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Goaty

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  1. 6 x 6 inch??!! I assume you mean feet? A small house i.e less than 8 x 12 will heat up to a very high temp if unattended with vents shut. Defineatly get auto vents. Have you thought of a polytunnel, more for your money and you can get various special films that do this and that. One type keeps aphids in check. If you maintain the wooden type will last a lifetime, the greenhouse is probably the most neglected garden kit with maintanence on average. The plastic type will have a short lifespan. Personally i would get a 2nd hand aluminum one locally.
  2. This is the thread I remember being impressed at the timehttp://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/45709-simple-screener-log-processor.html
  3. Should've done a poll with this thread
  4. Just curious, not after a But you have only done this once and yet say it only works in clay, My experience is it has worked in various soils from clay to hard core laden ground. Sometimes it sits for hours and needs to be hammered in next day, others it disappears as quick as its poured. I am talking about using a tractor knocker. Parmieter type. Where it wouldn't drive em in then it did after water.
  5. There is an app for the iphone and ipad dont know how good. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tree-id-british-tree-identification/id330025326?mt=8
  6. Any more specific info may help eg. what safety gear you have, saw/s and a nearby town. You don't want to be traveling from Spurn point to Pocklington for a couple of hours work. Something should sort out for you. Welcome to virtual Arbworld.
  7. Nice find Toolfair Show
  8. I have bought a 357xpg and 346xpg and 346xp from ebay 2nd hand all good saws. I would risk buying again. However I would not buy the saw in the link for the above mentioned reasons.
  9. I maybe wrong but I believe type approved is different to and not recognised in law, as law is archaic and has to go through parliament etc. Also your link is not a uk webpage, I havn't bothered to verify this as its not something I intend to do.
  10. Though its a large lump firewood is the easiest and quickest way to sort it. It is getting people who are interested in it that will be the problem. Wood workers tend to want seasoned and ready to use material. How long has it been down? Fungal activity has probably already started the decay process.
  11. I have used Plant oil and the Bio tack stocked by clark forest. I stick with bio for environmental reasons, just hope that the makers are conscienceous making it. I leave saws for months for several months sometimes and have had no problems with gumming. However I do think the saws bleed more readily in warmer weather. Husky 346 xp Husky 357 xp Husky 3120 xp
  12. I reviewed the oregon sawhorse and the forestmaster. Both are in the reviews section found at the top of the right hand column above the ads. My initial and still valid in my experience as a small scale firewood producer view is. Sawhorses increase productivity Save the strain on the body. So you could Diy one up but it may actually cost as much in your valuable time and materials as it would to buy one. You could also miss out an essential feature.These are tried and tested, as already said some are only for domestic use and my oregon easycut is battered and repaired several times. However if you buy one and use it you will get to know what works for you and can improve the design for yourself at a later date. Which is what i intend to do when I get round to it.
  13. A tip if its dry at the side of the hedge. Mark out post holes day before and dig a little hole at each one, enough to hold a litre or 2 of water. Fill hole with water. Refill if you think it needs it. I have made holes inpenetratable easy going the next day with this.
  14. I have/had the roughneck maul and used it for driving the grenade. The grenade is good but the head broke off. I n my opinion the shaft is too narrow where it goes through the head. If you get it, go girly with it, not highland games style! I do have a photo of it broken somewhere.
  15. Its a fickle game for most of us we take it as it comes. 1. As long as we have enough health we can do it. 2. Its fashionable to burn wood at present so demand is there. 3. As its not the main income source for many, we do not worry about running out. Thats up to the customer to get it whilst its there. 4. `Depends on getting enough hardwood felling jobs to supply the firewood. 5. Once the suit boys interfere and spoil it many will just forget it and do something else without the hassle. 6. Our climate is not suitable for storing firewood longer term, too much fungal activity. Unless you have large covered areas. 7. Biomass and greedy large operators are grabbing what they can and taking advantage of their power and subsidies, strangling the smaller and more often ethical/moral/environmentally aware operators out of the industry. So I live from year to year. Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes, as someone once said.
  16. Sorry to be the pooper in all this, but no one has mentioned despite telehandlers having drawbars fitted it is illegal, because they are classed as mobile cranes. Not allowed to tow on highway. Think about insurance being invalid, It wont be long before the self funding VOSA cash in on this fact. This has been law for many years. All it takes is a fatality, public outcry, then the hate campaign. The noose will tighten.
  17. Are you an ordinary normal human being or just an automaton. Plif plaf ploof
  18. I charged £30 for what you would charge £4 +chemicals. My 400m3 took an hour and half including traveling mixing etc. I take it you use a tractor sprayer.
  19. I'd be interested too. Just borrowed a knapsack and glyphosate as a favour. I do have Pa 1 &6 but never used it for myself before. I charged £30 for about 400 metres. Not measured. Im more interested in the planting afterwards, so not too bothered if I was underpriced.
  20. I would change my mind but today Kauri Copper Beech Sequioadendron giganticum (wellingtonia)
  21. I would agree with this for most disadvantages but not all. I have hearing lost and was grouped through the education system with people a lot worse and they had a pride to prove prove themselves and did so with university etc. Over the years I have worked with many disadvantaged people in various ways, currently I occasionally work with a lad who has dyspraxia quite bad, will miss a football more than hit it, and he is a poor performer in the workplace and has to be carried and is fortunate to have a job really, he does however have other issues including possibly autism. We do help him a lot, but its hard work. Another lad has dyslexia very bad but he is an excellent grafter when he puts his mind to it, which is most of the time. So 2 out of 5 here. I reckon attitude to our type of industry makes the ratio higher than average, when I was choosing options at school I chose Rural sciences, it was my kind of thing, the head of the year called me to her office and told me I couldn't do that, I was too bright a student and it was unofficially reserved for remedial students. I then went to the local agricultural coledge which also had a high student population of learning difficulties, that didn't seem fair as some students were only dyslexic and others wheelchair bound and dependant on a carer.
  22. I have an old battered shallow hinge lid type made of steel that came with a larger toolbox 18 inch x 8 x 3 high, I know what you mean about the plastic type. I would of had a few by now. I just straighten it out when it gets a ding.
  23. Consistantly you will find the granberg precision grinder the preferred one on here at least in the sub £100 catagory. I have one and am very happy with it.
  24. In a 1.2m guard don't worry they are going to bounce off the sides on the way up and out anyway. Any bends will thicken and straighten out as they grow Enjoy:001_cool:
  25. Bulldog or spear&Jackson websites? H.C Robinsons do Bulldog tools and Cherrys at Frod do S&J I borrow a family heirloom if I ever need one. Probably not used one for 18 years. Will probably have to order in special.

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