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Correct i am cutting 10inch kilndried logs in half for some of my clients!

My oldies live in france and have a small juvinile olive grove, but they have a good sized one in their garden and they paid an expert to come and shape it for them. The idea is a sparrow or similar is supposed to be able to fly through the tree! Anyway since the reshape there have been very few olives on the tree, apparently after a pruce the tree can take a few years to recover and start producing again. Yes there will be re growth and plenty of it but the fruiting is effected.

wet round your way too dave? not seen the ground so wet here for years!

Good and busy over here on the Isle of Man, had to leave myself some space in the diary this weekend so i can get a scruffy old loader fitted to my tractor as our land is SOOO wet i can no longer get on and off it the van! Two days off the deliveries but at least i will then be able to access my stock and bring it to the hard ground.

Pretty sure LPG kits are around the £2k mark. My VW lt35 is a petrol LPG conversion, i find that its a bit less economical on gas but of course gas is cheaper. Thing is gas isnt all that cheap now compared to what it once was, I am paying 93.9p per litre here on the isle of man, think petrols up round the 1.38 mark at the mo. So what im trying to say is it will now take you longer to recover the money spent on a conversion kit than it once did.

Yeah, there have been a few threads on it here. If you get a wide enough car tyre then the tyre acts as a spring which returns the axe after its split the log. So you fill a tyre with as many logs as you can then go for it, once you get your eye in its very quick and very labour saving! Also its good on the body cause there is no sudden jaring of the axe sticking in the chopping block.

That packaging is a thing of beauty :-)

Slowly kill you ;-) have you seen the splitter made from a big bit of trunk with a tyre screwed to it? works a treat... Anyway 8inch is the way forward, it will service everyone.

Certainly Wood Competition I have entered! lol

Id be very tempted to increase my price if i were you, if your at £80 per cube now and selling out fast then why not put your price up to £95. You will still sell out but at least you will achieve a better price for what you have and perhaps not be so mad busy!

WOW looks like the perfect set up!

I think your looking for Bigchoppers.com ;-)

MMm ok, have you looked at the peice that the elbow connects too? the flared peice on the RHS? i heard a deffinate crack... as you look at my saw in your pic the part i broke is below the handle, it really looked to me as if it was the oil feed pipe to the bar and the plastic peice i broke looked like it could be casing or something expensive.

40 litre seems to be a standard sort of size round my way. Tends to be about 14 or 15 good sized logs.

Has anyone watched it till the end where the ram fails?! he proper poops himself.. understandable really. I use some failry dodgy stuff but that puts me to shame!

"Proper Job!" :-) At least i attempted to clean the carcass a bit...

Love your beast Ferguson

From what i understand about processors a large part of it is the hydraulics, so although i am not making a processor i am building a hydraulic pump to run my splitter when its in the yard. I have a diesel JCB beaver powering it at the mo as its too expensive running it with the tractor! You can find small Diesel engines kicking about, i have just found a super quiet electric start jobbie thats in a generator. The generator parts knackered, its in a perfect sized cage with sides etc. I am going to use this to power a twin speed hydraulic pump for my splitter. I still need to find a hydraulic fluid radiator to cool the fluid as it gets hot when its working and a fluid tank. A honda GX motor can be converted to run on LPG but even LPG prices are rocketing, so recon you should look at poweing your contraption on red diesel. There are a few videos on youtube of guys who have built their own processors, some work better than others! I saw one from a thread here i think, where a guy just used a pipe cut in half as the elevator, the action of the splitter forcing the logs through made the logs rise up the elevator. It was ingenious!

Good point Marko. The willow i planted got eaten by rabbits, so if they do manage to grow thier own then good on them!

Just been out to make up a mixed cube of soft and hard for a client, my hardwood is nice and dry in vented bags with bits of old banners on top but my softwood is soaking wet. Its in stock fence with banners on the top and the rain seems to have got right through one. Probably cause the banners not attached properly to be honest! The rain we have had over the last two weeks is not funny, the ground round my land is so boggy i have never seen it so wet! So i have no choice but to take him a mixed bag with the softwood that is rain soaked! Think ill be putting tarps over the huge stock net enclosures tomorrow, the macracarpa has been seasoning since March so its bloody good stuff. Hopefully the client wont be too upset! Ill bring him some kindling and firelighters to smooth things a bit!

Dont mind you flaming my saw on here when it arrives Spud, be interesting to watch the renovation or scrapping depending on the conrod.

I am starting to bring as many of my vented bags off the field and onto my tarmac yard as possible, ill then get tarps over all of them as mine seem damp although they have been on pallets with old banners over the top.

I am using a Suzuki Carryall for this sort of thing, its a 1996 with 55k miles, 994cc so its in the lowest tax band here on the isle of man and only costs me £40 a year. Bascially its a Bedford Rascal with suzuki badge. Its a 16v petrol but i get good mpg out of it, unless i thrash it, same with anything really though and petrol is cheaper than diesel! I can also fit 1.8 cubic meters of logs in the back and it seems to go the same speed full of logs as it does empty! I only use it for net deliveries now though. It cost me £115 to buy the van, £84 for 12 inch snow and mud tyres, £50 for b&q exterior gloss paint & 4inch rollers and £20 for fibreglass to patch up the holes in the drivers footwell! lol Not having overheads on loans etc is the key to my business plan though, and i dont mind driving a sooty van.

You havent seen the state of it yet! it needs a couple of new cables to get it fully operational, and the new flexi hose, and a new exhaust, and a seat cover and various other odds and sods. Ill take some pics tomorrow. Mate recons its got more lifting power than equivelent JCB which is why he bought it in the first place.

I have a similar issue, need a loader for my tractor really but i have found MF24 telehandler (100hp turbo!) for £1000, its in a sorry state and only in 2wd as the prop shafts missing but its working well! Erm if dont mind being sprayed with hydraulic fluid, a flexi pipe went bang when we fired it up for the first time in a year on fri. So my plan is to eventually have both a 4x4 tractor with loader and a cheap but functional old telehandler. Just need to slip the deal by without my wife leaving me!