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So owt under 59 minutes is ok:001_smile: oh! Did I mention I were well feart of heights:blushing: Nah I'll just pay my way in

But even that is only part of the cost equation. The greater installation costs for any wood burner compared to a balanced flue gas installation. Plus the hassle and space required for storage and the daily embuggerance of carting wood in to be burned. Never mind the extra dusting and cleaning

How fast does one be required to Pole Climb..............................to qualify for free entry. Ah kin start practising. A lot! Oh PS What tonnage is the safety rope certified for?

I have, since this morning, made enquiries about a Ground Source heat pump installation under the RHI scheme. This despite already being accepted for the RHI/biomass boiler. But being unsure if i wish to continue to be a slave to a boiler, hence my continued reluctance to committ. With the underfloor/GSHP providing background heat and the Morso providing "spot" heat. Keeping the economic oil fired boiler for domestic hot water and backup. Then flog me sticks for cash. m

yep yep yep wot ^ e said

15-18 tonne POWERED by a tractor PTO hydraulic pump. unless a newer tractor with high flow hydraulics (and at low engine rpm's) Then use tractor hydraulics. but a PTO pump version will run at tickover revs on the 1000 shaft setting. Even on an older tractor without the better hydraulics.

I have maintained, since we started heating the whole house with a gasifying logwood boiler. That it would be cheaper to sell the sticks for cash to pay for the heating oil. This is subjective, the only "fact" I possess is that we used to heat the house with one full fill of oil in the year. For the sake of round figs say 2500 litres worth. Plus of course the Morso kicking out 5kw for 12/15 hrs per day (say) I am burning a substantial amount of wood with all the attendent daily hassle to compensate for not burning oil. Preversely, since we got underfloor, I should probably install a ground source heat pump, (under our RHI scheme) and since we are in peat, this would be ideal ground conditions for GSHP too. then sell the logs for cash. But still run the Morso of course. It is indeed a funny old world.

15-18 tonne/PTO pump driven

So thats a diesel Kubota engine driving a hydraulic pump to drive a hydraulic motor to drive a PTO stub, which in turn drives a hydraulic pump, to pressure the ram. A kinda "round the houses" way of achieving the goal. The oil will likely get all confuzzled. ie instead of Engine drives pump drives splitter ram

Well, exactly!

Thanks, Woodworks, that better expresses what I was getting at. m

"Benign Neglect" is the absolute best managment for nature. i.e. leave it the F*** alone. Nature will then sort itself out, according to the site and climate/weather conditions prevailing.

It's that man again (btw, thats Tony Hancock to younguns) Yes, I hired a Thor petrol engined road towable 13t capacity machine for a number of seasons. Totally frustrating, deadly slow on the return and had to stand holding both levers to keep it returning. The splitter head also kept falling off as it continually sheared the securing roll pin. The shaft could have been shimmed to prevent this defect. This was why I bought the PTO powered Krpan. IT is very very good, at least for my needs. very well painted too after a few seasons, no blemishs showing. The only wee oversight design flaw I might pick up on is the inadequate location of the grease nipples for the slideing splitting head. ps Hired THOR WAS probably/almost certainly not a "Magic", as it would have been a basic low rent model for the hire market. marcus

Except surely the sheep shite has the same fertilizing effect. As leaving cut grass. It was my understanding that to sustain a hay meadow, the fertility had to be suppressed by removing each years growth after seeding. Like in saving hay neatly does, by shaking out the ripe and dry flower seeds, then removing the bulk of the nitrogen containing grasses. Otherwise the grass specis will dominate at the expense of the wild flowers

V.W. Crafter CR 3.5 Tdi van with SLD dog boxes tow bar extra seats etc Registration Number: GC89AB, Date in Service: 2007, Mileage From: 67000 mls. £6k ish Guess where advertisied:lol:

yes, btw., those tines look right and tight and straight, at a glance leastwise. PS JimE but flail mowers being heavier in construction, need to be in closer:001_tt2:

Hawk and spit The clue lies in the name "G" Wagens come with triple diffs as standard, well the 460/461's did. "G" Wagens also keep the oil in and the water out. ho ho

Could they not graze it down with a few sheep over the winter, and make hay next year? Since there is no such thing as a free lunch, flail mowers also absorb much more horsepower mulching the grass, as opposed to merely cutting it. It will be "murder" hard work raking wet grass. Consider an old fashioned buckrake to "rake" and lift, perhaps keeping the mower a fraction higher to leave a stubble to keep the cut grass up a bit. If correctly set up on the top link it should be possible to get the buckrake tines to "float" without digging in, but still getting all the grass.

A terrible pity to regard 20 acres of mixed mature undistrubed woodland purely as a fuel source. The capital costs of the boilers you mention would suggest a reliable and costed fuel source be sorted out.......................before purchase. I know nowt about wood chip btw

Obviously proceeding uphill the branches can be bent less from the vertical, but still be nearer the slope of the ground, and so present a better stock proof barrier. Some of us live in the Moss where it be virtually flat.

I run a Solarbayer 40kw with a 2200litre accumulator tank. Heating just over 3500 ft sq of 2 story with mostly underfloor downstairs. From my last 8 or so years experience I figger I could/would rather have twice the buffer/accumulator capacity, since it is so much easier to keep the bugger burning once lit, than relighting every day in the winter. The underfloor will usefully draw the tank down to 35 deg, and with continious/sustained pumping down to 30 deg. I cannot get the tank to more than 83/85 deg, generally settling for 80, which really only gives a useful30 deg of stored heat (unless dumped into the underfloor. I could even condider re-plumbing my system such that the underfloor gets either (i) the ret flow after heating the radiators/hot cylinder. or (ii) seperatly plumbed from the accumulator tank/tanks to use the lower temp water, leaving the hotter water for the rads/hot cyl. I love complicated solutions to simple problems, well apparently. marcus

So, What determines the "lay" of the hedge? Do you not of preference "cut to your hand". i.e. me being right handed would find it more natural to forehand cut the side of the stem facing my right hand, than backhand cut the side to my left hand. Which I presume would affect the direction of the lay. marcus

Erm, No details yet, but mod-sales have recently listed "diesel hydraulic" trailer power packs for aircraft use. On the ground I can only presume. PS Rowan, starting to sound like some sorta "perpetual motion" machine yer designing there!!

Withams mod-sales are selling a coil of 18mm rope, 45/55m of, I suspect spares for the Foden wreckers. in their "auction"

But then need to look at Weidemayer/smallest Volvo loading shovels type things.