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Chainsaw willies are murder! Only useful if you're skint/starting out or working in water!
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The rock machinery splitter is sold as a road tow but only up to 45mph
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I hate mice, they seems to be on a rampage in the sheds right now, chewing on anything foamy. Air filters on machines, ear defenders, spare pipe lagging, lost a whole box of unused mini roller sleeves! I've had success with traps in the past but don't seem interested at the minute. I will have to try one of those bucket traps. Got two 4month old kittens, wee brother and a sister, hoping they will grow in to good mousers! Had to put an older cat down earlier this year, she wasn't much of a hunter though
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Don't know what the chassis cab/tipper set up is like but on the panel vans you will usually find that the mechanism to lower the spare wheel has seized solid! Cutting the cable may be the only way out. And that's assuming someone hasn't already stolen the spare wheel!
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Now I'm somebody who's not the slightest bit interested in this 'black friday' pish But got an email today saying you can get 20% Ghillie Kettles this fri/sat/sun ghillie kettles "Enter code AB100 at checkout and click on the + sign" :thumbup1:
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Have a look at the Tanaka tbc 600, it has lower vibrations than the stihl, similar size engine and price
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Great, I always like seeing your videos metsa Not the whole country - just the southern parts!
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They are now growing Douglas Spruce in Iceland!!!
scbk replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
Heard the advert on the radio, I want to know what a Douglas Spruce looks like and where can I get one I once had someone telling me how the trees they were pointing at were very valuable timber, seen it on telly, they build boats out of it, and it's called a Macdonald Pine -
Looks good
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Annother thread on small scale extraction...
scbk replied to Johnpl315's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
What's the ground conditions like, put up some photos How narrow/agile does the machine have to be? -
I like this video. Six backpack blowers and a massive vacuum! [ame] [/ame]
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Mulching a path through head high gorse (rubbish phone camera!)
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I've no idea why, but this guy has built a contraption to compare blowers! Although his T shirt suggests he might be a bit biased! [ame] [/ame]
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If you have spare stock netting kicking about you can make rings out of that, a few metres wide, and you can go 2 or 3 high. Ideally with pallets underneath or the bottom logs will stay wet. And with some sort of tarp/plastic over the top The only problem is you really have to empty them in a oner as once you start taking logs out you lose the shape of the roof
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The Fiskars powergear are very good, looks like DIY grade rubbish, but they have lasted well. Only annoying thing was having to glue the ends of the handles back on within the first few weeks!
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Stumbled across this on youtube via the "suggested videos" , the camcorder is out of the ark but I thought it looks a good set up for doing your own wood [ame] [/ame]
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[ame] [/ame] cheesy!
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I think the Husky is the more powerful machine on paper, I've got the 580BTS and it is a beast, like a jet pack!
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You just need to wire them in parallel (not series), so all the positives and all the negatives go together. You also need to make sure all cables used are rated to take the current and the fuse is of the right size
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Gonna give it a bash using a 800kg tirfor copy, which is 8.3mm wire, and an 80m length of cable. Do you think that'll take my weight? It's no fun if I don't get to ride down it myself
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It's all gobbledygook to me! The reason I was thinking using the trifor cable is it would be very quick to set up and take down at the end of a day, and you could have the zip wire an infinite length you wanted between 0 and 50m Does it make much difference to use a single or a double pulley?
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They look good, it's a pity they won't post them to the Highlands!
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Some great ideas and suggestions I like the idea of using a thinner cable, and I could then get a longer length to get further up the hill - 100m would be good! Although can't remember how many good trees there are to tie it off Waterbouy, whereabouts in Argyll are you? Might be a good excuse for a trip in the van with the other half!
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Cheers, yes I'd already thought about chutes, it would be ideal but the problem is cost and transport/storage. Have you a link to a suitable pulley?
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Mad idea time, thinking of a way of getting timber down a steep slope. Buy a 50m wire rope for my 1600kg "tirfor style" ace winch. String the winch up between two trees as far apart as possible and crank the winch fairly tight. Buy a wee tandem pulley like this sort of thing: Mountaineering Climbing Rock 25KN / 5600lbs Zip Line / Wire Cable Trolley Pulley | eBay PETZL NEW TANDEM ARBORIST DOUBLE TYROLEAN PULLEY P21 | eBay To run up and down the wire. And use a wee strap or whatever to attach a log to the pulley. And a cheap rope to pull the empty carriage back up with. The logs wouldn't be too heavy, they would all be liftable by hand. The braking system at the bottom would need some thought! Do you think it would work, how much sag would there be in the middle of the 50m cable with 30kg+- of log on it. Not so much use if each end needs to be 30ft in the air to stop it grounding!
