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Had a BBQ with friends this afternoon and got snowed on for a bit. Gave us all a good giggle
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Had to Google that but looks like a "bush cords" works out at around 5m3 of loose logs. You crates would hold around 1.2m3 of loose logs each. 250m3 per year part time is good going but would have thought it enough to be worth investing in some more suitable kit. A larger saw will have the advantage of being able to run a longer bar. Being able to just cut from one side is a big bonus for firewood. Plus the extra torque will enable you to just keep on cutting even when the chain is less than perfect. Sure a perfectly sharp chain is best but I hardly notice when my MS460 with a 25" bar has slightly dulled whereas my 560XP with a 20" cuts great but has to be spot on the cut well. -
Sounds like an oil problem but the worst groove wear I have had was on a Sugihara. In its defence it had done a fair bit of work on the processor
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Hats off to you for even considering it. Having run just one marathon and barely being able to walk for the week after cant imagine the toll any ultra marathon must inflict on you. Brother has run a few ultra's in SA but dont much about the training he put in Good luck
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Fair play to you. With just simple kit you look you cut a lot of crates of logs. How many do you do a year?
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Converting small petrol engine to run on propane
Woodworks replied to Woodworks's topic in General chat
Tricky to say. The engine ran fine on it and was very convenient with no odour when working. After a while it became harder and harder to start. Carb was checked as was the valve spacing but neither resolved the problem. In the end the engine was a non runner and I ballsed up my shoulder starting it. Bought a new key start engine but have not yet put the gas adapter on it. The old engine is with a local engineer awaiting a post mortem. The machine was not new when I bought it and its done some hard work since so I wont call judgment on the gas conversion just yet. If the old engines problem cant be related to the gas I will convert the new engine in a flash -
Another for birch. Looks just like this when it been left out a touch long
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This
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If it were mine I would let them grow up a for a few years and then lay them for a very dense hedge.
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Pine as firewood...yes or no?
Woodworks replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
Had some Scotts pine a few years ago and it was great stuff. Probably as good as doug fir and larch -
Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
Woodworks replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
Thinner wood tends to come out longer. Straight wood feeds cleaner and again comes out longer on average. Always quite few crumbs mixed in from when it does a cut but for whatever reason it hasn't fed much -
You are more than welcome to pop out and see it in action Paul
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Well last year turned out better than expected charcoal sales wise and hope for more of the same again this year. The retort is still performing faultlessly. May make up a second to enable greater production. The current one can make enough but I could be running two at the same time and more days doing other things Love an evening burn
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Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
Woodworks replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
Welmac UK supplied mine. Also these which look the same Remet RP150 logger Chopper logs fire wood Pto Tractor Chipper Splitter Processor WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Cuts 130mm fresh softwood, 110mm fresh hardwood and 90mm in dry hardwood. INCLUDES A PTO SHAFT. Log size 10... -
Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
Woodworks replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
Blade spacing and diameter of the cutter heads. The bigger machines cut a longer log -
Great work James. Especially like the knock down table. Pure class that 👍
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Make fast kindling with a slow splitter
Woodworks replied to Ontario Firewood Resource's topic in Firewood forum
Makes great charcoal -
This pretty much sums up how it appears to be used and those that use it. Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.
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Keep seeing this phrase "woke" so looked it up. Sounds like a good thing to be "political and social awareness"
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Wow thats some piece of timber! We built a 26' sailing boat some years back and it had an ash keelson. From memory it was about 60mm thick and 300mm wide. It had to be curved so we laminated 3x20mm thick boards together to create the section required. Might laminating thinner boards together be an option for you? Think you are unlikely to get 100mm thick ash kiln dried but 50mm should be available
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I had a £15 ebay special. Gauging it by my bike light of known brand I would say it was kicking out ay least a 1000 lumens which was still a mighty bright head torch
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Think they may have had a rather soft batch which my foray into the Harvester bar must have been from. Seen others rate them but mine wore faster than any other bar I have had. That combined with them being more prone to jam with twisty wood made me convert back.
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But as I said I dont run a harvester bar. Current favourite is the Husqvarna X-force for £35
