Billhook
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Perhaps there are enough folk working near a Lucas Mill owner to come together and buy a planing disc and a sanding disc for the occasional use. The 20hp Briggs is a big bonus and it will plane almost any length using extensions and a width of up to five feet The planing disc costs around£1000. Not sure about the sander, but it looks reasonable compared to the sort of money discussed above. A dedicated slabber would certainly be easier than using a chainsaw slabber.
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The line that must be most pertinent to arb workers “ A man’s gotta know his limitations “
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Need to join the marines for a bit of fast rope training!
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Looks like a beautiful magic cloud of wood smoke! Top marks!
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I suppose the bar could be used for some interesting chainsaw carving project.
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Chainsaw argument with grass topper. The chainsaw bounced out of the bucket on the front loader of a tractor that was topping the grassland.......... The topper won!
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Just been rained off as the squalls were soaking me even in an open fronted shed Managed to cut three nice 8x 8” beans 12 feet long out of a lovely piece of Ash. The beams will take the place of rotten ones above some double doors in an old shed we are restoring I enjoyed this video on the Lucas family. Geoff was the one I met on my trip down under twenty one years ago
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Slightly more sophisticated log pile making up my poplar log cabin by the lake. Built with full scribe method in 2000 but due to foot and mouth the team could not come up from Devon to help build it until the Winter when it had to be built in a Dutch barn. Because of the time lapse between taking the logs from the barn to the site, they had moved a fraction which resulted in a small gap between the top layer. Dozens of Pipistrelle bats have taken up residence as can be seen by their mouse like droppings, I put a 20p coin there for scale
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I presume that even if I restored it as a timber tractor, since the cab has been fabricated by a blacksmith with no plates or certificates, it would not pass H & S anyway. I would think that there are roll over frames for cabless County tractors available which are certified
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My thoughts exactly Do you have to have a roll bar if you have no employees, driving it yourself and are using it as a piece of classic machinery? Another thought is that if I mount the crane on the trailer, and power it with the tractor hydraulics, with the controls mounted also on the trailer operated from the ground, are you meant to have a roll cage on the trailer by the controls?
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What were you thinking, that I should be hung from the crane and driven over by the County? Or transplanted with the tree spade!
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Anyway, back to my main topic. Am I allowed to take the crane off and put it on the trailer and then restore the 1124 or will I be blackballed on the forum!
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That last paragraph is what I also concluded, but did you ever try to put the spades in a year before lifting? Did you discover which trees took to transplanting and which did not I transplanted a small ornamental maple in the garden which is doing well and a couple of possibly disease resistant elms, also doing well. The other vital thing would be to constantly monitor the watering which would probably be neglected in my case with other things taking priority
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This one has been converted to use the tractor hydraulics, the tractor being far more appropriate to manoeuvre and transport a tree with a good lump of soil attached across arable land i bought it to transfer some young oaks, about four inches in diameter. The machine worked well but the oaks did not like it as they had developed a large tap root i should have perhaps inserted the spades a year before and withdrawn them to let the trees recover before moving What was your experience with the spade and have you any advice for me?
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Correct! So a couple of plate photos for all you anoraks plus one of the County with puncture repaired plus mystery object in the background, arb related
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What???!! When you have all those gorgeous River Dance girls to play with. I think you need to get out a bit more!!
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So it still starts on the button and all the hydraulics work, but it is very tired and I have no use for it as the Teleporter has far more capacity and is much more stable even though the County has water filled wheels I would love to restore it just as a plain 1124 and fit the crane on the trailer where it was before or would this be a sacrilegious act in the eyes of you lot. It would be used far more as plain 1124
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Not just for emission reduction, but also for conservation both of natural resources and species, stopping pollution and wars -
These boys know what they are doing!
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Keep singing the praises of the Lucas Mill. Just under £10K from Fuelwood makes it a bit of a bargain given its versatility and ease of maintenance The electric winch I fitted on my 8/30 model has made life easier Still not as quick as bandsaw machines but it is a good compromise as I never have any heavy log manoeuvring to do. In the yard there is the Teleporter but I can take the Lucas out to a Five foot diameter tree twenty feet long in a pickup or trailer and bring it home in slabs or boards or joists Very rarely Slab nowadays as I have a barn full so mostly fencing and general timber 21 years old now, original blades, engine in fact original everything. Oh yes and then there is the new electric start method! Just click ignore if you cannot stand any more Lucas eulogies!
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And I thought that I was a lone voice here, but just seen this
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Agree that the brain of a Brexiteer would be far better than using the brain of a Remainer which would do all it could to keep the poisonous infection in place.
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Just too many human beings. Need a reduction to about 2 billion hopefully by intelligent birth control Not just for emission reduction, but also for conservation both of natural resources and species Anything less than population control is just pissing in the wind.
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Totally agree with this and Dan Maynard. For domestic use a sixteen in bar on a small Stihl is fine. They are so light and handy for limbing and obviously can cut up to 30 inches on occasion but unless you are tackling big trees all the time the majority of domestic timber will not be much more than eight inch. I bought three Stihl 170s about ten years ago for £124 each on a special offer. One with a sixteen inch bar and the other two twelve inch. All going like new still Easy to start , less to sharpen on the 12 inch, light and easy to manoeuvre from a Teleporter man cage, especially reaching out, and very economical on fuel. At the end of the day I do not feel that my arm has nearly been wrenched off as with the bigger saws
