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  1. Woodworks
    Not used other brands but Rustins is good stuff
  2. Woodworks
    Got to take this one back now but may well be my mine soon This video is fairly representative of what it can do except the 1m high grass at the speed shown due to lack of power. [ame] [/ame]
  3. Woodworks
    Good to hear Barry as I can buy the machine I am borrowing. A lot of the areas I would use it on are rutted ground left from the tractor so quite hard on the axles. Are they reasonably tough? Yes Pete goggles seem essential with this brute. Also found my hands quite tingly after 1/2 an hour so some anti vibe gloves will be used. Got too many friends with the beginnings of white-finger
  4. Woodworks
    This is only for home use but we have lot of rough areas around the yard and a large rough lawn that often gets too long to easily mow during wet periods. Strimming is a slow task and to be honest I am no expert with one anyway. Borrowing a 6.5 HP DR wheeled strimmer and seems a handy bit of kit and seems to do the job of the mower and the strimmer. Not used one before today and not sure what to look out for so any advice welcome. Thanks
  5. Woodworks
    That's the way to do it Daniel
  6. Woodworks
    Seeing all the press talk of a heatwave I thought best see what we are expecting. Punch our postcode into the met office web site to see we will see the dizzy heights of 23C today and no higher than 21C for the rest of the week. Can't say I am complaining as it's quite hot enough already. Processing yesterday and got through 5 litres of water mind you that's standing next to an 65C oil tank.
  7. Woodworks
    Think we have discussed charging biochar before can't find it. Wanting to make good use of the waste from our small scale charcoal making. I have tried putting the waste on the garden as is but not noticed any difference thus far. Wondering if simple compost heap loaded with nettles, green waste and the biochar would work.
  8. Woodworks
    Could do one of these in my workshop
  9. Woodworks
    Yes experiencing this now. Got a pile of oldish beech that I recently processed. It was on the turn but still soaking inside but now cut and split are drying hellishly fast.
  10. Woodworks
    Sorry logsnstuff but Joe is spot on here.
  11. Woodworks
    Thought that was for planks. Far greater ratio of end grain exposed with a log so improves drying time.
  12. Woodworks
    Fair play. Never had wood that dry to burn. How does it differ to use from air dried at 20%? Is it just more heat or is there more too it than that? I am all for guys processing and delivering from the round makes our logs look good I process for lots of log sellers and home users and the only dry in the round wood (20%) I have ever seen was softwood. Ash dries quite well but most other hardwoods rot before they dry around here if left in the round. Oak and chestnut never seem to dry unless cut and split.
  13. Woodworks
    Yes your probably right there ash I happily take some money for our PV so not entirely missing out on government handouts.
  14. Woodworks
    Just saying kiln dried means nothing other than some wood has gone into a kiln. It's the moisture content you take the logs down to that counts to the buyer.
  15. Woodworks
    What MC do you take them down to skyhuck? Let's face "kiln dried" doesn't mean a lot on it's own. You could take some beech at 60% MC and take it down to 35% MC and call it kiln dried but it would still be wet rubbish.
  16. Woodworks
    Good business sense yes but good use of natural resources? I had the money, space and time but only considered it for a short time and decided it was simply wrong to waste lots of wood to dry more and make profit from the taxpayer for doing it. Not sure anyone buys kiln dried around here anyway so it may have turned out to be good business sense anyway. Each to there I say
  17. Woodworks
    Heat pump or solar thermal tubes.
  18. Woodworks
    Would like to do it like TCD but up here on the moors most species would rot before drying if left in the round. If processing fresh wood now I would probably have it dry by the end of the coming winter. All depends on the summer though. A good windy one seems better for drying than hot and still. Obviously species variations to be taken into account.
  19. Woodworks
    Thanks Barry. Mark Woodhouse is going to get a boss and blade in for me to try. The blade is almost sharpened away so a good moment to try this.
  20. Woodworks
    Burn them myself and sell the hardwood. Found so much resistance to anything other than best hardwood. I have been trying to sell softwood for 30% less than the hardwood and it does not budge but the hardwood sells itself.
  21. Woodworks
    Can I get a pegless boss for an old machine? Sounds ideal for the use we give it.
  22. Woodworks
    Been thinking about this Garden Kit you say "Broken bosses MUST be replaced as soon as the pegs are broken for safety reasons." I was just going to pop in a new bolt as the last one has done me around five years and it came to me without bosses but suspect they had been broken in it's previous life. Reality is this mower gets used for rough work and WILL hit stones. With just a bolt the blade just slips without any breakage. New bosses means more load before breaking them and more expense.
  23. Woodworks
    Thanks Barry
  24. Woodworks
    Ah gotcha. When I got it someone had stuffed 2 bolts through the holes in the sides of the flange onto the blade. Only took one encounter with a rock for me to think this was a bad idea and now it just use the center bolt to hold the blade. If it smacks a rock it can spin.
  25. Woodworks
    Shaft looks fine. It's an old Stiga Multiclip Pro that's been a good solid machine. What's crank protection?

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