gdh
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Nice area but I hope you've got a rock spike on your knocker.
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I just had my wrist done after rolling a quad. The main thing I'll say is take a book, there's often a long wait in a ward even if you're lucky enough to get a morning slot you'll be there til 8. If they're knocking you out completely like I was it's really weird when you wake up because it feels like a dream but enjoy the morphine while you can and try not to say anything stupid. You're guaranteed to feel sick after because they can't get the dose perfect first time. If they offer you medicine to stop sickness then take it because they won't let you go until you keep a meal down. Hospital food isn't terrible but it's not good either so if you feel a bit sick just have a bucket in the car and say you're fine then get out (that's what I did, not medical advice of course)
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We're only selling a few loads a week now and a bit of chip but we've got a lot of farm work on so that's ok. We buy in as soon as we're below the overdraft limit enough to afford it. The problem we have is that we're increasing by 200 ton this year so that's another 11-12k we have to have sitting in the stack for 12 months.
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We have bike races and the ruts are hard to level but as said hiring a 360 with a blade on the front and a good driver will soon get them cleared. The worst thing about bikes is that they don't leave anything either side of the ruts so you do have to dig a bit. For us it was about £700 to do 3-4 miles of track.
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They're good reliable saws, not as nice to use as the husqvarna equivalent but the 4 we've had all did well.
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Haha. Isn't that all motorsport.
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I'm not really into bikes, I prefer formula 1 myself (which is brilliant this year), but the tt is something I always make an effort to watch. It's amazing how the times are still dropping.
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I'd go for the 8. We have a 5 in our dining room and it's not really enough because the room just has stone walls. We also have an 18kW which will go hotter than you need. The advantage of going bigger is that you can always turn it down and you've got more freedom to choose the wood you burn.
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Been blunting chains today. Thought the first one had gone blunt so put a new one on and went straight into the same stone. I wonder how it got in the middle of an 18inch log....
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Wasn't using 2 posts needed for some grants a while ago? We don't do it ourselves since as long as you've got a decent post and strut they shouldn't shift much once the wires pulled anyway but we only do our own fencing. One thing about fencing that always makes me laugh is that no 2 people do it the same. I like my struts dug in and notched a certain way to but others like them put against a stake for example. As long as the fence is strong and tight that's the main thing but every farmer / fencer I talk to likes things done a certain way.
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Hadn't realised fencing had got that expensive, it's still £3.40ish around here but obviously you've got to charge a bit more for small and awkward bits. I would think the original quote is about right for a small job.
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I thought it was 26K average and 18K here in Wales. Either way I'm less but I'm happy with my job and what I'm doing which is the main thing. I suspect the average owner makes more per year but less per hour if you include all the paperwork. On a side note I wonder how much average salaries are skewed by the people with 6 or even 7 figure pay. -
Depends on what people around you charge and your overheads/wood quality. We just put our prices up to the equivalent of £67 a cube and that's the average price locally but in other areas it can be double that.
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I only had one tractor today so we had to resort to running the splitter with our old massey. We had to give each log a few pushes but it worked surprisingly well.
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I would say 2-3 ton. It's very hard to tell though without knowing how straight etc
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They're brilliant, you can actually grease without needing a third hand. We just got a new draper for £100 from our dealer after my old one got smashed. As long as you remember to keep the battery charged they've got plenty of pressure and last over a cartridge. If anything I think they have more pressure than a manual because you can get them stuck on a blocked nipple.
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The little tractor certainly thinks so. I think tajfun are working on a 600 now but it's a long way off.
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The 480 is working well, we've got the plus model with the auto height adjust on the splitter which is nice and even with the 12 way in it never struggles on oak. The chain lasts 25-30 tons. It's actually not much slower on small logs although we don't put anything under 5 inch through either machine. You just have to put a 6 way splitter in for anything under 12 inch or it makes too much kindling around the ring of the splitter. It looks a lot bigger and it's more open inside but the machines are very similar. Only issues we had it's heavier and they didn't sell a log table only the big deck so we had to make one. The third roller on the new log tables makes a big difference.
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We aimed to cut 12 tons then sharpen and normally achieved that. If we had dirty wood we switched to semi chisel chains. I normally sharpen 5 times on each tooth and do a couple of strokes on the depth guages every few sharpenings. You have to be spot on with your angles, if I got it even slightly wrong the machine wouldn't cut right so I use an old bar and a file guide. Dressing the bar makes a huge difference as it does all the work near the base. I would file it and clean it every 3 sharpenings then when it ran out of depth flip it over. I think I always got 100 tons plus from a bar. Good choice of machine by the way. Ours did 3000 tons with no problems before we got the 480.
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Sorry I meant drive cable not throttle.
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Just had the throttle cable come out on our new husqvarna 153 mower. Does anyone know how to put it back in, I don't think it's snapped and it looks very simple but I can't work it out.
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If you pull the chain out of the bar slightly there's usually a number on some of the runners.
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There's pros and cons to both, it's just person preference I think. We originally changed from circular saws because the chainsaws go bigger. We're up to a Tajfun 480 now and even if we liked circular saws it would be hard to find a reasonably priced one that size. Also when you chipped teeth it was alot more work to replace a circular saw and we had to take them away to be sharpened which meant having another expensive spare around. We sharpen every 30 cube and dress the bar every 60 on average, that's not too bad on hardwood. They last a lot longer than a normal chainsaw because you only ever crosscut. I have 10 chains on rotation and just keep changing them so downtime is only 10 minutes plus the odd re tensioning. There's also less dust with a chainsaw.
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If you already make billets and want firewood you could try a billet processor. Something like this https://www.riko-uk.com/product/74/389
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I would think they would be slightly higher folded but you could leave the conveyor folded in half on the ground which would make it longer and lower. It must be possible since they get into the country. Personally I prefer tajfun machine for build quality. our old hakki pilke 1x 37 was a decent machine but a bit worn when we sold it after 1800 tons wheras our tajfun 400 did 3000+ and still looked tidy.
