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Good points Hawthorne and RJ, more about constricted sites/manouveribility. Them dammned tractors DO need a whole lot of room. Cheers Marcus

Senior managment has been giving away her excellent home made jam (with NO added water/No Certo or other non-fruit setting agents) plus copious rubarb. For about 5 years. At least. Prob hundreds of kilos worth. The reciprocation has been very very very, very limited. Regards, Marcus

We picked and bagged up 40 kg today in a short time between MEGA showers, plus picking raspberrys and strawberries. With the previous intermittent picking thats about 100kg in the freezer already, and we havny even got right started. m

From memory, I recall concluding these were the dogs dangly bits FOR SPLITTING RINGS see: Time-saving Wood Splitters and Bundlers | Commercial & Private Use Logs fall off into bulk bags, or a bulk bag on one side and an elevator on the other. The key was the absolute lack of lost time, with the splitter working in both directions. Pure poetry in motion, from the demo my cynical eye saw anyway. marcus

Good bright light causes the pupils to "stop" down, the finer aperture allows for a more forgiving focus, or better "depth of field" in camera speak. So we literally can see better.(for those of of us of cough, cough, a certain age) but I much prefer reasonable natural daylight to any artifical light. nb Must put a micrometer on my chain sometime, just to see.(how good I am or am not) Ditto some of the sharpened out chains hanging on a nail. But, as a self taught .325 chain sharpener (semi chisel I think:blushing:) I use the wee Stihl file guide and judge by eye. BUT: I am a trifle OCD in ensuring that each tooth gets three full length file strokes, absolutly perpindicular to the tooth, i.e. following the tooth if/as it lies over in the bar, and religously rotating the file between each stroke and equally religiously cleaning the swarf off the file between each tooth, generally wiping on my arm or leg. And always looking for curly wurly shavings, or large clean chips. m

Our complete (and insert a string of ban inducing expletivies) of an ex PE Teacher (the bully boy type) turned LA Director. Borrowed the Council chain-saw, without my knowledge, and took it back to the Council joiner because it was not working properly, the engine was starting and running, but a bit gutless when revved to cut. Yes you guessed. The chain brake was engaged. Doh!

Lambda sensor, same as a car exhaust one. Senses the oxygen in the flue. Too much oxygen in the flue, turn down the fan. Too little, turn it up, i.e. for optimium burning without needlessly stripping heat from the fire and dumping it up the flue. All within the overriding thermostatically controlled burn programme. marcus

Coming from a suckling herd background, ie keep cows to produce calves to either sell a stores or finish ourselves. I can assure anyone that antibiotic use was very very miniminal, i.e. targeted on the few sick animals only. Perhaps the Diary sector use more antibiotics, I dont know. BUT I do KNOW how many silly/stupid/misguided people run to the Dr. for antibiotics when they either are not particularly sick, or indeed for illnesses that antibiotics will NOT cure. And the adults who also do not finish the course of antibiotics, or swill alcohol during it. ESPECIALLY for sniffling, naturally mildly sick children. I ABSOLUTLY know these facts to be true from observation within our average local community. So hey folks look to the beam in your own eyes before blaming farmers motes!!! regards, marcus PS Our suckling hear survived with badger setts on three of our boundaries. Never any issues that I was/am aware of.

v tidy, why the log grab though, what is its intended use?

sweetened with silivia! YEUAGH!!

Despite having lusted after a Yanmar T80 (akin to the`Mooroka) I imagine that for the woods (read stumps) one would require steel tracks. Comparing how my rubber tyred tractor skids on/over stumps, compared to the bone jarring/teeth rattling grip provided by the wee steel tracked Fiat crawler. m

Bound to be a supplier to the Agricultural type trades. Look up/search "Agricultural sheds" perhaps? Over here quite a few local guys stock "wriggly tin" in various permutations. And generally stocked and priced "per foot" run. Just watch, some suppliers products do have different covering widths/overlaps. cheers M

Eh! If using a PTO hyd pump what da heck has the tractors hyd oil flow got to do with it? cheers m And, cough cough. As far as I am aware one can drive a hyd pump geared to/for a tractor PTO from anywhere between 350 and 550.(being PTO revs btw) seriously.

However having the splitter tractor mounted makes for good stability, especially necessary if splitting larger chunks. And second make the splitter easier moved positioned to where the wood is. And if using a PTO stub shaft hyd pump, the tractor is only at Tickover revs. AND Most important, IF you want to build a FAST splitter, the MF35 will NEED all its limited HP to drive the pump. Since my 17tonne (being the forerunner to Woodworks later purchased 18tonner) CAN strangle the nominal 84HP DB, running on the 1000 shaft when running at 1050/1150 engine revs (gives about 540 shaft speed) So simples use the tractor. You will need it. Especially if you add a wee 1000kg winch to drag &lift the logs/trunks/butts in to be split. Oh, if building your own splitter, copy the neat oil resovoir design used across all the professional built models. Fabricate a heavy wall rectuangular section to both carry the sliding splitter head. And store the oil. m

Oh! "suits you Sir", very very nice, I am proper jealous. Marcus

Meh, Straight bole, predictable timber structure, an the gap was close in/near by. I ud welcome the chance to try btw, never yet having presented with the opportunity. But I was dropping twisted, leaning, irregular, bruckle Lodgepole Pine on a hat sized target "on the fly", no studying, nor no wedges, course it did not matter iffen I got it wrong, which allowed me the confidence to get it right! cheers, m

Buy one. A good choice available. I would, of course, suggest Krpan from Marshalls Agric, or Posch from Wilsons or indeed one from Jim at Riko. I would not/could not suggest building one for an employee to use. Purely due to potential liability issues. Simples. Marcus

I stripped the bark over a breadth of 100 to 150mm with an Ax or Slasher. NO bridging opportunities.

I ring-barked a few Birch trees, that were overshadowing volunteer Oak and Beech last Spring/Summer. Surprised to note that they are ALL in leaf again this year. Puzzled is all. Marcus

Jomoco, As I explained to our Director (and quite an astounding human being btw) in respect of Risk Assements. I always conduct "Dynamic Riak assessments" Whether when bracing Senior Managment in respect o, the chances o, getting into her knickers of a lunch hour. Or Driving after consuming 2 pints of beer. Or indeed in respect of climbing a big ash tree, via a rotten wooden ladder, which I pulled up after mesel to advance even higher, this after a boozy lunch, armed with a wee MS260. I order to cut off an overhanging limb about 15" to 18" across, which I assessd would probably shoot back towards the ladder I was standing on (and it did, and crushed the ladder to smithereens byw) But correctly assessing if I held on to a branch above, and did not particularly worry about the chain saw(which survived unharmed btw) and smartly pulled my legs up out of harms way. I would be perfectly Ok And I was. BECAUSE I was aware of the very real risks, carefully thought it through(despite the beer), and had an escape route planned Cos I possess a functioning brain, in respect of such essentially mechanically governed matters. I am not so hot at reading Social Situations/strangers. Others have better Social Skills but appear to be entirely inept/uneducatable in matters mechanical, or those governed by the simple laws of Gravity/Physics. Cheers M

So, indeed a second groundie COULD switch the machine off afterwards, and phone for a refuse truck (cant see a lot of sense phoning for an ambulance in the circumstances is all) That would work. Jomoco, We are currently working on bring our work risk assessments up to date. Lone working is a frequently raised issue, by both staff and unions. This to incl female public toilet attendants. Now I guarentee, if the employer was mug enough to double-staff the toilets, there would only be one person on site, whilst the other toddled off to the shops/pub/ whatever. And "Oh my God" dont even dare suggest tracking said staff's whereabouts. For THEIR safety and well-being. Cos that ud infringe their very European Human Liberties. As a supervisor of many years(who lone works on his own belhalf) I can only conclude that SOME staff reserve the right to be, or act stupid. Despite encourgagment. Despite training Despie demonstrated procedures. Despite instruction Despite warnings. cheers m

erm Stephan, as per the Morbark link I posted earlier in this thread. cheers m

The RHI might?, just might swing it. but unless you have access to your own byproduct wood fuel, or your own woodland and the machinery and physical fitness to harvest the timber, I cannot see the sums adding up. IF one factors in ones own fuel stacking/carting/storing and boiler lighting and tending duties. And room to store the fuel, ideally on a multi year basis. Simply not worth it imnsho. heating oil or gas is cheap and dead convient in comparison. And IF paying for woodfuel I strongly suspect the added efficiency of the Lambda control would be a good investment cheers m PS Ah bin heating with wood for near 8 years, yes it works, but there are significent costs and committments.

I dont believe any outfit "should" sell petrol in 205l drums. elf an safety an all that. and quite rightly. Mind you I have fished official 50 litre Elf racing fuel drums out of the ca skip after the NW200.

JOMOCO, it does not compute because it cannot compute. (i)Preferable crane feed. (ii) Do not single man, or indeed manually operate, unless absolutly unavoidable. then (iii) Use the safety devices/sensor safety devices available. Simple risk assessment methodolgy. Eliminate the risk where possible, that is to say,a second man/operator/buddy CANNOT eliminate the risk. Tree climbing is entirely different. It ABSOLUTLY cannot be eliminated, therefore methodology must be put in place to reduce the risk i.e. a second trained person available to rescus.