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" Has the train arrived in Paddington yet? " "No, I'm afraid it's in Colchester, Ouch!" Classic!

Don't think I will be using the Matbro battery with an inverter if the Kawasaki generator has enough guts to work the Stihl charger Will report my findings.

I was going to connect it to the Matbro heavy duty battery and if it turns out that it flattens it in a short time I will leave it running, obviously having a spare battery nearby while testing. It is a long way to the nearest mains when down in the woods, and unnecessary to make extra ruts and lose a lot of time going back and forth. If it all works out ok I will use the heavy duty leads bolted to the spare battery which can be taken to different machines so even the little Mule may be able to keep it going it may work out cheaper just to run a Little Kawasaki 800watt generator which I have now I think about it, in fact I will try that first and if it is not man enough, will look at an inverter.

I have the Stihl 220 cordless and the AL500 mains charger. Need it to be charged from a 12 volt inverter when in the woods The AL 500 and batteries are very expensive and the charger sounds very sophisticated when running so there seems to be a choice between sine wave and square wave inverters. I assume that sine wave is what is needed if there are delicate components and I was looking at a Krieger 1100 watt on Amazon for £90 i see the power consumption is 570 watts on the AL500 Has anyone had any issues doing this?

Are those Gimmer Choos?!

Perhaps some of these firms have started to go to China like everyone else, oops what have I said, will go and wash my mouth out with something strong!

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Bonser LS55SL Rough terrain forklift starts & runs excellent ideal export NO VAT | in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire | Gumtree WWW.GUMTREE.COM Emails from scammers or just asking if its still available and interested will NOT be replied to. Too many timewasters!. If the ad is live - its for sale no need to ask! - also ask a question... Forestry equipment | Palax wood splitters and cutters for sale - Mascus UK WWW.MASCUS.CO.UK Are you searching for used forestry equipment, wood splitters and cutters Palax for sale? Contact directly the seller of the Palax wood splitters and cutters. Click on an image or brand... Duun ST2440 Log Deck. 4 Years Old, Hydraulic Feed | FarmAds WWW.FARMADS.CO.UK I bought a Palax Combi 600 off Jas Wilson in 1996 for £2500, this has been a brilliant simple machine and has cost me nothing in all these years. Circular saw I think is much better than a chainsaw and the splitter and conveyor make the job easy. It also deals with awkward shaped logs up to 10 inches diameter which a fully automated one would struggle with. Good exercise as well! Better than twiddling levers and sitting on your backside and becoming cold! The Palax in the advert I see is still £2500 I bought an electric motor to drive it but it still has the tractor pto . I would fit a motor rather than have a noisy tractor but you may not have electric nearby in which case any old second hand tractor for a couple of grand I do not know where I would be without my Matbro Telehandler which I bought for £7000 in 2010 but I see a Bonser advertised for £1995 which would be a godsend for many tasks. A log deck would be handy but you can always use the Forklift as a log deck but £1400 is not too bad So Palax £2500, Forklift £2000, log deck 1£1400, Tractor £2000 say £8000 but leave out the log deck and use the forklift and £6500 may sound better

I once left my Bosch battery drill out in a light shower and it never went again. How do electric saws fare if you happen to leave on out in a rain shower?

Next door neighbour, young lad who comes and helps on occasion, borrowed my short handled Stihl Pickaroon. (500g 35cm) and was very impressed but he looked at Arbtalk and saw this post by Vedhogger. Vedhoggar Senior Member Member 102 posts Report post Posted October 8, 2020 Bought the Ochenkoff 1100mm Sappie 2 years ago and very strong/well made piece of kit, have also Stihl 400mm (50g) and 800mm hookaroom which aren't very well made, the point on the longer one snapped off first winter when moving frozen logs. Ochenkopf do a 380mm hand sappie as well which is just as well made. Clarkforest.com in Dumfries stock Ochenkopf (search under forest and garden then sappies & log picks), costs are 1100mm £75 ex vat and 380mm £28.50 ex vat, they also do a holder for the hand sappie. So he went off and bought the Ochsenkopf but came around to show me how disappointed he was with it. I have three Stihl versions and they are perfect in weight and balance and I have never sharpened them but they grip the logs well, even with a light tap so they may be more suitable for a lady. Side by side the two look identical, both appear to be well made but the Ochsenkopf just will not hang on to the log and he has lost confidence in it fearing it will drop a log on his foot or worse. He has played about with a grinder to reshape the tip but it has made no difference. He is going to buy a Stihl which is about £10 cheaper. Actually holding the Ochsenkopf it feels heavier and less well balanced in the hand, This also is strange as it says it weighs 450 grams and the handle is shorter at 32cm. This obviously is the opposite experience of Vedhogger and I do not know how to account for this I also have the long handled Stihl but rarely use it except for dragging big logs. Not a tool for ladies I would suggest.

I was able to do a slightly different survey on the farm thanks to my dear old father. Back in maybe 1978 we had a very cold Winter with difficult conditions for the birds Father sat outside in the cold on a shooting stick and held out his hand with peanuts. It took ages but once he managed to have one blue tit land there he had the lot! It was interesting that although Robins come close to where you are working, it was impossible to make them take it out of your hand. The postman had to be given a pocket full of nuts to fend off the swarm that descended on him each morning and it was priceless to see the expression on a Tractor reps face when he was earnestly discussing the features when I stuck out my hand and a bird landed on it while I kept a poker face! But going back to the survey, the farm is a single unit and a couple of miles across and I was surprised to find that these birds had followed me wherever I went, in the woods or fields and would demand nuts. I never thought that they had that kind of range Unfortunately a series of mild Winters meant that we lost the memory in the new generations .

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He was young and fit and I am old and tired! I was actually operating the winch and you can just see the cable and I had to give the order to stop when the winch snagged, so a very important person I was in a very important role! (he is still speaking to me!)

How on earth did you fit the hydraulic towing hook to the Mule? Anyway, not as impressive as my Arb Trolley as you have not put any logs in the back of the Mule!

Now no need to get personal, Leave Billhooks out of it!

Just been down to the woods where my colleague was working and we heard the call again, completely non directional and we looked and looked but could see no bird Just turned around to start work again when the Mistle Thrush flew straight over a tree near us singing the whole way in mid flight! As if to say “I wos just ‘avin a larf , gotcha fooled though didn’t I!“

Agree with you there Stubby. Same with Woodcock coming over. I was surprised to see Dunnock/ Hedge Sparrow on the red list as we have several here on the bird feeder. But what do we do about it? I can imagine the uproar if we started to shoot Sparrow Hawks, Jays, Carrions, Magpies, Stoats, Weasels, Squirrels cats, but just think what a poor garden bird has to go through to produce enough young to survive. I suspect domestic cats have a role as well as rats , oh I left out Jackdaws and of course the dreaded Humans!

I do my morning bike ride 3.6 mile circuit and in the first lockdown, when there was no traffic, aircraft or humans about it seemed as though the woods and hedge rows were alive with birdsong. This morning the traffic through the village is back to M25 levels and my wife says the town shops are similar to pre lockdown. The result is less birdsong is to be heard

I agree now and have been thinking that thrushes in general are rarely seen these days, unlike when I was growing up in the 1960s when they were often seen out in the middle of a lawn, head cocked over listening for worms, or picking up snails and taking them to their Thrushes anvil. I think that DDT in the 1950s had nailed many of the raptors, especially Sparrow Hawks but also there was a lot of game keeping controlling populations of Magpies, Jays, Carrion Crows as well as Stoats,, Weasels and Foxes. With DDT banned, he rise of all these predators has seen a decline in British small birds and the ones that have survived have developed Darwinian methods to avoid detection. The Mistle Thrush is no longer seen exposed and must be darting along through the insides of hedges. In the last few years I have witnessed several attacks on my bird feeder by Sparrow Hawks and also seen a cloud of feathers in the middle of the lawn. I opened the steel door of the tractor shed a few days ago and in the time it took me to drive to the workshop, a Sparrow Hawk had flown into the shed and nailed a feral pigeon which was still leaking fresh blood from its severed head on my return