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I park the ould DB, with 17 tonne Krpan winch (with integral 1 tonne winch) on the back. About 10m from the end of the butts. With the wee forestry trailer positioned off to the side (photos to follow of course) Winch the sticks over to the splitter, cut off 1.0m lengths, split and stack in my home made 0.5m3 billet bundler. Strap up with polywotsits strapping. And sling the billet bundles off into a carefull stacked pile with the wee crane on the trailer, driven offen the DB hydraulics. Can get them 4 or 5 rows high, which seriously ecomomises on the covering. Am a lazy bugger! I can then lift and transport the billet bundles with a set of pallet toes, or better still a round bale fork/toes. Simples. Cut to length as required with the wee cross cut saw in the shed either in 1/2 (& = 0.5m long)for the outside boiler Or in 1/3rds for the Morso inside.

Muldonagh, 99% of our moss is "non drivable", this is one of, and just off one of, the three main "Roddens" that accessed this upper end of the Garry Bog, for to allow the Dervock residents to cut and draw home their peats. The first was referred to as the "stone rodden", the second, this one, as the "clay rodden", and the third, as the "green rodden". Though these descriptors referred to the first wheen o yards, say 100 odd, in off the county road. Where I am working & have my landing, has been eyed out by me during near 15 year of dog walking through the moss, as being unnaturally dry. Relatively high ground, and whin bushs/gorse covered therefore is essentially "dry" underfoot, cos them Whin bushs aint stupid! Though pure black peat moss. regards marcus

I did somewhere see that one should deduct 1% heat energy for each extra % moisture content. So if timber at 20% moisture gives a nominal 4kw*hr heat energy then a log at 10% moisture gives 4.4kw*hr or 30% moisture gives 3.6kw*hr or 50% moisture gives 2kw*hr m

Rowan, Absolutfeckingutly!! An entirely different experience when the sun is, and has been, shining. I were gobsmacked to observe a cloud o "stoor" as I winched the turns in. After preservering, for a good number of years, with a wet "glaur" hole of a sodden rodden, rush covered with puddles of clear water. I switched to a dry, non rush covered rodden. Each entirely different rodden beside a big deep sheaugh. So they SHOULD be the same. But they sure AINT. All in the one wee small small patch of ground. Marcus

So, like iffen I order an 661 engine unit (or whatever one calls it) then in a seperate order purchase a bar and chain. fer instance off Jonsie. Would this work:biggrin:

Nicely done Aspenarb! :thumbup: PS Reverse in empty with 1" spare each side. Put a load on, and the tyre sidewalls bulge. Do you get out again with a 1/2" to spare each side?

cough cough Aspenberg, a pre 1997 car licence. I seriously looked at tendering for sommat similar based on an Iveco "tractor" unit, Iveco were briefly producing them for UK sale but I suspect poor sales killed that idea off. I tought dey were plumb cute! Anyway since it was possible to buy an "off the shelf" 7500kg chassis with a beavertail body, and 4000kg/4100kg payload. That was the option I went for. Going in the paper next week!

thats sweet! m

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I like the idea of the chain hydraulic combo. I get pissed when forced to release a turn, that digs in, gets snagged, or was just plain too heavy. And the wire rope takes off with a bang, free spooling the winch drum and jumping the snugly wound coils loose. Have to drive forward and winch myself back again to keep the rope sweet on the winch drum. At least with hydraulic one can "back off" or reverse the rope/chain under tension. Hmmm? He thinks, one o them Raubald hydraulic winchs on the front of the ould DB ud double up as a (kinda expensive) recovery winch.

Sir Steve Redgrave was badly diabetic. He done good. marcus

Rover, you got a second winch on standby?(hiding in the background

Funny enough, at the GDST, or might of been the APF Show, I was admiring a leather "Tankard", made from thick leather, and lined/sealed with beeswax. A thing of real beauty and utility. Not for sale, in proper use by the owner. Marcus

Wrsni, I seriously doubt wood fuel could replace the prodidious amount of hydrocarbons consumed worldwide. A case in point, during my "calorific value for kerosene" search, the Wiki entry I read, from beginning to end, mentioned that that Indonesia (or perhaps India) heavily subsidized the price of Kero. To prevent de-aforestation in their countries. food for thought!

PS Re strike 2 I had caught a particularly strong stump, way way off the the side, but one of the trees had taken a "dwamle" to itsel. bugger. N.B. Too late to edit orig post. m

Until I went back up the Moss after lunch, a magnificent sunny day, and I had got into a productive routine, and expected to get the wee log trailer filled to bring home about 20:00 hrs. Cutting shitty nom 6" and misshapen Lodgepole, to clear a route into the more mature timber. So I bulldozed the landing clear with the winch blade and pootled on down the track I had cleared earlier. Stopped to lower a wheen o overhigh stumps (about 2'), and in pure rank moss, and caught a patch of clay and stones. bugger! Strike 1:001_huh: So I sharpened the saw and left the rest of the stumps, cos hey they wernt really in the way. Went to "freespool" the winch rope and found 3 frayed wires instead of the control box, bloody hell, must have ripped it off when bulldozing the brash (cos too bloody worried/concerned about my delicate radial tyres) Strike 2:001_huh: But hey incredibably I found it undamaged, and got it rewired. Got the turn of trees yoked up and moved forward a bit to winch them in/set the choker chains. Only a bit of winch wire out, so no wild pulling force involved, but a sudden lurch and loud bang later, and I was winching in a broken wire rope( well it was getting damaged near the end anyway) Strike 3:001_huh: I got that fixed with rudimentary tools on-site, (thanks to the very neat wedge arrangement to lock the rope in the end unit) winched the turn to the landing and came home. Going to spend the rest of the day drinking Hobgoblin. Most I can break is a glass! M Better luck tomorrow.

:001_tongue:Hush:001_tongue: I were aware o the possibility of lower stove efficiencies. But a lot of oil boilers be lucky to be 80% efficient, plus the "transmission" losses in piping the hot water to the radiators. And the heat lost to the boiler room or worse "dog house" outside. And a modern high efficiency stove should be 75%, and immediately dumps the heat into the room:thumbup: And a fire in a room "feels" warmer. So I figgered, near enough "even stevens":001_tt2: marcus

Regardless of production costs, but rather based on calorific(heating) value. Did a bit of research just now, and from memory. Parriffin/kero=heating oil has a calorific value of nominal 45MJ/Kg, at a density of 0.8kg/litre @ £0.53/litre (incl Vat)=66p/kg Dry Timber=15MJ/Kg, or nominal 13.5MJ/Kg for my 15% stuff So I need 3.333kg of timber to be the same heating value as 1kg of kero. Which simplistically puts an equivalent value of £0.20/kg on my timber. So my 0.5m3 billet bundle weighing 165kg @£.20 is worth £33.00. Or 1.0 m3 = £66.00 Delivered and stacked (to be the same as del oil) But what extra price %age is acceptable for the amenity value of firewood. If any.

Wonder how badly the mass climb would have stressed the tree they advocating protection of .. .. ..oops

A good point Steve, and very well espressed too!

cough cough see above:lol::lol:

Senior Managment Had a very similar stove top type machine burst/blow up on her. Literally blew in bits, while she was at the other end of the kitchen with her back turned.

Humph Rich Showing off are wee? Extreme angle

seee PS Still holding good oil pressure, even at that extreme angle. My kinda engineering

Guessing a form for "deviation from" the existing contract? A very good idea.