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  1. Watercourse management
    Are these figures correct in reality, hence the other thread. Also I run a Gilles 125kw wood chip boiler using our own chip from our work, great boiler picked it up secondhand after the rhi changed for basically scrap value.
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    This all started when I read an article in the farmers weekly about a system by Powerguard which apparently should be fully automatic, the only big power load we have is my workshop hence three phase 30kva genni. If everything with the green power goes tits up I can run the farm on this. All our heating is from woodchip which I produce myself and we cook on gas. We live atop an ww2 air field so it’s always windy and have plenty of shed roofs for solar So I suppose the big question is do these systems like Powerguard advertise work.
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    As per title, with our electricity prices jumping from 15 p per kWh to 27 kWh and not looking like it’s ever going to get a lot cheaper is it time to consider going off grid. I have been looking at systems which combine battery solar and wind backed up with a diesel generator to charge the batteries ( lead acid ) when they are discharged to 50 percent, also the genni would be 3 phase to run the workshop instead of using single phase inverters. anyone have any experience of these systems?
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    Glad I could help cheers Simon.
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    Here you go
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    One off a slurry tanker vacuum pump might fit.
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    Never had one snap yet, and I’m running bands at 5200 feet per minute. Now I’ve jinxed it.
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    Knocked these up to sharpen and set my bands, there simple and work.
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    D cell maglite with led conversion.
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    Acf 50 is what I use to keep rust at bay on bare metal, worth a look.
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    they only break when you use them.
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    Dunmow is closer then Norfolk, it doesn’t look too difficult from the photo.
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    Have you got some pics of it?
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    At the moment I’m running a 13hp Honda as I had a spare one, I was not expecting a lot from it but was quite impressed with the speed it cut through a 36inch lump of ash . I have all intentions to replace it with a 24hp twin so I can increase the band speed and run a hydraulic debarker .
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    My belts run very slack as I ordered the wrong size but they have never come off and as a bonus it stops the sawdust building up in the v of the pulley.
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    Haven’t got that far in the design process yet, maybe in a year or two I’ll work it out.
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    At the moment I push it along, the plan is to upgrade the engine to 24 hp so I can run a hydraulic de barker on the saw head and then I would like to upgrade the carriage to hydraulic drive and also all the stops and clamps. The drag backs work well when planking but can get in the way if you want to back out of a cut so I need to add a way to hold them up when not in use.
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    Yep as you return the carriage they pull the board off the rear.
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    I did use steel for mine as I haven’t got any nylon flat and they were a afterthought, I slotted the holes and run them loose on the rails otherwise they bind a little bit.
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    A lot of black steel comes on a big reel then goes though a de coiler,I put some little scrapers in front of the track wheels as sawdust was building up on the track and getting compacted causing the carriage to run lumpy..
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    I would look at the wood mizer ones, I made mine swing up on a crank handle like the cooks but it’s not great if I wasn’t going to go hydraulic that’s the system I would use now.
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    Looking good, on the log bunks I would plate the ends to stop it filling with sawdust and weld a bit of flat bar around 20mm high on the end so you can clamp your log against them for planking.
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    I couldn’t live without the lathe and mill now, never can have to many toys in the workshop. the belt rides proud and loose and after a fair bit of cutting their not even marked.
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    Use what you have available, you can always swap it out later.

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