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On dry tarmac twin wheels will give you more grip, that is why drag cars have wide wheels, more rubber in contact with the ground. On slippy stuff narrow tyres have more grip, snow tyres are narrow not wide. From that I would deduce that twin wheelers will have less grip on mud/grass. Wide wheels are going to be better in conditions where you might sink, low ground pressure tyres are a good example of this. It's a big mistake to take a Cabstar into those conditions, trust me I am a farmer and i have owned a Cabstar for all of the last 20 years. Single wheel version will carry more weight than is legal with no problem at all, twin wheelers will only be able to carry less (legally) not more. Truck will be 3500kg GVW either way. If the two extra wheels weigh 75kg then your payload will be 75 kg less than the single wheel version.

Two lit tonight. Only stuff I have fit to burn is willow!

Often wondered how easy or not it would be to fit a rear axle off a Terrano onto a cabstar. So you have a limited slip diff. Nissan claim my Cabstar will do 20 to the gallon. I think that's thirsty. The old ones definitely rotted (mine did quarter of a million miles first which is how far away the moon is!) but my current one which is a 2000 model is a lot different. No rot on the cab but some on the back. Only bit on the cab is where a seam is starting to swell, other than that it is perfect as far as rust goes.

Good trucks, reliable, pull anything and carry anything. Thirsty, ridiculous price on genuine spares. Trucks are all going to be 3.5ton GVW. Twin wheels just knock the weight of the wheels off what you can actually carry = Single wheel versions actually have a greater payload than duals. Have had 3 ton load on single wheels with no issue at all. (other than being overloaded)

Your Fairy Liquid is being wasted, there are more than enough wetters/adjuvants in glyphosate. Put 10 ml in an empty knapsack and see if you can squirt a hose in to fill it. The froth will be overflowing before you get your 15 lites in there. A better "sticking" agent if you feel the need is to mix the glyphosate with an equal volume of vegetable oil. Mix them together before adding to the water. But as I said, there are enough wetters in the concentrate without all that.

If you leave leylandii outside, uncovered so the weather can get at it for a couple of years the sticky sap disappears. Then cover for a year, split and burn. You can of course fell, split and burn straight away but you will get covered in sticky sap and your logs won't burn very well.

Spits on an open fire. I burn very little other than leylandii and vast quantities of it. I honestly think it is one of the better firewoods when properly seasoned, kicks out a lot of heat.

I meant geographically rather than anatomically.

I paid summat like £20 inc del on a pair of pear knife scales once. Must be worth a punt

Oh heck! My log shed is full of apple. That pear is full of worm but how deep they have gone is a different matter. AFAIK worm don't go deep. From the colour it is obviously well seasoned.

Black widows/redbacks do look like that (as far as shape goes) so could be a false widow. Where was it (if you are still with us)?

Funniest thing I have read in ages

Seriously, I would be much happier using that friggin big flywheel thing you see on Youtube with axe head welded to it that any of the screw type splitters.

Maybe he said malaise.

So did I. I thought you were supposed to

Ash can rot very quick

I wondered how just one could be infected too.

I discovered that spraying Dursban on fast growing apple shoots during hot weather scorches them. I now feel a bit of a dick (to keep it on topic)

Thanks. It is a Lister elevator. New engine was just over £100 and 6hp instead of the old 2hp that never did run properly. Couple of roofing battens fastened under the slats and some galvanised sheet screwed on to stop the logs falling through. Side extensions are just some bent up rebar with sheet tacked on. Hopper is a Give Way sign cut in half and a bit of ply. All very simple really. Took a bit of thinking about but didn't cost much to do. Really useful thing to have. Brilliant when parked next to the Fergie saw bench. (which is what I made it for really)

I think the other posters made more sense than me. What I meant was that it was a sensible starting point for negotiating from, although it doesn't read like that. £350 is a lot of money for little work. If i could do that for 4 people I would be on a lot more wage than I am now, and for a fraction of the hours.

I don't think there is a single machine that suits everyone as there are so many variables. Most of my wood is leylandii at 9-12" diameter from own grown trees. I cut to 18" lengths as that is what fits in my fires. If I had big rings of oak, beech etc this splitter wouldn't be much use, but it does suit what I have. I did some bigger stuff the other day, just dropped the knife down and quartered the rings. Then lifted it back up again to finish them off. As for lifting stuff up again, do you use a hookeroon? I haven't had one for very long but kicking myself for leaving that so many years.

Sounds like a reasonable starting point. Best of luck.

About time I put some pics up, mostly because I haven't seen one like it on here (unless I missed it). I have an Oxdale and can't fault it tbh but I wanted a horizontal splitter. This was so I could split and push the logs onto my adapted bale elevator. This meant it had to push through the blade rather than the blade being on the ram. It also needed a table of sorts. I was in the process of planning how to build one and came across this one on the internet. Surprising how many times you can look at log splitters and still come across something you hadn't seen before. Pretty much exactly what I was after so I bought one. Very good splitter and it does do what I want it to. Well thought out design but I do have to say it wasn't finished off too well. Biggest complaint is that the handles were too short and the guard over them too close to the valve. Obviously never checked before it was sent out as it just couldn't possibly work as it was. Big hammer sorted it but you shouldn't have to do that on a new machine. Top link pin hole is too big and the Cat 2 pin they supplied slips right through. Couple of other minor issues too. All in all not major faults, just stupid things that wouldn't take much getting right. Would I recommend one? Well I have no regrets. Made by Hand Engineering in Ireland.

It is a big house. All very nice until you have to heat it! Especially as it was built before they invented insulation. Plenty of logs, none of them dry Hadn't reckoned on the winter dragging on for so long.

I have two lit today, might light the third yet!