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  1. Rhob the Log
    £17.85/cu ft? My calculations correct?
  2. Rhob the Log
    Looks a lot of soil on that. The moss won't be heavy with substrate but the ferny bit certainly. A good clean to start you off I'd suggest. Especially as you'll want the outside burrs.
  3. Rhob the Log
    1" ratchet straps for turning halved logs. 7" Billhook - Does everything a drawknife, hammer, axe etc can do and more. Great tool
  4. Rhob the Log
    D7 by a stretch of the imagination!
  5. Rhob the Log
    That's lovely! Well done Ian. I did a house sign for someone recently out of Cedar. Again, freehand routing - my first go. Didn't come out too badly except for the obvious mistake. Quite fun this routing lark
  6. Rhob the Log
    That's wicked! Robot future, I'll be out of a job...
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    Will Malloff in Chainsaw lumber making shows how to make endgrain-type boards (ellipses). It's at the end of the article under "speciality mills". Things like house signs etc are made this way. You put the log at 45 deg and mill horizontal. This reduces cracking in the ends of the log as there's still cross grain holding together. A good dose of PVA to reduce drying speed would help, or instant kilning. Worth a try with a small log to see if you can make the order up this way perhaps...
  8. Rhob the Log
    £205 for a 24" chain + 24" mill + postage. It's on the site Products for the category: Chainsaw mills ...I'm a different Rob by the way...
  9. Rhob the Log
    Seems cheap! That'd be £1.44 per hoppus at the top end! 1 m3 = 27.736074 Hoppus feet. Didn't just pick the hoppus price out of the air - followed a few other softwood sawing threads so was led to believe £3-5 was a fair price. Do you buy in Larch at that price?
  10. Rhob the Log
    Hoppus is a sawmill-specific unit of volume that converts a cylinder stick to cuboid. Like cubic feet but it accounts for wasteage. There's a few threads around...
  11. Rhob the Log
    They sound the same size as I've felled recently. 43" circumference, about 18m of stick + crown on top. If you can, take some notes on straightness as well.
  12. Rhob the Log
    Thanks mate, puts my mind at ease. Put's the 5 sticks in perspective!
  13. Rhob the Log
    It's on my boss' bandsaw using a 3t digger to load+ the felling and forwarding from his woodland. Takes about a hour to set up & mill this lot. Plus delivery. Don't have a day rate but £30-40/hour on the Alaskan seems about right, off topic. Just want a price on the wood as everything else labour-wise will be on top. Will be quality wood but how much?
  14. Rhob the Log
    Anyone got an idea on price per cubic foot for waney edge Larch boards? Doing 8 or so 1" x 10" x 8ft planks for a mate but no idea what to charge. 4.5 cu ft total. Was thinking £10 per cube as it's £4 a hoppus. Seem reasonable? It's only £45... Surely I should add some labour to that or something? Also have an order for shelving. 24 x 2" x 6" x 8' though that's more likely to be QSawn. Cheers, Rhob
  15. Rhob the Log
    Found my Aspen dealer today! Lovely stuff! Not a whiff of anything but my own, hairy oxters. Love it. Works a treat in the brushcutter and blower. Re-tuning the (2007) groundsaw to it, plus the 088 when that gets some use. Highly recommended!
  16. Rhob the Log
    That's hilarious! Bit heavy on the gingham though!
  17. Rhob the Log
    Lovely, though with that weather why the roof?
  18. Rhob the Log
    Was also reading it's non readily translocated in Rhody so as a systemic herbicide, you've got to overload it, each and every leaf . It's a tough plant to kill, pretty much the perfect competitor. They're just pure evil mate, in my opinion. Anything for a quick buck - especially in developing countries.
  19. Rhob the Log
    Hmmm, seen these instructions. They say "Using standard nozzles giving 200 litres per hectare, at 1 bar pressure and a walking speed of 1 metre per second, a 20 litre knapsack covers 1000 metres²" Well, my nozzle emits 1.14l per minute and I can walk a little faster than 1m a second. I get what you're saying, I really do but with Rhody and Bramble you have to spray higher volume i.e. to just before run-off. You're looking at 500 - 750 l/ha, not 200. For species/situation-specific advice, read the label.
  20. Rhob the Log
    No, making up between 5.9 and 7.3l per hectare, as recommended by the label, not a %age. As stated; mine is 49% glyphosate solution(gallup hiActiv), not 36% as recommended by the FC(roundup biactiv 360). I'd rather use the label than a different product's instructions, sorry.
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    10l = 10 000ml (10 000/100)x2 = 2% of volume = 200ml. In a 15l knapsack, add 300ml to 15l water (that's 15300ml) to get a 2% solution or near enough. For litres per hectare time 1 minute of spraying into a bucket then measure amount. Following calculation for litres per hectare (advised on the label): 100 x Water in jug (l) / Spray width (m) = Actual spray volume (end mix) THEN Tank capacity (l) x product dose rate (l/ha) / Actual spray volume = Herbicide needed for tank capacity The spray width in the first line of calculations is the width of the nozzle. If spot treating like with Rhody, call it less than or equal to 0.25m as your nozzle is close to the plant. Anyhow, 500ml per 10l is 5% solution I reckon. Been out spraying today - 225ml Gallup Hi Activ with 250ml Mixture B in 15l sprayer. That should give me 456 l/ha spray volume at around just over 6.5l/ha roundup.
  22. Rhob the Log
    That's Roundup biactiv 360 at 2%, right? I'm using Gallup HiActiv as I don't like giving Monsanto the money. It's stronger so 1.5% for Gallup + mixture B and dye. Saves missing any.
  23. Rhob the Log
    Take a saw, cut it up. What volume he reckon? (don't worry, I'm just curious) Species matters too...
  24. Rhob the Log
    Glad I'm providing some amusement! School boy error... Cheers fellas.
  25. Rhob the Log
    Oops, may not be a Rhody after all. Alternate leaf arrangement. Either way, it stays. That's good.

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