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This is how we extracted pulp up till 1984. Two blokes would handball randomly heaped 39" billets onto the trailer and offload them onto an artic trailer, two lines down the bed and a line across the to to bind them in. Max gross was 28 tonne when we did it, so the load was 18 tonne which was just about a days work. Prior to that we had pulp crates on fore and aft of a super major. We did use the grapple loader and it is quite doable, within a year the pulp mills insisted on 2m lengths, which made disposing of oak cordwood a bit more difficult as loads would get rejected if not straight enough. I think I still have a cordwood trailer but the brakes will be rusted on if anyone wants it. On occasion we would extract bundles on the butt plate by rolling them up with the double drum cables.

Depending on how you elect to pay tax timber sales can be tax free. This quirk of the taxation system is how the big management companies grew.

I've always wondered about this need for balancing with 3ph gensets, I can see a problem with the neutral floating if the windings are star but why else? ...and are they wired star or delta?

You really need to girth them at the mid length. Say they're 50cm at breast height and 20 metres high they would tariff at 20-25 and be about 1.5 m3 each in the stem, cannot guess what the ratio of lop and top is to stem wood on an open grown conifer but the whole trees probably weigh less than 6 tonne.

I was out helping a mate yesterday, sum of our ages 118 years! He did the climbing. He had been cut off for 3 days and running off petrol genset got through 6 gallons. Anyway for safety I have suggested this: Power Transfer Switch any good? Seems reasonably cheap.

Not wishing to derail the thread too much; what happes when the galvanising corrodes off the wire and the wire starts rusting?

I was talking to father in law yesterday about his exploits, at 16 years old his merchant navy ship was bombed by the Italians steaming out of Marseilles, just as Vichy were doing a deal with Germany (he says June 4th 41), many crew swam 1 mile back to shore and some 20 found a fully provisioned abandoned british army base. After recuperating they decided to catch a train to Cherboug and the locals warned them the french police were collaborating with the germans and to get rid of any insignia. They arrived in Cherbourg without being challenged and managed to take a regular ferry to Southampton, yet by then France had been abandoned by the allies. As he was a trained 4.7" gunner (extra shilling a week he says) he was sent to the Falklands to a new ship in a convoy of 20 boats going to Argentina to collect beef. En route, as a passenger, one night they were attacked by 3 U boats operating on the surface and 20 ships were lost. Having slept through the noise the first he realised was meeting men huddled on the deck in blankets after they were rescued. Later in the war my father volunteered, after my mother's brother was killed returning from a raid on Dusseldorf in May 43, he was sent to Burma where he fitted radar to Mosquitoes which effectively won the war on Japanese shipping. He never spoke about it but he was traumatised by what he saw and died aged 84 in a private room after waking the ward with a panic attack that the Japs were coming. His younger brother entered the war on D Day as a sapper in pioneer battalion, suffered shell shock and underwent some nasty treatments, electro convulsive therapy and crude drugs, which probably led to his death from stomach cancer. Their father died in 1948, a chronic invalid from a shattered arm in WW1 with a scot's penchant for booze. I'm so grateful that I have not had to live through what they did.

Yes an AMV can tow two empty trailers or a trailer (laden and unladen) and an Agricultural Trailed Appliance (which this splitter might be if used on a farmer's holding) but not for private use or behind non agricultural vehicles. I used to see a trailed Heizohack behind a silage trailer pulled by a Valtra with roof mounted grapple but recently only the tractor-trailer combination.

Yes its a pot priming incentive, once working it will be reduced like the other feed in tariffs.

I watch ours being done and that's how our fitter does them, with suds, even so I sometimes see sparks. The thing is it only needs something like 300C to take the hardness off a blade. Hand honing with a diamond file on the machine works for my TP, which won't feed twigs at all if slightly blunt, I do wonder about sharpening the feed rollers but it's really designed for chipping roundwood fuel.

Same is true for other stuff, we had a standby generator that was bolted to concrete and I think the slurry stirrer was free standing, just connected the pto when needed. We also had a cast iron sawbench that was run by flat belt off the MF35 and that never moved. Hycrak I would always mount.

Even pulp for newsprint has some sizing agents to give it wet and dry strength, these will increase the ash if they have inorganic chemicals in them. Glossy paper is much worse as it uses china clay as a filler.

There is an absolute limit of 3500kg for overrun brakes on the road whatever vehicle is towing. LRs can tow up to 4000kg with brakes coupled to the service brake ( i.e. the braking effort of the trailer is controlled by the vehicle brake pedal and proportionate to the braking effort of the vehicle). Tractors are practically limited to 14 tonnes trailers and the brakes must be operated by the service brake if the tractor/trailer is post 1986. The only way I can see getting a bigger payload and staying below 7.5 tonnes is with a semi trailer but I'm unsure of the licence implications. Also 5th wheel set ups seem very expensive.

Diesel has between 10% and 15% more energy per litre than petrol. With its higher volumetric efficiency a compression ignition engine is more efficient at part throttle than a spark ignition engine.

As you say my grandfather right to C1+E has a 107 code, this restricts gross train weight to 8.25 tonnes. I thought I needed the C test before I could go further but I see the logic in just needing the heavy trailer to get to 12000kg GTW for C1+E with no code. Not that I ever intend taking another test and I avoid driving anything bigger than transit size. It seems mad that I am asked to drive a lorry after having taken a car test in a Hilman Imp 44 years ago so I decline except for dire need. My advice to post 1997 licence holders is to get the trailer test for behind a B licence vehicle and then go for c and E if they feel like it, anything in between is poor value as the training costs much the same.

I'll PM but no great problems and the design seems great.

That needs a C+E licence then, so us oldies potentially those over 34 years old cannot tow that much on a 7.5 tonne. Anyone younger will need both tests.

Sorry I made a mistake, it's an A530t, I also use an A340t which is 9" and confused the numbers.

Or buy a secondhand one from someone going for new under RHI. Saw one I worked on commissioned for £300k get knocked down for £8k at 4 years old when the greenhouses were shut.

The A540t I use is well over that, 10 years old and still good. I'll let you know about the tr6 in another 250 hours of abuse, some worrying problems showing up but should be warranty items.

That was to stop them seizing on the overrun

I've just used a small inverter welder, seemed to be happy on 3.5 rods from a 13A socket, well impressed at how easy it struck compared with my 13hp genset/welder, apparently it can do tig too.

Maybe me also with too much time looming:thumbdown: I have 2 262s, both spare but one I used for breaking down pallets, one with seized bore and .325 gear and one with split tank (wondered where smell of petrol was coming from in van) and some duff threads and 3/8 gear. Just trying to decide which to cannibalise for what. Then I can do the test.

Actually Eddy said "as fast as" and that he hadn't noticed a difference in kerf width in practice. It would be an interesting test to have one saw with same bar chain and rim in both widths and cut rings from same log with a stopwatch.

I'd like to know the distances involved but I agree with you, once you start extracting uphill winching becomes attractive. I used to high lead from a spar tree on the ride edge with the pulley on a long strop and tractor winch offset to enable a decent stack to build up.