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I still process a 10.5m3 stack in my log shed each winter, filling up bays after they empty. I just use an axe and chainsaw but it takes me several days, it provides all the heat for a small, poorly insulated cottage. My mate from primary school and I collect logs together and he processes his with a 6 tonne vertical mains electric one. I am faster for a short while, he plods on at it all day, tortoise and hare stuff. He is also 3 years older and recently diagnosed with Parkinsons , no way can he use an axe or chainsaw.
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another riddle that I don't understand, I'm feeling very old.
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Apricot trees? Pruned at wrong time of year?
openspaceman replied to logwood's topic in General chat
Too late to worry now, wait and see. The few times I have come across silverleaf it has been in well "gardenered" suburban mansions. -
Not on a kinetic splitter but a hydraulic one, the only logs I had that problem with were some very old yew lengths that a woodcarver had had for years and given up on.
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Luckily I don't know what you lot are talking about
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Yep when you pick up a 621 now it feels amazingly heavy but it was so much lighter and ergonomic than the Danarm 110 I had used on the fsrm before. The first chainsaw I bought as a self employed feller was a HUSKY 280 cd the cd meant capacitor discharge I think. I wanted a Jonsereds because they were "cooler" in the forest but a discount shop in the hills above Haslemere had already sold me a husky 165r a couple of years earlier so I went with him.
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Anti Vibration mountings that isolate the engine and bar from the front and rear handles . Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome is a degenerative disorder of the nerves and blood supply, it is incurable so best avoided, we used to know it as "white finger" and I developed it many years ago
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I don't think so but then neither did most saws of the period. The first forestry saws I used around 1975, Jonsered 621/80, did have AV but no chain brake, first saw I had with a chain brake was probably Husky 162.
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They were the stock hire saw in the 70s and withstood lots of abuse. I don't remember anyone who actually owned one as they are an ergonomic nightmare
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Have you tried Astrak?
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It's not only willow and poplar that strike roots from setts. A couple of years ago I reduced a privet hedge for a neighbour and decided to use some as stakes in a vain attempt to keep the dogs off the courgettes.
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Why not? by the time you add in the period for earth to become habitable and life to evolve humans the odds get much longer. Given also that the earth will be too hot for most life within a billion years we're only a blip in time.
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First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
not to mention polecats or hedge hogs iyou use lethal traps. The perceive wisdom in the mid 70s was it was only worth control in the early spring to july. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You said thinning not clear fell. 😀 Anyway you may decide to coppice then store some of the damaged trees. -
First thinning of new woodland
openspaceman replied to spandit's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
It will be worse after thinning -
That's my understanding too, Conservation area is a notification and the time is six weeks. TPO is a planning application and the determination period is 8 weeks, after which you may appeal, not carry out works.
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You may be right
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Happy Birthday. Club is getting bigger we will probably outnumber the youngsters soon.
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Not any mink farms left around here, still a few feral mink from releases though, we had them in the stream at work., I wonder what they did with the rest of rendered mink, probably fed them back.
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Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.
openspaceman replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
There's slightly more air space when stacked on a lorry because of the edge effect up against the pins, in a large stack these empty edges would be filled by a bit of log. Also the 55% figure for hardwood would be more for branch wood cut from large sawlogs rather than whole ash stems cut to 8'. Average diameter makes a difference too as smaller poles have more air space yet a mixture of smaller and larger can pack better. Ash is a light wood either way so sale by volume makes sense if it has been lying in the stack for a while. -
My maternal grandmother died from it when she was younger than I am now so I am grateful to have had the scan whenI was in my sixties.
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Pricing standing Ash some with Ash die back.
openspaceman replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
Yes work back from the roadside value and remember an artic carries 29 tonne, with a loader about 2 tonne less and an 8 wheeler about 18 tonnes with loader, any part loads cost more to move. If it is firewood then you have the luxury of delaying extraction till summer (sell by stacked measure), conservation sites often don't allow summer access (conservationists ruin woodlands). A tractor and trailer crane can extract 30-70 tonnes from stump to roadside if the round trip is less than 1km, on a shorter route a modern forwarder will do 150 tonnes in a 12 hour shift but can make an awful mess at this time of year ( and cost a few hundred to low load to site}. I could go on but I'm 15 years out of this although I have done a double extraction of ash off a hill by winch then conversion then forwarding recently and that was extremely slow. -
Initially add a small amount of beeswax so it is mostly liquid and can soak in the *dry* leather, later you can add more until it has the consistency of a paste. It will then buff up to seal the surface but I never bother. This thread has reminded me to make some more.
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Timberwolf 18/100 g coming out of long term storage - spares.
openspaceman replied to cazeroo's topic in Maintenance help
I doubt it will need spark plugs, oil and filters yes, I'd probably just empty th old fuel out and see if it starts okay on fresh. I would check the manual for the oil specification and filters ans use a local car motor factors or ebay rather than dealer prices. If you can read the numbers off the belts then a matched set from a bearing supplier. -
I made a concoction of beeswax dissolved in some hot, very old neats foot oil (left from when my girls had ponies 40 years ago), it seemed to work.
