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Probably butaline. Try a bicycle tube repair patch, with the glue provided.

If I've got my history right, the ancient Scots (Picts) were an indigenous people to the British isles, who no longer exist. The modern Scots actually migrated from Ireland. Ireland was Scotia Major, to the Romans, and northern Britain was Scotia Minor. They were Gaels (Celts) originally from Spain, and further afield.

Fenix, if you're a flashlight geek. 100% Chinese domestic company, roots to branches.

I've a €100 Florabest saw, good chance it's a rebadged Zomax. Soft start counterspring pull cord, alloy body. Perfectly fine and useable, but slightly temperamental. If you have the feel for 2 stroke machines it's not a bother. Chain tensioner can loosen. Break is oversensitive. Leaks chain oil. The refinement isn't there but it hasn't let me down.

I think he I think he said he heats the kilns with wood burners...to be fair. But yeah, **************** the rules. Embracing stupid rules leads society to totalitarianism, look at Oz. "Rules mate, rules!" The mindset is part of a cultural death spiral. Disregard for any and all rules also leads to disaster. It's a matter of using reason.

Try and pick up a pair of used Treehogs for real cheap, with a simple modification they can be made much better. There's a thread about it on here

Try Brave browser.

I'm serious. And don't call me Shirley....

Even if we wanted to, where would we start?? The big one looks to be fifteen foot across, if we take the guy to be five feet tall (people were shorter back then). I suppose with a seven foot bar on an 880 it would be theoretically possible to get the cuts to meet up. If it was wider than 14" then you'd have a chunk of holding wood in the center that you'd have to bore out through the gob side. I wouldn't fancy it.

Wondered the same thing. They milled it in situe I suppose. Even with modern machines, how would one move such a log out of the forest? Unbelievably determined people they were...

Sounds serviceable, but rather dull.

Gerald Berenek explained why logging the old growth actually benefitted the biodiversity of the forest, especially with sequoia. Not that the really huge specimens shouldn't have been spared, ideally, and nowadays of course, they are. But it's not all black and white.

Thanks for your input. I wondered this. How would that work do you think? The motor only spins one way, the pump only spins one way, so the reversal of flow is due to a valve change. Maybe a too sudden change in direction makes a kind of resistance shock to the motor?

My vertical hydraulic electric log splitter manual says not to suddenly change direction of the splitting wedge...that is, if the wedge is on the return stroke, going up, don't suddenly push the power lever and make it go back to power stroke. The machine has a settable stroke stop, and it said to let the ram hit the stop, before applying power again. The reason for this, IIRC, is to avoid a sudden change in direction of flow, which is bad for it, much like allowing your car to come to a complete stop, before shifting to reverse. Makes sense, but.... I've seen digger men yank the controls all over the place, they don't pause before changing direction of the boom, bucket etc. There's the "jiggle the bucket" manouver, to get stuck mud out of it, which is rapidly and repeatedly changing direction of flow to the bucket ram. I've done it myself... What think you, hydraulic experts?

I've come across this before, never tried it, personally. I can't tell the difference between a nearly used-up chain and a new one, with the deapth gauges set the same (both properly sharp). It feels like it would be a pain to have to incorporate this into the filing schedule. Anyone actually do this, and notice a benefit?

First thing you got to do when buying a splitter is disabled all the safety features. They're unusable with them in place. Building from scratch no problem, obviously... There's passive safety features, like chainsaw pants, which are great, and active features, some of which are worthy, and some not.

Proper tripod ladder, for starters. Lanyard onto the ladder, better than nothing, then mulch the top to splinters with a polesaw.

That's an executioner's axe. Repurposed in more recent times as a splitting wedge, obviously.

Just went and watched the clip - timeless wisdom! It's the unknown unknowns that give me the heebee jeebees. We wakey's know "they" know we know they don't know their ass from a hot rock. Or maybe they do. So maybe it's malevolence or maybe just incompetence, but it's beginning to look a lot like genocide.

Same principle as the kinetic splitter. Super fast stroke, with a charge time for the flywheel while you reposition or load your next log. The beauty of a tractor splitter is you got the big deck to work on, so there isn't really much repositioning required. Bang bang bang, turn that log into splinters rapido.

Wokey and wakey are polar opposites, gotta choose one. If you wanna be wokey I'd suggest phoning your council and ask if there's any programs or classes you can join to help you not be a racist, misogynistic, nationalistic, anti-science homophobe. They'll hook you up with the wokey gang. If you wanna be wakey, you gotta get on a wakey telegram group and watch all the wakey videos other wakey people post and read all the wakey articles. Then use lateral thinking and wisdom to figure out what's real and what's fake...it's a lotta of workey...

The OP doesn't want to run his tractor all day to split wood. But at the end of the day, you get out what you put in, right? Bigger power plant, more flow, faster stroke, more wood split per hour. Still takes the same amount of energy to split a cord of wood, just a question of how fast one wants to get through it. If time is money, then the faster the better, provided you can physically keep up your end of the operation. The nice thing about electric is it's quite, so I can listen to my tunes or whatever. Also can work indoors without gasing myself. If working at a client's property, they pay the electric bill, not me. It's a hidden cost to them that doesn't appear on the bill, whereas if it was a petrol splitter, I'd have to factor in the fuel cost (not that it would be much though)... Reliable, maintenance free. Cheap to replace the motor if it ever blows up. Cheaper initial cost. Those are the advantages. There are downsides too ..

Nice setup. I'd like to get more stroke speed out of my splitter. Was thinking about downgrading to a smaller diameter ram. Trade power for speed.

Doubtful. My wee electric splitter is 3kw, 240 domestic at 13 amps. It came with a 15 amp plug, and I was told I'd have to install a 15 amp socket. My electrician friend looked at it and metered it and said no, it will run from a regular 13 amp plug, and the breakers at the fusebord are 20 amp, but it's close to maxing out the plug fuse. At 3kw mine is equivalent to 4 HP.... Think about it.... Domestic is limited to about 10kw I think. That's like 12hp. What HP does your tractor produce?

Heed Mick. He knows what he's talking about.