Billhook

The point for me and possibly BigJ was that it was quite exciting to watch and dangerous but the point of the exercise was not to try and injure an opponent, just to be stronger faster and more skilled. Any injury was incidental and not the purpose of the competition. We have come a long way through the years from gladiators to bear baiting to cockfighting to badger baiting to dog fighting to otter hunting, bare knuckle fighting all of which have been outlawed. Fox hunting is nearly gone. Boxers suffer brain damage, look at poor old Ali, and now it seems that heading in football is to be reviewed The point is that you can have good sport without the need for anyone or thing to be injured.

You seem to be on your own here but I will offer some support. Really boxing appeals to one of our most primitive forms of entertainment, much like the gladiators of old, the baying crowds desperate to see bloodshed. Hopefully we were meant to have advanced in the same way that we stopped having baying crowds at public hangings and feel that putting people in prison with colour TV for life is a better way. Sport should have advanced to having far less physical contact , The web gives these examples Examples of non-contact sports include cricket, tennis, table tennis, badminton, golf, bowling, bowls, croquet, pool, snooker, bossaball, darts, curling, tug of war, bodybuilding, swimming, diving, gymnastics, sprinting, running, track and field, bicycle race, rowing, freestyle football, footgolf, fistball, tchoukball ... Of course there is always tree climbing, chainsawing, axe swinging/throwing competitions to keep arbtalkers satisfied!

Need to start the video at 13.50 minutes to cut the crap and show the actual tool I bought

I bought one of these and made this in about a minute for knocking difficult logs back out of the splitting wedge

" You have just been selected by popular vote as the guinea pig to report back to Arbtalk on your experience with this machine!" All Right Trigger Andy, we will let you off having to be a guinea pig as HHH has vindicated the machine somewhat!

G.I.T.S. Gifted Intelligent Tree Surgeons !

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?