Billhook

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I am an old git, same age as Stubby who is not a git, and I can work the Palax all day with a home made log deck which has no power and boat trailer rollers to move the logs by hand sideways to the saw. The cut is so easy and quick just by leaning forward on the hinged table i have stopped using the auto trigger for the splitter and prefer a light foot pedal for more control if the log does not fall correctly I agree with you about the stretching up and pulling down, and I think the powered trough is unnecessary This guy is much slower than me! But you can see clearly the speed of the circular saw versus the chainsaw which adds up during a long working day

Four way surely? You have just been selected by popular vote as the guinea pig to report back to Arbtalk on your experience with this machine!

Yes, but it is not beyond the capability of Arbtalk members to make some modifications to handles and perhaps ask a local fabricator to weld up a different knife Yes I bet the small print with extras and delivery and tax may tell a different story and give me my tungsten tipped circular saw blade on the Palax any day but for someone starting out with just an axe it could make a big change for standard splitter money Feider FBT-10T100 10-Ton Petrol Log-Splitter WWW.MOWDIRECT.CO.UK Enjoy range-topping power, productivity and capacity with this 200cc 10-ton petrol log-splitter...

I am sure someone will tell me it is made of monkey metal and bamboo shoots but on paper it seems to tick a lot of boxes with a saw, adjustable height splitter, conveyors for logs to saw and firewood to trailer or box, log lift, engine, hydraulics etc All for £1500?? What is the catch? I am very happy with my second hand Palax Combi but that cost £2500 way back in 1996! Wholesale mobile firewood processor with log lifter From m.alibaba.com M.ALIBABA.COM Wholesale mobile firewood processor with log lifter from Yantai Rima Machinery Co., Ltd. on m.alibaba.com

Taylor Wilson

Kawasaki Mule plus Arbtrolley has been a Godsend in the muddy conditions caused by the recent rain. Hardly left a mark in the woodland as we extracted some Sycamore

Was the girly pink paint scheme because you were hoping your other half might operate it??

Shame because I was also looking forward to making a fortune on my youtube channel of videos of people having punchups for jumping the queue!

This is what we need, the great British public to start panic buying firewood. queues five miles long outside my yard! After all it is only the same as the haulage boss who put out the rumour of petrol shortages just to raise the wage of HGV drivers

You need Gerald for advice, plus of course a translator!

Good start this morning after a 184 mile journey down yesterday in an open classic car to here near Oxford for a Wedding , I need a refuel before I return tomorrow. Went down to the local BP where there was a mile long queue! And it ain’t even Winter yet!

Round it up to £100!

Perfect Winter Storm forecast! No fuel deliveries, gas cut off by Russia for political purposes, coal power stations shut down to reach net zero, electric and gas prices through the roof, nuclear power stations out due to NIMBYISM, law of averages coldest Winter for twenty years, Daily Mail headlines OAPs dying from hypothermia. Daily Mail headline FIREWOOD SAVES THE DAY!!

Whaaat Difflock! You do no believe a story from one of her Majesty’s finest! Next thing you will be saying you do not believe half the stories posted here from Arbtalkers!

I think its days of everyday winching work are long over and it is there because the D7 had one on originally and I like messing with new toys. I would only ever need it to either pull myself out or perhaps the 15 ton JCB 806 if it became stuck. Do not think I will every be winching trees out. I expect it will require some effort just to pull the cable out unless I can do it with the Kawasaki Mule or a quad. This was one of the comments after the video which has made me nervous! Back in the 80's I was in the airborne infantry and a few of us were offered a chance to cross train in vehicle recovery. It was a three week class and I learned a lot about recovering every type of vehicle you can imagine, and in every type of situation you can imagine. The one thing that stuck out that I will NEVER forget, was seeing the damage done to an M88 tank retriever when it's main winch line broke. The main winch is a 70 TON single line pull, and I believe the cable was 1.5 inches and I think there was 300 or maybe 400 feet of it. When the line snapped, it came right back and hit the M88 head on like a punch, and it knocked a hole RIGHT THROUGH SEVERAL INCHES OF STEEL BULK HEAD. You could see where it actually melted the steel as it forced its way through. No one was hurt, but it scared the crap out of every man there. The instructor said this is what happens when you don't do the math when figuring mire factors, block and tackle friction factors, knowing real vehicle weight, and enough pulling power to winch every sick whore in the world off her piss pot at the same time. Seeing that made me even nervous to pull too hard on my boot laces when tying them up. When we winch now, my pucker factor is always so tight you couldn't pound a pin up my ass with a jackhammer. I really know what can happen and it's scary. Whether or not these tests are real world, the damage a broke wire rope will do, is real world. Keep up the great work. Show less

He also said "D8" when it was a BD20 at 260 hp. Still what is a 1740 hp difference when you are amongst friends!

One thing I must do before attempting any serious winching with this machine is to build a heavy duty frame to protect the driver from a cable snapping.

It certainly seemed to wrap up neatly with no kinks or overlaps Should I oil or grease the cable?

So how much cable on the drum I think it was 100 yards of cable and no, I did not know to fit a swivel, what problem will that cause?

This would have worked! Here is the D7 winding on a new cable using the Matbro as a tensioner.

Spring holes in otherwise very dry conditions are very different to becoming stuck in heavy clay after a lot of rain.. There is a good chance of making less mess by pulling out forwards as the vehicle pulling or winching should be on hard dry ground, :Pulling out backwards is not generally desirable as you are messing up what you have ploughed and risking damaging the plough, but we had to do this as the Matbro had not enough traction on a side slope to pull the Fastrac and the plough out forwards over the lip and we couldn't be faffed to go back and start up the Cat D7.

I have heard my todger called many names but never an old oily machine! We had a discussion about this a couple of years ago on the "Show us yer Tractors" thread The old County is feeling a bit flat in the first photo but has since been revived

Teleporters are easily tipped over just with no load and mast up and extended on rough ground, just need to be careful and yes a falling tree has a lot of energy Don't think I would be happy with four and a half tons on my 1124 cab roof! The bloody thing nearly tips over sideways with just a few logs in the grab, not even half a ton, and it has water ballasted tyres.

The 1124 has nothing like the ability of the Matbro Teleporter in the woods It cannot lift even half as much and the teleporter is great at helping trees go down in the right place as well as easily dealing with hung ones. Another plus is that the muck grab is above you helping to guide the tree and protect against falling rotten branches Today we have been thinning some 80 foot high sycamore which were planted too close and the trunks are only just over a foot in diameter. They are so close together that every tree becomes hung up Just a nudge with the teleboom is enough to bring them down and if not a chain around the base and a short bit of reversing. The logs are stacked at ten foot lengths and I can pick up a large bundle with the old muck grab and deposit them gently on the log table by the Palax I would like to restore the old 1124 back to agricultural spec. ( ducks down under desk to hide from missiles!)