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A 9Hp Honda GX270 comes in at £320 which is not really a huge lot.

PS

I'll be selling a GX390 electric start engine shortly, Just need to give it a tidy up first

Bought a Wessex flail mower 22 years ago with a Honda GX390 fitted to it. The flail mower has long since rusted away to bits and bobs but I took the engine off it last week, drained all the oil out of it, replaced the carb and put it back together again. Attached a fully charged battery and after a few turns of the key it fired into life and purred away nicely. Going to fit a pressure washer onto it because the Chinese copy Honda one we bought last year has packed in......looks like valve problems, but hardly worth spending time fixing it for something else to go.

Moral of the story............stick to what has been copied most. I don't see anyone copying Chinese Honda copies just yet

If cutting long lengths in two then splitting them is your game, surely it would be just as fast to use a chainsaw to saw the long lengths in two then use a cone splitter attached to your mini digger to lift and split the 5 ft lengths onto the bundler?

£4-5k would see enough for a cone splitter and 700 would cover the saw cost.

Seems to me that what you're doing might seem like a great idea but maybe not the simplest.

Spend a fill of the saw cutting 10ft lengths in two then spend time in the digger lifting and splitting them into the size you need. Bet it's not any slower than what you've got and not any more labour intensive

No need, my mum gives me medals all the time so I have plenty in my bedroom.

 

I did mean to put a link up that would have made my post a bit less arsey

 

Rotatech B2SFT 72 Drive Links Chain - Northern ARB Supplies

Odd that they want £17 frothier site and yet take £12 if you buy the same through Ebay.

Mind you, given my last attempted purchase from them on Ebay I will now go back to my local dealer and get Oregon chains at a couple of quid more.

I detest poor sellers on Ebay, especially when they try to mess you about and tell you what they think you want to hear.

Not much wrong with the chains, but the sellers are not worth wasting time or money on

Have given some thought to purchasing a 240v sawdust extractor and replacing the motor with a small honda engine. Reckon the whole thing would cost around £4-500.

Shovelling sawdust is about the most non productive thing I can think of, but until I can get my head round spending dosh on something that earns nothing extra in a day it's the way I'll do it

That work?

The link does......

Chopping sitka spice all day today, maybe a half day at it tomorrow and that should see us fine for next winter

25-30hp would run one with no problem.

Power requirement for them starts at 15Kw.

They are incredibly fast on pulp size wood, first time anyone sees them working, it's the speed that they all comment on. On fresh cut wood they are not messy, but doing pallets and joinershop scraps really makes a bit of a mess.

Couple of grand gets you a decent size chainsaw (70cc+) and a tractor mounted log splitter.

John

Size of wood? Budget?

One thing I know, to my cost, about Canada is that you need all the proper qualifications and permits to work as a feller in their forests.

I went over to BC in the late 1980's and got a felling job easily enough through a mill owner friend. Myself and four Kiwi's were working well together, but we caught the attention of some of the lazier Canadian boys and they called immigration and reported us for having no proper work permits.........upshot of all this was that we were put in a detention centre in Vancouver for three months, then after several hearings all five of us were sent home with a black mark on our passports.

Make sure that every i is dotted and t crossed before considering forest work there. Unlike this country, there are a lot of very patriotic Canadians who don't like seeing any foreigners doing work they can do

Cheers and all the best out there. Great country

Tempest's biggun looks pretty smart. It looks like Wood Mizer have just bought the company, so they may become a bit more global.....

 

That''l be converted to two handed operation only to comply with HSE regs

It's all I burn in the stove. Quick to season, huge heat and greatest of all......next to no ash

Sure it burns a wee bit faster than beech but not so fast as to make it a deal breaker

Been processing a mixture of seasoned Scots Pine and fresh cut Larch for a biomass boiler.

Couple bought a 25ton load and want it processed this weekend. Easy enough job especially when the split length is 500mm. Only downside about the job is the constant rain, sleet and cold wind, but this is mid Feb inArgyll

Nothing in the pick-up, but we made an insulated drying room in the workshop for all our boots and wet gear.

Dehumidifier and small electric heater dry off any wet gear in about 5 hours. Great thing about the dehumidifier is that it gets the boots dry right into the toes

If we took every wet day off we'd never get any work done here in North West Scotland.

Average annual rainfall here is 124"

Only if you have millions.lol

You don't need that many

Our trustees are based in Jersey. Good tax laws there

Take my chain off and put it on the 357 with an 18" bar to sharpen it if I have to, but prefer to just change chain for a sharp one then take the dull one home and sharpen on a 6" vice. Never been a fan of grinders for sharpening

That should be easy to cut and bend shouldn't it

Yes, very easy

Slope in this pic doesn't look too bad, but it's a fairly steep, long climb.

Method used is to load a little from the bottom of the hill, then some from the middle then finish the load to what you want at the top of the hill. A good brash mat will see you fine for traction, but don't attempt this if you don't have forestry guarding.....either that or look at repairs every trip

Your rear shafts on the tractor are a good bit more exposed than those on my Landini, but that doesn't make them any less strong.

Your towing rates and load weights in the book are broadly similar to mine. They are really there to prevent an idiot such as myself throwing 6 ton onto the trailer then realising it won't stop when going down a steep hill with a right hand bend at the bottom

Looking at your trailer, I'd say that again it's broadly similar to my Farma one. Weight looks to be well balanced on it with the load being over the axle, so not much worry there about overloading the rear axle on the tractor.

We're into our tenth year using this set up and on flat ground I'd say load it to the neck, as long as your brash roads can handle it.

Cheers,

John

Do the logs need to be seasoned and dry, or would fresh cut sitka work?

I completely agree about NorthernArb's pricing of their chains.

I can buy two Piranha .325" 1.5mm 72 link chains for my processor from their eBay site for £11.76....fair enough price. I mailed them and asked about reels, they replied that they would work out a price and put them on their website and eBay.

I've worked out that, going on their price for a 100' reel, a single chain would cost me £6.98 to make. (100ft reel has 1848 links which is 25x72 link chains, £174.73/25=£6.98)

This reminds me of a Russian friend years ago who put the price up for bulk sales because he thought that if someone wanted a lot of something it meant they wanted it a lot so he could charge more.....

Today was the last day of my CS30/31 (assesment monday) so took a few pictures. Cracking fun all week.

Did all my timber tickets 30 years ago. Think they're still valid! Odd that even after a twenty year absence from timber work how the old bench and contour felling we did back then for skylines never leaves you