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This our baby tractor with improvised cherry picker for doing the farm hedges, it seems a bit inadequate compared with most here but it does what we need.
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Ha ha, I suppose it does look a bit like a guillotine. It is actually a home bodge saw horse.
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All our sheds face due south. Yes some rain blows in but the effect of any direct sunlight more than cancels this out. Our roofs do overhang the front by a foot or so to help stop to much rain going in. Edit. Just realized this pic is my avatar, o well you now have a bigger picture.
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I am cutting anything from rough grass, nettles and brambles. What do you guys recommend for this kind of work? I have been using one of the Oregon 4 line heads (the sort that take heavy gauge serrated square cord) but I have just melted the base. This may have been my fault or it was damaged by the guy I lent it too last week I only use it with 2 lines as 4 does not appear to help much but I previously used one of the 2 line heads and the cord would get jammed into the head all the time.
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This page could helpful. Flue chimney design service - chimney design UK - chimney designers
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Thanks for the links Sadly it looks like we are not exempt, how much do these licenses cost and how much of a faff is it to get them filled in? Also can I apply for one for the whole farm or would it be hedge by hedge thing.
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FJ article? sorry to be dim. And what do you consider a quantity that it would be expected I apply for a license as we are only a smallholding.
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Another vote here for going strait up through the roof. Our flue is of this type and it was very straight forward to do.
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Timber Cutter Dartmoor. Do I really need a felling license for cutting hedgerow trees? I don't think any other farmers bother with this but I realize this does not mean I don't need one. Thanks Stereo. I think the organizers are looking to promote hedgerows for firewood and that is partly why we have been put forward as a host. Interesting what you say about sycamore, hazel and ash. I have not found hazel very good for firewood as when it gets to any size here it just becomes twisted and gnarly. Thinning was only a suggestion and it would save a lot of work not having to touch them and just let them grow. Do you think the beeches that do survive coppicing would benefit from later thinning? I am still interested in the benefits we might get from thinning and pruning like having more suitable material that could go through a processor easily. Your right about many of the boundaries being on a road but we are lucky it is very quiet out here in the sticks and nobody seems to mind damp slippy roads.
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Anymore ideas guys and girls as we have got roped into opening up our farm for Devon hedge week and we are far from experts but would like to give newcomers to hedgerow management good advice. One thing we have been recommended to do is flail the sides each year to encourage vertical growth, when a coppiced tree stump sends up multiple stems would it be a good idea to thin some out?
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I have recently fitted one to our trailer and it really is as good as it looks in the video. Great invention
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The angle bracket idea sounds neat and tidy but I don't think you would have any problem with screw and plugging with something like the Spax washer head screws as you suggest 200mm or even longer. I use these sorts of screws for heavy structural use and have never had any problems even in end grain. You would need a 25mm plug cutter for the Spax screws as the heads are quite big. Hope this helps
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If you wan't to drill holes that size ether use a hole saw and cut out the center afterwards with a chisel or if you have a gutsy drill use a bit like this Forstner bit with teeth 100 mm Ø - DIN 7483 G: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools I can't see clearly from the picture but is it possible the rounds are not let in rather had the ends cut with concave ends to match and then a much smaller dowel or similar in the middle.
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bodim? If Bodmin not much more than an hour.
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Our ash logs bark is riddled with holes. I hope these beetles are harmless in peoples homes as most of our logs are ash this year.
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Hats off to you, that sounds like a lot of work. Is that just you or have you got a small army with chainsaws and splitters? We have done maybe 80 m3 and are already wondering about a processor or possibly hiring someone in with one for a few days.
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Does this help? Typical calorific values of fuels
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Posted by Thrust SSC "Agreed on the usefulness of the NEP site. As for heat pumps, I believe they're an utter con - to get any decent heat from them you have to either have underfloor heating (that runs at a lower termperature), or you need to turn up the output so high the 'energy multiplier' drops to 2x or even less. At which point you're heating your house with electricity - the worst of all worlds." There is nothing wrong with heat pumps per-se. But some are installed in unsuitable properties resulting in them getting a bad name, unfairly IMHO. Ours works very well and is cheap to run in a well insulated house with underfloor heating. Back on track. We sell a small amount of firewood each year for over £100 m3 but we get the wood for free. We will never make a fortune at it but I like the work so will continue for the time being.
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Yep we have a ground source heap pump and we would be financially better off selling all our logs and running the heat pump but we love having a fire, so much better to watch than a TV on a cold winters night. I think the 85% efficiency figure looks pretty optimistic. This is probably based on a perfect stove with perfect logs (obviously ours are ) running flat out the whole time but life is not quite like that.
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Oops sorry
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A quick Google came up with this Stihl MS201T Petrol Chainsaw with 12? Bar | Stihl Dealer Norfolk Suffolk Cambridge Essex Hope this might help
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My wife suffers from migraines and your symptoms sound very similar. It might be worth talking to your pharmacist and try some Imigram. Hope you get it sorted.
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Thanks for the replies. I have looked at the other machines you have mentioned and I am presuming they are very expensive from the video's. The BGU is 9K + vat so it looks like a good buy unless I have over estimated the cost of those other machines.
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Yet more processor questions for you guys. I had a look at most of the firewood processors at the APF show but there are so many variables. What I want to process is hedgerow trees and maybe later buying in cord wood. Of all the machines I looked at closely I liked the Posch 350 but this is out of our price range the 280 looked well made but quite limiting for the size of wood. On a final round of the show I noticed the BGU KSA 370 being demonstrated and I have to say it looked quite impressive but I did not have time to have a close look at it as we had to hit the road. Have any of you you got close up and personal with one of these machines. I realise that I will have to sharpen probably daily but as we are not looking to do huge amounts of wood this is not a problem. Any comments you could add would be greatly appreciated Perry forestry - BGU Machinery -
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Thanks Baz I have not worded my previous post very well. I was looking to hire processor and operator, also the m3 was based on expected m3 of logs not actual m3 of trees. Sorry for the poor explanations I am newish at this game. We can load with forks on loader and the logs go straight into palletised crates so hopefully that side of things should not take too long.
