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Amazing what you think of when you are stoned!

Just shows what you can do on your own with a bit of ingenuity, makes Stonehenge look easy!

How big diameter/length? and how much?

I have a 14 gallon sprayer on the back of the self propelled mower I use around the yard and garden similar to this one which costs £90 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Draper-Tools-34674-12V-DC-37-Litre-Spot-Weed-Killer-Fertilizer-Sprayer-ATV-Quad/201371719639?epid=1806155923&hash=item2ee2b097d7:g:o~AAAOSw~OdVeax2 The pump went wrong and the local dealer wanted £78 for a new pump This pump has a similar performance although physically smaller for £5.99 or £8 with postage. It has been working fine for over a year now, in fact I think it is slightly more powerful than the original and if it goes wrong I am not going to lose much sleep over buying another. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DC-12V-70-PSI-High-Pressure-Agricultural-Electric-Diaphragm-Water-Sprayer-Pump/263026519600?epid=18002556164&hash=item3d3d9a2e30:g:locAAOSwJAtZOQ1O

The Morgan car factory had a stuffed owl sitting in the rafters to stop sparrows dropping their stuff on the cars, Quite successful I believe https://www.amazon.co.uk/Popamazing-Realistic-Rotating-Repeller-Deterrent/dp/B01LCLG266/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1527685742&sr=8-2&keywords=garden+owls+to+scare+birds

Same as yours I thought. Free speech is paramount and the right to state your opinion as long as you are prepared to calmly argue your case without anger or name calling. As Peterson asks, who has the moral high ground on being offended. The man who says he is a girl but still looks like a man, especially in the nude,and is addressed as a man and thus offended or Peterson who is very offended by not being able to use free speech

Following hot on the heels of Buffalo's thread. (I am afraid I cannot come up with an answer to his problem) I have had my BR600 for some time an it performs very well on a full tank of fuel, until the tank of fuel is half full, when it begins to stutter and eventually stop. This has been the case since it was brand new. I know that I should have taken it back to the supplier some twenty miles away, but since I usually have had enough of it on my back after half a tank, I could not be bothered. It seemed easier just to top it up with fuel rather than mess around taking things apart and maybe doing more harm. Has anyone else had this problem, and is there a simple, cheap solution?

He was brilliant!

Sorry to be a bit like me a Jack Russell terrier hanging on to this thread , but there are so many scare stories flying about that it is hard to see the wood from the trees. Firstly we are indoctrinated with the greenhouse effect which morphed into global warming now climate change. CO2 being assessed as the main culprit even though it makes up 0.05 % of the atmosphere and to which we contribute an even smaller proportion then NO2 was named and mammalian farts were the enemy now we are talking particulates and neither of these gases has been mentioned in the wood burning saga We are worried about conserving natural resources so renewables are the way forward, what now we are being told forget renewable wood and instead burn more precious oil and gas to produce more CO2................:??????

Whatabouytery sounds like the name of a Polynesian volcano!

I think it all depends on the volcano. Krakatoa sent clouds around the World and there were two or three years without a Summer. Wait till Yellowstone blows its top!!!

I followed their suggestion of removing the locking but on the handle which forces the rack down onto the pinion and replacing it with a washer This made no difference at all to the clearance suggested by the manual ( about a mm play from memory) whereas I should have been able to adjust it so that there was no clearance at all. i see the adjustment principal but have not yet had the time to assess why it does not work. I thought that perhaps they had changed the diameter of the little bush that pushes the rack down and that replacing it with a bigger diameter bush would cure the problem. When I find a bit of time................watch this space!!

There is an Arbtrolley somewhere under this lot, which is the largest load by volume so far and had to be Panda towed!

The whole World seems obsessed with the smaller details rather than the bigger picture Yes , there are arguments about particulates but there seems to be no joined up handwriting. At the same time as banning some of these lesser pollutants there is far too much air travel and driving around in cars with massively unnecessary horsepower all capable of sub nine seconds to sixty and three figure top speeds. Unseasonable foods coming in from all over the globe, massive waste of food by selective size, quality and Best before dates. All costing the environment and natural resources a great deal to grow only to throw away. But way above all of this is the pollution caused by military training and warfare. God knows how much energy is consumed every time a Eurofighter is scrambled let alone dropping a bomb in Syria. Every bomb dropped is probably equivalent to the whole emissions of all vehicles in London for a month.....a year even. Going back to the question of burning wood, we grow several acres of miscanthus here which has taken the place of coal at Drax power station. I am sure that there are tons of particulates released each year from this process but we are saving our coal resources. Will miscanthus be banned as well?

The Generac one above looks just like the old five ton Portek painted in a different colour. just because it says it is a ten ton capacity model does not mean it is. I cannot think how you would measure the splitting capacity of a kinetic machine relative to a hydraulic one in terms of tons. A lot of material will break more easily with a kinetic shock rather than a slow force, wheel nuts being a good example.

I would agree with a lot of the above. I really liked my old five ton model and had no issues at all with it. I liked the two handed operation which could be done easily from the side Unfortunately some barstewards decided that they liked it too and it was nicked, to be replaced by the seven ton model. I could not really tell the difference between the splitting power but I disliked the two handled operation as to be most effective you needed to stand behind the blade and pull the levers which was dangerous. it also had a grinding of teeth and I tried to adjust according to the instructions but however much I adjusted the bolts it made no difference to the clearance between rack and pinion. Sent it back to Jones who claimed that there was nothing wrong and charged £50 for transport at the same time accusing me of not operating it properly as according to them I should have placed the log on to the ram and not on the knife as it would have more impact! This is talking to someone who has operated the five ton model for over a year with no problems. i spoke to the manufacture and they agreed with me, that you should place the log against the blade. So although I still use it and find it has a place at home rather than in the woodyard, I would much prefer to have my old one back which was a "cracker" !

Cannot find the model number just now as I am away from the office but I seem to think it was meant to cope with 4 in ch softwood and 3 inch hardwood and cost about £1700 for pto and linkage model. Works perfectly with the Little Grey Fergie and is less nickable attached to the same.

yes, replaced the SM70 Urban that was stolen with a Remet from Welmac which is pto driven and 3 point linkage. I found the petrol engined one a bit of a faff to move around and this unit is much cheaper and has a slightly larger capacity diameter of wood. Very pleased with it. Put it on the little Grey Fergie which runs almost at idle speed so will tend to stall on a difficult piece of wood rather than break the shear pin.(Has only happened once.) I am putting the loggings directly into either a ton bag or a potato box as small bagging is also a faff. Best to grade the material before logging and just have nice twenty foot long lengths of Ash or Sycamore poles, all 4 to 2 inch diameter, with all the twiggy bits cut off (in my dream world!)

Just took down a small Holly and the Arb trolley is lurking somewhere beneath. I towed it for quarter of a mile and did not lose a single twig ! Unloading is simple, just unhitched, take out the two rods on one side and use the other two to push it over

The Elm may not mutate, but the beetle or fungus might die out with their own enemies!

Yes, the huge Elms were everywhere here in Lincolnshire lining the road sides and dominating the tops of hills until the disease struck in the seventies. Now they have all gone............ or have they? The hedges and copses are full of saplings which live until about 15 years when the bark splits and the beetles introduce the fungus. But they come again and are just waiting for the time, perhaps in our Great Great Grandchildren's lifetime when either the beetle, the fungus disappear or the trees become immune. We have two mature Elms on the farm here in the middle of fields on their own . They seem to have a touch of the disease in the crown every year but no dieback and each year starts with a complete canopy. I have written to the Elm trust people in the hope that they may take some cuttings. Anyone have a suggestion as to the best way/ timing to do this? I am confident that the Ash will survive in a similar way, Nature mutates, which is how things survive, including ourselves.

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Well done you two! She was a vivid yellow rather than golden brown but the lighter spots down the side are there. I have seen plenty of the males but this is the first female, they are so different that I would have thought they were a separate species.

Never seen one of these before here, or anywhere for that matter Quite a big boy or girl