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  1. cornish wood burner
    For the amount of oil you and I use I don't think we would notice any difference even with a cheap chain oil. Stihl or Oregon would be fine.
  2. cornish wood burner
    Its a bit slower chipping as we need to avoid slivers so go for a smaller chip. Works out marginally cheaper as the slabwood is cheaper and drier to start with. We drop whole bundles in the chipper and leave the bands on. After we have chipped I normally tidy up after work, so that benefits both parties. Don't think I could carry enough on the skateboard to make it worthwhile though.
  3. cornish wood burner
    Probably supply and demand at your local mill. If there are lots of people after it and they can sell at it all at 30 then that's what they will do. I guess that most of us on here buy larger quantities so get a better deal. Why not phone around other sawmills. If you find one that has a big stack in a small yard then you might get it for £15.
  4. cornish wood burner
    I have a MS211 with a 14 inch bar and Stihl chain. I use it to cut most of my smaller firewood. Present chain has kept me warm for a few years so no complaints. Do not let it get too blunt. I tend to give it a light sharpen every few tanks by which time it has cut a fair heap of wood. A few strokes is all you need. Your not cutting on the ground are you? Quickest way to blunt a chain
  5. cornish wood burner
    Agreed on all counts. Slab has now gone up a little in line with demand for chip feeding biomass boilers but nowhere near £30 delivered. I used to only burn slabwood but it was free. A lot more work than round wood though. Might be worth enquiring how much for a lorry load if you can store it.
  6. cornish wood burner
    I could let him have some of my twisted, knotty, forked oak and birch from my hedge to try. That would test it
  7. cornish wood burner
    Whether or not its advisable to do it remain to be seen but im sure you realise you will have several problems to overcome. You probably could incorporate a tensioner working as a clutch into a v belt drive system. Don't be tempted to run the machine at a higher rpm than it was designed for unless you want an unexpected look at the internals. Internet is full of engine suppliers but if you could look at one before you buy to get an idea of the physical size and layout it would be much easier to design. You need to be happy with the physical size and extra weight of the new engine and drive. A bigger engine will put more strain on the machine so if there is any weakness your more powerfull engine will find it. If you decide to go ahead, before you start you need to do your research and plan the whole job rather than try to solve problems as you go.
  8. cornish wood burner
    Some engines have a diaphragm on top of the injector pump. Air pipe to it. Classic symptoms are lack of power but also pressurising the diesel tank. Big hiss/release of air when you remove the cap.
  9. cornish wood burner
    Also make sure you pick a haulier that goes in the woods. They will have double drive, difflocks, better tyres and the know how to travel off road
  10. cornish wood burner
    The ground looks fairly solid in your pictures. Difficult to say for certain but I would think a wood lorry would travel on far worse than that, certainly as we are coming into the summer. Ridged and drag might be an option but as others have said you will need some width at the road entrance. Why not have a word with the haulier and get his opinion. Lot of work to make a stoned track for 150 tonnes. It will make your wood expensive. Even if you have to select a dry period no stone has to be your best and cheapest option. Additionally would you have to tidy up after you?
  11. cornish wood burner
    Our benefit system has a lot to answer for in that respect. When someone on benefit doesn't possess or want a cooker because he can afford to eat out all the time then there is something wrong IMO . Certainly some of the English workers only turn up because they are in danger of losing some of their handouts if they don't. Difficulty recruiting staff was why we originally employed foreign workers. They come over here to earn money so work as many hours as possible. Most work fairly hard but for us the standard is going down. Perhaps they are getting used to the English way.
  12. cornish wood burner
    Company I work for have been employing eastern Europeans for 10 to 15 years as it was difficult to find enough English staff. Early on they were very good but the standard has declined. Without doubt my best two workers by a very long way are English (Cornish). Some Poles etc have learnt to look busy when bosses are around but at the end of the day the two Cornish lads have done a lot more and to a higher standard. Maybe its a Cornish thing.
  13. cornish wood burner
    I dig and pot few seedlings but put most of them on the north side of my house so they just get the full morning and evening sun. My reasoning is less stress if you have disturbed the roots or if you forget to water them. Once established then they go anywhere but acclimatised slowly
  14. cornish wood burner
    Youngster I would say. However there is a story with these pigeons. A couple of years ago one of our regular pigeon visitors could not pitch on her leg, she still limps so easy to track. Last year her mate was caught and eaten by the hawk. So I make limpalot about 4 years old which I think is good age for a pigeon. (I thought average age is 2 years but I could be wrong) So this bird table feed scratching pigeon must be limpalot's toy boy/gofer pigeon. Just like us sending the youngsters up the tree she waits underneath for him to scratch some food down. No point getting older if you don't get wiser even if you are a pigeon.
  15. cornish wood burner
    Thanks Jon. No urgency but we might be looking in the next couple of years.
  16. cornish wood burner
    Hi Steve Do you ever get involved in bigger static plant say 300 Kva?
  17. cornish wood burner
    It is common practice in my maintenance team. If no common sense they do not work for me for long. Life is too short to be working with someone who does not think. For example on a glasshouse roof gutter 110mm wide with a piece of glass 1679x1000 you need a person opposite you can trust. In common with tree work maintenance produces the unexpected.
  18. cornish wood burner
    Totally agree with the last two posts. Common sense probably makes all the difference as to how we view the safety people we deal with. Most I have dealt with are reasonable with good common sense however, the ones that are lacking in that department probably make things worse as everyone reacts against them. Nothing more unsafe than someone thinking about the stupid thing the HS officer has made him do, rather than having his mind on the job.
  19. cornish wood burner
    I've been in engineering for40+ years and worked for companies including the MOD, their suppliers and now currently horticultural maintenance. I have found generally that most in the HS industry are reasonable people. They do need a working knowledge of what is going on to understand the risks but at the end of the day they are there for us. I wonder if Steve is deliberately winding us up with his ''they shall not pass'' approach to get his point across.
  20. cornish wood burner
    If your 80mm cylinder o/d is right I presume you realise you will only have around 8 tonnes force even with 3000psi. Enough?
  21. cornish wood burner
    Only had a small quantity of small diameter silver birch outside but mine seemed to grow fungus quite readily. As others have said best kept dry.
  22. cornish wood burner
    Being on the end of a poor line I sympathize with the house holder but I also agree with Mark B about BT. They have charged me for looking but not finding an intermittent fault. Engineers have heard it when they have phoned up to say nothing wrong but no refund or fix. If water gets in then almost certainly the householder will have a poor line and probably have the same expenses and hassle with BT. If you are going to do a repair make a good one. No bodges, absolutely waterproof and ideally soldered joints.
  23. cornish wood burner
    Hi Jon Dogs sleep in the kitchen but 15 and 16 so they feel the cold. If I know its going to be cold I light the rayburn late in the evening so it stays warm for them. Just brought the wood in for tonight. Probably colder where you are though.
  24. cornish wood burner
    The £10 / ton was the chipping cost of one ton of dry chip(18% Mc) as opposed to wet 60% mc chip, which if you then dried it would become about 600kg.
  25. cornish wood burner
    The sun and wind. Fairly cheap down here especially the wind. No RHI on it though. We stack the slab and cord for a couple of years then chip.

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