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Sorry for a wee little hijack, but the mention of flamethrowers made me remember this vid - just gotta share it, honestly its pretty awesome. [ame] [/ame]

Thats frightening. I wonder if my Lumia800 automatically does that. It uses the Explorer browser. I have location switched off anyways....

Captain Beef-Heart, song was "Bat Chain Puller". Not everybody's cup of coffee thats for sure! I was handling a new genuine Tirfor 800 - the open frame model - in a crane-and-lifting place a few months back. Was crazy money, but way nicer than my Chinese clone, in fairness. You can really feel the quality. One day when Im rich I'll buy one of each and mount them on the wall......

If the winter diesel works when the day warms up, then its probably only a few degrees difference in the tank between working and not working. Could you warm the tank on the chipper? I have read that in the old days in the USSR they used to light small fires under the trucks in winter to warm the workings. Not suggesting you do that. But maybe a propane blowtorch bungeed or taped the the body of the chipper, with the nozzle just warming the metal wall of the fuel tank would be enough? We know that diesel is non-flammable under normal conditions and in any case the mass of the fuel tank would distribute the heat pretty evenly. Might be an expensive way to do it, but if its only one tank.....

I have the 800kg one, for € 145.00 and its been great. Hard to know how much it will pull by looking at the object to be pulled, unless you have an eye for these things, which Im starting to develop. It will drag a massive tree across a field, but if there's a few stray broken branches catching the ground, forget it. Likewise with pulling stumps. An unassuming stump can be the devil'd work to pull if it has a good root system. Its all about friction..... I like the weight of mine, easy to carry the machine, cable, handle and straps all in one go. The 1600kg would be to heavy for me to do that. Also inch thing about the small puller is you can rig it with one hand at shoulder hight, holding the mating one handed while fussing with the shackle and strap with the other hand - hard but doable. Not so with the bigger machines, unless you are pretty butch. I was worried that my clone would let me down on bigger pulls, and it has, so I also have big snatch blocks. Each block costs more than the tirfor., and the dyneema rope twice the price. I imagined myself doing complicated directional pulls etc, but so far haven't needed to. The nomad snatch blocks are too small a diameter for the rope and will mess it up. Homework required.... Heres an idea of what 2400kg will pull. The clone, with two blocks, thats tree time 800kg. I was fairly heavy on the handle, and it was just enough power to pull out the stump. Tried with the just the clone, then one snatch block, no cigar. As you can see later in the clip, once I had the rootball free of the ground, I could skull-drag it with just the wee tirfor on its own, no block needed. [ame] [/ame]

Cheapest supermarket Rapeseed oil, straightup off the self and outta the bottle. More and more converting every day, no need for special tackifiers and antioxidants. Keep saws and bottle where they can't be got at by rodents or they'll chew through the plastic oil tank to get at the oil. On long bars there is some controversy on shorter bars, under 20" say, no problem. They bee using in in Canada for years, pile of research done on it.

Yeah, to be honest at this point I dunno if this thread is really helping anyone. At least it got us talking about something deeper than logs for a change. These things are so complex and unfathomable that one would need the processing power of a god to figure it out.......we all just stumbling around in our own minds. Part and parcel of the human condition I suppose!

And you, my friend, are not the idiot you claim to be! Lives in a yurt. A man after my own heart - I lived in a treehouse for 8 years, solar 12v etc. Still use a bucket toilet but little bit more luxury now. We are the true philosophers of the western world. I dont agree with everything I say either......as Whitman said: "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." Good to know there are still a few tent people around, sleep well bro - hugs.

I wish I had the eloquence and erudition of some of the folks who have posted here, as I acutely feel my lack of.... but I'll blunder on regardless. Like the heretics of old, I feel it is my duty to the truth to provoke, yes. Those who provoked and argued against the "conventional wisdom" of mass religious feelings in the past were vilified and victimised. I now repeat their sacrifices by pointing the accusing finger at the modern religion which I dub: "CO2=climate change=Bad And We Are To Blame" I hope you are provoked just enough to bear to watch this 44minute video, and not too provoked to simply dismiss it with disgust. A lot to ask of anyone, I'll be the first to say I wouldn't bother to watch it myself, and I wouldn't blame you if you don't. This guy was director of Greenpeace for fifteen years. Did more to "help save the planet" than all of us put together. He has embraced manmade CO2 emissions as a vital and necessary part of the continued survival of the Earth's biosystem. I **** you not. I believe him. I have FAITH. You can put scientist up against scientist till the cows come home and generate nothing but controversy and anger. At the end of the day (when the cows come home) we are gonna believe what we want to, and find supporting evidence for it - its just the way we are wired. To state that "science is right" is just another belief, or faith, that science is right. Science is not always right, and the media and politicians distort the findings of the scientific community. We don't know if the scientists are right about manmade emissions contributing to climate change. Some say aye, some say nay. Lets check back in ten years and see how it panned out. [ame] [/ame]

I kind of, sort of agree with you there Ed. Im sure there are certain areas of forests that are protected here as well, but in general the rural Irish are not great tree enthusiasts - at least not in the south west anyway - attitudes may well be different up the country. Trees grow like mad here and the timber quality isn't great, we don't really have a managed forestry system in place at a national level, and commercial timber is pretty much just plant spruce, wait 20 years, clear fell, plant again. There may be private folks who do manage their stuff properly but I don't know of any. Bearing in mind we also have a MUCH lower population density than England, trees seem to be viewed as more of a nuisance than anything. Turn your back for a decade and your property will be a jungle of sallies, rhododendron and birch - seen it happen. Re. counting the stump rings - thats what diggers are for! There's a standard €84.65 fine per tree (assuming the very remote chance that someone will care enough to report, and the equally remote chance that prosecution will be enforced). Was a farmer locally who knocked a whole wee wood of oak, and was done for it, cost him dear, but the trees were in a particularly picturesque area. Any tree within 30 meters of a dwelling is automatically exempt anyway, is that the same in the UK?

Christianity is on the wane in the West, and Islam is going down in the Middle East. Judaism has always been a sideshow anyway.... In short, Monotheism on a global level is dying and its in the terminal stages. What we're seeing in Syria and the middle east generally is a symptom of this, as the Moral Majority and the rise of fundamentalism in the USA a few decades ago was and is simply representing the death throes in the west. Monotheistic apocalyptic, guilt centric faith is leaving a vacuum which is bing filled by enviro-climate delusions. Now CO2 is the sin and we are the sinners. Gotta replace original sin with something.... Problem with the twenty first century is everyone can access the experts in a flash, and the argument and debate is not limited to the universities. Not everyone can claim to be a Bible scholar, but we can all tap the ideas and knowledge of real Bible scholars any time we like. The churches tried to repress the printed Bible, for fear that people would interoperate it in their own ways. Now the internet offers us not only interperatiations but a ruthless breakdown of the whole thing in minute detail - if you care to go that deeply into it.

Indoctrination, received before the age of seven or eight, very hard to remove. Even when we intellectually know its wrong, it still influences us at some level. Religious, political, social, biases. Our primitive ancestors observed correctly, that the sun is the source of life. The sun dies a bloody death every evening. And is reborn every day. If the sun didn't get reborn, we would not last long - all life would certainly fail in a matter of days or weeks. Likewise the sun grows weaker in winter, and winter was a bloody tough time for them. This gave rise to seasonal magic etc. The sun came to be personified and later actual persons were ritually scarified to ensure the continued rebirth of the sun every day, and the renewal of nature's power in spring. The dying and rising god evolved out of this practice, long after the human sacrifices had disappeared. All over the middle east there is an ancient tradition of these dying and rising gods. The christian movement was and is also based in this tradition, which is why it was so popular and still remains active today - simply because it speck to something in our collective memories, the triumphant sun reborn.

The old way was to make a stack and then roof it with split logs in such a way that it would naturally shed water. Some rain would get in, obviously, but thats not the end of the world for firewood. It seems to dry out regardless and doesn't really absorb water beyond a mil or so from the surface. Logs will season if you just leave them in a heap uncovered - true. Ground contact is no good, obviously. Airflow is key.

Hey Keith, wan't us to all troll his Facebook page? Arbnonymous......(not really, might put the wind up him, make him harder to catch...)

Irish law has this one nailed - one of the few instances where it is actually clearer and better drafted the the English equivelent. Anything under ten years old you can fell with impunity.

I found him on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/lance.chambers.566 The other two links aren't him, Bluebedouin. Not much there on his page though - looks like he's only got one friend!

Not trolling, promise, but cannot help but shove my oar in. It seems to be the nature of religious "debate" that it makes otherwise agreeable people turn purple and steam come out of their ears. Hence all the bloodshed these last few millennia...but anyway, here goes. Luke 19:27 "But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me." - Jesus. Seriously. He was telling a parable but he was speaking about himself.

Absolutely.

Read the actual honest-to-goodness teachings of Jesus with an open mind and they are simply the rantings of a deranged Arbtalker.... uh, I mean madman.....

Good question! I have always wanted to run four strings but never had enough cc

Good to see that a few of the options send it Ireland's way.... Paddy and John are adrift in a lifeboat. They have been lost for three days when they see something floating in the water. Its a bottle with a cork in it. Paddy fishes it out and pops the cork, and a genie appears in a cloud of sparkly smoke... "Thank you for setting me free! I shall grant you a wish!" Before the two pals can discuss the situation, Paddy jumps the gun and wishes for the ocean to be made of Guinness....in a twinkling of an eye, the wish is granted and the genie is gone. John dips his finger in a and sure enough, its porter. "Nice going, Paddy" he says "Now we'll gave to pee in the boat...."

Jon, have you considered chaining it to a lamp-post?

The Perry Bible Fellowship

You can be sure they do, brother. Gotta be careful when you're shopping for prawns. Anything 'caught in the indian/south pacific/north atlantic ocean' will be fine, but if it don't say that on the packet it has been raised in a sewage pond in viatnam.... But then again, what the hell.....