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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.

Senior Management avows nobody make coffee like me. (This may of course be a cunning Ploy, as I get outta bed at about 06:05 to make it!) Anyway bought a "Ranchillo" expresso machine and matching grinder after using a few cheapo expresso machines to death. Mostly whatever No5 is on offer, generally in Sainsburys. A triple (& perhaps quadruple?) expresso into a large mug of hot milk.= breakfast. The stuff from any franchise is pure dross in comparision. m

On the tee shirt front "While your here. . ." And on the back "Will cost you dear"

No! (i) Bigger, therefore much more cumbersome. (ii) Heavier, therefore more likely to (a) get bogged and (b) more difficult to extricate. (iii) On bald tyres = useless in the Moss.(though there is another school of thought on that issue) cheers PS Wot I really need is a 6-8 tonne excavator on long reasonably wide steel tracks. With grapple etc (and to double up as a recovery aid) Plus a 10 tonne front mounted hydraulic recover winch on the crawler. Plus explosive couplings for the ends of the link arms so as I can "blow" and discard that horrorendously effective brake otherwise known as a forestry winch. cheers m

Paul, no worries, I went through my "O" Levels in 1974, just after Metrication was introduced (1973 was it?) So can easily work in both. Graham, A proper "steal" you got there, I ud work 2 long days for a deal like thatun. cheers M

Quite simple to work out, assuming average older tractor (the sort likely to be driving a log splitter is (and to be generous) 2240 & (a cunning plan awaits) psi hyd pressure. A 3" dia ram = Pi*D*D/4 = 3.142*3*3/4=about 28/4= 7sq"*2240psi/2240(lbs in a ton)=7 ton thrust. 4" will give 3.142*4*4/4=3.142*4= about 12.5 tons of thrust. 5"= about 20 tons. Obviously PTO driven hyd pump splitters could be running at higher pressures. but I doubt the micky mouse petrol engined hyd pumps ar running abane 2500psi. cheers m

Seeee, Started 07:30, lunch at 12:00, Took trailer up put a 1/2 load by about 13:30 Went to bring out more, decided to doze a wheen o branches off the landing. OOPS. Back for tow strops an odds and ends. Recovered by 18:30, after finally switching the winch to the Ould DB. Only need single line pull on about a 1/2 drum. Strangled the tractor stone dead on the first attempt, only about 1250rpm. A few more reves an bobs yer bent Uncle. Cost me a drop arm with the initial sideways winch. PS Well seeing the wee crawler is a "Mountain" varient. No lack of oil pressure even at that somewhat extreme angle. I did think to check!!

Guessing the one in the photo is about 10 tonne. Unless sommat like 5,000psi-6,000psi hydraulics. And a frame constructed from unobtainium. google 30 tonne log splitter(from a reputable manufacturer) to understand my doubts. regards, marcus

Was there any suspision/allegation of "poaching" perhaps? All seems very very odd.

Why were the Police involved?

Sounds to be more to this incident. (i) How was the Deer injured. (ii) How was it "humanely" dispatched. (iii) Who "took offence" regards, Marcus

Starting from first principles; (i) What HP is the rather small looking petrol engine. (ii) Since power is work done over time, with a 3 second cycle time, there cannot be too much work being done. btw, I understand the appeal of a flywheel "storing" energy. but needs to be large dia for this to work. And, not actually having seen one , I`simply cannot see how "clutching" a spur gear into a rack, or visa-versa, can be good engineering.. There has to be a better way, not as simplistic, or as cheap, but better engineered.