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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.
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Personally I prefer chainsaws. They're easier to change and maintain, the machines are more compact and you can go for a bigger diameter machine.
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Amazing work. I can't even make a straight stump chair.
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Ours is used to dry wood for our firewood business so it's more than most would need. We have a customer with one like you're looking at who we chip wood for every month or 2 straight into the hopper for , all they do is store the logs in a shed on an old trailer for a month before so they're dry enough. If you want electric have you looked into chp, combined heat and power, boilers. I think they're probably too big for your needs but there might be something reasonable available now.
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We've got an evoworld 199kw boiler. Had no issues except for cracked fire bricks which were about £1000 to replace after 3 years but no other major issues. we use about 200 tons a year which we chip ourselves and have only had 2 easily fixable blockages. We only get a couple of barrels of Ash a year. Our chip is dried so that makes a big difference. Boilers generally need less than 20% moisture content but you can go a bit more. We found it struggled to light above 30a%.
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Chip is cheaper than pellets and simpler especially if you have your own wood. If you want g30 chip you just need to have a screen to make sure that any big stuff gets chipped again. If you think of the chipper as part of the installation costs it doesn't seem so bad, it's what we did originally but as others have said you can save money and hassle with breakdowns etc by hiring one In. Our heizohack will chip 10-15 cube an hour but that's a relatively small chipper conpared to what you can hire in.
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Haha. It's actually surprisingly hard to come up with something good. I guess that's why we gave up and went with our name. Good luck though. On a side note after reading the name certainly wood for a few years I recently realised that it's a pun.
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No more stumps Yorkshire stump grinders Yorkshire stump removal The stump man/woman Stumped The stump stopper Something based on your name Let's be honest they're all terrible and none beat grindr
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I assume you mean 30mm chip. Heizohack do a 12inch chipper that's suitable and it's around 25K +VAT I think. It needs 120hp. You can go second hand but be careful with chippers. Wood boilers are cheaper to buy but more work in the long run.
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It depends what percentage of your wood will fit through the processor, I think the ones you mentioned are around 27cm diameter so if most your wood is bigger you're probably better off getting a decent saw and investing in the splitter unless you're doing a lot. The advantage of the processor is you've usually got a 6 way splitter and a conveyor so it will be easier on your back.
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I think you would be better off getting it extracted first if you want a decent price. Hardwood for firewood is 45-50 a ton /cube roadside assuming it's a decent amount then any tidy pieces, (large,no rot and straight) you could sell separately or possibly hire a saw mill in for and sell or use the planks.
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Since reading this thread I've noticed just how many old trees there are in fields around here. There's some really nice old ones around the prince's estate and a lot of new ones been planted. I didn't take pictures of those because I didn't want to get in trouble. Ironically the fields we had with trees on their own we planted completely with saplings but we still have a few around and a lot in hedges.
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We've had this old stihl 08 and parts of a spare one in a shed for years. I doubt it's worth much but it might be a bit of fun to get it running. Then I'll go back to modern saws and keep my limbs in working order.
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Ours is the same, we season and dry our wood so haven't cleaned it in 10 years. Can't beat 96 though.
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To be fair to the farmer that area has clearly been left before. For all we know they've just down a shallow area of ploughing to replant grass for maximum grazing.
