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Yeah, if I had seen it earlier and it was near me I would have set up a new ID, won it, gone around and felled it. Anything gets hit I'm in the motor and off to KFC pronto.

How about a skid steer with front mounted brash cutter? Something like this. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60YC3sGn8Ss&feature=related]BUSHMASTER skid steer brush mower and tree cutter - YouTube[/ame]

Do they fold up or something to stack flat? They do look really useful. I've got one similar which a load of willow shoots were delivered in but it's fixed and at the mo we use it for a (large) kindling store. I bet there would be a good market for them with the caveat that they are heavy and low value so shipping them around is going to cut into the cost effectiveness of them.

Looks like the work of a splitter to me but not sure how you would end up with the bar in the dangerous end of a working splitter!

Is a big oak trunk worth anything these days? We've got one, still growing which must be 40ft before a single branch of any note. It hasn't been pollarded, it's just straight up and must be 1.5m in diameter. My grandad said he would only take it down if it was going to be used for a building in the local community so I suppose I have to stick to that dammit. Zing zing. Crash.

Call in an air strike.

Thats the ones on mine. I usually have a full toolkit but on this occasion left it in the shed. My 345 has the tool-less tensioner which I find works pretty well. It's just a bit annoying that you need a seperate tool to fill it up. Seems like a huge design flaw to me. The Stihl caps never cause any problems. I wonder if they fit? Or is the thread on the outside on a Stihl? I've sold my MS now so can't test it. It's not really a matter of strength either, you just can't get a grip on the things. Especially when it's -5.

One thing that has always bugged me about Husky saws are the filler caps. Why they can't use a sensible cap like Stihl I will never know. I went out last night to ring up a tree about half a mile from home. Stupidly forgot my tool kit and I'm damned if I could get the oil cap off the saw. It seems to vibrate tighter on mine and you need a big old screwdriver (which knackers the cap) or a set of plumbers grips to get the thing open. In the end I had to drive back home again. I'm a farmers lad and used to milk cows by hand so strength in the fingers isn't the issue. Are there any after market replacements for these silly little caps as it's driving me nuts.

I've had a bit more of a dig into this and it seems the cheapest solid fuel rayburs you can get are the early No.1,2,3, Regent etc. The output on these is about 10,000btu and it says it's not possible to run radiators from them but they should provide 3 hot baths and lots of hot water per day. The parts are cheap too. We don't really use hot water in the unit other than washing hands so I'm wondering if these machines would be up to the job of heating the room they are in (ambient), running one large radiator and a couple towel rails to a reasonable temp. At the end of the day, if we get a 30 gallon indirect cylinder it's just going to get hotter and hotter. You can get the Supreme / Nouvelle range but most have been converted to oil and the boilers are mega money if they have blown.

We have noticed a lot of them about this year but no nests nearby. They do seem a bit more 'in yer face' than usual as well. Not so many hornets about though this year.

We have a similar setup in the house with a heatstore and underfloor heating supplied by and Esse wood range. Unfortunately, in the work place (shed), the budget won't stretch to a heat store etc. It's going to have to be an ebay job. We'll do it right and I know a pro plumber who will make sure it's all safe. I can get all the SS flu at trade cost so that's a bonus. I just want a good cheap and eco friendly way to keep us and our staff toasty this winter and we have tons and tons of wood knocking about so it's a no brainer really.

Nice photos Andrew.

Which side are you going up? How the fog? We went up the Rangers track last time which was a really nice walk with great views.

Yeah, we had to do this with our Esse in the house. It's never got near boiling but the installer said the header would melt if it was plastic!

Thanks, I'll check it out.

The bacon butties and kettle are obviously the real motivation here:laugh1: Right, off to look on eBay for a decent copper cylinder. Are they all the same? I see some direct and some indirect! I guess I need a direct one for this? I appreciate the need for the system being able to vent in the event of a power cut.

We have a big old barn we run our business from with offices and some work areas which need to be kept warm. It's pretty rough and ready. We are looking at alternatives to heating with electricity this year as it cost us a grand last winter and came up with the idea of an old wood fired Rayburn off ebay with boiler hooked up to some rads. I own a woodland so have plenty of access to firewood and see the work gathering it as excersize so it's essentially time I would spend in the gym (or drinking beer on the sofa). Main question is do we need to vent the system? Surely we should? Most of the rads will be above the rayburn except one in the loo on the same level which we thought could be on the return run. I have a plumber up the road we use but he's away at the mo. I've got a load of spare rads but what else would we need? Hot water would be useful if cheap enough but not a requirement as it's only hand washing really and we could keep the small leccy on demand heater we use for that. We are looking to do this on a budget aside from the new flu pipe which luckilly one of our suppliers do in SS and vitreous.

Welly boots will stink and smoke, Pallet wrap your flu will choke But tyres treaded or tyres bald Will keep away the winter's cold. Burning tapes and DVDs, Will cause your ecofan to seize. A gallon of petrol in the grate, Will put you in a terrible state. But tyres white or tyres black, Will warm your aching back. Plastic bottles, tubs and spoons Your neighbours will complain of fumes But tyres old and tyres new Will finish them off with acrid plumes.

I've just had a look through a load of our pallets and most do have the HT stamp on them. I guess I'll be more choosy in future.

Anyone know any good links to info on this? We also get loads of pallets from stock deliveries and we put them through the burner. Surely in a very hot fire, all the gases are burnt aren't they? We did have one the other day which looked quite normal but was really stinky when burnt like it had creosote in it or something. Not nice. One thing I am considering is building a fairly large kiln to quickly season logs and using pallets to heat it by a fire underneath. I figure this may be a better use of them rather than burning them in the house.

Oh, it's flash. I take it all back. You will have to rip that down and start again. We've had to do that with a client's site and his sales have increased by a multiple of 10 in a year (famous bloke off the telly). He was in denial for a year before we finally conviced him. You just can't build your site in flash. It's death to your online business. Sorry. How about building it around a shopping cart like Magento? That gives you the easy option of adding buy buttons everywhere with full checkout support. Plus you can plug in Wordpress or whatever for blogs etc.

Ok mate, I admit, I don't know the ins and out of your business and the dynamic you have with your customers and maybe my post was too simplistic. I apologise if I p'd anyone off. All the best.

Agreed, make your page titles more descriptive and with more keywords. The main thing for SEO is incoming links from similar sites. So, a site about firewood linking to yours is good news. A site about monkeys linking to yours has very little value in google's eyes. Have you considered using Google Product search as well. It's a bit complex but it's still the main traffic driver to our site at the moment and generates a lot of sales for us.

Silverline ones are OK. I dunno how much they are off the top of my head but not much I don't think. We sell tons of them.

I like it on the whole. A good job. Friendly but professional. The only thing that is missing is that I may want a Hilux full of logs. If that is not a service you offer, that's fair enough. I disagree on out-going links. Not good for SEO in my humble opinion. Too many of these with not many incoming links and google will write your site off as a link farm. Overall, I think you've done a really nice job on it.