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I suspect their NFFO subsidy ran out, nowadays the big coal burners will be hooked in to one of the new tarriffs.

That may be so but I was commenting on Honey's list, and they are a dealer I used to frequent as a forestry contractor and still do, occasionally, as an employee of a small company. When I was in business there was no internet, I paid cash and bought from three local dealers, all of whom were friendly. I also have to deal with our local Ford dealer and would never use them by choice.

I don't forgive bad attitude, the rest I can work around given time

It's not traditional ( it was an exchange field for a road scheme) because it is a small field adjacent to the common and even with 4 animals grazing the density per acre is much higher than a traditional common wood pasture.

There is a field near here that has been reverted to wood pasture management, animals were not grazed for 30 years and now are only allowed in for a few weeks after September to nag the grass down. It has reverted to predominantly sallow and oak with bramble under and some grassy glades. So if you do go for protection why not fence bits off and plant desired species not likely to self seed from the existing trees, allowing these to develop naturally?

Do you pay a pump price with a discount or is the price calculated some other way?

I have a hda 87 c2 from a 262

Details passed on. Sorry for delay I was late back from yard. I think 5 people have been given contact details now so that should close this thread.

No they were their own thing by then, I was referring back to the early 70s.

They have been cut to 5ft to get them on a farm trailer, at end of a long farm drive at Shalden, you may be able to back an artic in but best phone the estate chap, pm for details

As has been said it's like an overdrive in reverse, it gives you a lower gear without having to interrupt power. They're normally and epicyclic gear with a cone clutch that moves back or fore to engage one or other gear under hydraulic activation. NB What Jon says if it is like multipower because that had some sort of one way clutch to maintain drive and in normal use this freewheels as the other gear takes the load but when in low it freewheels on overrun. I think early Zetors were International designs but don't recall dual power on IH.

I've had an e-mail from my old boss, he has 15-20t green beech, 6"-3ft diameter it's nice wood but would need a grab loader ! No mention of lengths. PM if you are interested and I'll pass your details on.

OK thanks, thanks much what I am looking at. I also want to move away from Access but am unsure which way to leap. I only need to collate timesheets against purchase orders etc. Yes I dislike office 2007 over 2003 but am stuck with it because the firm is addicted to 2007 spreadsheets, I don't think they've ever stopped to consider the cost of licences across about 30 PCs.

Please explain, are you saying there is no advantage to running XP in a virtual machine or that you do run XP as a client in another host?

So will Oak, Elm and Scots pine but it's marginal. Leave any wood in water long enough and it sinks as any air in the pores diffuses into the water.

Chuck a freshly felled beech ring into a butt and tell me what happens

This PC dual boots Kubuntu and xp. I mostly use XP to be compatible with work but am intending to upgrade PC and attempt to run an image of XP as a virtual machine in Linux.. My reasoning is that XP updates cease after April and if the VM catches a cold I don't lose anything. In practice unless you use esoteric functions in Excel or lots of macros Libreoffice or open office are fine. Web functions that use Active X and .net become a problem as do a lot of government departments websites that don't seem to render with anything other than windows explorer. With a lot of internet functionality moving to mobile and android devices... I always keep a cd copy of puppy available to boot up machines with problems.

At one of the early demos of arable short rotation coppice, some 20 years ago, featured a standard Class self propelled forage harvester being fed sweet chestnut coppice. The multiple blades on a drum didn't look much different from our Heizohacks now,

Yes and the shape of the supply demand curve varies with the type of product. Take cigarettes, I consider them a luxury good because I don't smoke, but to a smoker they are a necessity, so if the price doubles the demand only reduces by a fifth. Essentials tend to have an inelastic demand. I suspect home milled hardwood is mostly a luxury good. These tend to have elastic demand curves, double the price and the demand drops to less than half. The corollary is that a price reduction should increase sales by a higher amount than the reduction.

I think he was referring to Dave Gittings driving an 1164 across the Severn estuary with 8 trelleborgs.

I used to see it more in the bad old days of 245t.

Between 85C and 45C your tank has about 100kWh of energy stored in it, so if you extract that heat over 4 hours you are taking an average of 25kW(thermal).

Yes, with sawn wood you are controlling the RH in order to NOT remove water too quickly. You are also adding a lot more value and the time in the kiln is limited by the rate at which you can safely dry the timber. Drying firewood artificially doesn't have such constraints and to make the most of the capital investment you need fast cycle times, in practice there wasn't any advantage in a load cycle taking less than a day. Even with your recirculating system a knowledge of the RH and temperature either side of the stack is needed to see what is not optimised, as I said my view is that the air was not reaching anywhere near saturated and there was a cost in this in the power necessary to run the fan.

I've only ever used it to get the butt off the stump but I guess the reason they used it across the pond was so that the gob cut came out of the splayed buttress grain rather than clean timber above. I thought this was also the reason for the high fell cut, basically the heavy splay on large north western softwoods was of little value so effort wasn't wasted on it.

Drying firewood is a different ball game, one doesn't have to worry about cracking, checking or surface ahrdening. So it's about removing the most water for the minimum energy input, the energy input is in the form of moving air and heat and the aim is to optimise these. Some months ago Brooney posted his finding which concur with mine and on which we based our high speed dryer 17 years ago. Did you measure the temperature and RH of your 3000m3 air flow before and after the wood? My guess is the temperature limited the migration of the water to the wood surface and that the air flow was leaving the kiln both warmer than it should and unsaturated. If you take ambient air on a winter's day at 60% RH it contains 6 grams of water, saturate it and exhaust it at 25C and it contains 23 grams so at 3000m3/hr the maximum you can remove is 51kg water per hour, we removed more like 300kg/hr on a 24 hour load-reload cycle but actual drying time was much less. Energy considerations are something to consider the above assumes a cop of 1. We managed a cop of around .5 but had we stayed in business expected to get 50% better. .