dibnah1

Thieving ***** ***** have come in overnight and had our three saws from Ewhurst in Surrey,

MS261 16 inch. Serial 180705715 2 years old

MS291 18 inch. Serial 176823786 less than a year old.

And MS181 14 inch about 5 years old

Police have been round and been ******* useless as ever.

We have a good idea who has done it, but is it worth starting a war with these scum?

Thank you all. Oil now on order and I know a bit more about our machine.

Thanks for the quick reply, it's got a separate tank and pump. Looking through some pics I have found I think the crane is a highland bear.

Afternoon all,

We have just changed a couple of hoses on our county crane and found that the oil needs changing.

I cannot find the spec anywhere. Should it be 32 hydraulic oil or a universal tractor oil?

Cheers

Graham

last picture is 11kv over open lv over ABC,

 

it also has a 11kv underground service running from the 11kv, the Lv and ABC is not fed from the 11kv at this pole as there is no transformer!

Photos can be so deceptive as you cant look round to see what is on the next pole!

 

if in doubt think higher voltage to be safe

I just cannot see why there is the LV running to those 11KV poles. Unless at some point in the past there used to be a transformer on it.

I agree!!!

 

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This is 11kv running above lv

 

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And this is open phase lv running above 11kv

 

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If not 100% sure, don't guess!!! Not worth the risk.

Fair point, i did think that the 'BT' looked big.

Where about's in the country did you take these?

I've not seen 11kv run like that before, in either instance.

The Electricity Boards never cease to amaze me with some of the things they do.

I'm just going to jump in here, this line here I assume is a BT line? There's no sort of conductors that I can see. Plus it's resting in a few trees.

It looks like the power and phone to one house. So top cabling 230 / 240 volt insulated concentric and the lower a single BT line.

Anyone care to guess what wires these are and if it's ok to work close to them?

 

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Top picture, upper 3 phase concentric cable 415v (insulated), lower cable BT.

Bottom Picture, top three conductors 3 phases, 4th down Neutral. So max 415 / 440v between phases, 230 /240 to earth. Lower cable BT.

Both BT cables look big, I would think there's a lot of phone lines in them.

If he pesists then insist on at least 50% of the money up front. Soon sorts out the men from the boys, tw*ts like that ain't worth working for.

I have no seasoned wood available. However the landowner cut some summer 2011, which is still out in the woods. Probably between 10 to 15 cord.

He has another stack cut December 2010 of about 4 cord.

£79-108 a cord is high

 

A cord does not consist of 128 cu ft or 3.62cubic meters of wood - rather that is the space it occupies.

 

The volume it occupies is approximately 50% filled with wood thus the space taken up by the stacked wood = 1 cord but that space contains 3.62 x 0.5 = 1.8 cubic meters = 1.08 tonne at 0.6t/m3

 

which would equate to £38-54 per cord

 

I think you would definitely want something for delivery

 

Cheers

mac

Well pointed out, that is more what I was thinking price wise.

So bang on the delivery and around the 100 mark would be about right.

Why sell in cords this isn't the USA

Only talking in cords because that's what I grew up with the Old man selling in, so that's the reference in my head.

Still trying to get my head round this metric stuff.

Lads,

Thanks for the responses.

WorcsWuss, your idea is along the lines I'm thinking of going with this one.

I don't want to process logs myself, there's enough people doing that our way already.

So I am thinking that local delivery with Tractor and trailer (our trailer takes a cord). I just need to work out pricing. Based on the figures given by delabodge and an average weight of wood I found on another site,

Average Density of hardwood 600 kg per cubic metre

1 cord, 128 cu ft = 3.62 cu metres

1 cord weighs 2172 kg

At £35-£50 a ton = £76 - £108 a cord

I just think that £76 - £108 a cord sounds high?

Plus there would be a bit added for delivery.

This year I will have I will have too much cordwood for my own use.

I've spoken to a couple of chaps that use processors and they are only interested in the cord if it's in 7 foot lengths. Is this bollocks or is it the norm?

We still cut in 4 foot lengths for ease of handling and the people we have spoken to don't seem interested.

What's a reasonable price to expect for a cord of mixed hardwood consisting of Oak, Ash, Willow, Birch, Hazel and Alder?

Friday's Job was going to be, clear the Hazel through the bottom so that everything else could be felld down the bank later.

Greeted by this, plans had to change.

That was 8.30am it kept rising till about 1pm, and was lapping round the chord wood pile in the bottom.

Must have too much time at the moment with the long nights. Prestige One Level 32 already! Last weekends double XP helped.