rowan lee
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Nice one Beau, its good to see your doing everything from standing tree to finished product delivered to door. The general public really get an insight into how much handling/work there is involved in the firewood process, particularly if you source and gather your own timber lengths. As you mentioned earlier blurb on your website will allude to the fact that you source most of the raw material from your other side lines i.e hedge laying/maintenance, coppice etc, so it is in fact a very sustainable industry.
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Nice one Chipy. Hope it works well this time round. You'll have to edit a video of that setup of yours when you get timber jacking.
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what logs have you been chopping today!
rowan lee replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Love logging sycie, nice clean stuff, that never gives splitting grief, green or seasoned. -
I use a rack system for one man logging up pre-splitting. It sits on a 3 pt. fork lift, enabling me to raise and lower the unit to avoid bending when unloading. I do about 50cm3 a year like this.
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Look into a pto pump conversion for your existing splitter then. All you need is a pump, an oil reservoir and some pipe work. It will speed things up dramatically. I would avoid a 40t splitter priced at 2k. I have a 13t pto splitter and it splits everything i can lift onto the table. Does a great job with a 4 way head as well on anything up to 14'' in diameter.
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Got the 35 back on Friday. The blown head gasket was the only problem. She is back on top form, full power, starting on the button etc. Glad it wasn't anything worse. Thanks again for every bodies input on this earlier.
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Ill pass that on Cornish. Good tip, thanks.
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Did you get it sorted Kev? What was the problem.
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This man was bang on - head gasket gone. Air, fuel filters were all good. Cleaned out primer bowl etc, and checked the injectors. Still had issues, mechanic is changing gasket tomorrow. Will update in a bit.
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what logs have you been chopping today!
rowan lee replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
hehe 200kg up front on that 35, must be a pig to steer when the back end is empty. Nice setup mate. -
Didn't realise you pulled out rhodie stumps as well, and mulched. A great service when you compare to conventional slash, burn, break your back with a chainsaw techniques, yes indeed. It most feel great standing back at the end of a day and seeing the clean up progress and the return of defined parkland.
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Agreed, that is a very neat little bolt on system. Eddie, how long to clear an acre's worth of rhodie in density and terrain pictured above?
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Some sort of a slot and slide system between the existing track grousers for the temporary sets would be ideal. Your new shear grab buncher looks very impressive.
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I wont get round to it for a few weeks Jon, I am away working for a bit. I will update this thread though buddy.
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Thanks for asking him Jon, appreciate it mate.
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The only regret i have is not buying one sooner - a pto splitter that is. Game changer mate. Sell a bit on the side, you'll have your money back in no time.
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No News Jon, but its a 3 cylinder engine
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If its a short term, I would get a fiskars x27 and save all the unsplittables in the corner for some fun with the tractor splitter when you get one. Those bottle jack splitters are painfully slow.
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That folding boom idea is nuts, Initially thought nah just a fancy mini rubber duck, but then noted pto, rear links etc. Nice job.
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One other thing I noted was when I killed the engine, there was a louder then normal 'sucking air' (grasping for breath - type sound) sound from the exhaust/manifold area.
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3 mate. no, but I'll find out thanks.
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I run the old girl for a few hours work couple times a month. Noticed she was abnormally difficult to start this time weird i thought, (good battery, and alternator fitted last year) Once running Noted the engine was laboring as i revered out of shed as i normally do in tick over and she chonked out. (as though i had the braked engaged) Drove it about a bit, and was struggling in lower rev's, much smokier then before. Also laboring when stationary and running pto splitter, also stalled a few times. Give it a good run about, but no improvement. Condensation build up in fuel tank?
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Nice one. I get the old man to stack on a table beside me on the splitter when I'm blitzing some cages. Found the constant twisting, bending down, picking up blocks sore on the lower back after a session. Much better with two people alright.
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Nice looking machine, looks a bit like a krpan. you got a 4 way for it? How long to split a cage with those sized logs? One handed optional operation as well, no messing around. Any vids mate?
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Me too, seems to have mixed up rakers and cutters in the sharpening the saw section. Some nice pictures in it.
