shanks
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Everything posted by shanks
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Get someone to help you, one splitting and one putting rounds onto the block. Its very effective, and more than halfs the time it would take one person, swap over every 5 mins or so. Just be very carefull you don't split anything other than logs.
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Thats what I pay for 5lts, at the end of the earth. How come yours is so much??
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watch out the timber fairies are about again
shanks replied to Joy Yeomans's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Its shocking, I feel for you guys putting in all that hard work just to have the wood stolen from you. I am on the flip side I guess, I've maybe 20m3 of logs either split or in rounds ready to split dotted about. None of it ever goes walkabout. I can only think its the anonimity(sp) factor of living in areas with a large population. Up here if some one took my wood, I would know them. Not that that kind of thing goes on anyway. -
If you are worried about it, go ahead and report it to the council and or land owner. There is nothing to lose in doing so, and you may well prevent an accident.
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Nikon's are great in low light conditions, such as you would find in the forest. They are great every where else too.
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Thanks, Theres a good mix in there, spruce, scots pine, rowen, birch and alder. Though all the damage is in the fir sections, the rowen, birch and alder escaped the wind damage. This is Achiltibuie, wester ross.
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Started at the other side of the wood, looked pretty much the same as above but the land owner wanted these trees down first, all had moved in the storms. Any more wind and they would have fallen on the road and taken out the fence. Never thought to take photos before work, but heres after. You'll notice some ones been in and planted new tress, before i'd finished... cheers.
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Large patch of these little chaps...
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Again, no scale. This tree has split itself to about 5ft up the trunk... Interesting failure on a side limb, caused by the main stem coming adrift...
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And another behind those, the tree in the center snapped itself clean off, ....the top portion is propped up next to it, some areas are a real mess...plenty to watch out for..
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Yes, we do have more than two trees up here! A few pictures from an on-going clean up project. Forgot to add some scale, but the top of the root plate is a good 7ft tall, plus its actually two trees.... Behind that mess is another three, agian two on the same lifted root plate(s) and a single one...
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I have a set of 661 'body armour', as you say for mountain biking. Protection every where from the waist up. There is no way you could wear that for work, you would last a couple of hours before you boiled your self alive and would no doubt cause an injury to your self because you wouldn't be able to move and work properly. Bikers that wear that kind of stuff are downhillers, using it for maybe 10 minutes at a time with gravity doing most of the work for them. Its not really suitable for anything else, to be honest.
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Best of luck with the move, and new life. Forget the Avon stuff, long sleeve t-shirt and a hat with midge net for the summer months. And watch out for the Clegs, they will bite you through your clothes.
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Your right, a friend has the Sugoi 360. I have the zubat 330 and side by side the cutting edge is not 30mm longer as it would sugest. Infact, its less than 10mm.
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Black coffee (not instant) and cigarettes for breakfast, can't eat much before 10am. I eat alot, just not in the morning.
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A BT chap up here did some, it seems just so he could get to the box at the top of the pole because the line still runs through branches either side. He also kindly left his impressive pile of trimmings on the one foot wide verge at the side of the road.
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I use mine all the time Predator, wet, dry whatever. Never had any issues with them. Keep you hands nice and warm too, not that this winter has been that cold up here.
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I've been using my Gransfors large splitting axe to knock in felling wedges for a few years with no troubles. I've also used the forest axe for the same purpose. I think what they are getting at is not to use the axes for 'splitting' wedges. A felling wedge slips in easy with little resistance compared to a splitting wedge. I've often thought about using a hammer instead, but its just something extra to drag about that can only be used for that purpose. An axe on the other hand....... Seeing as the OP is in Sweden, i'd go and treat yourself to a Gransfors Bruks.
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Mine is 'Assembled' in Sweden. So would imagine most of it is made in China or the like. Just like most things. Nice little saw though, but in no way suitable for pro users.
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£28 for a brand new 20" one from Clark Forest, Albere.
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As I thought then. I'll pick up some new filters as back up. Thanks for all the above input.
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Saw's two months old, and only used lightly. I know its only a garden saw but its perfect for the jobs I put it to use for. Surely it cant need seriously looking at, at such an early stage?
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I see. It was quite damp though. So I guess a damp filter and saw dust not allowing enough air through to maintain power whilst cutting would cause the loss of power?? Thanks for the input.
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Hi all, Losing power in the cut today whilst limbing a few small conifers (Husky 240). Thought maybe old fuel mix, 5 weeks old. Ran my 365 on the mix just fine to finish job. Investigated the 240 when I got home and found the air filter, which is a fabric layer job, covered in fuel mix and sawdust. Its drying off now but any ideas how this happened?? and of course how to prevent it. There is an exploded diagram here, sould it be of use... http://www.husqvarna.com/ddoc/HUSO/HUSO2011_AAaa/HUSO2011_AAaa__1154212-26.pdf
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And thats the truth. There is nothing wrong with windows. Common sense and a little knowledge makes a happy windows user.
