Lorn Logs

We poured gallons of it into the ground at the old mill, it came gushing out of the pressure tank! There's houses on the site now

Too late ! Aye, thats the same stuff we used, came under the name 'Celcure' not nice, greenish and stank. Turned your hands yellow as I recall

In my own case, it caused the appearance, overnight, of a handlebar moustache. Which was alarming at 14

Apparently arsenic causes extra fingers and toes to grow and in some rare cases an additional eye.

Pallets can be dodgy, they treated with preservative some of which contains heavy metals like arsenic. I used to work in a sawmills and we pressure treated sawn timebr with arsenic based preservatice especially for the pallet wood industry- was a few years ago so maybe they use less damaging preservatives, but I'd be wary burning pallet wood

Looks like grand wood, pity I'm 400 sodding miles north:cursing:

Hi all, I've got my yard up and running now and am looking for wood! Any arb arisings welcome and I'm looking to buy hard and softwood cord for next years firewood supply. Any commercial folks working in the area and looking to dump arisings etc let me know. Have got a big yard with sea access approx 10 miles north of Oban, Argyll. Thanks John tel 07807004237

Take the bar off and make sure the exit hole's not blocked my 041 had that problem

Running it full 20" in frozen larch today- no problems straight through it! The Bizz..

Scots pine likes the wet (ish) but Alder's ideal! Dont know much about Ash biology but near me theres loads of it growing on a marshy headland near a salt water loch and it regularly gets soaked....

As per a few posts ago, I bought the MS391 new and have been running it for about 3 weeks now....seems a braw bit of gear have been ringing up a fair bit of timber and so far no complaints at all only observation might be that for firewood production use it might be better on a 16" but havent tried that yet still runnin it on the 20" it came with. Starts easy hot or cold and not too heavy. Dont like the plastic but time'll tell.Measuring it against me old 044 and so far its up there...thought ye'smight like the gen:001_smile:

To be fair have also had a Mitsi Shogun which was a bag of shite and a Range Rover which was so bad I took an angle grinder to it and bobtailed the arse off it and turned it into an off roader oddly enough from that day on it never missed a beat until I twisted the chassis....oops...

The current Def's the 5th Landy I've run and its been no bother, neither was the TD5 90. And they been worked hard, I suppose Landys are essentially hand built and QC's never been a strong point at Solihull. In terms of the Tranny engine, mines is the 2.4 and I got no problems with it pulling a dble axle Ifor around......

Get a Defender an do it right, am using an 09 110, it's the bollocks

Me too. Blowtorch first fir a bit then loads of dry kindling and leave the door open a wee bit so you make a hot ash bed, then wee logs....etc etc

Don't have much choice, living in Argyll....ususlly crack one open and shoe the cust the moisture meter reading on a fresh face....

HETAS doesn't apply here but if ye do it wrong, your hoose insurance will be doon the swanny....

After a day of humping around sodding barrow bags on and off a Landy 11-....al I would say is that you have to enjoy it......

P.s I hate barrow bags, thay are the work of the devil.....

have looked at loads of reviews...am liking the 391 over the husky......

If your keen to try husky a 365xt or 372xp are good as was recommended to me on here.

 

Figgy

Bit too much dosh!!

Cheers folks, thats what I thought. Dont do much snedding, mostly ringing up windblow or tree length stuff... have always been a Stihl user, but recent reviews of the husky 550xp are real good....

Going to buy a Stihl 391 as my firewood saw, to replace my knackered 044. Any thoughts on the 391? am tempted by the Husq 550xp but......

To get started, you can always buy some felled timber from the forestry commission, take it back to your yard or back garden, cut it into lengths then split it with an axe, and sell it in builders bags, dumpy bags, barrow bags etc. It's a bit of graft and handling etc, but if you enjoy it....equipment wise, well I have a Land rover with a large flatbed trailer- used for moving mini diggers, but ideal fo moving long lenghts of timber, a medium sized trailer, and two chainsaws...and a few axes. That's it!!

On the face of it, using horses seems like a great way to work, no problems moving around heavy harvesters etc and I imagine that smaller, more lucrative contracts might be forthcoming.....

I saw a picture in todays Glasgow Herald of a heavy horse being worked to remove timber (Scots Pine) from an area that would otherwise have been cleared with a harvester and forwarder- the caption read, that heavy horses are making a comeback to harvest areas that benefit from a light 'footprint', i.e much more environmentally friendly. I must say, I was immediately intersted and it would appear that there must be a market for such operations, especially in the present green climate. However, it seems to me that maintaining a fleet or even one or two heavy horses would be at least if not more expensive than a modest harvester and forwarder. I would be interested to know if anyone has used heavy horses for commercial timber extraction and if so, is it any good !!