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Put snow tyres on my Cabstar last year and I think there was an improvement, I drive offroad with it quite a lot too. Not saying it will go across a ploughed field but it aint too bad.

You should be trying to attach your arm rather than pics if you severed it. Must admit it does look severe. Get well soon

I have to admit battery life is poor. Don't use spotify so it costs nowt for me, I don't pay for much at all really. Biggest downside on iPad is lack of USB port, still good though.

I have an iPhone and would say non of that is actually true, at least in my experience it isn't. I have a 5S rather than a 6 so can't comment on that. Only recently upgraded from a 4S (and didn't notice a lot of difference apart from it not fitting in my shirt pocket now). I haven't had an android phone so can't really comment but it seems to me lot of tosh is spouted about iPhone versus Android. A bit like the Husky versus Stihl nonsense.

I thought they were russeted crab apples when I first saw them, they are definitely pear.

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.

I think you will be impressed. Vintage Mill - Landline - ABC

Why is it like that?

Worst gripe I have about ebay is them charging you 10% of your postage charges. How do they earn that? Otherwise I actually like the place, sold a fair bit on there lately and buy more stuff than is sensible. My last 4 cars have been bought unseen off ebay and haven't been disappointed yet.

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.)

Love it

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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.