rowan lee
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Nice one Grasshopper. Good to see some Irish work on here. Keep em coming.
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Cool AS! Great action shots - thanks for posting. Those your trucks Sam? Evil looking things. Arb-core - I like that (1996 Raver - hardcore, you know the score?).
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Great video, looked like a challenging job alright, well done.
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Yeah I've seen the M Large boys themselves demonstrating the HP gear including the 1x37 on a 35 at some of the Irish show's. Seemed to be handling it well.
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Afraid not, the Irish dealer is this crowd murphy brothers home page Seems they have a UK base as well? Might be worth a shot? Personally, I prefer the billet system for small scale firewood production. I invested in a good vertical splitter with 1.2m stroke, and found cross cutting 40 billets at a time in a home-made rack with chainsaw far quicker then processing individual lengths on a circular saw. I hope you find yourself a nice woodland!
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Have you considered one of these Pi?o - ?uparka BGU SSM 250 Z - YouTube A good bit more expensive then the cone splitter/circular saw combi's (I think i was quoted about 4.5k), but a little more productive. Only downside is everything that is cut has to pass through the splitter chamber here, so not the machine for processing lots of 4'' stuff.
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Thats pretty cool. What kind of disk does he have on the angle grinder?
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A neighbour just got this bad boy back from the fabricators. Vinny my future brother in law gives us the demonstration in the video. The engine is a reconditioned 3cx 4 cylinder, about 80hp, and the ram is a about 35-40 tons force, from a large excavator. I was impressed, unfortunately there were no 'proper nasty' logs to really impress, but I think any log will lose dealing with this piece of kit.
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(firefox acting the maggot - this can be deleted by forum moderator)
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Ive got the pto version (R220 - now the R225), picked it up 2nd hand for about a grand in good nick. Its only a single roller feed, so the spring needs to be changed regularly and roller kept sharp. The intake area at the bottom of the chute is quite small, but so long as the brash is reasonably well prepped there isnt usually a problem with jamming. New blades are about 100 a pop (each), but seem to hold an excellent edge. Handy little gardeners/small estate machine. good access for greasing, blade changing etc.
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Cool, looks like a well thought out diy job, swivel hitch and all.
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Wouldn't say no to a play around with some of the tools in this yard Nice setup.
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I'd stick with the splitter myself. A big horizontal with log lift would compliment your magik nicely and eliminate all that wrestling on big stuff (presuming your into the billet system, are you?) Processors mean seasoning cordwood first, which is gonna take alot longer then billets. log deck and some sort of loader, cos who's gonna wrestle cordwood onto a processor all day. Or unseasoned cordwood and the need for a huge storage area for vented bags, which unlike neatly stacked billets under a tarp require a lot more space I'd say (?). Unless you spend mega bucks, you'll still be sawing up rings and splitting all the big stuff the processor can't cope with.
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If you have a processor, then vented bags are probably the best bet. If not, I would cut my load into 1.2m lengths and split everything into billets, stack on pallets and tarp cover everything outside. A year down the line, a pallet or two of billets can be fork lifted into the barn for cross cutting and storage as you need it. I would consider softwood also, will probably be easier and cheaper to source.
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Just wondering if any of the thor magik users have tried/ or successfully adapted a one handed controls system? As mentioned in my initial post on page one of this thread, the leader controls are great, in that they allow one handed operation for part one of the splitting process, i.e. holding the log steady and drawing the blade down - but can be a bit slow, and the valve is very sensitive, the slightest bit of sap build up along the guides and it stops dead in its tracks.
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Magik 18's younger brother - 13 here hooked up to an old 35. The leader controls make things really safe and convenient (especially with billets), but are a tad slow unfortunately.
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Out standing set of shots there Brushcutter.
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Nice wetland machinery there Eddie. Doesn't look as though that kit will go down in a hurry.
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Simple Fir removal shot from some different angles
rowan lee replied to danholls's topic in Video forum
There are some excellent video's on your website as well. Really informative, easy to follow step by step basic techniques and knots, etc. Great for someone like myself who hasn't climbed before and would like some solid backround before I get some professional training. Great find, great channel mate. Thank you. -
Ive got the Magik 13 as well. Excellent bit of kit, but in particular the 'leader control' system, which was an important aspect of my research before purchase, given that all the mainstream brands now insist on dual hand controls which can be annoying when your trying to balance and line up billets with the splitting head. The leader controls allow one handed use for the initial down stroke, and as soon as the blade makes contact with a surface (be it the log or your fingers) it stops applying any further pressure, but leaves enough to hold what ever in place, until you pull down on the second lever. Don't think any other brand has a system as efficient as this.
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Stick em up mate, sounds good. In the reply box, click the paperclip icon (top middle) and browse for each image (assuming you have these pictures on your computers hard drive already) and upload - simple.
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Cool short video man.
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'Essentially kiln dried firewood is firewood that has been baked in an oven to speed up the drying of the wood. By drying the wood this way valuable energy is lost as volatile esters from the wood evaporate. Whereas if you burn air dried firewood that has been left outside to naturally dry by the sun and wind you will get more energy from the wood as these lost volatile esters are retained.' I found this quote on a firewood website recently. Is this statement about lost energy in kiln dried timber true? Not really familiar with the science behind timber and 'volatile esters'
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Capable of up to 52cm diameter cordwood, no need for log deck or conveyor. Hydraulically controlled rotating wedge swivel bank. Can process up to 14m lengths. One man, one machine. (10ton machine min. though) Expensive piece of kit no doubt, but i like its simplicity [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzpsMXZLnKc&feature=share&list=ULJzpsMXZLnKc]RaMeC LogSplitter - Y Raunisto Oy - YouTube[/ame] << Croco :: Y.Raunisto Oy >>
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I really enjoyed the prospective from the crane hook block. Its the first craning video where I have been able to see exactly how the climber rigs up the slings for each lift. The machinery on the ground is perfectly balanced as well, definitely not over kill, just pure german efficiency. I'm not in the industry myself, but its action in videos like this that make me want to be involved, even it were only to be raking up the twiggy brash to start with!
