Silverhooker
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sorry, meant builders bags, in North Cumbria.
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Round our way a dumpy bag of dry hard wood logs is going for £85, so about 120 loads needed. I would ask round your local area and see what it'll support.
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Had my artic cat 700 quad bike stolen at the weekendin Brampton Cumbria. its red with a black plastic flat bed on the back. please message me if anyone offers a dodgy one for sale. Thanks
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I have a Wetterlings large splitting axe along with the Husky small splitting axe and the Husky large maul plus an Estwing splitting wedge, which rarely gets used. I've found this set up to suit the work i do, mostly syc and larch, odd scots pine and bits and pieces of beech.
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My wife bought me the husky gloves for xmas and they were rubbish, i use work glove that i get out of the £ shop which last just as long. Never was convinced that the pad on the back of the Husky gloves was worth a shit nice to hear from experienced chaps that i was right for once.
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Got a little mitox 40 cc saw stuck in a wind blown alder at the edge of the river in my garden, in the process of cutting it out with a hand saw, I only had the mitox at the time, I dropped the mitox in the in river. Sadly my wife was a witness and has never stopped telling people.
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I've got a little 40cc mitox, it's been fine, infact better than fine as i've been able to resurrect it twice after being dropped in the river. It's never had heavy use, just limbing and small bits of firewood, which really is all it's up to, so probably not ideal for heavier farm use. Would get a husky 365 fro FR Jones, they have a good deal on at present.
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I have a husky maul, a husky smallsplitting axe and a wetterlings large splitting axe, use all 3 and they are the perfect combo for the work i do. It took me 10 years or so to settle on this combination and I've smashed numerous cheap fibreglass handled others. None were cheap, tho not too expensive and are likely to see me out, in fact number 1 son has already put dibbs on the large splitting axe as he is a smaller man than the younger one, who is a bear and can swing the maul all day long. I now seem to have taken on a more supervisory role which suits fine, and now mostly use the husky splitting axe do do the final splits after the boys break up the big rings.
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Bought a bow saw when i was 17 and started doing cash in hand firewood to the neighbours till I could buy a second hand McCulloch, sorry but i can't remember what it was, which i cut firewood with to funded me thru university, it ran like a dream. I gave it to my ex-wifes brother who dropped it in the river 2 days after I gave it to him, not sure that it was directly responsible for the divorce but it didn't help !!! Lol.
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I have a pair of x2 £ shop specs I use just for sharpening, I didn't realise how far out i was till i started using them, always just thought i was a poor sharpener but it turns out it was because i couldn't see what i was doing !! Doh....
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Thanks for all the advice, my own research was directing me towards the 365 and I think that is what I'll go for. Looked on the FR Jones site and they are doing a great deal so will order one tonight when i've finished work.
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Hi all, I do quite a bit of firewood for myself and old folks next door, about 30 cube/year, most of it is wind blown larch with some sycamore. The larch is usually 20 -24 inch trunks the syc about a foot. I'm needing a new saw to ring up as old stihl 391, which the elderly neighbour gave me after her husband died, is knackered and the local repair shop said was passed fixing. Husky 365 and stihl 391 look very similar, although the 441 would be a bit of a step up in price. I'm really looking for the advice of the seasoned veterans as I just don't know what to get. Guy in local shop said he preferred Stihl, although he is a dealer for both ! My mate, who is a local farmer said that there wasn't any great difference, so I'm totally confused now. Help !!
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Make up 2 little wooden wedges to jam the bar in the tail gate door on my old defender and away I go. Like a few others I'm too old and stiff to sit on the deck and the floor of a defender is the perfect work height for me. I'm a short arise !!
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I've got the husky and the fiskar, I like axes, and use them both usually on small stuff and they are both as good as each other and its just a matter of which one is nearest to hand as to the one I use. Although the Fiskar cover is better as it hangs better (flatter) from the nail on the back of the shed door !!
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Thanks for the advice, I've got my eye on the Portek splitter as it is electric and I can use it indoors. I'm just finding that old age is catching up with me !!
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Looking for some advice, as I'm thinking its time to invest in a splitter for home use. Had a look a various fly wheel kinetic splitters that seem to be really fast and few bits to go wrong has anyone got any experience of them. I would only be doing my own and the elderly nehbours domestic fire wood.
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I suffered from "log rustlers/fairies" recently. I had built a rather attractive Holtz Hausen to dry off some larch in at the top of a hill so it could get the wind from all directions thru it and 2 days later half of it had been snaffled. Robbing b*$%ards!!
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I bought a couple of the piranha chains a while back and wasn't impressed by the amount they stretched. However that aside they cut ok and have been sharpened at least 4 times by me, who is a less than average sharpener, and they are still doing the business on some wind blown Larch at the weekend. Previously said I wouldn't use them again but once they have been "stretched in" they do ok and perhaps the new rotatech improvements will stop the stretching issue I had. So will eat humble pie and say that they are pretty good for the money and will give them another go.
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What are you charging for your logs this season
Silverhooker replied to D.M.Taylor Firewood Supp's topic in Firewood forum
I mostly burn Larch and pine, and the odd bit of sycamore and they all burn fine if seasoned . -
Piranha Chainsaw Chain - Press Release
Silverhooker replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Got a couple of these for my husky 440e, I usually run Oregon semi chisel chains on this saw, but after a bit of reading saw that full chisel is best for the Larch and Scots pine that I cut. Used one today and it stretched like a rubber band I think I had to tighten it 12 to 15 times, thank god the 440 has a tooless tensioner it was a pain. As for cutting didn't think they were as good as my regular semi chain. They were cheap but I won't buy them again I'll stick to Oregon or Stihl chains in future. -
I burn almost 100% Larch and Scot's pine in stoves and leave them both about 12 months before burning, although thats stacked as logs under cover, and they burn just great. Only issue is Scots pine can be a bit knotty as I hand split it all, but more than makes up for it by being FREE !!
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Best log splitter for around the £400-£500 mark?
Silverhooker replied to Devs's topic in Firewood forum
I nearly bought one of the electric plitters myself a couple of months ago but got a wetterlings large splitting axe instead, as the maul and wedges were killing my back and neck. I've no regrets, the new axe cut like a knife thru butter and is light and doesn't do me in. DON'T GET A SPLTTER FOR DOMESTIC USE JUST GET THE BEST AXE !! Its the puppy's parts. -
Hi I have had a similar miss hap and the Husky saved me too, although I wasn't doing logs at the time. Some one dropped a stilson spanner out of the bathroom window whislt I was coming up the ladder outside, managed not to fall off and the helmet was totalled but I wasn't !! As a full time doctor and part time logger can I make a plea that safety gear 99% of the time is a drag, but that 1 time your bloody glad you put the helmet on !! Often see local domestic useer cutting stuff with no helmet and usually no clue either !!
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Did a whole day splitting and stacking using the Wetterlings splitting axe and my home made pickeroon. No aches or pains and I could easily do it again today, although my "real" employer would be a bit peed off !! Only used the maul and log grenade on one particularily knotty bit all the rest done with the new axe, and what a joy it is to use. Can see me investing in the GB small splitting hatchet for doing the little bits and bobs, just won't tell her in doors the price!! The old ways some times are the best .
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Just got myself a new wetterlings splitting axe, till now I've used a 6.5 lb maul and wedges. This new axe is the dogs danggly bits ! I can split all day and not feel like I've been in a car wreck the next day. Where has this tool been all my life. I only do enough for myself and 2 neighbours but that still mounts up and its all by hand. Was thinking about a mechanical splitter but with this new axe I'm defo going to continue as a manual splitter.
