Crazy Cutter
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Not a bit of it, yes sales are slow for everyone it seems but the installers I talk to are as busy as ever. Just look at a small town and count the stove cowls? Someone has got to supply them And when OPEC does get bored or those at Davos force them to watch the price of oil rocket. $200 a barrel was mentioned yesterday within five years and as for the price of cord. There simply is not enough wood being produced in this country and with most countries sending their timber to China there is going to a huge battle for who has the wood.
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And how worrying is that! Emerald ash and birch bronze borers. We are all just crazy.
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Firewood is going through a classic boom and bust cycle. A boom caused by two hard winters and high oil price. The bust cos it's warm and we have so many people having a go but if you sell a excellent product sub 20% as their manual states you will sell. I sold out of hardwood in October and only have 75 split cube of soft left which goes out at 70 a cube no problem. Firewood is not easy work particularly the marketing. The next worry on the horizon for us is shale gas because simply the government will subsidise it to the hilt. Happy new year.
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I have found over the last year more failure of ash at ground level. They usually have vertical cracks and snap clean, the cause i suspect is ash dieback which has quickly been invaded by honey fungus. We will soon be seeing more of this failure. I have numerous woods now with fallen madium size ash. People have recently been worrying about the lack of hardwood supplies but don't worry the warm winter has sped up the disease and supplies will be plentyful! Just remember it rots quickly so do not leave standing.
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We have tree surgeons in norfolk sending lorry loads of chip to wales for biomass! Those woods would have originally been coppice and every single twig would have been used and every last piece humped out, yet woods a 100 years were still full of life and rarities. That is just madness. I wouldn't have bothered thinning this year ash dieback will create plenty of gaps for you, every ash i thin now is infected, some woods i manage will have 75% clear space!
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Hi kids! Just wondering what people are paying currently for hardwood cord in cubic metres and what air %? Roadside or standing. Answers on a postcode please winner gets my signed Jim'll Fix It photo!
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I thought Holkham Estate had their own firewood round?
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I'm always on the look out for free wood! Got given 12 tonne of oak which i went to clear up yesterday. Large oak snapped at 10 foot still hanging on the stump hollow centre.in a back garden, nightmare to cut down, tension and comp all over the shop had to run more than once. I do feel the b and q chainsaw brigade will come un stuck soon!
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I pm'd last week but no reply! Must be on holiday?!?
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I am happy to come and have a look. Will give a fixed price quote for laying.
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Norfolk 2012:001_tt2:
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Celatex is top do not cavity fill, put celatex straight onto wall then plasterboard etc. If non cavity wall then tile spline to leave air gap then celatex. Everyone seems to forget they can't remove all damp from older properties and if they did they would fall down! Yes you will lose 2 inch of room space with celatex but you will save that in heating bills. I've also dug the floors out and put it under 8 inch of concete toasty:thumbup:
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Numpty:thumbup: Hope all heals well hooks are buggers:thumbdown:
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I was a faller/groundsman for 8 years brfore i became a climber, i wouldn't want it any other way. I know the surgeons i rate in Norfolk and your quote says it all.
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What do you all think of a hycrack log splitter
Crazy Cutter replied to mendiplogs's topic in General chat
What about a cone splitter on a flail or digger arm? -
Not just up and down Jon bloody barmy! Dog rose in full leaf and about to flower today. First to spot a bumblebee gets a Crazy Cutter chq book and pen!
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Good map that the most i have seen but no hertford style. The military page is interesting i have a calcutta hook made by elwell with 10 inch blade but so light and thin i haven't found a use for it yet!
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You need the handbook hedgelaying explained by NHLS it has a pullout diagram with most of the billhook styles though not all. I have a book called country crafts from the sixties which has 29 hooks even a norfolk style. Most hooks are for hedging and usually have a point on the nose for pushing thorn back into the hedge and some are for coppice cutting such as the devon and tenderden. As for codes its usually a cat no or maybe a size waiting for someone else to answer that one.
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I feel so sorry for nature now. Hedgehogs out, moths out, primroses in flower, even oak buds look lifted then bang end of the month could be sub zero.
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Thanks again guys the length of handle on the 35 quid one made it look more like a slasher but as long as the blade isn't huge i could cut the handle down and re shape to suit. Off the top of my head i paid 40 for my one i have never paid more than that and have quite a few now. The best hedging hook for pleaching i've found is the hertford as it has no nose and a curved blade like a butchers knife so you always hit even in tight spaces. And what would be the difference between a no.1 and a no.2? as both look similar the no.2 has been sold.
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No sorry Alysham way. Why have you seen my hook wandering round Lynn!
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Double edge curved for dirty work and flat for shaving only and always wrapped in cloth:001_smile:
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Norfolk police told me only a fist of fives are allowed in this county:thumbup1:
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Thanks Alec i'll give it a go. I got it off ebay bout 8 years ago and it was a cracker hardly been used, ground up well on the wheel and i gave it more use than it had had all its life but hey i was debating one of the morris ones but their last devon one still sits in the shed because imo the handles are for girls and look and feel as though they are made by a midget not what they used to supply. I have a devon by them 18 years old going well and a proper handle on it, nose bit worn now as use it to rake out ivy and kelter when hedgelaying or coppicing.
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I have had one of my billhook stolen from outside the back door. Left it in the kindling block which i wouldn't normally do! Doh! Anyway can't find anything similar on ebay so would ask you guys to keep your eyes out so i can replace it. It was an elwell no.2 yorkshire hook and really was top. First choice of hook for hedgelaying and always in use for fencing, chopping etc. Really quite gutted.
