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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.

Grey git, Give Whitehouse hydraulics a ring. They will advise the best hydraulic motor to match up with your hydraulic outpot available/shaft speed required for the winch. Based in Scotland somewhere. marcus http://www.whitehouseproductsltd.com/?gclid=CLuk8NPGyroCFceWtAodhCgAtg

Grey git, Give Whitehouse hydraulics a ring. They will advise the best hydraulic motor to match up with your hydraulic outpot available/shaft speed required for the winch. Based in Scotland somewhere. marcus

As my father was wont to say "It is only worth what someone else will pay"

I keep in touch with Rodney just in case he is letting one go cheap or sommat. First came across Essener years ago when sourcing good ladders.

Quicksand type "morass", I assumed peat before viewing. I liked the way the operator on the wee digger used the "steel wrist" rotating gizmo. Expensive looking bucket too.

Borrowed one to shift a few pallets, pootling about at tickover revs. Decided to "buldoze" some full Lodgepole tree lengths to tidy up/play a bit:lol:. Dont think I had her more than 1/2 revs/3/4 revs. Bloody hell, the power and the capabilities.(leastwise compared to my clapped out DB 1490) I want one, I want one, I want one. Dont particularly want to pay for one:blushing: is the only problem.

Plenty in Co Antrim too. Noticed when blackberrying. No frost yet so not rushing to pick.

wot e^ said. in spades. greed greed greed prevails

burr ash

Car or super single tyres, filled with subsoil or dirty gravel, staggered joints and raked back at an angle, if needed, but prob not, (vertically darned with heavy section re-bar, if paranoid). Easy to place by hand, rounded and soft in appearance, everlasting, and vegitation can either be planted in the chinks, or will naturally grow over. marcus

A farming neighbour, who is 6 foot 7 and built to match. When building the replacment farmhouse, provided himself with a Belfast sink, between the back door and his adjacent office. Specially to give himself a rinse down in, after work. It is about 5 feet off the floor. His wifes nose would just about touch the rim. I thought that a work of pragmatic genius.

Erm, Actually a high powered remote control helicopter with specially sharpened blades. Chop chop chop Or yon NZ hedgecutter flicked on its side

You do realize with 2 squadrons worth of Spitfire pilots co-habiting. You are going to be very firmly at the rear of the Emily Blunt queue. just a thought m

Americans do appear to be better at designing machinery fixable with an (i) angle grinder, (ii) a hammer, (iii) a stick welder and perhaps a basic socket set.

Doobin, Huuussssh! there The Master Plan is to get the poor chap so lumbered with the debt incurred buying a humuengeously unneeded machine. He will very soon go bust:001_tt2:

Should not need that much height. Lift loader (to max if necc), tip forks to rotate IBC forward, even if the forks are touching the bed of the trailer, the IBC should be "teetering" on the point of balance. Manually tip IBC, onto front side, then simply "crowd" the forks back up to lift the IBC base upwards. AH! I forgot the check chain/rope needed to prevent the IBC tipping too far/ allow the toes to lift it back up when crowded back. gibber, mutter an twitch May need furthur development:confused1: or a proper loader:lol:

so 1.200 by 1.830 = 2.196 by 0.914 = 2.00m3 by 0.965 = 2.12m3 by 1.070= 2.35m3 weight of contents may vary:lol:

see, i hope? Should work, I imagine. Gravity being generally reliable. Why did I label the IBC an IBU? ibc tipper.pdf