farmer rod
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Our Eta was commissioned a year ago today, it has run very well with only very minor cause intervention. I have just added up the costs of the wood, the machine thinks it got through 46 tonnes of chip, I thought 'I had a big pile of wood, the day the chipper came he had shredded it by lunchtime, and to get to the end of the year I had to buy three 8 wheeler loads. So the cost works out at between 2.4 and 3.2 p/kWh which about the same as gas and half the price of oil. I have been collecting wood since last aug, and the chipper came on Monday last, again the shed is stacked, but i have spent quite a bit of time and effort and some money getting all these bits of timber back here. I wish I had a trailer crane like your difflock that would make the whole thing a lot easier Ive tried drying woodchips and its quite possible, but not easy to achieve without spending even more money.
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We coppiced a bit with some polpar and it suckered like a forest in the hay field next door, but mowed it off a couple of time and it doesnt come back anymore. Not so easy if in woodland perhaps, just grazing with sheep would be better. ps like the book, proper job
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could you illuminate a bit on the chipper please, cant seem to google it at all
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thanks, I just had my pile chipped on Monday(similar outfit), 150 cu m of chip but quite a bit of that was on the brash pile so output was bound to be lower. I stack my woodpile on railway sleepers to keep the dirt out but I could see some turf getting in from the brash, difficult to avoid. Which part of the country do you operate?
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sorry for the derail, but which chipper do you run, and how many hp/kW? thanks Rod
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just so you know, cool vid (on steam driven pc)
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with some sort of appropriate headgear, perfect:thumbup1:
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A drum mower will leave the grass in a row, much easier for picking up, finger mowers are so slow and prone to damage. ah, edit , how wide are the tree rows? maybe not a drum mover in an orchard
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Its amazing it hasn't been sorted already, I suspect some companies think they benefit from their customer gear disappearing in the night
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Hi Dan we hired one of these the other day, I was interested to see how you used yours, but only 15 seconds of the machine working at the end of the vid. The vizibility from in there is not brilliant is it, but I loved the level guage, my 530.70 loader has a line at 5 degrees, the skid steer had a red mark at 45. Thanks for posting Rod
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i agree, having fallen foul of the whole bat thing myself , I would recommend you quote for the job and find a bat up there when you start, that will give you 6 to 9 months more enjoyment of the trees and thinking of your next ploy to keep them there
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:lol:
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It is the best way to feed people at a party, and possibly the cheapest. I made a spit roast out of my fathers 1936 bicycle and my brothers windscreen wiper motor, One revolution per minute about right, get a pit dug plenty deep enough and light well ahead. You could borrow mine if you werent so far away. A pig is far too long to go over a barbecue, and they take a bit of turning because they get unbalanced when they cook. (balance up with mole grips etc clamped to the shaft)
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out of curiosity, how do you make wine out of birch?
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going to be a bumper year for apples according to the news, get scratting:thumbup1:
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I think my tines are made of cheese:001_huh: Got an Albutt bucket though and its tough as old botts and still straight:thumbup1:
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those ones look quite straight compared to mine..... oh moving timber on rough ground , that would explain it:lol:
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1st post, perils of dealing with bureaucracy
farmer rod replied to Simple Simon's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
does the site have a section 106 agreement any any or all of it? -
It is just as depressing for the kids that have just worked their a.. off to get through exams as it is for those who went through the mill all those years ago when only one really clever guy in the whole school got straight As. there should be a non government body to ensure a gold standard for A levels and GCSEs, then politicians would have to stop messing about with the education system for their own ends (i didnt realise I felt so strongly about this to type that much)
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Looks like it will all have to be got back out the stream, pull it across in one and take it home for a rainy day! Seriously though getting one or two logs to the mill seems to wipe out any fun, but if you have it milled for yourself it seems better value.
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thats a brilliant idea:thumbup1:
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I put some 6ft long tubes over the tines on the muck fork to get a bit of carrying capacity, they fall off when you tip into the stack, but its only occasional use. Pallet forks are ok for a couple of bits but really dont carry much, I have made some stillages for long bits
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do you fill them jumbled or stacked? thanks
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Could be a daft idea, but i would would be interested in any observations... When we burned stubbles, occasionally the fires would get into a hedge and burn it. We always had water and would put them out fairly quickly, but they never sprouted. Wheras if you cut them off they grow like topsy as we know. Worth a try? Stick to roundup?
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anyone on here make their own cider?
