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Everything posted by william127
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Yeah it's not really a big investment for the potential returns given the price of timber.👍
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Mine should be here sometime this week, which is less than ideal to be honest due to what I'm doing at work but you can't knock it for speed really 👍
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With the winch, ramps, extension, auto luber, spares, box of blades and delivery it's about 4800 plus the vat. Like all these things they start to add up when you add options but I think it's quite a lot for the money.
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I have finally taken the plunge and ordered a Frontier OS31, spares, blades, extension, winch and ramps!! Should be here next week, but it'll be a couple of weeks before I get it built up unfortunately. After my post a few weeks ago about transporting it on an ifor Williams I am going to go ahead with that idea of mounting it on an rsj frame that gets forked on and off a trailer. Although I am going to look for a cheap, rough but solid flatbed to semi permanently mount the whole set up on, and leave it set level, so I can quickly mill up the odd bit here and there as it comes in. Then take it to the main pile of timber when needed. My current main concern is sourcing logs to mill! So if any tree surgeons in the Hertford area have anything suitable, or foresters that can deliver on 8 wheelers or smaller, get in touch!👍👍👍 But overall, I'm really looking forward to getting stuck into it 👌👌
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Some lovely tools on this post👍👍 My go to knife for years has been a mora clipper/companion or the bahco wrecking knife/chisel (we call them 'chifes' at work). But these days my most used knife by a country mile is a makita folding Stanley, it lives in my pocket basically all the time👌 My nicest knife is probably a folding gerber, chunky rubber grips, a gutting hook(never used but gives the tip end a nice chunky shape) and a lovely edge- I have a 4 inch , 15 year old scar to prove it!!! I can't see me ever buying a really decent fixed blade, I just don't do enough fine knife work to justify it.
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I've read the sample pages and I'd be keen to read the rest👍. I'm a very small scale firewood producer and have read a couple of other firewood books out of interest and to know what information customers might be taking on about wood/fires👍👍 -
Brilliant 👌👌 If I ever build myself a house I know what one of my first design features will be now😄👌
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I've been having a good clear up recently, and I've found 28 various chains! From 12 to 25 inch, all in need of sharpening, a lot of them from a bad state from stump removals etc. There's no way I'm Sharpening that lot by hand, but with the price of everything these days it's going to be well worth me getting them all done, especially as it will be 1 trip to drop them all off, not a couple at a time. It'll then be up to me to be disciplined and sharpen the chain that's on the saw until its completely dead. 😅That way I'll have pretty much a lifetime supply 👍 But day to day there's not really an alternative to just sharpening as you go🤷♂️
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Bargain👍 It's my new favourite marketplace search😅😅😅
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Amazing! I'm definitely doing this. So much more efficient than the plastic boxes and timber shelf arrangements I have. And they're silly cheap on Facebook!
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Clever way of moving the machine, but those filing cabinets are what really impress!!👌👌👌👌
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Sod that, 8ft is plenty for me😅😅
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Picked up some bales in my defender earlier, I was heavy but ok- the other bloke there in the transit was something else!! The lad with the flat cap is my mate who was selling the bales, not the transit driver 😅😅😅😅
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VID-20220407-WA0000.mp4 955.95 kB · 1 download I felt like that 50s song "High Hopes" when I started but it only put 2.3 machine hours on the clock. There looks like scope to get this type of grinder 100mm narrower to get it through a narrow door. Nice job👍 I have done stumps this size with it before and would again, but at this was out the ground, full of concrete and up on a mound I thought I'd try a different approach. It's just a shame there wasn't something I could use the tirfor off of, then it would have flown out😄
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Yes, certainly not easy money or a job I'd want everyday but a good earner, a very happy customer and I can have a well earned drink tonight 👌👌
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Not much grinding but I did use it to take a few roots off. Windblown eucalyptus, too big(height above the ground mainly) to do with my hyundai and there's no way to get anything else in so I broke it down with a saw, wedges and a jack. It would have been nice to have a bit of help but after chains(couple of old ones to bin, couple needing a big sharpen) petrol and diesel, I'll be £500 up for the day, can't really grumble at that👌👌
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Wouldn't like to be without my 5 ton toe jack👌👌
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Nice job👌 Thanks, I shall start doing some research with those thoughts in mind👍
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Any recommendations for augers for a 0.8 micro and a 1.5 ton, both run the same hitch with 25mm pins? Got a big decking job with great access to do soon so might invest 🤔
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Small loads of hardwood/softwood hertfordshire
william127 replied to william127's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
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@doobin I'm really glad you're buying a mill at this time, I think we have pretty similar ways of thinking/doing jobs, and it's like you're writing down all the reasoning behind buying a mill for me😄😄😄👍 cheers!
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Have you ordered a mill then or are you still in the research stage?👍
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Not immediately but in maybe 6 weeks I'll be looking to buy a couple of small loads of hardwood for firewood, ideally oversized or non processor grade as that would be a bit cheaper? Also after a load of softwood for milling, not firewood, up to about 28 inch diameter. I'm also happy to have smaller loads, trailers, transits, 7.5toners etc Unfortunately I can only get an 8 wheeler tipper sized lorry at most or tractor and trailer to my yards. I'm near Hertford, sg13. I've never really bought timber in before so any advice is welcome. I'll also take hardwood arb waste logs as a free tip site(unlikely I know but it may help someone out). Thanks👍👍
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How do you find the frontier mill itself? the fact that you are using it directly on the ifor trouble free, and forking it on and off sound positive. how much assembely did you have to do when you got it? Are you using the fronteir blades or aftermarket ones? cheers
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Does seem like a good return for the money, higher day rates for a mill than a digger(not that I do day rate if I can help it!) with a much lower outlay, although higher running costs (bands etc?). I bought some 6x2 yesterday for shed base shuttering, I'd say what I paid for a few lengths would buy a ton of logs. What I bought probably weighs 100 kg, so there's a lot of potential there to make a very useful saving over a few jobs. Then there's the exciting bit, interesting hardwood boards and beams... Sounds like a good plan, but would the mill not be too long to go on the truck?
