william127
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Free tip for hardwood logs, concrete yard with good access for tippers, trailers and up to 6wheeler lorrys. Wood chip accepted as part loads with logs.
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
my log storing trailer seems to be working well. The mesh floor and railing sides with a heavy tarp on top seems to have dried these rings out nicely. I have another couple of these old farm trailers to do the same to, should cut down on handling(when I'm set up right the plan is to tow the log trailer into the barn, split the logs and drop them straight onto the pile) and help drying quite a bit.
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Both bloody lovely 👌👌 Pretty impressive how the 35 plods along running the processor for year after year👍👍👍
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I'm contemplating getting one of these big splitters for processing arb waste. A processor will never really be suitable for me. This would be part of an overhaul of my whole firewood processing system, with anything over 30 cm being sawn with a chainsaw and split with the Posch, anything under being sawbenched and split with my pto oxdale. This should make things much more time/fuel efficient at the splitting stage. I would also be looking to offer a mobile splitting service with it, behind my Lambo 950 with a loader on the front. So, would people who have used them recommend the Posch Splitmaster 30t? They look good from what I have seen online? If not, what alternatives would people suggest. Must be horizontal, with a table AFTER the splitting blade and ideally a log lifter. Thanks👍👍
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Not tools as such but these are blooming useful- a farm trailer I bought unseen at an auction (biggest farm sale there's ever been round here and I was working away from home😫😫)When I went to pick it up it turned out to be full of scrap, which on closer inspection was actually decent lengths of angle, box section, tubes and enough of the side railing panels to do another trailer! So until I get round to welding it all together as a log trailer it's my metal store👌👌👌 The other are my outside work benches, I have the one in the picture and another one by my containers. They're not really work benches for doing projects on, more like handy tables for putting stuff on when sorting out tools, loading and unloading the van etc👌👌
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The 2 handed splitter rule makes no sense to me what so ever!! If anything I would say it makes them more dangerous to use- can't use 1 hand to hold the log while you slowly lower the blade onto it, which means it can be shot out at you when the blade does touch it, if the log is oversized for the table there's a good chance of it falling on you as you can't steady it, it's more tiring and there's more twisting and reaching involved. You could say that any tool should only be usable with both hand to prevent any risk to the operator- put dead man's handles on chainsaws, nail guns, chopsaws and angle grinders for a start?? Or just let the operators of machines use their judgement? Not having a pop at anyone that's pointed out the rule, I know they are just trying to help people avoid a world of grief if they let someone else use an unsafe machine 👍👍
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I nip it up tight with a pair of spanners and an extra lock nut every time I use it so I can use it with the correct number of hands! I just need to buy/make an m8 threaded handle then I can make it properly user friendly!
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The 203 industrial is starting to earn its keep so I treated it to a new tractor flap😅. I put my new pto powered log splitter on it and it's getting a lot of use. Runs the splitter absolutely lovely on tickover, goes all day on a sniff of an oily rag👌 Although there's no gauges, hand throttle, mud flaps, right hand step or alternator 😅😅, it starts on half a turn of the key and purrs like a kitten👍👍👍👍
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what logs have you been chopping today!
william127 replied to william petts's topic in Firewood forum
Nice mixture mostly ash but a little bit of cherry 👌 My new system for cutting outside, putting rings into loader bucket then dumping next to the splitter, just in front of the log pile seems to be working well👌👌
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It chips brilliantly, I haven't used it back to back against a truly similar machine but it chips just as well if not better than all the other machines I've used. Anyone else that's used it with me have been impressed as well. The main thing is it has the weight that means there's steel where its needed- TW proudly do 6 inch chippers that weigh less than 750kg (quite impressive and for the obvious towing reason, although that's out of date now), this is a 7 inch that weighs nearly 1500kg!! Still not directly useful to your pto machine but shows how they build stuff 👍👍
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Shouldn't be a problem, I think they are still going. Like you say, you can always go straight to a general supplier if you need a part- I needed a sensor for the engine on mine, went straight to a local lombardini dealer, on the shelf, £20. Not that you'd have that bit obviously but same principle 👍👍
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If its like my tow along ts190 it will be simply engineered using plenty of steel, easy to use/maintain and punch well above its weight👌👌 It will also be better value than a more common, less well built brand 👍👍
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These are a 'how did I manage without them?' tool. Long multipoint ring spanners, US Pro, only about 30 quid the set👌👌 I have managed to bend the smallest one, trying to undo a viscous fan on a D3 but we were giving it some real abuse and I have since bought the proper spanner/locking tool kit, which is brilliant 👌👌 There are also a couple of offset ring spanners in the picture, only cheap ones but they are also bloody handy when needed👍👍
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Well I think I'll be making something on those lines at the weekend! I'm having visions of augers, scaffold poles and lifting chains now😅😅👍👍
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This is a great tool for the money, 2 ft long sealy ratchet. I bought it for 15 quid at LAMMA a couple of years ago. It's a bit clunky but it's taken some real pulling without breaking. It's clipped into my discovery with 2 Quickfist clamps, which are also great, to use as the wheel brace but it gets used for all sorts of jobs👌👌
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New addition, little pto powered oxdale, very very good condition, only £600 and 5 minutes up the road from someone I know👌👌 I plan to put quick connectors in the lines so I can power my other splitter off the pump or use it off the tractor. Splits very nicely at tickover, but the table is rubbish! But that's easily solved.
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Yep, I've had all the top of the range head and hand torches over the years, the last couple of years I've switched to cheaper but still half decent ones, and lots of them! Better a good torch that you've got to hand than a brilliant one that you've left at home!😅😅
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Yep, I'm similar 👍
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I've had worse days....👌👌 I wouldn't want to do it every day but 1 a week would be very welcome.
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Nice windblown eucalyptus today, 1 load of chip, 2 trailer loads of logs. What wasn't so nice was the drag, down steps, under arches, round sheds😅😅 The tracked dumper being worth it's weight in gold again, taking the logs to the trailers that couldn't get within 50 yards of the job👌👌
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Stepping on and off instantly is one of the things that appeals to me the most about these machines 👌👌
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No not at all as that still doesn't take the cost of the land into account.
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That's what they claimed in the final episode but anyone with a bit of common sense could see that is TV bullshit- the way that figure was put across would mean he was buying a new tractor, cultivator etc every year! So he did make 50 grand or so- still bugger all for the millions of pounds worth of land and the hours worked but it is an entertainment programme, not a company accounts report so its probably not 100percent accurate! Farmers seem to have had a positive reaction to it from what I've read/heard. It's certainly a better show of farming than the vegan friendly drivel that Countryfile has become, or the BBCs wheelchair and headscarf festival as Clarkson referred to it in his newspaper column 😅😅😅
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I've got 2 sealey 3 ton Yankee trolley Jack's, big heavy lumps that are mainly used on defenders and discovery's. One is 15 years old and still great condition. They're not particularly cheap, about £100 from memory but seem worth it.
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Had a good afternoon on my splitter today, did about 4 crates out of some really nasty/old stuff from right in the back corner of the shed. I also did a crate of ash earlier in the week, straight off the back of the defender. I think I handled these the absolute minimum- once into the dumper, once onto the splitter! The splitter is a JSA on a table I made from an old diesel tank stand, running off 8 meter extension pipes so I don't have to get the loader/tractor right up to it to power the splitter, which has the bonus of keeping the noise/exhaust fumes at the far end of the shed.
