MikeTM150

we're with nfu, but have a policy which costs £20,000/year so they do give us good service. Its a shame they don't do the same with smaller, perhaps single machine policy's and give as good customer service. I wouldn't change but can see that other companys do better in some instances!!!!!!

i'm just looking into an angus machine (60KW) to replace an old farm 2000 machine, mainly so i can claim the grants with improved effeciancy over the farm 2000!! I take it you'd recommend them as a good brand to buy for simple trouble free operation?

this may seem a dum question to some, but how big is a cord of wood? I'm looking at having a replacement wood fired central heating system and trying to guage its use and the chaps given it to me in no. of cords, now i think its 128cubic feet, so say 4'x4'x8', would i be correct in this thinking?

HI Can agree with everyone build ur own, i looked at buying one as they were 'cheap' on the bay but decided they looked like they might break with a match stick!! You can work out ram pressure but using pi to work out the internal area of the ram cyclinder and multiply that by the max pressure of the hydraulic system ur gonna use, usually somewhere between 2500psi and 300psi depending on machine. Then divide by 2.2 to give you the metric tonnage of force. I use an 75mm ram cyclinder and our big tractor produces 3000psi at 140l/min, which priduces around 16tons of force which splits 99.9% of all knotty wood. Larger the ram slower cycle times will be, that size ram at 140l/min gives a 500mm cycle time of about 3.5secs. I made a knife blade so it'll cut through the timber if needed, and made it work on a foot pedal so u've always got hands free. Also it returns to 'open' position automatically and that is adjustable with a simple 'r' clip to suit the size log u want saving time cycling back to the top everytime. HSE would love that i know! If u want some pics i'll pop some up, or if ur close enough u can look, i only used scrap from around the farm so it doesn't look like no high production machine but u'll never break it!!!

that must be the nutritional fodder thats included in ur pint!!!! That makes it proper job if u get no hangover!!!

thats some sersiously determined thieves......... sickening!

that looks some some proper stuff that'll make ur toe's curl after a pint or two!!!! :thumbup:

a bit of careful twisting around branches and dangling??????

you a farmer? cuz thats what wood burners were desinged for isn't it......sleepers or telegraph poles are no go. But anything else gets chucked on and they love it, seasoned is the only stipulation, and thats a must!!!!

now landcruiser is a fair shout, fourtrak has one small problem as already pointed out, rot. Wife had one, yep pulled like a train but didn't feel like the most stable flying down the m'way, rotted like a dying cabbage. If they made them still with the 2.8tdi engine i'm buy one over a landy tdci heap! Only landcruiser i've ever had owt to do with was one i tried to just replace a diff seal on, was the price of the parts. What cost £1200 on Landcruiser could have been done on landrover for about £250. So thats what has put me off IMO. Simple and effective, something many modern machines aspire to, but few reach!!!!!

all i know is i'm glad i can get my own firewood for the price of some petrol in the saw and diesel in my tractor!! :thumbup1: Nice operation but i don't like the cost of the stuff!!!:thumbup:

2.5hrs of our lives we will never get back and will take a lifetime of therapy to get over!!!!!!:lol::lol:

count me in that club!!! wonder if the wife would mind me sharpening a chainsaw on the sofa?

if u can find me a jap motor that tows 3.5t then i'd buy one, landrover have lost the plot when it comes to providing a work horse, but its the towing capacity which makes me drive one.

right, cheap ones are good enough to get a clean cut in anything up to 6mm at the most in my experience. U need quite a large compressor if u use if for long periods as they do like to suck up the air. Dry clean air is essential, pay for a decent drier/filter for it as it will pay u back easily in hassle free clean cutting. My first was a cheap chinese version which worked well but was only any good at the thin stuff, that was nearly five years ago and 3mm was its max for anything quality but there alot better now. Now I run a hypertherm powermax 45, which will cut up to 12mm clean and easy, but up to 25mm u can hack ur way through. But she does soak up all 32amps of single phase, wish i'd gone three phase really but that was another grand on the price! Consumables are quite cheap, tips, electrodes shrouds and the such. It doesn't worrys about cutting through paint/galv/rust so long as u get a electrical circuit its fine! Brilliant to use on stainless and ali plate, so quick and easy. Hope that helps!

But he said he wanted two seats, so it'd have to be a two hump camel???:thumbup:

do it, nothing to complex so long as u obviosuly are really meticulous about ensuring its square where u come to welding it back together so it doesn't crab or wear tyre's uneven. I shrank a 110 to a 90 for a chap, personally i couldn't see the point but he was paying so he got what he wanted!

This is madness, but i love it!!! always wanted to do road of bones, but as yet not been fortunate enough to have the chance!!!

only one place for that stuff.......a wood burner. Just a shame u have to see it grow in the first place!!!

Oxy was the first type of welding i was taught by our old mechanic, was always told if u can weld with that then the rest will be a breeze!!! He wasn't wrong, it made mma (stick) look like a piece of cake!!! An old technique these days but i still use it occansionally.

firewood sounds good!!!!

I checked this with my insurance company when i started hiring the odd machine out, so long as they are notified that machines may be used for hire purposes they'll cover it so long as reasonable efforts has been made to protect the asset (ie GPS, hire agreements)

they always say ' Its worth what some mug will pay for it ' this blokes proved the point and where are the mugs when i'm selling stuff.......:lol:

see that's where most people go wrong with mig, they think its easy and when it leaves crap weld they think stick's better, i use both in different situtations and i would agree in some situations that stick is better and some mig is better. If i had to to pick just one, i'd be very hard pushed to decide which to loose!!! I've seen come crap by both, and IMO some of the worst has been mig welding on landrover chassis's i've had to re-repair cuz their 'mate down the pub' brought a mig and thought it'd be easy to earn some cash..........

I can tell u what happens, seen the steel winch cable on a truck cut through a landrover rear door quicker and tidier than a disc cutter then inbed itself in the rear of the bulk head behind the driver! Put a human in the way and u have slices of human sushi...........