Woodworks
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If we are brilliant how come we have denuded our soils, polluted our seas, poisoned our rivers, murdered countless other humans, changed our whole atmosphere, treat our elderly less well than our animals etc etc etc. Yes we made rockets to take man into space but not sure that outweighs all the dumb ass stuff we have and continue to do. Even the main aim of rockets these days is to eventually inhabit another planet as we too stupid to look after this one. -
Hi and welcome. Yes I fold the sheet over and get some logs or chip on the fold. This stops it pulling out from under the load. First time I used it was on an uphill drive and pulled the sheet out with only about a 1/4 of the logs coming out! My truck came with a non-slip spray coating on the bed. Regular bed liners would work fine IME but this is an old truck and I could not find one so I bought a sheet of HDPE. Think that stands for High Density Polyethylene. Its brilliant stuff being as tough as old boots and super slippy. Just be careful standing in the tub on icy mornings ?
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The latter
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Twigs are no problem but never tried it with leaves as most of the wood I use we cut from our hedges in the winter. You can see the twigs in this little vid. The wood for this was made with our old branch logger that had a smaller cutting capacity.
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No I prep the the wood I use for charcoal. I clean off the the twigs and then branch log it like in the picture. You probably charcoal it leaves and all but you would end up with a lot of material going through the sieve once converted.
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Much as I like the guys and girls at Galbraith Bros they could do a way better job of advertising the Loadhandler. The amount of folk I meet who think mine is brilliant and ask had I invented it as they had never seen or heard of them. Yes they are still on these shores LoadHandler UK - The Pickup Truck Unloader in the UK Buy a pickup 'Load Handler' online WWW.LOADHANDLER.CO.UK LoadHandler UK - The Pickup Truck unloader - now available in the UK
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It's cheap, safe and works. Whats not to like ?
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I generally use the tidy sticks up to around 3" for charcoal making. It does look leafy but it's everything from 3" down in there and felt fairly heavy driving it back.
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Big bales! Brilliant ? Guessing it didn't break the strings on impact? Actually I can alway pop a lorry strap around it first. Thanks Mr Twig
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It's an option but not a cheap one. There are various lines of fencing that will have to go and it was all done not very long ago.
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Cutting some trees on our boundary hedge. Had a pro cutter friend give me hand for a few days and we have winched back some of them into our fields and felled into the neighbours where he was confident the buts would not jump down onto the fence bellow. Now I need to ideally find a way to get the rest down without ballsing up the fence. We were not very ambitious with the winching and only tying in at ladder hight but could get a rope in much higher with a throw line. They are ash with early dieback but all the hinge wood has been ok so far. Alternatively make up a frame that I can put in the niegahbours field that the butt can land on and not crush the fence. Going to have quite a lot to do on various boundries over the next few winters so might be worth the hassle but it will need to be pretty sturdy.
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Not often that I am handling chip but had to take some trees down into the neighbours field so put all the brash through the branch logger and bring it back in the truck. Used the Loadhandler for logs for years but amazed how well they work with chip as well. Why have they not caught on more?
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Do it yourself and get BC to sign it off if thats still an option. Seen some shocking instals done by supposed pros who charge a fortune and try to baffle with BS
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Fact. It's proven that the world is warming. Some may argue it's not due to mankind and CO2 emissions but the warming is proven beyond doubt. For me it's been driven by our CO2 emissions and it's now out of hand and needs dramatic action if we dont want to cook long term.
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Seems there are plenty of power hungry drivers out there. My my old Hilux is only 120 HP and it's plenty for all I do. Maybe if I was pulling bigger loads a few more horses would be nice but who gets to go so fast you need loads of power? Stuck in a line of traffic doing 30-40mph is so much of driving these days and you dont need vast power to do that. What I would say from the Dmax which had stacks of power IMO but it was not available where it was needed due to high gear ratios which seems to be a theme with most of the new trucks. It may well have been more than capable of doing 90+ mph but would have been much better if it was geared to run out of puff at 70 but with a really low 1st-2nd to get heavy trailers started uphills.
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Bought an Saye scope. Very good figures on paper. It is a cast stove with no internal insulation and I doubt it can get close to its claimed figures as it was hard to make it run hot and clean. I fitted some insulation and it works a fair bit better but not as well as other stoves I have used. In hindsight would have gone for a smaller stove but at the time there were few options on stoves with a closed combustion. Small stove working hard is the way to go IMO
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The higher you pile it the less well it will dry.
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Go on Jamie you know you want another Dmax ?
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Hardwood we are £115 for 1cube and £210 for 2 Softwood is £80 for 1 cube and £150 for 2 We are at the expensive end of things and not trying to move large quantities.
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This plus sometimes just to dry things out even when it's relatively warm.
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Does the Avant have a free flow hydraulic return? I can only see one pipe on the post knocker.
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Got around 100+ cube stacked in lots of sheds like these.
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That would sit very neatly in a bum bag ?
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That's long runs in comparison with us. Most of our customer are 10-15mins away. Delivery must eat into you profits big time if delivering an hour away. I mutter about a 20min drive. Probably explains you lack of problems with the truck though
