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Possibly/Probably at least some if not all, are Sitka.
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Home schooling - anyone else had a bit of a shock??
difflock replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
My take on the teaching of minority languages, for which there is apparently passionate burning support for in the local communities, is wtf does its teaching then need to be so generously government funded? Surely passionate volunteers and parents at home could pass it on, IF there is such community support? And bilingual road signage is just plain stupid, especially if safety related. And dont get me started at the mulitlingual written signs and other shite within the "underfunded" NHS. Marcus -
I have always intended to cut-to-length a single billet-bundle into a builders bag via the wee conveyor belt(for random unstacked filling) to establish the actual difference. Various reputable internet sites give conversion figures for the density of a given solid wood to carefully stacked round wood bulk density, to carefully stacked split wood bulk density, to random loose firewood bulk density. So many variables. And the "chancers" selling firewood in builders/jumbo/1tonne bags and claiming they are 1.0m3 does NOT help.
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coppicer, A common misconception re the "tonne" builders bags, they are indeed intended to hold 1 tonne of sand or aggregate BUT said aggregate with a nominal bulk density of say, 1800kg-2000Kg/m3, so are in fact something like 850mm by 850mm by 900mm deep, giving a notional volume of 0.67m3(from lazy memory) BUT def not 1.0m3 in volume. My tight strapped bundles probably hold more timber and less air voids. Yes I got a wee plantation of Sitka, grant planted 40 odd years ago and started to blowdown, being planted in peat over impermeable clay. Re crane scales, cheap shite from China bought off ebay, I would not therefore take on to recommend any over any other supplier. Cheers Marcus
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Oddly enough, or not, but over my 10 odd years of use and abuse of the 5t Krpan, which is still on its origonal rolled steel rope, I can still pull the 10mm? wire rope out without much difficulty, despite more than once winching until I stalled the 84HP DB1490 tractor,(OK only ticking over on the 1000 shaft setting) and then having to release with a hellauva "sproing", and not always carefully respooling afterwards(and I got a big kink on the drum somewhere just recent) So was the rolled steel wire rope on the Krpan better quality? mth
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Home schooling - anyone else had a bit of a shock??
difflock replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
Billhook, I imagine "balk" should be spelled "baulk", yes? just saying like! -
crane scales finally delivered, see images; The fresh felled and cut to length this morning bundle is Lodgepole pine, weighing 322Kg but at a measured 0.615m3 in volume with a moisture meter reading of 35%(which struck me as low?) The dry bundle at 169Kg is mostly Sitka at a measured 0.55m3 and 14%, After measuring the diameter and calculating the volume, the wet Lodgepole gives me 524.87Kg/m3 @ 35% and the dry Sitka calcs out at 306.66Kg/m3 @ 14% I suppose I need to ferret out enough Sitka to process and weigh wet.
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https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/isuzu/d-max/352141/new-isuzu-d-max-tipper-conversion-announced-2020
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Krpan, out of Slovania, I got a 17 t with a winch(which is unfortunately unbraked) driven off the PTO, takes about 1100mm, the paint is falling off despite being shed stored, but mechanically 100%. A wee hydraulic winch would have been much nicer to use.
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I gave you a sad smilie, cos that is how I feel when tricked into looking at yon misbeguided lassie
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So set up a firm and pay your climbers £200.00 per day. Simples, or is it?
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Home schooling - anyone else had a bit of a shock??
difflock replied to Squaredy's topic in General chat
Despite the relative shit-hole of a village it is located in, our local Primary school is absolutely excellent, and also spotlessly clean. -
If they are still imported or distributed, a Ferris should be up there too, especially the Perkypillar(i.e. a yellow Perkins) engined ones.
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I used to carry a scapel, taped to the smooth SS side of my jack-of-all-trades 1957 Army Issue penknife, which was as about sharp as a butter knife, and brought out when so needed, before being carefully taped back into position. Never failed me.
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So you use a linkage mounted PTO driven splitter but also need to move timber to and away from the splitter using 3pt linkage mounted pallet toes on the same tractor, in this case for your MF 35/35x would an "A" frame Quick hitch on the linkage not work? S.23464 Tractor Linkage A Frame Quick Hitch System | Cat 2 | UK Supplier WWW.MALPASONLINE.CO.UK Product Specification and Information for S.23464 Tractor Linkage A Frame Quick Hitch System | Cat 2
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Walk under it? Perhaps not in a howling gale, otherwise, meh! why ever not!
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That fireplace was clearly wider and higher in its origonal form, so there must be a lintol higher up, but regardless the brickwork will naturally arch or self-corbel, i,e, only the middle entirely unsupported bricks can fall away, and even then, they probably wont, unless already loose or there is a large point load almost directly above. good luck, mth
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David, needless to say ah nivver even read the link provided, but gave you a like based on your previous impeccable judgement on such matters! EDIT; Make that "Cogently and concisely expressed impeccable judgement"
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That eternal conondrum! The machinery you need do do even a little, is generally also sufficient to do a lot, whether you want to or not. Kinda like being "a bit pregnant!" Cheers, Marcus
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Well, I will soon be able to comment difinitively, since I ordered another set of crane scales! But from recall less than half the weight(350kg to 150kg?) after splitting and drying, and again from hazy recall drying "in the round" took the logs down to about 30% from over 50% moisture when fresh felled, so significently lighter to wrasle with when splitting, and fewer "sap japs" in the eye.
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Well 1.18 l or 1.23 l or whatever, WHEN heating domestic hot water only, in the summer months. Otherwise about/just over a gallon per day, but then the volume of wood being burned is a big factor in our reduced oil consumption.
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Yes, .65 US Gall times 0.5(the 1,2 Hr) by 0.8 (4/5) for conversion to Imp gallons, I hope? Going to google it to check Andy Edit at 3.78 l per US Gall= 1.22 litres for a 1/2 hr And der intersnot tells me(as I imagined) that 1 Imp gall = 1.2 US gall, so 0.83(oops!) Anyway see image of logs stockpiled to dry out to be lighter before I handle them to split them, lazy bugger that I am!
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The nozzle is a 0.65 = 0.65US Gall/Hr So .65*.5*.8*=0.26 Imp Gall or 1.18 litres per day for a generous 1/2 hr burn. And in the depts of winter, burning a gallon a day for 2 hrs boiler running. And, since I checked the oil tank yesterday, prior to ordering oil, we have used about 1000 l since I filled the tank at the end of Sep(during that 1 week long price spike), so 1000/7mths/30 days= 4.76 litres/day = near enough 1 gall/day. marcus
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I had in the past priced up solar domestic hot water panels, but the purchase costs(even if self installing) would never? be financially re-couped since the oil boiler only runs for 20-30 mins to heat the 210l hot cylinder skelping hot. But it would be nice to have endless "free" hot water over the summer months at least. And I might yet install some, just because. We have the perfect fully south facing roof to install the panels on too.
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Not true unfortunately, since the bulk of humanity are incapable of saving, prefering to piss it up against a wall when times are good, and then pleading poverty when their circumstances change.
