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Sorry if this has been posted before, but is there a quick way of finding the number of a page in a long thread. I know on Pistonheads that you double click on the box containing the numbers and you can then put in whatever number you want but it does not seem to happen here. For instance I might want to be reminded of that was said on the "Europe in or out" thread on page 58 out of over 100 pages.

A lot of country sayings seem to be at best half truths. Birds eating berries hard Winter, red sky in morning, Rooks building high etc, but the only one that seems to be consistent around here on East Coast is "Beware the Blackthorn Winter" When the white flowers of the Blackthorn are out in the hedges we always seem to have a spell of cold biting winds after a pleasant warm spell.

The size of the root bowl looks tiny for the size of the tree in that video. I also find it strange that they would move these trees when in full leaf.

Are you sure its was rabbits and not Freddie Starr!

If James has some good results I would love to have one made, perhaps a sanding disc too. James could make the jig to braze the carbide tips on for me! I think that James would need a bit of commission as well!

I bought a Palax Combi from Wilson in 1996. PTO tractor 3 point linkage model It had the triple pulley on the top drive shaft already in place and all I had to do was order a 3 phase motor from John Rundle Rundles I welded a piece of inch box section to bring the switch within easy reach and apart from working out the size of motor (I think I just looked at the specsheet for the electric model) it was quite an easy job. Measure the length of belts and order. Even the plate the motor sits on had the holes already there for it. The other advantage is that I can still pick it up with the tractor for work in the woods as a three phase motor is not affected by being driven so there is no need to take the belts off. So have a good look at the electric version of your Posch and take lots of photos, find out the motor hp and Robert should be your mother's brother!

Excellent, I will look forward to seeing it.

Should be on the "Up to your nuts in it" thread! I like Al Cormack's link to the joist attached to the wheel, never seen that before!

I cannot remember whether you said that you made your own jig for retipping as you thought the Lucas one was too much money. Did I hopefully suggest that you put a video on youtube of the process when you have a little time to spare................ "Time to spare " he says, "You must be joking!"

Lovely work James! Had the customer a project in mind? Were there other dimensions? Plenty of sawdust for the hamsters! My other thought was that since it was in the middle of a built up area, were you not worried about bits of metal, chains, wire within or do you have a good metal detector?

We have quite a lot of sycamore and it can vary. Dry and straight is a doddle but green and gnarly the X27 just bounces off and hardly leaves a dent let alone becoming stuck. So much sympathy with Avio!

There is a sound of perhaps an anchor chain breaking just before the tilt, but as has been mentioned already the barge was leaning to the right in the first place. I tipped my new Branch logger over yesterday, thankfully with just a dented guard, but it did give a sense of proportion watching the video!

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I bulldozed the lake in 1999 and to me the arrival of the Otters is the perfect result. They are relatively rare around here and these ones have ventured up the chalk stream from the river to make a holt somewhere amongst the Ash tree roots which cover the tall banks on at least a mile of stream. They raised two pups last year and two this year. It is the ultimate sign that all is well with the chalk stream and farmland. We built a log cabin using the full scribe method in 2001 and used Poplar from a large plantation my father had planted in 1960. He always promised me that it would be worth a fortune at the Millenium for Bryant and May. The year 2000 comes along and most have packed up smoking and those that still do use butane lighters. So a lot of Poplar looking for a home. A chance remark from someone who lived in Oregon sparked the idea. He told me poplar was used there a lot and that there was a Church built of it over a hundred years old. Went on a full scribe course with Dan Franklin of Woodenways in Devon. He came up and we assembled a team and did the scribing in 10 days. About forty large logs were used. I have quite a lot of videos and stills of the project but they will have to be converted to digital, but I will do it if anyone is interested. But earlier on Mick, when I was hammering away at the cabin, a huge bird came circling round and landed in the ash tree on the island. Yes the first sighting of an Osprey is very exciting. I called my dear old father, now well into his eighties, to bring down a video which he did but the battery was flat. I told him to watch the bird while I went home for my video. Came back and he said it had just flown round the corner out of sight. I waited for half an hour then I told father that I must go back to work but clicked out my battery and was just handing it to father (same model camera) You can guess what happened next, the Osprey flew round the corner and landed on a huge Brown Trout, lifted it with one leg an the scales glistened in the sun. It was an Attenborough shot but I had nothing to take it with! I stayed down at the cabin and did get some shots of it catching smaller Silver Rudd, and it still visits every year. An avian Little Chef! I also have some shots of it being mobbed by a pair of Buzzards. When it became fed up with their attention it rolled onto its back and showed them its talons! I am really chuffed about the Otters and will try and rig up some more games, perhaps a small kiddies slide would work?

I dangled a tennis ball from a bit of string down by the lake. Set up a Bushnell trail camera and hoped for a result.......... [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] [ame] [/ame] These were all on Good Friday.

They are ace, and but this was one of the few situations where it needed a little help! She says that she took it out of four wheel drive for the main road which was snow free but forgot to put it back in for the minor road. The strange thing is that she seems to have driven it into the ditch rather than skidded there. I thought it wise not to ask any more questions!

They were mortified when the Panda pulled them straight out!

These poor folk had spent a couple of hours trying to unstick the Landie. It was on road tyres though.

My wife's contribution to the thread but she hasn't any nuts when I last checked. Does make changing the rear wheels easier though!

So it was you was it! My friend was in charge of a gang doing what y'all do, branch coming down on main road etc. Flash car pulls up and bloke with glasses starts sounding his horn, remonstrating and hurling abuse, late for important meeting. My friend goes up to him and explains he probably will be really late for his meeting if he proceeds. More verbal and by now he is red in the face and shaking so much that his glasses start to slip down his nose. My friend very helpfully I thought did not say anything and just gently pushed the glasses back up his nose. He reported it to the police and my friend had to defend himself against an alleged assault. Nothing came of it but it just shows how childish some people can be.

Poor old County 1124!

It would probably struggle but there again the 12 ton might too. Why else would they build A 22 Ton version. I bought the Portek for my wife who is a liability with an axe but I was quite impressed with what it can do for the price

I was impressed with this Portek machine. Seems to split logs that I cannot split with the X27 and is half the price of the Rock Venom and many times faster. [ame] [/ame] I see Rock also do a similar kinetic one but at twice the price of the Venom

Plus ca change!

I am sure it said in the Branch Logger instruction manual "It is hardly forbidden to use alcohol or drugs when using this machine"