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Course it will get through. Might require to rebuild the pillars after though. Anyway if you meant skidsteer, bloody say so!

Gentlemen, I love seeing working horses, especilly in a woodland environment. But do some of you Home Counties types even know what a "wet" site is? I defy any horse to work in a bog, and go where a light, carefully piloted 4wd tractor on flotation tyres will. Horses for courses I suppose. PS looking forward to spending more time watching the horses at this years APF.

Quoted by a trainer last week. Only require to be deemed "competent" (this was in respect of MEWP training btw) but 10 layers of ass protecting, umbrella raising, gold plating (with a titanium underlay) hand wringing, beauracy later; voila! one requires training and certification. Even if one is certifibly handless/incompetent (leastwise in the LA circles I move in) I am currently stirring the pot in respect of urban verge grass cutting. Since we are now so "big" on Workplace Transport H & S, how about we actually comply with the relevant legislation. Which will make the service we have safely and reasonably efficiently for 30 years, almost unworkable due to the preliminary road closures and coning works. FFS!

Or one that canny be fixed with a 9" angle grinder an a welder!

What I have working at the moment is a "Solarbayer" log burner, sans any electronic controls, which got damp and fried. I wired the blower fan in direct to the mains (via a switch) ditto for the Laddomat 21. With a linked 2200l buffer tank All works 100%, and I suspect virtually as effectively as when it was installed. No! actually more effectively since I both: (i) relocated the flue. (ii) and pushed it from the installed 6.5m(and well under our ridge to the windward side) up to 11.5m(and now well above the ridge) Man she pulls like a train, the noo. When I got the installation/ book/ instruction manual, what did it baldly state. Flue to be a minimum of 10m. PS I will attempt to refrain from using "rude and intemperate" language, to describe the !"£$%^&* . . . *&^%$£"! who are generally "accredited", installers. Snake oil salespersons every one, who move from one well paying Goverment funded scheme to the next, leaving a trail of devestation and ill feeling behind. Does the Government ever !"£$%^&* learn. Like fornication they do. m

Need to know heat loss? What quantity of oil or gas /Kw*Hr presently needed to heat=a foolproof answer. but guessing need about 40 or perhaps 50Kw. And yes now "lambda" equipped boilers are becoming more affordable, definately a Lambda sensor one (& esp with the recent vast increase in the price of wood) With about 2500l to 5000l of buffer tank (depending on your intended firing regime) The best, correctly designed and minimialist fuss installation (that actually works) I have seen was a Froling burner (in a house near Loughguile) Which was 28Kw with 1000l buffer tank heating about 4000sq ft of new build (and therefore well insulated) I am considering a suitable installation with a bigger Froling, IF or WHEN our DETNI can decide on payment scheme and terms. Marcus PS The correct Flue height is absolutly critical. Need sufficient height, and it is bloody expensive, therefore to keep the price attractively low, some cheapskate installers WILL skimp. GERRR! Ask me how I know??

JHC! As a farmers Son, (if never a Navvy), a spade shaft is the ABSOLUTE:001_rolleyes: test for any timber/wood. The bending moment (to sound all technical) or leverage, where the wood meets the steel, is extreme in this application. Probably and routinely the most extreme application I can think of, within the constraints of correct tool useage. OK A "Peavy" would be equally stressed for the same reasons, BUT they tend to use much thicker section timber, at the point of max bending moment. m

Am I correct in thinking that the Hickory used for shafts, is actually the Sapwood, the heartwood being less suitable/unsuitable for this use. Cos Kinda wondering is this why the Ash sapling/branch also works, being all sapwood? m

Sniff! SHOULD BE CLEAVED, or split, to follow the grain and thereby maximize strength and resilence. regards, m PS I use "branchs" picked for straightness or required curvature, and trimmed down as required. Really really should invest in a spokeshave.

Ah! he says, now being enlightened "jobs for the boys" is it:lol: A "win-win" indeed.

Ash, Ash, or Ash. Bloody "woodtick" had a field-day with most of my put-by stock though.(from a hedge that was cut back) I did reshaft a good spade before the buggers went to town. I get a quiet pleasure every time I use it.

it was also a visitor attraction, less people will be inclined to journey to the woodland now that one of its main gems is gone. Surely that should be considered a "positive". If "we" are truely concerned for the welfare of the woods and trees? A conundrum I appreciate. M

Gentlemen, why the fuss? A time to live and a time to die. The natural life cycle of all living things. Why attempt to deny the process? Men playing at being God perhaps? Marcus

Indeed, a fair observation.

And what part exactly did the chainsaw play? I cut bigger branches with a bowsaw, yes, up a tree, at 12 or 13 or 14, before I was trusted with the chainsaw. Which I did not take up a tree until much older. A failure to understand simple mechanics was his failing. Darn all to do wit der chainsaw operation(which was pretty sharp, by the looks of it!) PS Was the branch hung up on a wire "out of screen view" That too was(or should of been) easily factored in. PPS A very bad sign when the operator crosses himself before commencing. cheers M

But, it is not "chainsaw carved". Merely a wooden sculpture. Well done admittedly. but not chainsaw carved and finished. marcus

Hmmm? So a sulcking herd gets different from a ploughing arable who gets different from a low-till arable who all get different from a potato farmer, then attempt to factor in all the permuations from "mans" land against "boys" land. never mind Dry years/wet years. The possibilities for fraud ud be endless!!

I agree. ONE diesel fuel, sold at a slightly lower pump price, would be much more cost effective.

I probably knew the 2 men who dug the holes, Ex farm labourers, turned gravediggers, wore rough boots when in the grave, and stepped into clean boots when they climbed out of the grave, to keep the grass and paths clean, cycled to their work, etc etc. A little difficult to introduce to new techolnology mind.

Contractor was removing posts from a local park. Lifted the whole lot out with a 20 tonne digger. An absolutly perfect 24" by 24" by 24" cube of conc on each post. Perfectly cubical spade dug holes. Changed times.

How does the density of dried split, and carefully stacked per Eastern Bloc practice, work out in terms of maxxing out the carrying capacity of a 40' truck. Simply guessing that it should be simple to get a price based on a full 40' truck load, maxxed out, that is to say NOT a container load (which sounds a dreadfully inefficient way to ship firewood) so 12m by 2.5m by (guessing) 3.0m hi= 90m3 At £10.0/cube=£900.00 for haulage and import duties. My gut feeling is this is a better model than spending £200/250k in a UK based production set-up. Rather buy yourself a HGV and get a trailer fabricated to suit fire-wood, and import all summer to stockpile, to sell on, wholesale or retail over the winter months. m

Well I presume it still required a certifed medic to check and sign that he really was dead. Sans head.

Nicely done, but essentially no different to the antics of the bored young gentlemen of the British Empire in days gone by. m

An 80mm dia "ball and spoon" hitch is rapidly gaining ground in the UK, it also happens to allow for a tremendous degree of articulation, with no associated "slap". Plus there is a reasonably recent focus (or so I understand) on trailer brakes. Driven by the tractor manufacturers refusing warrenty claims on knackered tractor brakes. Due to the tractor being expected to brake for the trailer as well. A few eyewatering repair bills sure do get them poor farmers attention. m

I cannot but agree with the suggestion/idea of simply importing ready to sell and burn firewood from the old Eastern bloc. More trees. Cheaper labour. less regulations=more effective and efficient machinery. Just need a truely industrail set up feeding it by the railway wagon/bulker truck to the docks, to be bulk handled the same as coal. Surely this bizz model makes more sense than UK based red tape smothered production. m