Wood wasp

Some interesting pics in Forestmachineoperatorsjobs page on facebook - tree head through a harvester cabin, looks a close one

No they'll be lying in bed like like any other day

Old firm is tame these days! Besides, they all go to work together on Monday once sober! Was a post really pulled for naming the other religion??

I just don't want the kalishnikov and grenade squad round my door for being a dissenter! (Easy to laugh behind a keyboard) Edit: and bear in mind it's the loonies that resort to violence but they're only actioning what their book says and what the rest believe but wouldn't get physical about.

I'm no expert but it seems the other religion is a few hundred years behind Christianity which also burned the dissenters at the stake. The other religion though has at its core a well documented belief that the faith must be spread at all costs and convert or die, non believers are infidels not worthy of life. When polls show that majority of followers believe that rules of their faith should be adhered to and enforced that is where the problems start, we're not all operating from the belief that all should have a right to live a life of free will.

I used google translate and largely came out gibberish, think I got the gist though that speak your mind but never force opinions upon others. Agree with that (My girlfriend is native French speaker but didn't want to get her to translate in case was nonsense!)

I can't listen to your link unfortunately via app, I'm sure there's plenty of "when I were a lad" though! The poster trying to clear wood odds and ends from yard is prime example of why firewood will always have beer money guys processing loads on the side.

Midges take up enough space to literally drive you insane, nasty little things altogether! People perceive fascism as "right wing" but all "fascist" regimes experienced by Europe have been driven by extreme "left wing" big state ideology. Islamic ideology with it's beliefs that women shouldn't drive, have no rights, stone adulterers, hang the gays, lash/imprison/hang the dissenters etc etc is completely different from fascism, whatever definition you apply to the latter.

Given all the reforms we keep getting told about I don't understand why we don't go back to way we did education 40 years ago, seemed to work well and be ahead of rest of world. I've had graduates join company and their standard of basic English is shocking, the foreigners we deal with can speak and write English better as their second or third language.

Yes too cheap. And yes too that everyone seems very touchy at moment! Be like Jon, relax and get on the cizzer

The latter is more realistic pricing and will pay itself back lot quicker!

Well I didn't want to comment on the ass dragging on ground bit! Not sure what payloads on pickup are anyway

Bugs that bite as above, left wing socialist politicians. Hopkins is a piece of work although I think a lot of what she says is constructed purely as a vehicle to earn money. She's rentaquote if a producer wants cheap PR

£65 is good price for bulk bag kiln dried.

Strong and fit. I don't get sound when watching video in Arbtalk app, sound wasn't required for that clip though

If it's big timber and a particularly ugly, knotty piece then split it with single knife first

I personally wouldn't report someone for tax evasion as I feel the govt takes and wastes more than enough of our money already. I can see where Logsnstuff is coming from though given he has invested in his business. However, firewood is an easily sourced, low skilled product so will also be viewed as sideline product by many. The fact so many tree surgeons view arb waste as a nuisance to be got rid of anyway possible highlights this perfectly. Any business dealing firewood just has to accept that is the market situation. It's interesting this obsession in UK that all firewood must be sold dry. Travelling around continental Europe it seems the onus is very much on the house owner to season their timber as the houses are surrounded by stacks of wood, not this 6 to 10 inch nonsense we have either. Of course it's not such an urban society over there and you see families out at weekend gathering up wood in old harvesting sites.

Well said GK, plus the nuance of conversation is lost in electronic format. Ideally a moderator should delete all the nonsense/mudslinging posts back to where thread started to go off the rails.

Depends what you're splitting for, if doing lot of volume then you need big splitter to break down lengths for processor - the less handling the better.

I've got some stuff from Guyana, not a big brand at all, can't remember the name but it's lovely. Very, very drinkable.

At slight tangent but drinking bunderburg rum just now and it's awful stuff, there are some great rums out there but this one isn't among them.

Although not British greenheart and ekki is heaviest stuff I've worked with, hard as nails too

I like Jon's chat but that is funny

Softwood is cut various lengths for sawmills, pallet, pulp and chipwood. Hardwood for firewood I'd cut whatever length customer wanted.

Slower cutting it whether by machine or hand, slower loading/unloading for forwarder. Likewise for lorry