gooseflight

The cut end looks like softwood. Silver fir maybe.

Alder, no. This is alder:

I don't know what system you climb on but if you're nervous about your kit use something reassuringly simple for a while, like a split tail with prusik. If you're worried about a specific piece of kit, e.g., harness, then replace it.

As far as cutting anchors with the saw is concerned you will always have two. So really there is nothing to worry about.

Any idea where this fear come from? Is it born of imagination, i.e., irrational, or from something that happened to someone else you know or someone you read about? If doesn't sound like something has happened to you. Or did something unrelated to climbing happen that has made you look at your own mortality?

If it's irrational then you just have to find a strategy to deal with it or it might just go away, especially if you climb more and get your confidence back.

If it happened to someone else then chances are it won't happen to you as long as you remain mindful and careful.

And as Roosevelt said, "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

I thought farmers were a tougher breed......

 

 

Somerset brothers jailed for fleecing farmer out of £200,000 and threatening to kill him (From Somerset County Gazette)

spiral,

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valour. Who fancies themselves against three oiks with iron bars eh?

Do Stihl make out front mowers?

Just remember if your using a Powerful winch that's portable to use on the rear tow bar then you will need to run Anderson cables from battery to rear to make portable connection if you want a proper job .

Top tip. So you mean an Anderson plug on the winch and Anderson socket/booster cables on the battery side?

Was anyone tempted by this?:

MERCEDES UNIMOG WINCHING TRACTOR OFF ROADER DIESEL | eBay

Option A: Small claims. You were on site for a day and no one questioned your presence? A chainsaw is hard to ignore.

Option B: staff night out -- quality suggestion.

In fact, there is no option A.

Echo CS-501SX. Lovely saw. Light and well balanced. Choke and decompression controls are a bit on the small side for gloved hands but it's a doozy to use.

It's still elm.

Started serious but ended up watching the barefoot girl logsplitter. D'you thing she wears pants?

Well for sure wearing boots or pants wouldn't make any difference to the way she splits logs

I just bought a Handy THLS-6 and although I have nothing to compare it with it makes short work of the stuff I've put through it - up to approx 12" diameter and 10" long. Much easier than using the x27

By the time you've lifted every log a meter off the ground you might as well have swung the X27

Did I miss the control part of the study? Where were the non biochar'd trees in the vicinity with dieback?

There are grants available for timber trailers and the like, typically 40%.

Are there? Tell me more.

Shame about the laburnum. Rare at that size. Doesn't burn very well.

Second looks like elm to me too.

Willow. Not much to it when it's dry enough to burn.

What alpine/winch combo is it?

Much the same as the Kellfri.

As the page you link to says, it's an unbraked trailer so max. towing weight is 750kg gtw on the road.

How far you planning to haul?

If we didn't all work voluntarily on this project it wouldn't be anywhere near that high. But like I say, the 60% goes to pay for the residences. So I'm not sure that we can compare strictly like for like,

I really appreciate your comments and input guys 🙂

Just to be clear, your operation generates a healthy surplus but apart from sub-contractors you don't pay for any labour? And your labour is fed and housed from the proceeds of your operation @ 60% of turnover?

Unless you're splitting some seriously gnarly wood i'd go with large splitting axe over the maul. I've got the maul and while its a really nice axe it soon gets too heavy! Or maybe i'm too weak!

Mauls aren't just for gnarly wood. The problem with a lot of mauls, especially cheaper ones, is that they are either too broad, blunt, or both.

A maul still needs a good edge otherwise the mass and breadth behind the edge doesn't carry into the wood, it will just bounce off. Same is true of splitting wedges. They too need a good edge to start otherwise they just bounce out.

I use quad trailers behind my Daihatsu as well as the quad. The hitch is only 3" higher than the quad.

It's not shod for road use and the tyres will buzz a bit on the road. Not sure about legality.

As said, it's a bit of a guessing game, but two things:

1. Insurance -- have you shopped around and bought hard to drive premiums down?

2. Residential costs -- are you on top of variable costs like utilities? Have you implemented energy saving measures where possible.

I have both the Gransfors maul and the Fiskars.

The Fiskars is near enough 2lbs lighter than the Gransfors but longer. The Fiskars has no hammer poll so no good for wedges.

Personally I don't find the Fiskars is any better than other good quality mauls that out there.

My weapon of choice is a wooden shafted Oregon maul which is similar in weight to the Gransfors but as long as the Fiskars. The Husqvarna mauls look similar but I've never seen one close up.

You would be lucky to find the Gransfors for less than £100.

I asked a similar question in the firewood thread.

Chinese. It will either be the bargain of the century or it will transform into an oil fountain within the first hour of use.

Just bought the Kellfri equivalent with a removable, tipping tub for our Trust. Early days but low impact and versatile. As a garden/arboretum open to the public we can't go mad with big kit.

https://www.kellfri.co.uk/tipping-and-forestry-trailer-for-atv

Lovely, shapely trees. Tolerant of a range of conditions.