Woodworks
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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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Not pretending it's cheap but it is no way as expensive as a rebuild. I will see if I can dig out some numbers
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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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But it's doable and whats the problem with changing the outside look of the building? If we are not prepared to except some sort of compromise we will never do anything. Dads old place looked awful as it was. I slate hung the south and west sides with insulation behind. Then in the last round of grants he got the north and south EWId and frankly it looks better than it did. Now the whole place is way warmer and drier. Can get some pics if your interested
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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 -
"I realise that older properties can be upgraded to a point, but they never come close to modern standards" Simply not true. Yes it's expensive but doable over time. EWI can be as thick as you like as can roof insulation. Insulation of the floor slab and the foundations is probably the area that is problematic. Our old barn was above the regs of the time when converted it. It has the outside character of an old building but is easy to heat and dryness of modern build.
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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
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Yes I was pretty pissed at the time but things have worked out well long term. I was very hung up the whole 3.5 tonne towing but in reality I never needed it and our Ifor is only 2.6 tonne so the Hilux's 2.7 towing is fine for all I do. Also nice not getting stressing about the odd mark from stray logs on an old truck. It's a tad narrower in the lanes which is a bonus not to mention a de-mist that actually works! With the money saved I upgraded the processor with the spare change. Even had customers think I had upgraded my truck as the quality paint job on the old Hilux made it look pretty good GDH out of interest do you leave the truck running while loading between drops? It might explain your lack of issues as if it keeps running it can do it's forced regen without interruption. The interruption during regen I think was what caused most of my problems.
