GarethM

Didn't we have a Spanish tree company here recently, maybe they can give him the reality check of working in Spain ?.

Think you already know what the next thing to replace or rebuild. Seals don't last forever on any hydraulic pump or motor, just depends if it's cheaper to reboot replace. Replacing is quicker plus peace of mind.

Absolutely love the X5, don't think I'll ever go back to normal dB ear defenders. It's not blissful world of your quiet own, but bloody close.

What colour is the boathouse at Hereford?

There's some waffle about it on the firewood certificate thing, including the London Plane Lace Bug. Weirdly zero links to Christmas trees imported, instead blaming wind blown source from Europe.

Haha, I'm only 42, so I'm just a whipper snapper 😉. Nice too have met another member albeit a few year back. I stripped absolutely everything off it including the guard and upped the hoses 1/2" feed and 3/4" return hopefully it breaths easier.

Or buy a used diesel hydraulic pack or at a push a PTO hydraulic pump and tank from flow fit. My little one cylinder does about 35lpm and probably drinks a gallon of red a day, only wear ear defenders to ignore the walkers and keep my ears warm.

Drive it like you stole it, or get a smaller model.

Mixture and probably not running it long or hard. See plenty of people running them like electric ones, start stop all day long. You start one and you run it hard for half an hour.

It was from an old guy who seemed to run a fruit farm over on the outskirts of Northwich and was running it backwards on tractor hydraulics. It's about the right height to split almost into the IBC, after I raised the legs, replaced the valve block and made it one handle for purely controlled safety, i don't even use the auto return to improve speed. Posch and Eastonmade aren't really for processing arbwaste, partly why I suggested proforge instead of a shed built option. I'm not sure about the table splitters bending, but I'm not splitting on the floor and found even the venom too slow and physically too low in either vertical or horizontal. If you like the posch, just rip the valve block off and fit a new valve block. Hydra Part Log Splitter Valve 80LPM (A&B 1/2" BSP) (P&T 3/4" BSP) Auto Kick Out WWW.APPROVEDHYDRAULICS.CO.UK The P81 is an on/off directional control monoblock valve that is designed as a log splitter valve. It is spring centered in one...

I found it on eBay about 5 years ago nearby, even then it was about 10 years old, they do sell direct to the end user. It's done about 1000+ Ibc cages and counting so far, it isn't fancy but at a reasonable working height allowing you to split and keep an eye on sizing. Don't think I could do vertical unless it was one of those table types you see on ebay like proforge.

I like my Hand engineering horizontal splitter. 40 minutes is about average even for me, not pushing myself and just plodding through. I thought oxdale looked a bit meh, I have a petrol venom one. Stick to something upto 13ton and the cycle time won't bore you to tears.

Yes, but Swedish premier firewood is billy bookcases, probably similarly priced.

Erm, have you actually applied for a working holiday visa or just on holiday. Having watched enough TV, they don't look favourably on those that don't play by the rules.

You can never ever compete on price especially with Swedish wages compared to other Baltic states. Let's for the sake of argument say the list price is £150 a M3 for kiln dried that's been on a boat for a week and will be air dry at best. That's £75 a M3 or less at the dock.

They don't bond particularly well, it's one of the many reasons they use liquid tar to seal road edges along concrete kerbs. Usual rule is one of the other, even with visqueen it ends up a bit meh.

That and make, model, age, sex and location 😉

Wader porn sounds a bit of a niche of a niche

Same house & driveway?, asking for a friend 😉.

You know divorces are more expensive than a driveway?

Sounds like a tree shaped management structure, or Egyptian you decide.

It's always good to keep swapping the filters in-between oil changes. Depending on mileage, a £10 oil filter every 6 months also helps to keep the muck out of the turbo especially if you're doing a lot of idling.

I watch occasionally the oak firewood guy who's down south. Whilst I get there must be a premium price being kiln dried etc, none of his numbers can ever stack up when you see what gets bought and spent machinery wise. Even if it's on demo I can't make his numbers work.

What's the phrase from the thick of it. We called some builders, they didn't turn up. They're builders! Have you ever seen a film where the hero is a builder?.

RHI is a sweetener if you can get it. But economically speaking that should be a cherry on top not the whole desert. Air drying in 6 months is fine, I do it relatively easily with covers. If you're kiln dying expect a 500k investment with the boiler, chipper and such as it's a very hungry beast.