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  1. cornish wood burner
    To answer your question your theory was right assuming you gear down your processor. If max engine power is achieved at or near 540 pto speed running closer to that you should see an advantage. From memory isn't max power of the 35x just above 540 pto speed, if it is you should squeeze a bit more from the old girl.
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    That would make things worse. Other way around to increase torque. Still only same power and only Shetlands in the 35 anyway.
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    Welcome to the forum Two pieces of advice 1 wear steel toe caps 2 don't drop fork lift tines on your foot it hurts. Sorry couldn't resist,hope you have a speedy recovery.
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    If you go the dumper way get a triple spool or more and run everything off that. Not sure how fast it would be and wouldn't comply to any regulations if you have staff. Telehandlers take some beating as a multi use tool. We have a bucket, grab, forks and access cage for ours. They are available in various steering setups. Four wheel steer or artic are very manoeuvrable for their size. Might be more money than you want to spend though.
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    The shear pin is to protect the winch by keeping it to its rated capacity. The winch should be the weakest part part of the system. Put another way your strops, rope,chain etc should be rated higher than any possible pull from your winch. If you do it any other way you are putting yourself and others around you at risk.
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    I bought one too. FM 16 slightly bigger with 7 or 8 tonnes splitting force depending on who's figures you read. Cannot fault its performance and it looks to be built well. BUT I've had a fault with it and it's gone back under warranty. The wheels seem to be turning very slow so watch this space to see if it still gets my vote when there is a problem.
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    A bit of shouting and raving might have changed her mind about seeing you. Nothing like a good scene if there are several customers around. Worked for my wife in a large electrical store once. They couldn't get the money out of the till fast enough.
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    This is good advice. Break down the circuits into pieces and swop or remove to prove as Justme suggests. If you can beg borrow or steal a pressure gauge it might be useful to finally pinpoint the problem.
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    Don't buy over the top kit. Simple example is size of saw, if a smaller saw will do all you need then that's the one to buy. Larger saws cost more, use more fuel, and parts will be more expensive. Same applies to trucks, tractors, splitters etc.
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    Maybe it's an area thing. I've had a £200 tip for doing an engineering job over a weekend to get the guy ready for Monday's work. Recently I looked at a good electric chop saw after work for a friend. Turned out just brushes so didn't take long. He offered money which I declined but next day there was a bottle of good wine on my windscreen. What goes around comes around.
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    I've laid a few oak and mahogany floors in heavy traffic areas of our house. Finished with osmo polyx oil which just brushes on. Water has little effect and you can recoat if the sheen fades. The original lounge oak floor was getting a bit grubby so management mopped it. Came up clean again and still looking good. Not sure if you could do that with soft wood though. A bit dearer than carpet but it's a once only expense. I would recommend hardwood floors.
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    You might need to change the filters as they get clogged with algae. No experience of it but I've heard that it doesn't keep well.
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    Might get them from a motor factors, main dealer or Internet although repairing is probably not so common as it used to be. You might find a shop/ auto electrician who reconditions alternators and starter etc. If it's not the brushes they would check it out for you.
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    Normally a couple of small screws on the opposite end to the drive pulley. I believe they are under the voltage regulator. Little blocks of graphite type material that should move against a spring. Might be stuck and just need moving a few times with finger pressure, if they bind against their housing clean up with fine wet and dry.
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    Could be just an alternator brush sticking after the long break. Might be an easy fix.
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    Ok thanks.
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    When do you need it moved by?
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    I used to reckon the top half of the stack had a 5% increase chipping in or after rain. Most of that would be in or just under the bark assuming it's not going over. Stacks were 30% MC top and 18 to 20% bottom to middle after all the rain we've had. Probably some stacks are close to 5 metres high now so contain more dry wood. That's the beauty of 100% mechanical handling. Lower stacks obviously would be worse as you have found. Roundwood seems a little better than slab but the trend is the same.
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    kWhr/ kg is not much different between hard or soft so soft wood will be much cheaper. Biggest difference is the density. If your boiler is fed a certain volume of soft wood /hour running at its max output and you change to hard wood then you will be inputting more energy so exceeding rated output and probably wasting energy as a result.
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    Good morning Andrew I was meaning a full moving or reciprocating grate that carries the wood forward. We considered this when we installed our big Binder but the extra cost (pre rhi)and increase in height intruding on our neighbours view steered us away from that route. As you say better to let the sun and wind dry the wood rather than reduce the efficiency. I've just chipped and even in this weather the lower part of the slab wood stacks are coming out at 18%. Top is not so good though. Even adding in the wetter round wood I am sure we have made the right decision. Depends on what's available so in a wet part of Scotland or if you are considering tree surgeon waste perhaps then it might have a place. Fire box temp is very important as we know so a step grate might be necessary in some cases. As Duffryn says it doesn't make economic sense to chip hard wood, purely from a cost/ tonne point of view.
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    Probably all of the bigger boiler manufactures do a step grate system. Just had a look at a couple and are available in smaller sizes. I'm familiar with the uniconfort global but many others out there. Cost will of course be higher as there will be the complexity of the grate and drive. Nice bonus will be automatic de-ashing that normally comes with it.
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    If you can use 350 kW or more then you can burn wet wood in an auto fed boiler. The fuel is introduced then dried as it approaches the fire. Step grate boilers are more expensive and generally more common in the larger systems but they are available at a cost.
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    If you change from one to the other you might need to reduce the volume of hardwood being fed. More energy per volume as its more dense. If a boiler has been setup with soft then you could over fuel with hard. No difference I've noticed if it's set up for the fuel used.
  24. cornish wood burner
    Ours is flowering now. As said best time would have been earlier. If an extension is being built you probably have no choice anyway.
  25. cornish wood burner
    BTW His chipper is 780 hp with a splitter on board so can cope with most things.

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