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Is this for a machinery ring, like farmers share equipment but for forestry? There must be some standard agreements available for this sort of thing. NFU?? I'd start with 1% of its capital value per week IF you get 50% utilisation, more if it stands idle longer.

Our council one allows for a loaded and a tare in the fee. Also if you don't ask for a printed ticket the lady just waves you off after telling you the gross. Rod it looks like they have rebuilt the one at Handcross on the A23, it was free before, otherwise one skip firm in a local village lets you drive on the weighbridge and view the weight through the window.

It's arbwaste Bob, I normally load it into roro bins for a local skip firm who do us favours now and again. In the past it was all chipped for Slough Heat and Power.

Standing dead is a valuable habitat, I have a cherry given as a present 30years ago that up and died 4 years ago, there is nothing of value within its tree length.

I stopped getting hauliers to move my wood when the trip to Kronospan increased to £14/tonne, that worked out at £2/mile one way 15 years ago. It's galling for me now as I have access to a large amount of arb waste and my brother needs some in Devon, just sending an 8 wheeler there will cost £800 for at best 15 tonne of unprocessed logs.

Have you ever used Heldite? I'll try this Sealall, how hard does it set?

Hi Mike Our chat did get you going then!

We were on piece work but the trees had to be planted perfectly in line and 2m apart, otherwise when we came back to weed them with swap hooks we'd end up cutting them instead of the weeds. All establishment jobs were piecework then. My weekly wage was £19 but we'd get 1p for planting, 2p for pruning to 8ft and £15/acre for weeding, so there was a big incentive.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rules-on-drivers-hours-and-tachographs-goods-vehicles-in-gb page 15

Piecework using ranging poles' 1+1s, about 1000/day and up to 1500/day beating up a failed planting but had a lot more energy at 24.

Churchill called it arboricide

I thought the DB single pin one was only rated at 3 tonne whereas the two pin I have is 3.5.

I'll vouch for this one, some days it has been pumping for 24 hours and more. The cheaper plastic ones gave up within 3 months of old fashioned normal weather draining the yard sump/cistern. Even this erbauer one says it is only rated intermittently.

I 'phoned my local Stihl dealer enquiring about a 100' reel of .325" chain as we have a number of MS 260 and 262 saws. No one there was able to confirm my calculation of how many drive links in a reel. I was working on .325 pitch x 2 per drive link and that works out about 1850 drive links per reel, sound reasonable?

Yes I also think it only applies to land which was open space under the 1899 act. Many commons became openspace under the later 1925 Law of Property Act and they do need felling licences

I couldn't register on that forum so stopped reading it years back. The policy change was when NRA got merged with other statutory bodies in 1996 and simultaneously the budget was cut. The EA became a first steps agency and was supposed to become self funding. At this stage there became a policy only to defend housing and to abandon agriculture. EA did not get a mandate to govern the drainage boards. As I understand it the drainage boards were locally controlled and funded by agriculture and LAs and the levels were always pumped (not 24/7 but at low tide as otherwise the rivers could not cope). This was because agriculture was considered strategic after the 14-18 war and drainage and pumping allowed better cropping. Along with other government agencies EA have suffered massive cuts and this has lead to decisions to "manage retreat" from low property density areas. The peer who chairs EA put up such a poor PR performance because he was with the PM, probably is a tory himself, and could not politically lay the blaim on a government decision made before such inclement weather was foreseeable. There are EA personnel who are on call out and working hard to alleviate the situation and severely depressed and to cap it the pumps have been left on 24/7 as a publicity exercise as during high tides they are just recirculating water.

It depends how wet it is. A cord is a stack 8ft byt 4ft by 4ft, so 128 cubic feet in the stack. That's 3.6m3 if it is straight material 70% of this will be wood, the rest air space. So about 2.5m3 of solid wood and about the same tonnage fresh felled. In practice oak cordwood cut from branch wood stacks about 50% and weighs about 1.5 tonnes seasoned in the woods. There are lots of caveats such as the longer and taller the stack the better the stacking ratio, a stack measured on the ground occupies more space on a lorry because of edge effects.

With the normal double rear wheel ford 350s you have a gross weight of 2450 on the rear axle and 1750 on the front so you have a fair amount of latitude for loading the back but as you will see these two weights add to over 3500 so with a lot of kit in the front the double cab can exceed the front axle rating. Our single cab tippers with steel body weigh in at 2100kg empty, the double cab is 150kg more. Add three guys with their kit, say 300kg...

I started with a Fordson Major hauling out 10ft poles on a buck rake, with the wheels off the ground and soft tyres it got about fine, getting back in unladen was often a problem. Standard machine for big logs was a Major and Cooks winch, never travelled with the log, just move on, winch in, move on. Never used brakes just let the spades trail and then dig in. Messy. It was all a bit inconvenient so went 4wd for speed and a bit more power. Evenso for getting about a ford 4000 with half tracks got places the County wouldn't, I had one rival team of 3 cutting, extracting and loading 25 tonne of hardwood pulp everyday using said 400 with a trailer mounted FMV 1600 that had b***r all reach so it had to be placed precisely alongside the artic trailer. I could never work that hard.

For something more rough and ready but a cylindrical disc with the length less than the diameter. Float it in water and measure the fraction under water, best take an average of two diametrically opposite points. This will give the SG.

And because of this I thought the chain casing of the 254 fitted even if it lacked the tongue at the back.

Not in my blue book. How about cutting an 8" round section ( IIRC FC research used this size) such that it fits on the kitchen scales. Fill a bucket so that it is just submerged when pushed down with something thin. Mark the level. Take the log out and then meausure how many cc of water you need to fill to the marked level. If it's a very cylindrical piece you might just do a simple =L*Pi()d^2/4 in a spreadsheet to work out the value.

Two forwarders in Crawley need an independent opinion on

First off sap is just water with a few hormones, sugars and electrolytes in it. When it dries these are either lost as vapour or remain in the dried wood, energy wise I suspect they are vanishingly low in their contribution to heat. After the cell contents have dried then there is still some water weakly bonded to the wood fibre. I do not know how water is re absorbed into the wood but logically it wets the surface layers first. You have the nub of it though, water robs heat from the fire in order to vaporise. This lowers the combustion temperature and low combustion temperatures lead to poor combustion and products of incomplete combustion being given off. A slow smouldering burn with no flame is basically just the wood char burning and driving off water vapour and the gaseous pyrolysis products. These are the things that normally burn with a flame but if there is too much water vapour they simply do not burn and exhaust as a white-yellow smoke which may condense out in the flue.

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