Billhook

Just took the top off this Sycamore with the swing blade to have a look, think I will have a go with the slabber!

I also have had little problem with the bits and pieces that are inevitable with any splitter. We might have a carrier bag full after filling a 2cubic metre box which is great kindling.

Thank you for all the likes. It was really all a result of the Lockdowns and my wife being fed up with me mooching around the house, so I was told to go out and find something useful to do. I was sure that I could make a splitter around the Matbro 270 with all that lifting and hydraulic power. But everywhere was shut and all I had was the scrap in the yard, so if i was starting the project now I would perhaps incorporate a saw and make it more of a processor than just a splitter. One of the problems with the Ash and Sycamore that we have here is that many are bent sometimes at 90 degrees. The Palax Combi will handle these up to 10 inch diameter, but the big stuff still has to be cut in my case to 16 inch blocks with the chainsaw and then rolled onto the log lift. Using the tip and crowd to pick up the logs would work well with straight lengths of pine, but not with the stuff we have here Now I find it very steady and therapeutic with the engine ticking over at the back of the machine and the remote control operating the hydraulics, so no lifting just easy rolling, which is also easy on my old limbs as Stubby will I am sure sympathize! In am sure that i could make the ram quicker by altering the pipework but it is surprisingly productive and safer at its current speed Keep a look out for modification number 1035!

find someone with a Lucas Mill planer sander

Help! I have developed CRSD! Compulsive Repetitive Splitting Disorder! I cannot stop, I just love it!

After decades of playing league hockey, tennis, squash, workshop hammering, axe work, hoeing sugar beet, shovelling corn, potatoes, my wrists said enough! I built the splitter out of scrap during lockdown. My X27, which I rate highly, has been put on one side and instead I operate a remote control which is bliss. My wrists have gradually been improving with the rest.

We had a foggy start followed by a shower then it cleared and the sun came out

m Hope you have all had a wonderful day. What a wonderful sunset to cap it all

Now this is what I call a split tree! Any advice welcome

I find his arguments persuasive, what do you all think?

I think that the level of personal debt is unsustainable together with one quadrillion dollars out there in the ether of derivatives that nobody understands means there is going to be one gigantic life changing crash soon.

I thought I posted some time ago that putting birth control in sugar would be a good idea. It would free up the NHS from a lot of problems with morbid obesity, diabetes, hip and knee operations and heart disease. It would increase the active workforce, it would cut out those who have little self discipline not just with food but also money and having multiple children that they cannot cope with. When you are retired and the old fella will not perform any more you can gorge on as much sugar as you like, die early of a heart attack and free up another room in an old folks home.

My uncle came across a van blocking a narrow lane near his farm in Norfolk. So he parked his car in front of it and sat there reading the paper. The van driver then opened the door of the van and took out his little dog and went for a walk up the lane. A battle of two strong wills! Uncle said I knew I would win as I had a whole book to read and I had all day!

Less likely I would have thought if you were holding an idling chainsaw in one hand!

Just had a closer look on the original iPhone footage expanded and it seems that the vast majority are Redwings but also a lot of Fieldfares. Not sure now about the Mistle Thrushes as it is hard to keep track There were also a lot on the hedges feasting off the red Hawthorn berries

Sort of “spot the birdie” Christmas Quiz! Fieldfares, Redwings, Mistle Thrushes to name a few

We had such an abundance of fruit this year that we just let the apples fall, having given so many away that nobody wanted any more. However it was very important for these birds in this recent cold spell.

And a Happy Christmas to you all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck-FMAMmCrE

Billhook has the biggest sweetbreads on Arbtalk!

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We will need to review this thread in March!

I’m going to change my name from Billhook to “The Oracle”! I see now that the Troll from Trondheim is due to drop temperatures to minus 12 up to the New Year. Deafening silence from Global Warming alarmists. It looks as though power cuts will be probable rather than possible . Ambulances and hospitals choked with victims of the cold and strikes, all that is needed for the perfect storm is another Covid variant….

Hats Off!

I ran out of one ton potato boxes when I reached 150! The Challow floor is ventilated by a large three phase fan and in the old days of grain we could indeed put a propane heater in front of the inlet but even in those days it was too expensive. The only time we used heat was if we wanted to avoid a penalty when we sold it. Heating wet grain can be tricky as you can produce a wet layer which moves up through the heap and prevents airflow and results in rotted grain. The best way to dry stuff is to wait till the moisture in the air falls to a point where to blown air starts to take moisture out of whatever you put in there. For that we have a relative humidity meter which switches the fan on and off according to the RH. I do not turn the pile, it would be easier just to run the fan for a day. A fan is necessary with densely packed grain or oilseeds but leaving the split wood on a dry floor with the shed door wide open to the West wind seems to do the job after a year or even shorter. Same with the old potato boxes which are stacked in an open fronted shed and the air can flow easily through the slats in the boxes. Whatever the theory it works well in practice.

It reminds me of my maths lessons at school where I would just go into a trance and my gaze would go from the blackboard to the window to watch the girls playing games in the field outside! m3 × Calorific Value × 1.02264 ÷ 3.6 = kWh The caloric value of natural gas is the parameter that changes. It's usually around 40.0; depending on the quality of natural gas it can deviate +/-5%. 1.02264 is a correction factor, and 3.6 is the conversion factor for kWh. Pay attention at the back Billhook!!