Lillywhite Timber

Brilliant Pic !...

No Smoke ... thanks again guys for the input

Hi , im just posting this one in the hope someone has an idea whats going on . I very recently bought a SWB 05 landcruiser D4D . Shes a nice jeep etc but even on the test drive i felt she was down in power . I bought her aware of that and at a price that reflects it . However ! , i only had reason to put the trailer behind her for the first time the other day and now i see just how lacking she is . She hardly pulls the 12 FT ifor empty in 6th gear on the Motorway !!!. As i say shes clean , miles are low genuine 110K , shes not noisy on start up . No over heating like the last one i had (which would pull a house down) , new rad solved it eventually . Ive always got great pointers on here , far better than i ever gave unfortunately . Over to you Guys

Hi , theres usually plenty of constructive feedback when i ask a question here . My processor has been flying , generally a great tool . When it comes to bar oil ive been using all sorts , generally brand new regulation bar oil but i will admit ive put some pretty shitty stuff i had in the back of an old container which had lain untouched for 10 years . So the inevitable has now happened and the plunge pump isnt producing oil when its connected . Undoubtedly some pure gunge got in , ive pumped it through half a dozen times and it seems ready to go but the minute i re-connect it the oil drops down and wont rise . When i open the bung , water appears to drain out every time . Fair enough its self inflicted but has anyone any solutions . Its the ultimate penny wise pound foolish move by me , im messing around with it the last couple of days getting nothing done .

In general Never but i have seen hardwood get below 25% once . There could not have been more optimum conditions . It had been machine harvested so the bark was peeled and removed over a fair portion of the surface , it was on an elevated exposed south facing site stacked loosely . 4 good bays only made slightly over 18 Tonnes . The guy was doing big quantities of spruce in the same area and had railway sleepers on edge with covers on top . Was the best place i ever saw for naturally drying firewood .

Well Steve , the stone cutter arrived yesterday ... Sounds perfect ! . The 357 is pulling like a train and superb acceleration after the adjustment you suggested the other day . Thanks very much for the work on both .

Hi Ive seen this arise as an issue before but its happened to mine now . Its a palax ks 35 (08 model but less than 500 tonnes gone through it) it was working away perfectly and over a short period seems to have slowed and doesent seem to have the same force either . Filter is new , any ideas guys ?

Cant disagree with anything thats been said already , U wont dry much this time of year without a Kiln .

As a matter of interest do you deliver to the Republic of Ireland ?

They (the shop) have a small rigid with a crane , they sell a lot of fuel .

Yeah its worth thinking about when you say it ..

I suppose you could but id say the emphasis will be on appearance , as in if you put the theoretical correct volume in and its still a bit below the top people will imagine theyre not getting full value .

Fair chance id say , ive tried a fair few manufacturers but they seem an odd size .

Id say youre right . They have a fair few (30-40 ) secondhand ones but they look well stretched so its the price of bag versus volume of extra timber youre not really getting paid for question .

Im wondering about vented bag sizes and suppliers . Essentially im after being asked to supply a shop with bulk bags of hardwood . They have sold firewood with a degree of success before and they were describing bags around 1.4 - 1.5 m high with a plan area of 0.9m x 0.9 m from memory . Has anyone ever come across bags like these ?

So ive been thinking , dangerous i know !! . Id been toying with the idea of putting together a larger old heavy 4 wheel drive tractor (Ford 8210 or the like) with a heavy duty loader and winch to handle some of the heavier large parkland stuff i come across . An upgrade of the old 4wd major and boughton or cooks winch if you like . After a bit of thought and trying to come across a suitable base tractor i concluded there wasnt anything worth starting with below the 10k mark before even buying a loader . I was talking to a local guy in the timber game and he mentioned hed had an ex army artic loader with a winch built onto it and it was an excellent tool , he was sorry hed got rid of it. It sounds like an obvious one the more i think about it , is there anyone whos used one or seen one in action . The ones ive googled seem to have the winch mounted in front of the cab . While im on the subject is there anything to stop me making a hydraulic one that mounts to the front of my existing telehandler with spades incorporated . Obviously id have to make sure i had the pressure and flow to drive it off the machines existing hydraulic pump . The weight is obviously there (9.5 T) and the headstock is really heavily constructed (far heavier than the back end of a major anyway ) it appears . The technical feedback is usually good here and im only at a preliminary stage far so what do people think ...

A bit of ash , some of the best ive come on in a few years . Theres at least 150 tonne processed in the shed .

Just remembered this thread as i was throwing a bit of Birch into the stove last night . id have to agree with what everyone said , this stuff is the bomb . Its the freshest stuff i have but seems to be actually reasonably well seasoned in around 3 months , Burnt really well , im a convert ..

Bring it to your local dealer , have him try every obscure and obviously unecessary aproach possible . Let him get the wrong parts 3 times . Throw in not bothering to reply to phone calls for 4-6 weeks . Throw in a few wrung threads and a saw tuned way too lean . I could easily keep going . Im using far more civil language than im tempted to but thats a sample of my experiences over the last couple of years .

The real deal there alright...

Feeling a bit of saw envy here , how good is the the 372 ? , in relative terms to the 357 you did for me Steve ? , Still the best saw i ever had .

Good work there Rowan , i like the way you describe it as "therapy" , thats exactly how i find it ... I like most of the stuff i do , Maintenance , Landscaping , arb work , processing firewood but i LOVE going well down in the woods or miles off the road into some backland area with 3 or 4 sharp saws and not having to talk to anyone for the day ...

What do you mean by that ?

Seeing as everyone was so helpful in putting up suggestions i said id better fill people in on the issue . Well it turned out to be simple in the end , the rad . I flushed it thoroughly a couple of times with no improvement .It looked perfect externally but when you touched it the fins seemed to be really brittle and would disintegrate with the slightest touch . The mechanic i use who is usually top rate seemed to be sure it was more serious hence i put off just getting one and trying it . I spoke to another Mechanic and he ran me through it over the phone getting me to check the heat across the top , middle and bottom to the touch and based on what he said i said id give the new one a go . So far , so good thankfully , its really weird as the old rad doesnt seem to be any heavier indicating theres a pile of stuff in side it seems to just have "rotted" and lost thermal conductivity .

Its easy enough to process too it has to be said