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I too saw an architect designed from scratch/no expense spared installation Hoval pellet burner in a very new, i.e about 3 year old high spec new build. Get ripped out and replaced by an oil boiler. About 5 year ago. So probably better to stick with the Froling T4 gasifying Logwood option. sigh.

I had considered a wood chip installation back about 8 years ago before I choose to install the logwood gasifier. I have "unlimited" "free" wood so it would not make sense to buy chip. I reckon if I either set the smaller dia logs aside for chipping, or split the larger to size to suit a smaller chipper, I could either preferably hire, or reluctantly buy a tractor powered 2nd hand chipper. I do rather fancy the "automatic" nature of the chip system, even if I had to transfer chip from a bulk store to a hopper, say on a weekly basis. The auto lighting system is a big attraction. I would also retain my 2000litre accumulator tank. However I understand these chip systems are better suited to larger, more commercial sized systems. For domestic use, it all seems to have swung to pellet systems. Must have a prowl on the greenbuilding forum cheers m

Chippers International Erm, I was aware of the brand, but it appears they are aimed at the disposal of brash by chipping.......as opposed to wood-chip biomass production. I would be feeding it reasonably clean lodgepole sans needles or small branches. I would rather hire a machine but this one came up in conversation today with a tree surgeon

For the about to be introduced RHI scheme in Northern Ireland. I got an accepted for a Froling logwood gasifier.............................but Am swithering about a wood chip system instead. I can apparently buy a Gandnia chipper for 6k 2nd hand. Are they any good, as a brand?, and are they suitable for producing woodchip suitable for the automatic boiler feeding systems? I take it substantially more capital investment required? Thoughts please.

Tee Hee, I stumbled across an unlimited free supply source yesterday, about a 1/2 mile from my workplace. A plastics re-cycling centre with loads, probably Ex seed potatoe trade, sitting lonely and unloved. OK Not "free", but well cheap and handy forby. Sorry:001_tt2: Marcus

Cept I just lift and swing the stuck Axe and attatched block and smack it back down the normal right/ way up way. Try once flat bottomed and centred, if that does not succeed, the next time striking with the front or rear lower face of the block to dislodge the Axe. Never yet failed, or indeed ever broke an Axe shaft either. Never invested in or used a Maul either. Before I bought the hydraulic splitter btw.

Bit like Army time Zulu time GMT European time Excercise time UK time (summer) UK time (winter) From hazy rememberances of TA Euro Excercises with some quite heated discussions as to what time ACTUALLY REALLY was. Which was quite pertinent when catching the Ferry to get back home

18 Sotoner, I believe the reference to "dumpy" bags is reasonably self explanatory, implying small or undersized. Btw the 0.73m3 is Sooooooooooooo nearly 1cu yd as to be aggravating (about 95%) And if one chooses to describe a bag a 1.0m3 it bloody well should be. But then how cognatively lacking is most of the population if they cannot figure 1.0m3 means 1m by 1m by 1m.

Well them dammned Yankees are a meddling again. Thanks Mac, I unnerstan that I picked it up in our farming press, probably cos some bleeding farmer misunnerstood the correct usuage. Now wtf 2000lb, was this some kinda early Yankee attempt at going "metric" Though I do know that until suprisingly recently our cwt varied between different regions/market towns, as in a cwt could be comprised of a different no of lbs. marcus

As fat as a fool and twice as happy. With a twice happy wife snuggled in beside me. (an three dogs in the bed and one beside) An keeping 2 weans at Uni an in motors. Also a final year failed Civil Engineer with a memory for mostly useless detail. (Sammy terzaggi and krepner trego analysis and herman bernouliee an all that.) A prefectionist by psycometric profiling. (With Jackdaws nesting in the chimney and also in through the rather large hole in the soffait above the front door) I also suspect I am dyslexic and somewhere on the autistic spectrum. At 54 no worries and I have ceased to give a tinkers curse how others percieve me. btw I prefer the company of most animals to that of most people:001_tt2: PS Me and the Mrs. just scoffed 1/2 a large box of Thorntons cos we run oot o Haggendaz.

Tsk tsk gentlemen. (i) Sand and aggregate is sold by the tonne ex builders merchants, the moisture content makes very little difference due to the free draining nature of these products. (ii) About 1.5 to 2.0 tonne per m3, hence the "odd" volume of a builders tonne bag. (iii) mass concrete being 2.4 t/m3 An imperial ton is 2240lbs being 20cwt by 8 stone by 14lbs in a stone A tonne is 1000kg by near nuff 2.2lbs = 2200lbs i.e. 20lbs "light" Or was sometimes referred to as a "short" ton. The intersnot will provide more exact comparisons and bulk densities. cheers marcus

Yes, I opted for 1.0m lengths (cos thats the way the German's do it), it makes for easy counting of volume I surmise. Should be ready in 1 year, or if split in the spring and covered, ready to burn in the following Autumn, assuming a reasonable summer and a breezy location. I imagine, especially if split to a not greater than 100mm diminsion. I could be over-optimistic though, but since I am running a gasifying boiler my logs need to be properly dry. Therefore I try and be a couple of years ahead of myself, bringing them into an airy shed, after a season outside.

(i)Bridging loan? or (ii)Borrow the wifes tights? (before you visit the Bank) or simply (iii)Sell a kidney?

I cannot answer except to say that one of our small local farm based engineering firms exists because the owner made a name for being able to do just that. Moving loaders between tractors by modifying brackets. Where others had tried and failed. I take it you mean modifying the loader brackets to suit the different tractor btw. I would blench at the challenge of actually fabricating new brackets from scratch without CAD facilities. Sorry to sound pessimistic. m

"gunked" by the declared hours, but more likely to be an honest product thataway. PS Is the 7840SLE not now considered "collectable", I suppose if it is the value will be retained better. Scratches head? IS there ANY tractor of this vintage that is not apparently "collectable"? (based on my perusuals of Classic Tractor magazine)

Steyr Puch never flinched bring 4 tonne of flags on a trailer with a self weight of about 1 tonne.(with good over-run brakes) Feather the brake pedel to bring the trailer brakes on, then nail it. No worries. Perfectly happy all the way, though I dont think I exceeded 40mph. But then it has the anchient, throughly tested and de-glitched MB 4 speed auto.

I figure billets, especially stacked in bundles, 3 or 4m high, should allow better air flow and drying than logs in boxes or vented bags? I set the bottom row on two spindly straight lengths of round timber, on top of old carpet from the skips, so no grass growing up through, and good air flow below forby. I cut and split out of a "face" taking each full length log as it comes, cutting large knots or branch unions out as they come and splitting in short lengths straight into a box to the left of the splitter, the same box I use for the splinters from the billet splitting process. I do not concern myself with tapering billets as when I cut to length, the "oddball" bits go into a box for kindling, being small and light they are easy to toss aside into a suitable container. My Lodgepole timber is simply too misshapen and knotty to deal with any other way, it certainly would be reasonably unsuitable for a processor, especially with the extra capital costs involved. cheers marcus

IF the manufacturer designed and specced the vehicle to tow. i.e. with transmission fluid coolers and whatever. No worries whatsoever. Far better than a dry clutch getting abused. imho

Due to a bad case of lazitisanddrinkingGuinessandeatingHagendazallsummer I have not made much progress with the billet bundles. However my 0.5m3 bundles at 1.0m long stack well and will be easier to secure covers over, I actually sold 2 today, and was surprised how dry the lower ones were, despite being uncovered during our very wet weather recently. The 0.5m3 bundle is also man-handlable, especially with a second person. It is so much easier to get the strapping tight enough round the 0.5m3 bundle, to keep them in shape (compared to my first attempt at 1.0m3 bundles) And quite practical to roll/manhandle onto and off pallet toes into the back of a Transit Van, even on ones own. On the other hand I can quickly fill a trailer with "cut to length" logs to suit individual customer preferences, in multiples of 0.5m3 I am thinking of mounting my forklift on a one tonne hi tip dumper chassis, then being able to move the outdoor seasoned bundles under cover in the shed for the winter, and simply cut to length as required. cheers marcus

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Funny enough I have always found old, dead or seasoned Hawthorn to be murder on a chainsaw. The fine sparks seen in the gloaming were a giveaway. Grit within the bark, or fissures, presumably from nesting birds or wind carried. Otherwise visually apparently clean timber.

Is an 880 not a bit big to be running on a 9" bar Jon? 3/4ft or 0.75 ft being 9" For me it ud be 026/036/046 I know my limits

Ah! He thinks? Teak:001_huh: I cut and planed and routered 50 year salvaged Teak worktops from a school lab. It was a proper bastard on the planer, perhaps in part to the 50 years worth of linseed oil dressing with ingrained debris therein.(I thought) Perhaps due to the silica as well Worth it in the long run though. Now good for another 50:thumbup:( or 100? years) PS I had intended to mill a large straight stemmed but clearly visablly sprial grained Bog Fir, with the LM15 (if I ever get it) About 500mm/550mm in diameter and perhaps 6 or 7m long. Might need to re-think that plan.

Surprised that a weatherproof cab was apparently deemed an unnecessary luxury in balmy Alaska.