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Dont forget the bunch of electric gadgets that go wrong and a DPF ?
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A no here. Love stoves but ours is not as good as expected. -
Been too hot for a couple of months and we have missed the worst of the heat down here in the SW. Been working early and late and taking it easy in the hottest bit (the joys of being a one man band). Back to wet and windy today and loving it but will be fed up with when it doesn't stop for six months haha
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You have to have some bedding not necessarily sawdust.
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Is 400c very hot? Never measured our stove but I know our charcoal retort gets far hotter than that without suffering damage. Never damaged a stove to date from over firing. Excluding damaged fire board which I presume is normal wear and tear.
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Get a branch logger and find a market for the product?
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We get 1000 litre IBCs for £20 each and should last an age. Some of them do need a good cleaning out though.
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Not so much a recommendation but the fastest looking one I have seen is the Dewalt Stumbled across a video and it looked pretty gutsy. He makes a meal of it but the saw cuts well. Suppose they do know a thing or two about cordless tools.
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Strange as there is nothing obvious on their page. They used to for sure as I just met this https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/posch-log-splitter-pto-driven-tractor-john-deere-massey-ferguson-/142830807083?rmvSB=true&nma=true&si=go0OidREkBuSNGAL7AWORKj%2FAkY%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
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I thought a table was an option on the Posch. The Krpan one was too small and low but easily rectified with a packer and a big sheet of steel.
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Woodworks replied to BowlandStoves's topic in General chat
Guess there is a regional element. Around here you see loads of Woodwarms but they are made here in Devon. Best stove I have used to date is a 12kw Woodwarm and meet plenty of log customers who also like the Clearview's. -
If your getting something made I would make sure the blade is big ie deep. You dont often see it mentioned but the large blade increases productivity no end. You put a 12" ring on the table and with a 12" blade two cuts one side turn 90degrees make two more passes and you have nine logs. You see nice videos of dinky blades on the side of a big ring and they fall in half but dont find we get much wood which is that submissive.
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They look like great machines and one of very few that turn larger wood into saleable log sizes. So many amazing looking splitters making logs only suitable for large biomass boilers. Only down side of splitta I saw at a demo was you do get quite a bit of smaller kindling sized bits from the edges of the log. Do you sieve these out or just let them go in with the logs? arboculturist If you are serious about a Krpan you are welcome to pop up and give it a demo
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Ah damit. Saw the pictures and thought told you so then read your post ? Not a clue
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No no. I saw loads of people were buying the Thor so bought the Krpan haha. Thor didn't have a winch option
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Presuming you mean the Thor. No cant remember what I was quoted. Some info later on in this thread but it's some years out of date
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So here my 2ps worth on splitters. You have the equation of speed/power/cost more power you go for the slower it unless you are spending more. Having researched this loads when getting our splitter I did see a lot of Pros just using the 13 tonne Thor. Having gone for an 18 tonne machine I can see 13tonne is plenty enough for the majority of rings. Now I am a one man band and not built like the Hulk so went for one with a winch to get the rings up onto the table. Pretty pleases with our Krpan but if money was no object and we had a tractor that could move it I would probably go for one of these and fit with a large table. I did see that one of the large imported kilned log suppliers on here was asked how they did all the logs and why they were so neat. He said they just used lots of guys smallish vertical splitters.
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TCD sorted us out. Not sure if he has any more left though
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Dont do it. Tried for one year and never again. Just eats time. Ring and spit has proved far quicker
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Sorry my post does look a bit blunt. Yes as you say each to their own and diamond bit would have helped.
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I tried one but sold it on. It was faff to set up and horribly noisy. The grind stones ware fast so their diameter is reducing with use. Not much quicker than a sharp file anyway IMO.
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Thanks agrimog Can I pick up on a few points. Are the bearings and easy fix using off the shelf parts? "also the bands need a lot more looking after than a chain" by looking after do you mean sharpening or something else? Using the Alaskan there is more than enough sharpening needed but thought a bandsaw would need less. Surprised you use the Logosol to break down larger pieces to then use the bandmill. Doesn't the HM126 have a greater cutting capacity? Sorry for all the question but I have a lot to learn.
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this made me chuckle
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If you hadn't said it had come out of a 2 stroke I would have gone for red diesel!
