MikeTM150

see i knew this place would have the answer!!! Can see the logic, guess it's really been superseeded by timber harvesters on machines! Does anyone here use one?

Hi whilst avoiding paperwork this morning i found this on you tube:- [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G80EXLg7DtE&feature=related]Husqvarna 077 Bow Saw - YouTube[/ame] Now can someone please tell me why u'd use one of these? I can't get my head around it at all and i've watched several video's but can't see the point. :confused1:

ah ha i think she's been listening to the tree chappy on radio 2 last week about listening to the noises the tree's make!!! not sure if i can quite believe it is possible actually!

messy workshop is the sign of a genius at work! Well thats my excuse anyway!! Nice trailer!!

here's my 2pennies worth, i agree with all those who've said they're good if u have lots of nice straight cord wood. I built a homemade version for myself, not as complex or quick as a brought one but i soon found once all the straight timber was gone it was as much use as a chocolate teapot in the sahara!! I've since stripped it to pieces and made a quick foot pedal operated vertical splitter, for the small amount we do i've found it much more succesful to run any smaller straight wood through the circular saw and then throught he splitter. or chainsaw and then splitter. I've ended up recently with a load or two of wood from a yard that runs a large processor and any of the timber they can't put through that was gettng dumped over the quarry edge so they now save it and i pick it up FOC. Depends on the situation, i'd love to have a shiny processor and do tons and tons in half the time but i just don't get that kinda timber very often. And there's too much competition in the area from others who do it with processors for it to warrant me getting into firewood in a big way!

i've often thought this would be a good way of making more use of our big tractors in the winter, but unlike chippers there doesn't seem to be any machines out there designed for high productivy of large material that requires a large hp tractor? would like to know if anyone knows of a machine out there? but like farming is going now, alot of people seem to like there independance so are preffering to use there own smaller kit and do it exactly as they want? don't know if this would be similiar in the firewood trade? :confused1:

as a tight farmer i burn anything i find or get offered, long as its well seasoned!!!! softwoods as good as hardwood, agreed u chuck more on but it gives off more heat! Have been known to wear shorts and t-shirt infront the woodburner only to go to bed with ice on the inside of the bedroom window!!!

all i know is i won't be offering to cut it up with my bow saw and split it with a maul!!!! :lol:

trust me if i use C4 i'll be filming it!!! And u'll be the first on here to watch it!!! wonder if the local quarry would let me have some........:lol:

i do like the sound of the c4 idea, only trouble is u might get some splinters of beech in ur arse as ur running if u get it wrong!!! Thanks though, might try that 2moro if i get round to it!!!

Hi Wondered if anyone had any tips on felling a large beech tree that is hollow. Its about 4'-5' in diameter approx 3' from the ground. Its still alive mostly, but there are some dead branch points left up the top. The tree is in the side of a wood, so direction of fell isn't critical but would obviously be easier if it fell in the field to extract hopefully some spalted timber for sawing and the rest is destined for the good old log burner!!! I would put a pic on here but didn't take one when i was up there, but will try and get one if i can! Many thanks in advance Mike:biggrin:

You can't beat a good chicken pie!!!!

yep thats the more sensible proposition!!!

And i can assure you its worth every penny of ur hard earned cash, i brought a pile of **** and they recommended the 346xp on here so i brought one and its an assume tool, try ur hardest to buy new now because it'll be the best option in the end!!! Also i know it seems daft but offer to work free for a week to show them ur dedicated and willing, slightly different on a farm perhaps, but a had one chap do that with me for a tractor driving job, i thought why not, nothing to loose and if nothing else we can take the piss when he doesn't turn up on the second day. But he's still here just over 2yrs later and is one of my best drivers (i hope he doesn't read this!) and i even paid him for the free week when i realised he was good!!! try it!

can't somehow see that catching on with the true hardcore users of landrovers, i used to be a landrover fanatic then i realised they were loosing the plot now they've proven they have lost the plot!!! Not sure what were gonna be left with soon to use as a hardcore offroad workhorse........ who gives a tupence about looks when you want to use it as a serious workhorse???

Thats a good point well made!

i've got a similar tool to this from oregan, good tool if u've just taken chunks out of the chain with a nail or rock or someone says can u sharpen this and it looks like blind monkey with a nich inch grinder has been at it. But otherwise its quicker and i think you get a sharper tooth with a hand file. As with all gadgets they take time to setup in which time u can get a fair few teeth sharpened! Also it's quite hungry on chain metal, no matter how hard i've tried to just touch the tooth it seems to have taken quite a lot of metal away.

yep i can see ur point, its a good one, i guess as a farmer/contractor i don't get too hung up on the colour of diesel because out of the several times we've been stopped they've never checked the colour of the diesel. Funnily they do in the landrover though:sneaky2: so have never looked at how the price difference would impact on the job. All i know is its expensive on red so hate thought of white!

Intrigued by this comment as there's about a 63p/litre price differential now, and back in 1998 when i finished a levels there was a 60p/litre differential??? I think its only seems like u think because red diesel was mere pennies a litre rather than now its many tens of pennies??? Would u agree or am i talking u know whats?

I'm definately not volunteering to pull that cable up the hill:001_tt2:!!!!

I have to agree with you there, if its old or new it'll break down (trust me we have both!) and they never break down in the shed parked up!! Usually at a really busy time or a very inconvienient location!!!

i think the price may not be what u fancy, but i'm not sure i'd fancy dragging that cable up a wet slippery hill that not even that truck will climb up, u'd have a sweat on time u got up to the top! Nice truck by the way!!!!

i should really know that u only get what u pay for in this world 99% of the time!!!! Only trouble is nomatter how good the saw is, it doesn't stop the bloke behind it somehow manageing to fell a half rotten beech tree into the top of another tree...... thank the lord for hydraulic winches and landrovers!!!! Anyway many thanks to you all!

oh how i wish i had an estate like that!!!! and the local plod wouldn't need to worry about catching our harvest student on it doing 50k, i wouldn't currently trust him with a padded cell after manageing to get the old ford :lol:7810 stuck in a 12ft gate with a 20ft trailer........will try and post some pics when i work out how to get them off my phone!!!!

now u've a good point here, it makes me chuckle that our new holland T7040 has one of these little stickers on the window but it came out the factory with 50k fitted. I mean who's kidding who, u supply a tractor with 50k, which i've paid extra for, and that little sticker on the window removes u from legal responsibilty when i'm caught doing 50k down the road!