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slack ma girdle below is a couple of photo's of the linkages and a couple of short video's. Also in side the junction box is a 12v flip flop relay which changes the cylinder control valve direction with the limit switches.

Contact the FC and they'll steer you in the direction of a haulier

Some nice straight spruce and scots pine with the old splitter that claimed a finger 25 years ago

Epic Graham, lots of time in that build. Looks stunning

Fine tuning on homemade kindling machine

Video of old splitter it took my finger 25 years ago 20170315 161231

The John Deere with the new (to me) Igland 6001 winch

got a 22" for the 390xp but never use it always use the 24"

from the FC it was about 3 -6 months ago so the prices may have gone up. It was in the NE of Scotland

I recon about £600 to build. Not really portable as its 6m long and made with 80mm box section and weighs about 200 kgs without the carriage. I did make so it fits on my ifor williams trailer. I run a Husky 390xp with a 36" bar and 3/8" ripping chain. I made the carriage and mill wide enough to mill a 30" log if you need any more info just let me know!!

Made one last year and Ive attached some pictures

£24 a ton + VAT @ 5% or 20% + delivery from forestry commission

Make sure you go to Cragside owned by the national trust lovely place and some awesome trees there

Make one!

Well done mate you should be well chuffed with that!!

51p+vat/1000lts

Possibly a bit fancier than the shed I was going to build. Whats with the socks?? I thought I was the only one with pairs of socks like that:laugh1:

We should be paying the cost of production at the minimum for all farm produced products, then we would all be complaining about the increased cost of the weekly shop. How can dairy farmers make a living with the farm gate price lower than the cost of production. I totally agree that the current system has created "arm chair farmers" playing the system, but I also know a lot of Farmers that live on an overdraft all year until the subs hit the bank, and then the cycle starts again. In a perfect world we the consumer would pay a fair price for the produce farmed in a responsible manner. Then the subsidies could stop and our Farmers could make more or less depending on how efficient there farm was! The sheep farm in the highlands would struggle compared the a arable farm in the Howe of the Mearns (good fertile arable land) but the land price would reflect that! Stop the subs and make the good farmers better and the arm chair farmers go out of business. Its a complicated issue and impossible to please all, and if they stop there would be a few tough years and there would be lots of Farms going to the wall but a lot would survive and thrive!

I thought with the long fibres in spruce it would be strong!

Looking for some advice on structural timbers. I'm currently in the process of milling some Sitka Spruce for a shed roof. Could I use Scots Pine as well or is it too brittle or not strong enough?? I would love to use Larch but have none in the wood to use. Opinions please!

I used 80 mm box section with 6mm Tee welded on to it with a 20mm gap between the box and tee

just made it to cut some spruce beams for some sheds! there is a few large dead elms about so who knows what will get milled in the future!!

here you go

With the steel, bearings and sprockets etc about 600 quid so not too bad! Spent a few hours on it and tested it before painting and had to change a couple of bits but all in all a nice shed project for the winter!!

Got the home made chainsaw mill tested and painted and the resulting finish on the milled timber is better than expected!!