ShooTa
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surely they would get battered by logs coming off a lift and falling in... thus getting puncture holes in them pretty fast? but i guess the ease of delivery when combined say with the net baggies would be pretty good.
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just an update - The original posting - they have almost run out of wood - this polar winter votex malarky has wiped them pretty dry.
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as said wood ash - sparingly.
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i forgot to edit that by 30in log i was talking circumference not diameter which obviously changes things - probably a more accurate way would be a foot diameter and under
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ill look into all these wonderful suggestions - rather gutting as we sold a perfect logging tractor which was the pair of the one i use currently - and it had a bucked and rear actor ...so annoying! riko - have their catalogue - and seriously tempted by the smaller 3 tonne trailer. with arm and will look again at their tractor mounted arms. thanks all.
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am wondering if there is such a thing for a small tractor as a mini hiab type crane. basically would attach to the 3point linkage maybe? small enough to operate off the 30hp hydraulics and be able to lift up to say 30 in 8 ft lengths of hardwood. any suggestions other options are of course a trailer mounted affair - which sadly are £5000-7000 or some form of bucket front mounted thing with a grapple/rake type grabber thanks in advance.
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well tractors are not going into the fields so cant drag out atm - too waterlogged and would again turn it into a motocross track - not good for the field.
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by loadhandler - are you refering to the windy wheel on a carpet type affair - seems slow but less backbreaking than individually hurling them off.
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check out the american sites - hearth and arborsite - both have dedicated sections to all things wood burnery and also their insane wood collecting habbits and OCD stacking -days of amusement.
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prices range from about £45 for a full 2nd hand ibc (ie with the bottle) and around £20 for the cage and pallet only - less for the wooden bottomed ones./ as for the dutch barn - i also have been looking into it as i have a fair number of western red cedars from some thinnings (40 or so inch) which will make cracking uprights - maybe do something crossed with a log cabin style.
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for location - i would say llangollen for the AT stuff - lots to do around here/there and chester/liverpool for the lash up. (chesters got a ladies club - which i took my groom to) OR Shrewsbury - lots of activities based nearby and the nightlife is acceptable... but if its clubbing liverpool leeds or london.
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from what ive gathered they do have a few smaller sized merchants but alot less than here mainly due to their taxes - however the arb guys out there seem to give it away - and that most ppl can rent cutting rights in the national forests.
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thanks for the update/ time to check the swell forecasts btw do u use fnmoc?
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welsh is my local and mmmmmmmmm good the feral book i believe the author quotes something along the lines that sheep are the cockroaches of the land. as for more forests yes - if we could have enough trainee coppicers/foresters to maintain the woods rather than machinery - more employment, less flooding AND getting rid of wheat for sheep fields makes much more sense - because lazy ppl eat more bread/carbs and become fat - triple whammy less fat ppl./
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Not strictly tree related but countryside related
ShooTa replied to Matthew Arnold's topic in Picture Forum
not to moan but your styles seem to get rid of the dog tunnel - aka where dogs shuffle under - around us they have started wither leaving a gap or on some of our better styles have a sluice gate type affair. (admittedly fat dogs are alienated) -
yeah but they have 2 huge hangers of dry stuff... as for next year ... yeeeaaahh bout that... and the guy on the processor would be - well they are on their 23rd guy as each one gets so bored he puts himself through it.
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its called the mylee cyrus. -
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i bet all of you who have watchedd this did a subliminal/autamatic head jerk as soon as it happened. with a corresponding Oooooooooooooooooooshhhhhhh
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firewood madness would be nice to be sitting on this much for next year.
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jesus.
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true - to all the above but leaving out the parasites/disease/pesticides side the actual wheat when thinking paleo was of a higher quality due to A, growing under a natural timelimit - rather than engineered to grow faster. the nutrients taken up by the plant are also thought to be cleaner due to the nature of today's harsh fertilisation and continual use of crops on the same piece of land (even with crop rotation) so the corn had more taste and vitamins. now ive only read about most of this rather than first hand - i come from a sheep farming family rather than arable. in my mind it comes down to the huge public demand for the product has forced the plant via genetics/dna work to have lost its quality and now favours the speed growth and quantity of grains per head of wheat - i guess similar to battery/partfree range farming vs low impact fully free range chicken. the taste is always better from the latter.
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well if you could lay the length at a 45 ish angle and then go for the split - then spin the log 90 degs so you came in on the same line i guess that would start the split but you would then need the equivalent of a froe to carry it through saying that - just watched the vid - thats how we have split most of our firewood prior to my tickets the good old wedge and hammer. on large lenths before storing them in 2 m lenths we didnt do the debarking or the mass waste to get one plank though.
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time for a few videos of free climbing with saws now...
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pics or it didnt happen - aka working design. also wouldnt the one in the video work for 1m lengths sans table.?
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Sloth - the carbs grains thing its not that they are truly heinous but it boils down to how man has changed the grains over the last few centuries - and that old wheat found pre-industrialization was a far better product than found today - due to the genetic changes now found (faster growing, drought resistant, mould resistant, etc) that is the main reason. 2nd if strictly paleo is due to the hunter gatherer lifestyle the tribe would not have access to large amounts of wheat/rye etc so they may have enough for a small loaf per month and only when the plant was in season. i shall let others do the more scientific explanation.
