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Thats how I see it to. Lots of cuts in the video so guessing sorting out problems or logs falling before splitting. Look at the length of them logs as well. I have just taken orders for around 15m3 in the last couple of days and everyone of them is for 9" logs not 16" plus like in the video. Looks great on Youtube but in the real world?
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Yes I have always thought the same Matt. Considered having a go myself but had a chat with a local tree surgeon we both know and I told him the prices some on here charge per hour for grinding and he fell about laughing. Dont think the rates locally match with what they can get up the line. Also not a great deal of demand as us Devon folk dont seem to care about having an old stump rotting in the garden
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Just thinking out load here but how about a baby vertical kiln. Thinking a woodburner at the bottom with say a couple of stacked IBCs above it all in an insulated tube. Have a small vent at the top and bottom so convection will be your fan. Sure I read on here somewhere if you the temperature up high you can dry very quickly. Say it takes 24 hours to finish your logs thats still 14 m3 a week.
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Never had the option to clean them up standing but I just use a billhook like this. I would hold the stem in one hand and work my way down it cleaning it up as I went. To be honest I think I was quicker snedding it with a chainsaw but where is the fun in that. No idea about the Fikars hook as only ever used the one I have that came with the farm 40 years ago.
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Well done Mick. It's a good feeling selling your first piece.
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Asked plenty of walkers about walking dogs on the mountains and generally all advise was positive. She was OK and back to normal in few days but wouldn't do that to her again.
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Nightmare for you. Hope they catch the bu@@ers and you get your tools back.
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How does your dogs paw pads hold up running around on the rocks? Took our collie to the Cuillins a few years ago but she wore her pads down so had to come home bit earlier than planed.
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I am not sure on the lorry container. I would want to heavily insulate it and then I dont think they would take 2 IBC abreast. You could insulate on the outside but then it would need another waterproof cover. I had wondered about using stuff like this https://www.secondsandco.co.uk/s-i-p-pannels to make my own. A wood burning stove and some heat recovery units but it's a lot of time, money and effort if it doesn't work
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Do tell about the Cuillin ridge. Only been to the top of Sgùrr Dearg looking up at Inn Pinn. The ridge looks magnificent.
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Just been out walking on Dartmoor and it got me thinking that we could do with a thread for great walks big or small. One of our favourite holiday destinations is Snowdonia. Been up Snowdon a few times but just love Tryfan and the Glyders. We camp near the base of Tryfan and start with a sedate walk along the road past lake Ogwen. At the west end of the lake you take the track up onto lake Idwal which is very photogenic and often swarming in photographers. Follow the path around the east side of the lake you climb up to Devils Kitchen and then onto the ridge or the Glyders. Then following the ridge of the Glyders which can have breathtaking views to north and south until the Glyder Fach. Then onto Tryfan itself which is small in mountain terms but good and rugged. Then back to the tent.
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Never read a bad word about them. Mine just works plain and simple.
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This beauty arrived in a recent load of "processor sized wood" But it met it's match with this new tool in the armoury.
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Big J on here made a few kilns. Think he has one for drying planks but also one for drying logs. I would like a small kiln just to finish drying say from 30% to 20%. Just cut plenty of wood in the last few weeks but it wont be dry enough to sell until next winter without assistance.
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anyone else vehicle insurance gone up for no reason?
Woodworks replied to flatyre's topic in Insurance Forum
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Abbey Garden sales. Well it was just the shop Abbey garden machinery back then. Some years back but think it was a Husqvarna bar. Still in the shed so can see if there any identification mark on it if need be. To be honest I cant see it ever getting used now so are you interested in SH guide bar thats not done a lot of work? Edit. Just dug it out. Clearly taking my dim pills last night as it's 20" not a 22" and probably done more work than I remember. No paint left on it but still straight and true and in perfect working order and it a Husqvarna bar.
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Because I needed to cut larger wood and only had a small saw and had stuff all money. Needs must and all that. I should add it's not that I was always cutting down big trees but cutting medium sized trees on Devon banks. You often have a very limited area to stand so a long bar enables working from one side. Yep deserve a lynching for the "blade" remark I blame it on a hard day haha.
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Agreed but the beech I had to take down was 40" at the base.
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I had a 22" on mine for a bit. Clearly not ideal but it was the only saw I owned and had some big trees to deal with. It coped as long as the blade was sharp and you take your time. Keep the rackers long as it helps it to not take too big a bite. The saw is still going strong but now lives with a 15" which is spot on.
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Just Buzzards Buzzards and more Buzzards here. Not complaining as love seeing them gliding around on the thermals but no kites here yet.
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Couldn't agree more. Had a moment in a 90 with no more than 2.5 tonne on the back. Going up a wet narrow lane and had to pull in to let a car pass. Put the brakes on and started sliding backwards down the hill as the car was passing. I did stop once out in the middle of the road but a scary moment that I am not keen to repeat. A heavier vehicle or air brakes on the trailer would probably have avoided the situation.
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Fastest drying would be softwoods like larch a douglas IME. Fastest drying hardwoods that I can consistently get is beech. Yes it's very wet when fresh but once cut, spilt and stored in crates it loses it's moisture very quickly. Birch and sycamore both dry fast but I cant get much of either. Ash is a funny one in that it's by the far the driest fresh cut but slow to dry further. Did some tests in the past on split logs stacked in open sheds and after a year the beech was drier than the ash. As said above nothing can beat a kiln for speed. If your looking to buy now and sell this winter a kiln is the only way to get properly dry logs IMO. Second best would be ash or softwood but doubt it would be properly dry this season.
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Sorry to be a dimwit but what is " AI assisted search" ?
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I just get loads of time wasters from Facebook but quality customers from our website.
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Dont know how much better the 461 is over the 460 but my 560 with a 20" beats my 460 with a 25" for speed when the wood is small enough to cut in one with the 20".
