Woodworks

1.My one complaint of the Farmi is the large gap between the v roller and the infeed table. If handling shorter/less straight lengths they can fall down the gap. Added a roller to stop this. Looking at their promotional videos looks like the process long length 12' + out in scandinavia but get lots of 8-9' lengths here. The extra roller works perfectly. 2. Being able to use the machine as a stand alone splitter is very handy. Farmi do supply a very good mechanism for doing this but at a cost. My string and handle costs diddly squat. The Farmi mechanism is safer as you can't be by the blade when splitting but with my mod you can cut your hand off if you want! 3. Get lots of small diameter stuff here that you might want to split once and one end and not at all at the other. The extra blade make this very easy. Should've said in the opening posts do these mods at your own risk! I am the only one who uses this machine so only endangering myself.

Sure many of you have had a tinker to make your machines work better. Still have a few more things to add to ours but here are three modifications which have helped our Farmi 1. Extra roller on the infeed 2. Pull cord to activate the splitter while standing by the splitter 3. Single spit blade that can be dropped down to not split. Be interesting to see what mods others have done

Just had this problem. Cleared cache but still no joy. Running chrome on mac with 5 meg Edit. Just managed to post by doing the pictures separately as others have mentioned.

Did you read my opening post

Well OK it was bad but nothing like the worst I have seen in these parts. 70mm of rain here and 120mm up at Postbridge. Saw flooding in Horrabridge and Whitchurch but these areas always flood when it tips it down.

Tried some of the green garden mesh in front of some shed but sadly it did not work. The mesh does catch the rain but as the droplets form on it they then get blown back into the sheds. To be fair yesterday was pretty bad and logs are all soaked again. Going to have go for a tarp or maybe a lightweight frame with some polytunnel plastic stretched across it and place in front of the sheds.

That's not good. Glad your processor survived the tidal wave

I always do that except the gaffer tape. Always worth taking the bar off giving a good once over and clean the oil hole. A few mins to change. Worth have a lightweight roof rack strap handy so you can loop it over the blade height adjust lever and back around the main control handle to hold the bar in the perfect place for chain adjustment/changing. There is not much room to play with with a new chain and drive sprocket but soon eases up with a bit of ware.

Great to hear of a good result for a change. Interesting to hear social media played a part. A mates bike shop got done a few weeks ago and through social media they made the bikes too hot to handle and got them back in 48 hours with the culprit being nicked.

Found various good timber merchants through Classic Boat magazine. Beyond that a good website that is high up the listings for your area.

Ouch! How did you hurt it, lifting too many large butts Jon?

Really Jon? Heavy rain stopped at 09.00 then showers started from 14.00. That was our forecast dry day Oh well maybe should not complain, seems we are better at drying logs than the local competition and in spite of it being so warm sales have been good.

Was thinking along the same lines but don't fancy emigrating just moving a bit further east. The in laws live down near Bournemouth and climate there is a world away from life on the moors these last few years. They have dry summers even needing to water the lawn My mind boggles at the thought of needing to do that. Never been there for a weekend without seeing the sun whatever time of year. So if it keeps up like this it's Dorset here we come.

Ahh but that ain't going to happen but cake and a bio-dome sounds doable? well maybe just the cake

That's two great ideas Steve first was eat cake in the other thread now a big bio-dome. Hmm wonder what it cost to cover the whole farm

Unless it's laden with rain which it was here

:lol: Liking that one Steve

Seriously this weather is ridiculous. It's not so much the quantity of rain as we have not had the flooding you poor souls up north have had just the frequency. Bought some new waterproofs and the beginning of October and in all honesty think they have been worn in anger every day since except for 10 when we were abroad:laugh1: Keep thinking it will have to stop sometime but apparently not looking at the forecast with rain predicted every day for the next week. In all seriousness it's not good for the mental health with no sun and relentless rain Any tips for not letting this sh... get you down?

3 months unless in a kiln is not going to be dry. Usual guide for air drying is an inch a year ie a 1" takes a year and 2" two etc. Think this is for hardwood, softy may be quicker.

Yes Danish oil is perfect for bookshelves. Only hesitation is it is not the best finish on softwood IMO but just personal taste but it drys fine presuming the wood is completely dry.

Yes it time consuming but you get quicker and the sheds store a lot of logs in a small space. There is 6 cube per bay and we have at least 20 bays here. Only stack the 10"-12" and 12"-16" as the smaller the log the more labour intensive it gets plus more unstable. All the short stuff goes in the crates. Takes about 15-20 mins to stack a cube and takes less time loading the truck from the stack than from a crate so not so bad in the scheme of things.

Yes gaps between the rows to aid circulation. As for covers for the front I have not done this so far as most years we get some break in the weather for the front to dry out again but this year this has not been the case. Just ordered a large roll green garden mech to hang off the front to keep the worst of the driving rain out.

These shed are very easy and quick to make. Just 8' fence posts knocked in with a 3x2 frame around the top to take the roofing. Use whatever you can get cheap to make the slats on the sides. Probably worth giving the posts some extra treatment where they go into the ground with some Creosote for longevity.

Been out processing mainly ash for a chap today. Really nice stuff to cut and split. Done around 12 tonnes by the end. No pics as it was getting dark. As for eucalyptus being a pain to process would have to disagree. Done a couple of days processing euc from a plantation and it was great stuff if a bit heavy. Went back to do some more that had been left a year and expected to have a nightmare from what I had read on here but again it was easy peasy.

Been bad here the last day or so. Cleared up a bit this afternoon but from yesterday morning to lunch time today a place nearby registered 138mm!