cornish wood burner

Agree with that. Starts a fire well but having burnt between 6 and 8 tons of only spruce I certainly would go for Douglas fir if I had to part with any money. Spruce is the only wood I have burnt (MC sub 20) that went out when I shut the Rayburn down. As loskie says mixing is better so as you have 25 tons on your hands could mix at your end or sell your customer some Douglas or similar for them to mix. Failing that suggest they feed their wood burner little and often with plenty of air.It will burn just you have to drive your fire differently. It is a pain thou

These DPFs are certainly a pain especially if you do short journeys. Driving at 80 sounds the answer

You can reason with the 'norms' I have come across but not the HSE inspectors. Never really had a major problem so the HSE only inspect us (cross fingers) Remember my guys think before they act!!!! (again cross fingers)

You think? Whether you believe it or not it underlines my favorite piece of H&S advice. Take a second to think before you act. Common sence really but I have never heard that from a HSE officer. Did they all miss that queue when it was being issued or is lack of it a job requirement?

They were VERY serious at Sperry about health and safety even back then which made it even more ludicrus. I take your point about the changes tho. Thought it was a more interesting story than the guards that our HSE man wanted. Made two machines almost unusable

Presumably it's not something like a seized or tight bearing

I have told this story so many times and believe it or not you are not the first to doubt it. Unfortunately for the operator it is unbelievable but true. I was working in the same factory but in a different department. I too did not believe it at first but I have no reason to doubt any of the story. This happened about 35 years ago. The factory was Sperry Gyroscope (now British aerospace) Clittafotd road Southway Plymouth

Obviously learnt from my guy

Better than the option tho. You spend a good percentage of your life working so if it something you enjoy I would go for it. From a very very old git who enjoys his job.

This was exactly my point in the brake press operator story. If he had been thinking rather than blindly following instructions he would still have a full set of knuckles on his fingers. Guards and PPE etc are no substitute for thought.

Great wrapping.Probably worried about the dust in the lorry. Some of the replies reminded me when I used to work for a high tech company that used to have a lot of government contracts, was big on heath and safety,accountability etc etc. A brake press operator managed to bypass the guard and cut the ends of his figures off. He was off work for about 6 weeks and when he returned there was a big enquiry as to how he did it. Present at the investigation were, his foreman, the safety officer, the engineering director and the managing director.He was asked how he managed to do it, so he showed all present. However this time he trimmed his figures down to the second knuckle. Be carefull out there!

I'm intreged. Do they uprate suspension,brakes and chassis. Do you then need type approval. I know of down rating but I never known anyone who has had truck/pickup up rated. What's involved?

As you say good small tractors are hard to find. I like to think we know what we are looking at, but still pot luck. Cracked blocks on the fords, dropped liners on the Massey's, heads and clutches on the DBs. Minefield Buy cheap buy twice is what springs to mind. We spent more than we setout to do and ended up with new. If you can it is probably the best long term. Service it and it should last.

Youngster with ambition then. Sorry at my age you're all young Do you need transport of some kind around the wood to carry tools,wood etc.Small four wheel drive wood carrier might be an interesting project. Go cart sounds good, not with saxo power I presume. Save the saxo for the road going version

A winch just needs low gearing, little power unless you intend to drag trees across a field. Not something I would recommend building as a learning experience. Very stringent checks on winches and lifting for good reason. Don't get me wrong I approve of what you set out to do but rather than build something that does not work or worse hurts you, why not improve your knowledge and skills FIRST. The internet is full of information or you might join an evening class if any near you. If you can weld you might consider improving your skill. Much more to it than sticking two pieces of metal together on a bench. Positional welding, different materials/rods strenghts of materials/welds, distortion and how to avoid it etc. Sorry if I am wrong but you sound as if you are early in your career, little experience but keen to learn. Presumably you make your living from wood and engineering would be a hobby. I am the opposite but with 40 years plus in engineering I am still learning. Have you a workshop? What skills do you have? What tools do you have? All these things will determine what project you can undertake. This might not be the answer you were looking for but I hope it helps. Good luck

Not a BT fan either, charged us twice for looking for an intermittent fault. Problem is it IS intermittent and is not there when they investigate.One engineer phoned up to say they checked the line and could find no problem, line started cracking and he could hardly hear us. Still no joy though.

Cheap enough but thanks for the heads up on the pebble dash. I think I will stick with my sthil blade even though it is more expensive.

Mulcher on my toro is good. It is the pick up and coping with long grass I have a problem with. For you info it is a 21inch super bagger alloy deck and honda engine. (which starts very easily by the way)

Cannot comment on the mowers you mentioned, but one thing I have learnt from the 21 inch toro I have just bought is that a mulch facility limits cutting and pickup of long grass. I knew it would to some extent but I was not prepared for just how rubbish it would be in heavy work. Might be ok if you use side eject, but I havent tried it. I do like the mulch though, no bag to empty but it means cutting every week. Probably not suitable for contract use as I expect you will get all the rough work.

Its not what I would call a compact but we have recently bougt a Taffe which is an Indian copy of a massey. Comes from the same factory apparently with most bits interchangable. Old technology MF240 so easy to work on. Seems fine so far. We did a bit of investigation before we bought one and only heard good reports. Cheaper than a Kubota like for like. No worries of cracked blocks like the Fords. If you are thinking 40 hp ish and can carry a couple of ton then it might be worth a look.

In spite of the toaster/fan jokes (made a lot of us smile anyway)you would have a reasonable amount of torque through the gearbox and diff. You could use an extra gearbox for more torque or power something direct from the engine. However governing engine speed might be a problem. Petrol power would make it expensive to run as well. To be quite honest I think it would be much more trouble than its worth. I would have thought you would be better off selling for spares if you can. Do they still do banger racing, might be a bit scary in a saxo especially if rusty.Interesting to watch though.

And the climber that uses it. Don't upset him tho!!