rowan lee

South Sligo mate near Ballygawley (folks homestead), I'm based in Co meath these days, but get home to work in the woods most weekends. Glencar is lovely spot, you can get up onto Benbulben there and walk westwards along the top and explore an old barites mine (if you haven't already done so), great day out, with loads of old buildings and mine shafts to explore.

Ahh, nothing like returning home and climbing the tree's of your youth. Are you originally from Co.Sligo Breffni? Nice pictures.

Heading down for the friday anyways. The 2011 show was excellent, so pretty keen to absorb the atmosphere again and check out all the gear. Home

Nice one grasshopper, didn't notice any fungal brackets in the last set of pictures from Friday. Wasn't expecting to see such a cavity. Cracking day alright, as was Saturday.

Hey, excellent video woodwork, thanks to yourself and the camera person (Beau?) for a great job. Looked like a nice day for it. Really impressed with the sort of material it seems to handle with ease. The blade design is cool, like a twin guillotine and feed roller in one. Whats the maintenance like on the blades and are they expensive to replace? getting more and more tempted by one of these now. We have a small pto chipper with hydraulic infeed that is the ideal size for our small 35hp tractor, however this machine looks just as fast, if not faster when dealing with the bendy stuff you where putting through, and it would produce ideal secondary burning material for the home stoves. look forward to more video's from you. Would be great to see the saw horse system you have for the front loader on the tractor in action. All the best Rowan.

Nice bit of wood there hopper. Beats some of the leylandi clearout jobs you have posted in recent weeks. Dublin Mountains?

Seen the new purchase in another thread. Nice buy mate, looks well on the back of that 135. Is it struggling with any of those logs? or well suited to that tractor size then.

Sweet man, I've sent you a message there. In sort though the easiest way is to setup a youtube account (simple and free) and upload your video to there (quick and easy, once you have transferred the video from your camera to pc like you would photos) and then post a link here. I can message you some more indepth instructions if you want. Don't worry, if its too much bother though. Rowan.

Thanks for the reply. Per chance have you made a video of the above operation. Would love to see exactly how well the brancher copes with that sort of material. We chip everything that is <8cm, but this looks like a much more burnable product and would be ideal for the stove.

Hi Woodworks, whats the feed like on branches like those in your picture? Have only seen this machine in action taking in 2'' hazel rods. It seemed to race through these at the demo. Just wondering if branchy material takes much encouragement.

One for the veteran thread also. Wonder how old that tree is? I can see lots of chains, is this being used as a central bracing alternative?

A Dude on here Theocus, uploaded a very similar dynamic, cutting edge type promo video about 6 months in this section. Very well edited and a little more down to earth perhaps. Dunno if anyone remembers it, A big pine takedown with crane. Was also a class production.

7 days to play time in the woods, looking forward to the action shots. Fair play.

Couldn't tell the difference, probably 660's though. Toughen you up cutting sections all day everyday with one of those.

Sounds like more headache for you pal. But you seem to enjoy fixing stuff. Hows the little forwarder project coming along?

Heavy plant somewhere in the Netherlands, tearing down some big poplars. The stump extraction system looks effortless. Sure these guys know what they're doing but slewing and dropping a whole tree like a feller buncher in an urban setting like that would not be my cup of tea. Awesome kit all the same.

clever, took me a second to work that out.

Here Treedom, you must have Norwegian blood in you somewhere to be this concerned about stacking - read this http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/55201-funny-world-news-article-firewood.html or (that article is a little long winded) an extract from same article above ''Author Lars Mytting, who wrote Solid Wood - the book upon which the programme was based - said facing the bark up in a pile can bring benefits to parts of the country that it would not in others. It’s really a bit crazy but on the coast people are obsessed with facing the bark up because their weather conditions are different out along the ocean,' he told Australia's ABC. He says that because there is a lot of rain along the coast the bark is often turned up to keep it drier. But inland Norwegians tend to keep the bark faced down to protect it from snow as it builds up from the ground. It also dries more easily when the bark is down. This is mostly a cultural thing but the difference is very very small,' he added''.

Cheers. I like the split level idea as well. who needs conveyors, and other expensive gizmo's when you can just use gravity.

Well done truncator, excellent use of split. No more back pain picking up logs to put into the bags. How does the tray device work, or is it just for measuring out amounts for each net bag?

Interesting project, most be satisfying getting something like this back into business again. Keep the updated shots coming please. Rowan.

LiveLeak.com - We've logged a complaint: Norwegian TV show about a fireplace - viewers say wood was stacked with bark facing 'the wrong way' (comments) ''Show featured eight hour marathon of a live fireplace with little commentary'' watching a fire burn live on tv, suppose there is worse on the box these days.

Nice one, do you work for a local company in Co. Meath? As for jeeps on site - its something like 60 odd units, mainly 110's, 76,78, and 79 series LC's and some mk4 and 5 Hilux's.

Great firewood alright, we burn loads of the stuff, never had a problem. (seasoned in billet form for 12 months first). Most of the cyanide is in the fresh leaves, so make sure you aren't chipping down wind, or you can develop a sore head.

Haha, Wouldn't really be tree related what I do on a day to day basis (Geologist in Tara mines, Navan). Here's a video link I put up a while back though http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/arb-trucks/35282-our-new-79-a.html (page 2 somewhere is the link)