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I first heard the song on a river boat going down the Dnepr River in 1993 to Odessa and I thought the song was about Odessa not Airhostessa!

On 19/03/2023 at 03:56, Wood Knot said:

Hi can anyone recommend a log deck that works well with a Palax Combi Mk2 PTO with manual in feed rollers.

Most of the log deck models seem to show the deck feeding into processors with a feed belt into the cutter.

 

Appreciate any thoughts or recommendations please.

 

Thanks

Built this for mine with some scrap steel, and some boards cut with the Lucas Mill plus some boat trailer rollers off Ebay.  Works for me as I need a bit of manual work to keep warm but without the heavy lifting which is done with the Teleporter.  Sorry about the filming but it is difficult to drag the log and cut it with one hand, the other on the camera!

Used the Stihl Hookeroon and hammer to clear out the compressed sawdust in the ram track.  It was a hard as concrete and all seems to be working properly now.  Thanks to all.

The sound of the saw reminds me of the scene in the film CONTACT with Jodie Foster when she first hears the alien signal!

All the more amazing is the guy who invented it, Cornelis Corneliszoon, did so in 1594. Here is a link to the history 

A Brief History of Wood-Splitting Technology, Part 3: The Wind-Powered Sawmill That Changed Dutch History - Core77

WWW.CORE77.COM

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Invented by a farmer in 1594, this increased efficiency by a whopping 3,000%

Just sitting on a bench at the log cabin by the lake in the first sunshine for a while and the air is full of buzzing insects, flies and bumblebees in spite of Attenborough’s claims that they are depleted.  
A small fish, possibly a silver Rudd suddenly surfaced and went about twenty feet across the surface like a jet skier and went completely out of the water and on to the bank.  It then flipped about and flipped itself back in the lake.  Never seen that before.  Possibly escaping a Pike?

40 minutes ago, nepia said:

Hibernating insects have all but disappeared this season; I fear for this summer.  Only a handful of queen wasps have I encountered anywhere and only two butterflies in my log cages - I usually find more than a dozen through the winter which get carefully relocated to the middle of another cage I won't be opening until next autumn

It did not seem a very prolonged period of cold, compared say to 1963, but perhaps species of all sorts have become softer with the series of mild Winters. Do you think that the lack of rabbits has done for the foxes?

 My Pipistrelle bats seem to be doing ok in the log cabin, nestling between the full scribe Poplar logs.  Little droppings everywhere !

I still have not seen a fox or a rat on the farm, a very few baby rabbits are appearing but hardly any adults.  Badger signs are everywhere but I have not encountered a badger on the road at night as I would normally.  Squirrels everywhere and good variety of bird life but another depletion is queen wasps.  Normally my conservatory where I bring in the wood for the stove would be buzzing with them as they wake with the warmth.  Do you think that the very cold spell we had did for them?

Some people have a unique way with words!

6 hours ago, Rac man said:

Find the snake

Copperhead, Easypeasy!  Poisonous too

On 16/03/2023 at 18:28, waterbuoy said:

 

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Cog nitive malfunction!

On 12/03/2023 at 15:59, doobin said:

This. When our Jappa has the same issue it's due to crud in the slot at the end of the ram stroke.

Could well be the problem.  I have not done anything about tackling the problem again as I have been too busy.  Crud does develop in the slot as you say and it becomes compressed to become so solid that it needs a hammer and chisel to remove it.  It will do no harm at all to give the old Palax a good clean and oil when the weather improves, will let you know the result.

17 minutes ago, peds said:

Often wondered the same thing. I keep meaning to set aside the bigger chunks I find to experiment, but never got round to it. 

I took out an absolute monster of a fuchsia a while ago as well and wondered if it'd burn well enough to bother with.

I have burnt some in the stove, found it burns well even straight off the tree but does not last long.  This Winter I had some big bonfires of brash and the wind took some embers to a Sycamore  some distance away.  The Sycamore had some dead ivy hanging off it which we had killed a couple of years ago.  It went up like a Roman candle, but surprisingly did not seem to harm the tree.

Not quite sure if this comes under the heading of a remarkable tree, but it certainly is a remarkable bit of ivy at 9 inch diameter 

Very large flock of Redwings and Fieldfares in the grass field yesterday, several hundred and today joined by a smaller flock of Starlings.  Definitely    a “ murmuring “ judging by the noise!  Yesterday all the Redwings and Fieldfares settled in the mature Ash trees in the lane making a lot of noise in the sunshine, must be something to do with the Full Moon!
 Do not know what the collective noun is for Redwings and Fieldfares but I suggest a “Twittering” if it has not been used already!

On 04/03/2023 at 08:28, Stubby said:

I found ( a few years back ) that it seems to be that Gold Finches prefer sun flower hearts over niger seed ( its actually thistle seed ) dependent on the time of year . I think they go for the niger seed when feeding young as its smaller . 

Goldfinches have abandoned my dedicated niger seed feeder in preference to sunflower hearts, which they clumsily or deliberately drop onto the ground below to feed wood pigeon, pheasants, and other small ground feeders who cannot cope with the hanging feeders.

48 minutes ago, rapalaman said:

I’m right handed and have a shortage of left gloves as they wear out quickest ☹️

Jack Sprat could eat no fat,
His wife could eat no lean.
And so between them both, you see,
They licked the platter clean.
 

I am sure we could come to some arrangement!  What size are your hands, mine are XL, but I would have XXL if they made them

I am totally left handed, so you would expect that when I remove a glove to perform a delicate operation, it would be from my dominant left hand.

But I keep ending up with single left hand gloves and not a right handed in sight!

Bit more zoom!  Taken an hour ago

Just had our Miscanthus cut with a monster 600 hp Claas and the driver loaded his Ford up a very steep ramp.  I really thought that he would bottom out especially with the weight of the tank in the back but it went up easypeasy 

11 hours ago, coppice cutter said:

You should consider switching to organic oats.

I have been trying to get my oats orgasmic all my life!