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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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Are you an ordinary normal human being or just an automaton. Plif plaf ploof

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.

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.

I would change my mind but today Kauri Copper Beech Sequioadendron giganticum (wellingtonia)

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

I've never bought in hardwood, I use forest hardwood thinnings and arb waste. £90 per cube in 2 dumpy bags(2 bags is 1 of my cubes, actually around 1.28cube, I work on the bakers dozen theory to avoid unhappy customers) I sell alot in animal feed bags at a higher price per cube @ £4.00 per bag 12x animal feed bags is 1 dumpy = 4x12=48 x 2(dumpys) £96 per cube got about 20 animal feed bags left. Seldom delivery, working class collect their own and sort their own problems out:thumbup1:

Next stage the ASBO birds move in to the free, sorry provided housing and munch on provided food,enjoying the easy lifestyle. Benefit woods coming to you soon from Lofthouse spycam productions

Old school is dynamite. Not so easy to get now. Is it a wide stump? Is the wire to one side? If your more concerned about getting the fence up, you could cowboy it and slice through then run fence through, then have sessions now and again in summer with an axe, or put mushroom dowels in to rot it quicker. If your fence is panels or post and rail wood type, put both sides up and patch round the stump then deal with it later. Cutting low to floor then stumpgrinder is quickest/easy option.

Not being daft here, but you are right near Drax power station that runs on biomass, maybe worth seeing if they can loose your litte bit, I know they are fussy, but if you don't ask you won't know. Sorry I can't be more help.

Many threads and posts on here if you type in 'weight' 'volume' 'firewood' in the search box above, in the toolbar. Whereas other products such as coal tend to stay in much narrower parameters for given weight per volume. Wood varies wildly from balsa wood which weighs probably 100kg per solid cubic metre up to the heavier species at 1200kg per solid cubic metre, then timber fluctuates massively by moisture content as well. Its growth density depending on the climate its grown in. Coal is graded to consistent size before selling. Each firewood processor is setup differently, producing different size pieces which varies still the amount of wood in a given volume, hence why a full bag of shavings and sawdust is much lighter than a log half its size. This is obvious to most people, but its also why selling by weight gives the customer variable value for money. Therefore volume is not perfect but a fairer option.

This sums it up spot on I think. Will diffuse subsequent regrowth better.

Field maples can vary significantly even when stood next to each other in a hedgerow etc. Sometimes they have very soft corky fluted bark that you can rub off easier, some are a bit tougher, others have a smooth bark. In my experience age or environmental factors cannot be relied upon. Some are deeply fissured trees before the trunk is finger thick others are decades old and very little fluting .

It would give me a numb bum after 15 minutes. Not fit for purpose:001_rolleyes:

Being inside away from natural light and fresh air has always made me less happy. School being inside made me lethargic. I was sleep nearly by 10am most school days. I left school and thrived. Been inside all this week nearly with a stinking cold struggled to keep warm Thinking of all those things 'I should've got done" Yes your not on your own Steve. I don't mind cold weather but dull ongoing damp days are hideous.

You going to stick an eco cabin on that heap and keep warm until June:confused1: Hope it comes in by the artic load for you:thumbup1: