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See above, I was referring to starting prices, not a specific model. Think the entry level pto setup is about a 13 tonner (thor) and 10 tonner (posch).

Pto is the way to go for a grey fergie. A new thor/posch pto setup will start at 2/2.5 grand though. Converting your current to pto shouldn't be very difficult. clip-on pto pump, pipe work and a reservoir. 100's of quid rather then 1000's.

I messed around with tubes, cut out oil cans etc, but finally made this bagging table up. The main tray is just a folded piece of 3mm steel, (welded at the back) got that made for about 30 quid in a local engineering place, i made the rest. Having a table attached means i can fork up 2 or 3 bags worth at a time from the floor, thus no bending up and down to fill tray as i bag.

yeah thats cool alright.

Zubat (300mm) was my first and only silky. I'm sure this is the case with most silky's but its remarkable how long it hold that edge! Great hand saw.

looking forward mate, post the vid's in this section

Does anyone use laurel for charcoal production. We cut loads of the stuff down each year for firewood, but for cooking purposes is it worth the risk?

In very good looking nick for a 20 yr old. Are the two rams on the same circuit, so that as one pushes the other pulls back and vice versa? The 60 is some lump of steel, very nice as well, must be a few tonne of steel in that. ANy vids knocking about of either?

These are good in dry weather, really light, flexible and has good gripping properties. Because they're a little thinner then standard gloves you can really feel what your handling. Cheap and good wearing.

Nice looking countryside there Carlos, and wicked setup, machinery wise. You dont see many mogs side by side in Ireland.

Glad you're all enjoying the pictures lads. It might be crazy on behalf doing more work on my time off from the 'real job', but its the sense of freedom you get doing this kinda work in this kinda place that money can't buy. Pure contentment, I love it.

No front loader unfortunately, but have a 3 point hitch set of adjustable pallet toes. stacking wont be necessary as there is loads of space in windy places for them. My old firewood method was fell, buck and gather in the woods (1), then load tractor (2), unload, re-handle to split (3), re handle to stack billets (4), re handle to saw up seasoned billets (5), and re handle to load trailer for delivery (6). With the crates I reckon I can eliminate alot of this handling, by simply felling, bucking, splitting (1), loading rack (2), and ibc (3) all in the woods. Crates can then be hauled out a year later when an order comes in. Cheers mate.

Think its about 40 acres mixed woodland/bog, 60 acres of grassland, and 3 acres of formal/walled garden. Not sure why the owners stopped coming back from England to stay. Its a strange one. Unfortunately the big house has really fallen into wreck and ruin now since the funds stopped some years back. No electricity, no running water, birds nesting inside, and some of the strangest fungi I have ever seen growing out of the interiors. Its a real shame, because it when my dad first moved there 15years ago, the place was a hive of activity and everything was in perfect condition. However, doesnt stop me having fun with saw's and splitter though.

Thought I would update this again, more of the same but in different locations around the estate, taken on my week off during the easter break. I acquired 20 ibc crates in work, and thought I would trial them for seasoning firewood. There is a nice bit of wind here that comes off the lake and the clearing is a a great tip site for odds and ends that don't suit my 1mtr billeting system. I spent abit of time breaking down this wind blown oak that was hung up in a nice beech. Its been down a while, and there is a nice new leader emerging from the trunk close to the stump end, which will hopefully take off. Helped the old man get his stash for 2015/2016 as well. This beech fell during january, but could only access it now with the machinery because it had been so wet. Such a contrast, he even managed to get his van down there with trailer to collect the billets. No day spent wooding would be complete without a few hoppy ales around the fire/furnace. Got a few nice blazes going.

If you craned bundle into such a rack device the straps could then be removed, thus relieving the tension. something like this=4&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi1[gruppe]=88&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi1[prod]=438&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi2[showProdukt]=438&cHash=0314b89a8fbc6900e93b754d63187ee5"]http://www.bgu-maschinen.de/en/products/product-detail.html?tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi1[kat]=4&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi1[gruppe]=88&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi1[prod]=438&tx_sytbgumaschinen_pi2[showProdukt]=438&cHash=0314b89a8fbc6900e93b754d63187ee5 Thus no manual handling of individual billets at sawing stage. Speaking of revolver type circular saws -have you seen the Kretzer 'rotomat' in action at the APF (What a piece of kit that is, but big bucks).

Thats really good then, first human contact is made at the splitter stage. so then its handled only twice by the time its strapped up (assuming smallish diameter pieces that only need one slice with either a single or two blade). Just wondering about your cutting solution - (and I'm sure you have thought about this) rather then handling again when feeding the saw, could a seasoned bundle be craned back into a rack devise and simply sliced in 2 or 3 sections (pending on how long you want a log length to be) with a chainsaw sufficiently long enough to cut through from one or both sides. Sawn logs stay in the rack and then get tipped into a pile.

Now that you have that trailer of round wood back from the bog, what happens next in the system? Do you unload and buck up on the ground, or cut to 1mtr lengths while each piece is suspended in the jaws of the grab, and then split etc. Keep the photos coming from each stage, will make a brilliant thread. I will do similar, in the next month as well.

Looks even more fun then my weekend playground in the 'moss' in Co. Sligo. Plenty of birch kicking round the edges there too. You have it well planned out in terms of setup - one engine, pto winch, piped to crane trailer. No manual handling of timber in the woods whatsoever. I'd love to come up sometime and see it on the ground, though like most of Ireland, always seems better when the sun is out and it dry of course.

Watched this last night, really enjoyed it! Thanks for putting it together.

You could stick some greedy boards on that and do a double load. Sometimes I just hitch off trailer at customers house, put a lock on it, and leave it there for them to unload in their own time. Works well if its local and just the odd load your doing here and there Saves a bit of your time as well.

I would like to a see a setup that only requires a person to slip new bags on, and take filled bags off, but i doubt this is possible (yet). In order to get neatly stacked bags I assume a bagging tray still has to be filled up and bagged by hand. One nice setup I saw on my travels, was processor conveyor into an old 10x6 tipper, (which was partially tipped to create an angle). Gravity fed the logs to the bottom of the tipped trailer, where two young lads work at waist height transferring to (x2) tray setups. great outputs per hour.

Stein Krieger (long leg) - I was in a similar predicament, and needed a 34 leg/32 waist. These are a great fit, no more saw dust socks.

Glad people are enjoying the pictures, I must try and update this more then once a year though

Ground conditions seem to have improved (for the time being) as well. Nice shot.

More shenanigans from this Autumn and Winter down the woods at the weekends. Cut my teeth into some trickier then usual tree's. This hung up spruce got the 460 and ursus where it hurts, this rotten elm got the little 250, and this hollow Sycamore got the 261. Charlie the estate manager very happy with his souvenir, and glad to see her down as it had taunted him every time he passed on the way up to his cottage. Firewood sales helped buy this toy for 2014, and a few shots of me thrashing out new access trails in the jungle for next years thinnings. Lastly a hung up oak which was uprooted during the recent storms and resting in a small Rowan. Next on the hit list.