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Looks good, do you mill the larch yourself? Is it 6x6 posts and 4x2 rails?
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There's once place I work, it's out for most of winter! Deciduous woodland, and a right frost pocket. Always fun to tell someone who doesn't know what it is to pick it up - it just disappears in your hand.
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Christ that's close! https://www.google.com/maps/@52.8985043,-2.1348446,3a,75y,139.75h,95.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sDclNmLggmFfontbU7MLDbQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
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How many trees are you talking about planting, a few, or a few thousand. I had a few bags of mixed self seeded conifers here, kept trying to find new places to put them so they could keep on growing. May or may not have rehomed some on a moonlit night to some waste ground. There was some old boys I met a while ago who had been doing "guerrilla gardening" for years, planting trees on any spare land round their village.
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Yes, I did that as soon as I got the machine. I just made a new drawbar out of 50mm box to keep the original one incase I ever sold it. Of course, 6 years later, the location of the original drawbar is now unknown
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https://www.chrisbowers.co.uk/ Chris Bowers and Sons Whispering Trees Nurseries Wimbotsham Norfolk PE34 3QB Has anyone on here successfully bought trees off the above company? I ordered and paid for a few apple trees back in the middle of November, I think delivery was quoted as "late november onward". Middle of december, not heard anything so I asked and they said it will be "going to despatch in the new year," Then today they send a slip out in the post saying "we are estimating delivery for mid-late February...." "....we have ample stocks and your order is reserved with your name on it.." The note in the post came in a hand written envelope! The order was only for 4 trees, you wouldn't think it would take them this long to pull them out the ground and put them in a box Does anyone local to the area know the nursery, are they even still trading
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Fly tippers at it again:
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If you want easy start, press a button?
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Stump Grinder Choice - Rayco RG13 vs Rock Machinery SGR-33
scbk replied to BackoftheWoods's topic in Large equipment
Terrasaur is a good blade, but it's just for cutting roots -
Stump Grinder Choice - Rayco RG13 vs Rock Machinery SGR-33
scbk replied to BackoftheWoods's topic in Large equipment
Assembled as in taken out of the shipping crate? -
Anyone using the smaller processors - Jappa 305 / 315 for example?
scbk replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Firewood forum
I don't know the other makes, but the balfor with 700mm blade can cut 300mm timber (750mm can cut 325mm). But at that sizes almost as easy using a chainsaw on the ground anyway (as in lifting the bloody logs!) A tct blade will cut a huge amount of wood, never needing sharpened -
Anyone using the smaller processors - Jappa 305 / 315 for example?
scbk replied to kevinjohnsonmbe's topic in Firewood forum
What about a circular saw bench, advantage with a tct blade is no chain to sharpen Balfor do a range with petrol/electric/pto power, conveyors, splitters etc -
First fire from logs harvested from trees I planted
scbk replied to spandit's topic in Firewood forum
Always worth having a look on ebay etc, you can sometimes get some good deals, direct from small nurseries and growers. I did well a couple of years ago with a local nursey that was closing down and had trees advertised on gumtree, then used some 2nd hand tubes, and ripped down some larch stakes from a pile of offcuts -
Handbags strewn across the floor in here! Maybe we need a separate thread for covid discussion In other news, a man on a bike went missing in 2017 on a remote road in the Highlands. Last seen passing the Bridge of Orchy hotel at 23.30. Quite a sad story, never any trace of the man, his bike, or his belongings, the ride was for charity, and the family have never found out what happended. Bridge of Orchy: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.5177734,-4.7686894,3a,75y,187.52h,81.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAgFOJl6LsdNp9tssWPRwFw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en-GB Just popped up today that 2 guys have been arrested https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-55514866
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Thank feck they have a nightingale hospital then Nightingale Hospital Birmingham NIGHTINGALE-BIRMINGHAM.NHS.UK
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I'm sure there was one on youtube, an american guy built a huge one, and he filled it either using a machine or conveyor? Obviously with proper slatted sides, and probably big enough to get a year or two's worth in. I find emptying a bay of a log shed disappointing and satisfying at the same time
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Apparently the one in Glasgow has still never had any covid patients through the door NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital | Robertson WWW.ROBERTSON.CO.UK Keeps the shareholders happy though eh
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£800 and under 5kW stove recommendations
scbk replied to munro_baggins_'s topic in Log burning stoves and fireplaces
Now I know very little about the different stove manufacturers but googling ecosy stoves and it says "The best value group of stoves in the UK. Expertly developed in Hampshire" So I take it that means made in the far east and shipped over to a warehouse in Hampshire? Nothing wrong with made in China if it's done to a high standard, but I hate it when companies try and bend the truth. -
This video just came up on youtube The guy reckons it's better on steep ground than tracks
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Looks exactly like the stihl filing kit I got from the then local dealer in about 2005
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Hedges getting stolen now??! This is shocking news. Christ, we really need to set some boundaries. I hope no one takes a fence.
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What diameter are the branches, have you looked at circular saws?
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Would be good on a vehicle doing 50/60mph, probably too bright for close up work?
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I've had cheap lights off ebay/amazon/aliexpress that have failed, and also some that have lasted a long time and done a hell of a lot of work, for little money. The cheapest I've had was 2 LED worklights for about a fiver delivered, they are fitted as reverse lights, faultless so far. Make sure you get flood beam, on a slow moving machine in amongst the trees a long distance beam would be a hinderance? You might get better results with 6 or 8 lights all round the cab, and maybe on the boom too, than 2 lightbars. You can angle them in different directions to give a better spread of light with less shadows. Also don't get anything too powerful, it might just dazzle you and kill your nightvision
