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Best short description would be the pear equivalent of a crab apple. I know very little about them having only ever heard of them from just a few years ago. I found these last week on a tree I passed very often and have done for decades without ever noticing it. I believe they were used in the leather industry and I suspect the high tannins in the fruit was where their use was. Very juicy, you can squeeze them by hand and have juice running out of them. Yet so incredibly dry that they make a sloe seem like the sweetest thing you ever tasted. I bit into one to try it, all I can say was it was an extremely intense experience!! Incidentally, there used to be a knacker yard a couple of miles up the road.

Do you know what a hazel pear is?

Ah sorry. Missed it there.

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Why is it like that?

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Leylandii and apple

A good friend of mine told me exactly the same thing 5 years ago.

They were my trees that had blown over. It was a very easy way of topping them

Done it with leylandii that size many times, and on purpose. They do survive (obviously not if skinned up like that.)

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Spotted today beneath an apple tree

The clever thing to do would be to build it so both the swinging blade arm and the rocking table can be latched, that way it can be used as either. Rocking table for smaller stuff, swinging arm for the bigger stuff.

It sounds like you already built yours in your head too. I get the 4' blade now too, I am happy to do one 8" log at a time. Mine are already 6' lengths and I want to saw them down to 18" logs for splitting. 6' because I can handle them on my own, either by hand or by fork lift for the big ones and you get 4x18" logs. My fires fit 18" logs, so do my splitters. When I am rich and famous and have established my log selling empire i can cut them to 9" instead so all my customers are happy. In my head of course.

I don't know what a butt board is, hydraulic or otherwise. If I knew what one was, yes I probably could build one. Not that I have the time unfortunately. I watched a Youtube clip of a processor that was fed with a hydraulic sliding table. Can't find it now but that sounds like what you mean I think up to maybe 16" a circular saw would be quicker than a chainsaw. Maybe I'm wrong and maybe it depends what saw you have anyway. From experience with my chainsaw and my circular saw on the wood i use (leylandii) I reckon it will work. I have endless supply of straight grown timber and all I want to do with it is burn it. If I found a good, efficient way to process bigger quantities it could well be a commercial venture. Maybe you have more experience with hardwoods and they are quicker with a chainsaw (I don't know). If you don't mind me asking, if a chainsaw is quicker why do you want a 4' circular saw? I have the blade, spindle and pto gearbox. All I need is some metal for the frame and to get my finger out and get on with it. I guess if it doesn't do what I want I can chop it up and go back to a rocking cradle. I'm probably over thinking the thing as usual.

I think the potential for that mishap is there on either version. My idea is to have the pull down handle used right handed and "flow" of logs to the right. Blade would be to the right of the handle. I think that way you are more likely to put the blade up (spring operated) before using right hand to throw the last log. I get your point though and it is that very action that introduces danger into either mechanism. I think I have sussed the pivot point issue too, mount the gearbox in such a way that the pulley is inline with the pivot point. Tensioner and tension release (safety cutout) mounted on the swinging arm with a belt driven blade. Main reason for doing it is so I can hopefully do some of the larger diameter logs. Cut through to depth of blade then turn the log with a peavey/cant stick to then finish the cut. A fixed table with no movement is the only safe way to do that I think. I can cut 13" diameter with one cut on my old Fergie bench. At that diameter the logs are getting a bit too heavy to lift and I don't feel in full control, especially with the wobbly table on there. If I could safely turn them over after cutting most of the way through I reckon 15-16" diameter is a big advantage to me. That would cover nearly all the wood I deal with. I am only a domestic user at the mo but do have thoughts on going commercial. All part of a big plan I have. Thanks for the replies

I've found sleepers too Think they belonged to a man a few fields upstream.

Nearly all sawbenches are rocking cradle, what's wrong with moving blade instead? I see a few processors with moving blade, is that just because the cradle can't really move due to the splitter ram setup? Reason I am asking is because I want to build my own sawbench and the design in my head is moving blade.

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I had some petrol that had been syphoned out of a diesel tank after a filling mistake. I included it about a gallon at a time to each full tank of diesel in my Cabstar until it was all gone. Cabstar ran better and is still fine, about 5 years or more later. Tried some in a pinto engine, never ran right for 6 months or more even though there was a minute amount of diesel in it and many full tanks of full fat petrol later.

I said "a bit", not try and run them on it.

A bit of petrol in a diesel engine doesn't do much harm, diesel in a petrol engine isn't so good. I know nowt about chipper engines but doubt they are too picky. Mercedes even say to put a bit in (upto 10% I think) in winter.