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  1. cornish wood burner
    Its basic function is to smooth out engine torque delivery/speed at low rpm. More judder, noise and vibration from the drive train at low rpm without one.
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    Looks like you have two problems. 1 Design flaws which you should have picked up if you had seen before you bought so I don't really think you have cause to rant over that. 2 Lack of or very poor PDI so if its Riko that did the PDI no wonder they are good at rectifying the problems they should have picked up pre delivery. Perhaps they will help you on the design flaws as recompence for their poor PDI. Worth a go I would have thought anyway.
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    Do you need the extra depth of cut? If not a disc cutter will be simpler, cheaper and probably more reliable.
  4. cornish wood burner
    Conventional engineering wisdom says failure rates normally follow a standard bath tub curve. New machines have failures due to build quality problems etc, then a low rate followed by a rise due to wearing out. Best to run along the bottom of the bath.
  5. cornish wood burner
    Thank Alycidon I set out to buy a Morso squirrel but came across an ex demo puffin which was too cheap to miss.
  6. cornish wood burner
    Just bought a villager puffin( 4 kw) for a small room. No idea on quality but similar size to your squirrel.
  7. cornish wood burner
    I suspect this thread will help hydraulic splitter sales, whatever the power source. Also a good reminder for us all to keep chisels, wedges and mauls etc free from burrs and mushrooming
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    I was thinking more of kickback being a lot more violent and less controllable with the extra weight and speed. A problem perhaps if his technique is not good. I agree though that power can have advantages especially on a tricky fell.
  9. cornish wood burner
    Do you agree that with a quick pro saw in inexperienced hands any mistake could have devastating results. A smaller slower less powerful saw would be more controllable and safer for a novice operator.
  10. cornish wood burner
    Good advice I would say especially sharpening. 211 on a 14" cuts well with a sharp chain.
  11. cornish wood burner
    You could buy one for every day of the week, and still have change to take your good lady out for a meal with what you have saved from the price of a new FS130. Makes sense to a lot of people I would have thought. Vibe figures seem right BTW
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    Not joking. That's the figures I read for the stihl spec. About the same it seems I will check though.
  13. cornish wood burner
    With my dual speed/ force splitter my experience is 4 ton will split most logs but I sometimes need to pull the lever more to get to the 8 tonne force. This seems to be inline with other posters experience that 4 of 5 tonne is not quite enough sometimes. The time will come no doubt but Ive had my splitter for a season or so and with 8 tonne available I have not yet needed to resort to wedges or saw.
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    I have split my own firewood for many years and found either will split the straight grained stuff. Problem comes with knots and forks as you are finding. My electric splitter will split logs I used to get the wedges out for. More money than you are looking at but dual speed 4 or 8 tonne. I'm very pleased I bought it. Why not split the easy logs by maul or axe and buy a splitter for the knots and forks that defeat you.
  15. cornish wood burner
    Rotavating to finish off the scrub clearance. All sorts of cultivating of small areas.
  16. cornish wood burner
    What track do you run on that you need so high a gear. Lower gear = better acceleration surely?
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    Those prices are for roundwood. Slab is a lot more but its cheaper to start with so just about worth doing. Used to cost us about £20/ tonne when we started first if I remember correctly. Bigger, more efficient chippers and competition have reduced costs. Very few chippers around when we installed our first boiler. MF 1200 and chipper must have looked the business. One session we had an articulated case as a drive unit. Good while it lasted but didn't stand the work apparently I agree sharpening is a very significant cost. Especially if there are some stones grabbed up by the lorries as we have found to our cost. Slivers and bridging seem to be the universal joys of biomass. Our chip quality is where it should be but still the occasional problem inspite of air blasts over the photocells.
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    Scotland is sometimes chilly so I've heard
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    That crossed my mind too . However only dozen houses so 20 tonnes / house which prob about right. Small boiler to provide summer heat and others to come online as demand increases. Possibly one as backup/ drying. Better not to put all your eggs in one basket as plenty of reasons for chip boilers to cause problems.
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    Can only guess what is a farming one but f that's a chipper with no screen then not good for biomass. Small boilers are fussy about chip quality. Do you know the chip spec. I would go mobile as 250 tonnes are only 2 or 3 days work with a medium sized chipper so not a big earner. Heizohack definitely with a look. You should enquire what screen sizes come with it. G30 or G 50 chip probably is most common so 30 or 50 mm screen very useful.
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    We sometimes hire a Muzmax which will take 24 inch possibly a bit more at a push. 300 HP drives it nicely. Best chipper who knows but we are very happy with the muzmax quality. Heisohack are good. Woodsman the worst if they are still going
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    Small amount to make any appreciable investment for. It costs us about £12 / ton to chip with 300 HP or about £10/ ton with 780 HP Those costs include a telehandler and two trailers. Small boilers I presume that will need G30 chip?
  23. cornish wood burner
    It says mount down on your picture so presumably horizontal mounting. Carefull you do not exceed the max speed rating. In my youth I was shown the results of a wheel disintegrating,
  24. cornish wood burner
    Looks like someone did a bit of hedge laying a long time ago
  25. cornish wood burner
    "Break at the eyelet" is exactly why my bump head went in the bin. The beauty of these heads is you can use stronger line. Bump heads are fine for light grass etc but when strimming brambles, saplings and wire you are constantly rethreading/ reloading. I used to average about 10 metres along my hedge with 3 mm round line before rethreading now 100m on two pieces of 4 mm diamond edge. I would never go back to a bump head. Too much time wasted loading, and cord breaking.

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