Woodworks
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Thanks What are they like on fuel?
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Read this many times on here and wondering why it works. My guess is that repeated wetting and drying cracks the logs so opens up passageways for the water to exit but no idea realy. Giving it a go this coming season as there is clearly something in it.
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Just been offered one and not had chance to check over but have been assured it's in good working order and it's certainly tidy outside. It would probably spend a lot of it's life just running the splitter and might add a loader for moving IBCs about. Pros and Cons of these and what's it like on fuel? Thanks
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That's a shame. Personally love a bit of time with family and friends and yes even a trip to church. Can't stand all the consumer bul...t but that's not what Christmas is about anyway.
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I think it takes less time to give a chain a quick sharpen than to change it. Just get good at it and lots of money saved and no time wasted.
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I can't see how solar could be much use at this time of year. I don't know the in and outs of solar thermal but a quick search suggest that down here in December the amount of energy per m2 from the sun peeks at 0.65kWh. Looking at the biomass kilns they are using 180 kWh 24-7 So with 100% efficient panels you could meet the kins needs briefly in the middle of the day with 276m2 of panels! This is where I plucked the numbers from Solar Irradiance Calculator - Useful Sun power tool
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Well i've never seen one of these before!
Woodworks replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Firewood forum
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Well i've never seen one of these before!
Woodworks replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Firewood forum
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OK OK I get the winch is good Snag is it's only and MS460 and I can easily push it harder than the saw is happy with so how can a winch speed things up?
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Looks beautiful up there Mull Dry and very windy here today.
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Thanks Paul
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Had seen pictures of winching. First cut was really hard going then decided to cut down hill. Made an amazing difference. If your winching can you keep even pressure on the mill at the beginning and end of the board?
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At long last things have got going
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Took our new Alaskan mill for a spin today. Have some good sized douglas that seemed a shame to bash into firewood so going to try and put some of it to good use. Many thanks Rob
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Bookmarked. Thanks
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Good link. Thanks
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Stack the nets in vented sheds. Never had any problems drying it.
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We bought a branch logger a few years back. The machine works well but you have no say over the length of the product. The branch loggings burn fine but don't make good kindling as they are slow to light. Just this morning did a log delivery to friend who had a sack of branch loggings last time around. Asked him how he got on with them but he had stopped using them for kindling and reverted back to splitting his own from logs. As said further back I think it's the bark that makes it slow to catch. Could you sell your lengths of hazel as bean poles? Noticed a lot of garden centres now selling hazel lengths as bean poles but they probably don't pay much but would be better than nothing.
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Slow cooked shin of beef is pretty tasty. Some onions and root veg thrown in yum.
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Thanks In reality it is not going to have toughest of life in comparison with the four and six way splitting blades so it will probably survive but only time will tell.
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Nice
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Haha. Guess great minds think alike. I rang Riko to see if they ever get damaged blades that I could cut down to this but apparently the Farmi blades are pretty unbreakable. Mine may not be as only mild steel and only 10mm at that. went around every fabricating and agi place near by and none had any 12mm plate or hardox
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I get to process quite a lot of small diameter wood some of which needs no splitting. Don't know if other processors have the same design but on our Farmi there is block of steel up behind the splitter so removing the blade leaves this block in direct line of the exiting logs and ends up splitting them or firing the logs off in all directions. Time for a home made bodge. First I just had small piece of angled steel in the blade slot that just had a ramp to push the logs over the steel block. The snag with this is the lengths that may not want splitting at one end may have a few that need splitting at the other so onto bodge 2. Not tried it yet but should work.
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O dear what have you done.
