difflock
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Or spot the gaffer with the yellow coat and matching yellow toe-caps. Very fetching Sir.
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Yes, you require yearly calibration certification. Which always seems to cost us a surprising amount for a tool which is so little used. I cannot say that battery consumption is an issue with ours. Unaware of ever?? changing any. PS Despite what the sales person will tell one. They DO detect the steel in steel toe cap boots. Well ours does:confused1: As one swings it back and forth past the toes.
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Ah Ha! I tought of that already, using the lift arms instead of additional rams. With a strong link down to the fixed "swinging" drawbar as an anchor. BUT dismissed the idea as that would require me to access the tractor hyd control lever. Thanks though. Marcus
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Neighbour up the road bought one o them (International Tractors) brand new to buckrake silage. The hired help thought it was great crack to still be travelling forward with the wheels spinning madly in reverse, an visa-versa. OK smooth concrete lubed with squashed grass is quite slippery, but the old girl took simply dogs abuse and never lay down. Very sound engineering, and a therefore cracking base-unit for a forwarder. That I recall -
Yes, But I reckon the bundles will need consoildated. I might even try a HD rachett strap in the first instance, with 2 rachetts on the same strap to provide more take up for the slack. Before securing with HD baler twine (thanks Mr Posch) or thin blue rope Anyway i reckon any of those bought contrivences are too dear since I CAN fabricate better (eventually) my-own-sel. Chainsaws an PTO 3 point linkage mounted winches are an entirely different kettle of fish
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Thank you Broonie, a very good place to start, if nowt else for a couple of cheap 2nd hand rams. Though I had been thinking (after typing my last and dozing after Sunday lunch) of a couple of choker chains bolted to a double acting hyd Ram at one end and tother end(s) notched into a slotted bar. To allow for adjustment. To crimp the top half down. KISS an all that. Cheers M
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Since I have now finally got my last years randomly stacked billets "redd-up". I am festering as to how to build my billet bundler. I reckon the cheapest binding method is some sort of hydraulic clamped top section to squeeze the billet firm and round by crushing any splinters or snags. Opening , topping up and re-closing as necessary until I get the hang of the required "overcharge" to allow for consolidation. Then simply tying with 2 runs of 6mm/8mm blue polyprop rope (hitched) Three point linkage mounted with hydraulic tip out/push out. Disappointed no such gizmos or contraptions at the Irish Forestry show. Also almost no log boilers, leastwise gasifying types. cheers m
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Per Stephen's comment I would rather have any specis of conifer grown nearer the Artic circle. For growth denisity/rot resistence. However out Northern Ireland grown Sitka is next best to Polystyrene in respect of insulating qualities, or it should be, based on its dry density. PS Is there any corrolation between growth ring width and %age resin present, is this why slower grown wood is more rot resistent. Or what is/what makes the difference? Since I understand Sitka is native to the Pacific North West where it grows slower BUT makes better lumber. cheers m
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My dream would be (i) being able to scribe log joints as per those couple of detail photos in the link. (ii) Felling my own Sitka and building our own log cabin, from scratch. This is I fear definately a dream as I am too easily distracted = lazy. I could probably risk treating myself to a log cabin "scribing" course mind.
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wow excellent link re curved roofs. I would perhaps hazard a guess "sineusoidal" curve or roof. Being a very common waveform, in electricity supply or Physics stuff. Apologies for the phonetic spelling.
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Just back myself. From my perspective a long journey for not much of interest.(to me) Weather was fine after the early shower. Seemed to be mostly forestry managment type stands. And indeed seemed to be a bit of life among the tree climbing fraternity. But me dont climb. And perhaps less machinery/hardware than I expected. (Perhaps spoiled by having visited the APF) A nice friendly atmosphere though. Marcus
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Eauagh! Looking out the window at 10 by 6 was enough to severely dissuade me from going. Tuesday here was quite wonderful, 20 deg and very clear. A perfect summers day by any defination. Today looks more like a November day and feels like a March day. Might just stay home. A proper wuess is me!
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On my way home about 17:15 crossing the Knock Road at BT53 6LX:thumbup: I stopped to take a photo but he/her was shy:001_rolleyes: Pleased me no end that did.
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I really must call at McKillop's on the way home and hear the dead serious/life or death discussion among the great unemployed/unemployable habitual pub goers as to who should replace Fergie.
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Being a careful thrifty Co Antrim/ Co Cavan bred farmers son. I always have used Stihl red 2 stroke plus "boggo" standard chainsaw chain oil. For hobby use the extra cost is infintesimal. (and my sproket has lasted for ever, well since 1997) Since one has to pay at the pump for unleaded.
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I dont like the arrogant barstewart. BUT I suppose it takes an even bigger EGO to subdue footballers ego's. AND I can certainly appreciate and respect his phenomenal committment and achievements. However, it is all now a money making extortinate racket. I dont follow football btw.
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And CCTM is? Not the "Central Council for Tibetan Medicine" I can only presume.
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Hi Sur that were 30 year ago. Gillian put on 2 stone weight, one stone per ankle. Her however now on the way to being a Brigadier. Hey Ho
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:001_tt2:Care to specify which side is which? I guarentee the answer will surprise you:lol:
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Fueling the Invasion
difflock replied to David Humphries's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
ZB26 (from Zzssss' somethin / Brno in 1926) Designed for the rimless 7.92mm Continental round. Bought by the British Army after being converted to fire the rimmed .303 round (hence the ridicously curved signature top mounted magazine) then the bit I found quite appropriate. Re-converted back to the rimless 7.62 round to serve NATO for many years in the hands` of the British Army. I found that very appropriate in some strange way. the design coming "full circle" so to speak. Rimless to rimmed and back to rimless. that if nothing else proved the veracity of the origional Czech design. As an 8 stone runt I was on the Gun for the Section match in der TA. Whence we actually won the comp at Bisley. Happy days. Not properly sober for 6 or 8 weeks. -
Hmmm, (i) We got the guarenteed site(s) (ii) Probably buy an "off the shelf" log cabin. (iii) a big pond on the site (old farmstead) needs clearing out (marked on OS maps an all) Only 6 miles from present residence. Only problem is the big bugger of a house we are living in and do not intend to sell. Plus 3 generations worth of stuff too good to throw away moved in over the past 17 years plus my sheds an stuff. ************************ Hey I got it "a holiday home(s)" rent the thing out in the summer months. Cheers G, M & T. ************************ Despite property/sites being stonking unbelivabely good value over here just now. I do not intend to build up a property portfiolo. I cannot be bothered chasing others to do what they promised. (from experience), nor is the wife any longer fit to do so. Going to spend a little living before I die. Cheerful cuss aint I?
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Are you sure that was not rather the stiffiness in the sidewalls:001_tt2:, rather than the air pressure. Or "High Volume" tyres aboot a metre wide. Anyway With 520's on the back an 420's on the front 10 or 12 psi is just nice. Will pull surprising low gears "just about a hanging" before any reasonable likelyhood of getting bogged, this with the forestry trailer behind. i.e. She cannot pull higher gears without stalling.
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Only if proper draught Guiness or draught real Ale.(and not from plastic cups) Or bottled ales, drunk from a proper glass. (but very unlikely) I shall turn my nose up at any tinned Eurolargers. Times may change but standards MUST be upheld.
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Despite the essentially random nature of the trees being split, permed with the random stacking, but then some care taken in picking 2 fatter straighter lengths for the outsides each time. Hence the stability. I was surprised at how the both sides stacked up side by side height wise, layer upon layer. Over 13 rows, I built the one side, the brother built the other.
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Sniff! Ah kin drive it abbot on the front mounted forklift on der ould DB 1490. an have done. Lifted from the field, up angle-wise on to my hard-core track, back anglewise off said track and up the yard Der front tyres get a bit sqiidgy (possibly need more than a moss-crossin 10PSI therein) This is why (sigh!) I described it as "much steadier" Thrown on reasonably quickly with only one or two in the pile thrown back (to stack on the top at the end) The "ties" on the middle top help as well. BUT I was actually seriously surprised at how much steadier it is. Than a single stack, which no matter the care taken was always very wobbly. The 17 tonne splitter lives on the back for the PTO. While the wee crawler drives the cross cut saw. Almost perfect. Iffen one wanted to transport furthur a rachett strap laid across the pallet first and the logs built on top then all securly rachetted down. Would be VERY steady. Gibber, Mutter an Twitch
