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What lengths are forestry contractors cutting trees for firewood ?
doobin replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
We only tend to cut for ourselves. In the woods I prefer 3m for ease of handling and speeding things up. The guy on the processor prefers 2.4m for the same reasons… As Mike says, 3m it’s perfect size for a log bullet. It’s also the perfect size when saving timber from jobs- small loads of straight timber such as young ash being run back to base in the back of a tipper. On a timber trailer or with not so straight species 2 bays of 2.4 is much more efficient. Or if small skinny timber that you may as well handball, I prefer 2.4s. Why not both? 2.4s in the pickup, 3m on the trailer!
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Not been out on them much. Welded some quick connect hooks to the Iseki. Bit of chipping. And some pretty impressive bramble cut and collect for the little Kubota- you can see the height of them where I left a load over the drain cover.
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6hp isn’t enough to chip anything.
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Financial viability of small forwarders/tractor trailer
doobin replied to Malus's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
She’s making herself useful around the yard, managing timber stockpiles, unloading from jobs and loading the processor and the mill.
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I’d say you really want something 2.7t ish so it’s towable behind a 4x4 or large van, otherwise your digger will spend more time hauling everything to site with multiple trips than it does chipping. The other thing you need to feed a chipper is a rotating grab rather than a fixed grapple (unless by grapple you meant a grab and rotator?) You simply have to have the ability to feed the chipper with a slew and rotate of the grab, anything else will be ten times as difficult, make a mess tracking about and quickly lead to damage of the chipper. Free hanging rotators (dangle type) are safest for feeding chippers, but a fixed rotator lets you do a lot of other stuff like ripping out also, and with a good op can be used to feed a chipper. this is my bobcat e27, it’s a fixed rotator on the grab.
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And it can carry the chip away
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Briggs EFI engine by any chance? Search on the forum, it's not good news I'm afraid. An absoloute pup of an engine.
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As above, horrible for logs but good for brash. I'd get one with a flat bottom (a bucket grab) as it's much easier to skid along the ground without digging in.
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If you don’t have a motor spool (only double acting spools) then the easiest thing to do is to make an adaptor to thread a quick connect into the back end fill port.
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I hope you took it back to the shop and asked for your money back! Obviously after insinuating that they must have swapped the pot and piston before selling it to you!
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Fair play- it’s certainly as dark as satans arsehole this morning!
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Grade 2 Listed Building - What if different species of tree planted
doobin replied to NightOwl's topic in Trees and the Law
Was the garden actually covered in the listing? You can check online. Often it’s just external features such as windows, type of brickwork etc. If buying a property, an indemnity policy to cover you against the costs of any future reinstatement for stuff the previous owner did without consent is surprisingly cheap. So it’s really not a problem if buying a listed place that isn’t quite as it should be. The whole system is complaint driven, so a lot goes un-noticed. -
Yup
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What forecast are you using? Doesn’t look too bad to me, a few mm overnight but then we’ve had that the last few nights also.
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Control of pendulous sedge ( Carex pendula )
doobin replied to Alan Smith's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A mini digger on bog mats or wide tracks with a rotating grab is a good method for the large clumps. Whereabouts in West Sussex? -
Either grade will do. Not familiar with that engine but I’d say mineral will be fine- it’s a small enough engine not to have dpf etc.
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Loosing this loader would be like losing a leg. You simply cannot compare to a digger and dumper. The ability to pick things or aggregate up and place it exactly where needed saves hours of time
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I love it when people get pissy when others tell them their thing isn’t worth what they think it is. it’s like selling houses. “our house won’t sell! It’s been on the market for ages! It must be the living room carpet/colour of the walls/ the market it funny right now” No. it’s the price. It’s always the price.
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M denotes Mtronic, so if the saw doesn’t have that then you won’t have any of the electrical issues and will be able to tune the carb manually.
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You’ll always find other work for a tractor also. I only bought my first three years ago but I’m already up to three.
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A flail mower is where I draw the limit at powered loader attachments. They are for lifting and grabbing, no replacement for a tractor pto.
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Yes! Stick them on the finance, the monthly extra will soon be forgotten. Can never have enough attachments.
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That’s what I’d do. Not sure why this post got laughs.
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A digger will be much better than a Sherpa for woodland clearances, stacking logs, scraping up, pulling brambles, digging out stumps etc. A Sherpa is ideal for moving things about quickly with very little mess. I started with a minidigger, I love my Sherpa but I'm glad I didn't start with one otherwise I'd quickly have b ecome frustrated I think.
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I bet OP wishes he hadn’t skipped woodwork class now…
