculture requires skill, concentration and hard graft. Getting paid less than £100 a day seems insulting, especially when you consider the number of mickey mouse jobs people do for more money. I think if you aren't able to competitively quote for work and pay yourself and your workers a fair wage, you need to look at streamlining operations or diversifying. Fair day's wage for a fair day's work.
