openspaceman

I worked with a nifty lift 2.5tonne 17m mewp last week, it had hydraulic caravan movers and a small diesel motor as well as the battery electro-hydraulics, it moved at no more than 1mph and wouldn't handle gradients (though it did better from cold so I suspected a warn pump). Fine for local positioning but useless to track into a site. I would expect a 25hp engine would be just about adequate on a small chipper.

So they'll be the right way up when the world ends? Elm is classed as non durable I think but you could drill a hole up the trunk and set it on a length of scaffold pole which wouldn't be seen.

You owe him double time then ?

Just water in a kid's water pistol knocked them off my pepper plants. A pressure washer stood back just far enough to knock them off would use very little water.

A ford 4000 with half tracks (chieftan forge I think) would get places the county wouldn't

I held on to a pug XD2 which I had had rebuilt just before the 504 pick up was written off 20 years ago just for this purpose. I finally decided I wanted the space and put it on ebay yesterday. I wore a hole in the sump which must have got rusty, dragging it across the floor for photos and it dumped its oil on the floor.

You should be aware that most flow control valves dump the excess flow across the same pressure as the active service so they tend to heat up the oil much as passing the full flow to a service. It's no big deal until the flows get higher. We had this problem with the County crane becoming too difficult to control when the PTO ran a chipper if the pump was big enough to load with during normal use.

Yes we were talking about the same thing, crown thinnings in forestry is when you free off the crowns by removing more than thin and suppressed stems, so also taking co dominant trees , what you need to create gaps is selective felling.

The point being that the sycamore will respond to the increased space from a heavy crown thinning more than a new planting will, which means more intervention needed during establishment. If it were a glade 30 years ago and the sycamores are still growing...

Have you a link? I use diamond files for honing blades, not tried a round one on a saw, but would not have expected them to have enough stock removal for most chain sharpening.

Not much worse than a tirfor and you can change the gain with the log diameter. This is very handy for take downs in early thinnings when they are too big to pick up the butt and run In principle you can do the same with metal poles joined into an L shape

Maybe start summing up what the loss of saw has cost and starting a claim for damages

May as well put a battery isolator in then, good precaution in any case

You can if you squeeze the water out when a tap is open

How much did the BCO charge for the inspection?

You are welcome to borrow a T35 or T15 I seldom use them

No I dived in on a bit of thread drift. I have a bosky in the garage which I always meant to fit but have no experience of using a range with boiler since I left home and the rayburn around 1967 and that was coal fired.

Fairy nuff Well we are in the same sort of boat but there's no way I would do it without some mechanical assistance, At best I can work at about 100Watt power with my legs, very little upper body strength left. So a 5hp petrol engine will pull 50 times faster. An off grid music show we did was run off two people on bicycles mounted on rollers driving little 24V motors from kids electric scooters and that worked okay if a bit wearing. So on a similar note my mate Danny has built a bike with the front end replaced by a push along cylinder mower and that too works better than pushing. It may work out easier to have a pedal powered winch than wanking away on a tirfor.

I suppose it needs that speed and horsepower to get the torque necessary. It's a shame because 6-8" logs up to 6 " diameter would be ideal for me and no splitting needed. Actually looking at the logs and it seems the cutting action may generate some splitting to allow quicker drying. I wonder if it would still work with a smaller tractor but geared down somewhat?

Is there any way you can run a vehicle along the top and run the rope through an offset?

I don't think that's the issue from the OP's later post. In the past we occasionally extracted timber over adjacent land to stack it on a field with road access and never had issues (other than an inspection for setaside where the farmer had claimed a grant and it was held our timber stack was making use of the land by DEFRA who wanted to claim money back). In this case he appears to agglomerate parcels of timber from forestry operations and then subsequently sell them on on a permanent basis, this amounts to storage and distribution, or waste transfer. Most of us would simply do it, as Stubby suggested, on the grounds it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission and a lot cheaper too. Also you can stretch an appeal or retrospective application for a couple of years while you carry on. Once the planning officer gets involved, and it seems he has you need better advice than from me. The way planning in this country works is that you are not breaking any law by doing something which you would get permission for if asked. Planning law is so complicated and was seen by some to be restricting economic growth that, rather than change the rules, the current government simply reduced the money available to planning departments, created a work overload so much got passed either by not being determined in time or simply not noticed. Plainly this is unfair on the more law abiding folk and means development is taking place in inappropriate places.

Did I fail to address one of your questions? Ask again but I probably didn't have an answer

No, is there one locally? I'm a bit slack at the moment so spending too much time online, MEWP job postponed as previous hirer failed to return it on time.

Yes looks good Yes I agree

Yes. Interestingly the word curfew comes from the practice of gathering the coals together and covering them to keep the fire in. It comes from the french, cry couvre feu, shouted when people should be off to bed. Allez la France