Woodworks
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I am no techno kid but find Android a darn site easier to navigate than the Iphone. The Apple was pain in the backside with it always trying to do things I did not want. Android seems to wait for a command instead of second guessing you.
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Not very clued up on bandmills but have to say if I were in the market the Trakmet seemed good value having seen them at the Confor show. They sell them on Ebay https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/old_station_yard_sawmill/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=
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Yes I got it from Flexosprings http://www.flexosprings.com/search-products?sku=343716+ It's not identical but works perfectly
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Looking at the picture I would hazard a guess that it's not taken in the UK. The style of the barn and beanpole trees dont look very native somehow.
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I think it's good to try to use it all. Yes small wood is slow but be shame to waste it and at least the Farmi is probably the fastest machine on the market with the small stuff.
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Yep this is our reality. They both eat time but as a small buyer beggars cant be choosers and we take what we can get.
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Yes a large mid hight table is a boon. I made a much bigger one for mine for just that reason but you can also use the trailer/teleporter bucket to hold the resplits
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Yes it is slow and low down, powerful though. Can you fit a mid hight table? Cut the rings onto a trailer and slide them off onto the table so no lifting
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Fair enough. Didn't know your age but I would love to be 35 again just approaching 50
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Not tried it as it would blunt very quickly but I would imagine it would cut like hell for a short while
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Agreed but just knock them down to manageable sized lumps with a chainsaw. Get the rings on edge and use the chainsaw ripping with the grain (noodling) you cut very quickly like this. I do this day in day out on site. I do contract firewood processing and almost never leave site with any oversized rejects. Customers are hesitant for me start breaking large pieces down with the saw but when they see home many logs they end up with putting rings or broken down rings through the processor there are no complaints. Very tempting to over complicate things but sometime the kiss principle fits best IME
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Hope someone takes over the Tavi branch. Never liked it much and found it like B&Q in that it was big store that never had what I wanted in it. Still we did use it occasionally and our only alternative is Bridgmans but they have a small depot that wont cope with influx of customers as is.
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Sorry the tonne thing is Mark Bolam joke that keeps coming around
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Yep too big and too complicated for anyone to efficiently manage. Not sure I want it broken up though as in spite of it's failings has served my family very well in recent problematic times.
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Can the Pallax take larger rings than it can cut? With stuff like that I often bring the lengths over to processor ring them while it's suspended and put the rings though the splitter on our processor. May even be worth noodling the rings in half to get them through the processor splitter if your stand alone splitter is that slow. Messing around with the Lucas sounds slow.
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Surely they dont end up everywhere now. We put it in a bin and it then goes to a council depot that either recycles it or burry it in a clay lined hole. The later is clearly not ideal but neither should end up with plastics everywhere. Have massive fines for litter louts to stop plastics being disposed of incorrectly. What goes on internationally my well be a different matter.
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So how big a problem are plastics? It's all over the news at the moment and RobD has his thread going about environmentally friendly packaging. Yes I have seen the pictures of plastics in the seas and yes it's a disgusting mess but are UK residents contributing to this much? I presume we have good disposal system here and if we chuck some plastic in the bin it does not end in the sea. Looked up how much oil is used in the production of plastics and it's not a big percentage and only a small part of the percentage is packaging. I am all for being environmentally friendly but think plastics are a smokescreen for our real long term problems. Great I used 200g less plastic today but drove 150 miles in a truck doing 25 MPG and sit in a centrally heated home at 21C The graph below shows the distribution of oil use
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Haha no. Not having a digger and going for the Gehl as long as it lifts what the guy claims.
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Where on the moor is that as out interest? You did well getting it out with your digger. That side of thing could have gone worse
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Environmentally friendly packaging - good idea or just looks bad.
Woodworks replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsawbars
Will wood chips do the job? If it's to stop the mills moving around I would have thought any lose material like chip will get displaced with an impact. Think I would be happy with chip as a packing material as long as long as it did the job and was not dusty. I always liked that corn starch packing that looks like Wotsits -
Your average bulk bag is around 0.6 cube and you IBC will hold a around 1.3 cube. As said they all hold a tonne
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Poor Matt. That looks like a bad day at the office
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Might pass on a trip up onto the higher moors then haha
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What are the roads like up there Matt?
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Tried one a year ago on my MS 460. It was rough as rats when new and the sharpening angles were poor and inconstant so gave up on them. Having since met a few guys who were happy enough with them thought I would give one a go on the processor. Again they were rough when new but after a hand sharpen they are now cutting very well. Only had it a short while but seems to hold it's edge longer than the Oregon I was using! Will try a few more loops before buying a whole roll for the processor. Also the one on my MS 460 was fine once it had been sharpened a few times. Just seem poorly sharpened in the factory being overly aggressive and the depth stops set too low.
