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That's what the trommel cleans out. Roller cleaning pile tomorrow.

People aren't that loyal. They'd go elsewhere before they paid extra. Better to do it for everyone and put the price up across the board to make it more worthwhile doing it economically.

There are always going to be small slithers once you split logs, and once they're dry, bark, to a greater or lesser degree depending on species. You either need to tell your customers that are awkward that it's what they get and you'd charge more to hand load/sort it out or get sone sort of trommel or roller cleaner and do it for everyone. We do the latter. For the last 2 years we've used an old trommel with is now available for sale. We've bulk loaded using a 360 digger into a hopper at the top but it works far far better off the end of a processor conveyor as the feed rate is more constant so you never get a blockage. We've now replaced with an EHS 9-60 roller cleaner which doesn't do anywhere near as good a job of knocking the crap off or taking sub 40mm slithers out but it's got a far higher work rate, which was our principle reason for change. It is also much smaller. Will try put pictures of both up tomorrow evening and what they clean out.

Would happily pay £55 roadside plus vat for the ash. Where abouts are you I'd be interested in sending a wagon for it?

I'd have it in the round if we weren't the wrong end of the country. £70 m3 in bulk should make a bit for everyone but unless you're the kind of log seller only buying bulk and not processing yourself it's not the ideal time for it.

Something like a posch where the log rolls into the split chamber or the uniforest titan that has a flipper that transfers the log to the chamber. Any machine that drops the log into the chamber runs the risk of it not landing square with a short log.

That and then not having them calibrated or dodgy drivers skimming some off.You soon learn who you can trust!! Some may even just round it off to a straight figure of 25t when there was 25.450 or something. Soon adds up

Nope. Plenty do but definitely not all

Don't want to state the obvious but you know you can dress the bars up to get the rails square again right?

Oak

Never had any to try myself but have heard its excellent stuff. Similar to beech I believe?

Oh yeah I meant mainly feature stuff for my own house/garden or 'rustic' mantelpiece type stuff. Wasn't expecting structural quality.

I think that's quite a good idea actually. The rest of the wood has a lot of old coppice stumps, apparently the old (must be 80 now) agri engineer in the village coppiced the whole wood as his first job out of school for the farmer that used to own it. I'll get some better photos tomorrow. Might help with a better view. It would make some beautiful milling wood given the size and straightness off the other 3 stems.

Definitely 5.5mm. They're a taller cutter than any oregon 3/8 full chisel for a start. Best off sharpening with a bench grinder or granberg style sharpener if you don't want to totally ruin a file each sharpen.

Only thing missing is the benefit of the doubt [emoji6] Just looking for more experienced educated opinions on the how, why and when. Doing the actual how is the easy part.

Fence is knackered and ready for replacement hence wanting the heavy leaners dealt with first. Nothing more annoying than doing a lovely wire fence perfectly tensioned and a tree flattening it!

It's about 20ft from a beck and is pretty much in an old field beck/ditch that used to run from further up the wood according to dad. Should get plenty of water I would think? Happy to cut it further up the stem if its more beneficial to the trees health.

Only that stem and the one directly behind it you can't see from that angle I want out. Theres a big heavily infected with dieback ash about 2m away that needs to come down too. They're both edge trees on a 2acre woodland of ours that I'm thinning bit by bit to improve diversity.

Perfectly capable of doing it myself safely, just don't know the biological repercussions of cutting it in the wrong place and getting the rest of the tree more stressed than need be.

Farmers/Firewood merchant more than homeowners question here but... Big old 5 stemmed (possibly coppiced a long long time ago) oak and 2 of the stems are leaning heavily over a field edge so far that we haven't had a tractor under for years. We'd like access but don't want to damage the tree if it can be helped as the remaining 3 stems are easily over 20" dbh and looking very healthy. Pictures attached, where is the best place to cut please? In the second picture one stem is directly behind the other.

Jeeeeesus that's painfully slow. Tajfun 400 would do 3 cycles in the time that's done one!!

Is the generator definitely running it at the correct speed?

Can't speak for the processor but stick it on one of these low loaders and it's very mobile. https://images.app.goo.gl/revGjwUxUK2xFmU78

We have a 285 and the bigger bodied 450. Unless its tractor wheel nuts then theres not a lot that stops either to be honest. 450 manages the chipper blade bolts, skid steer wheels and front wheels on the 2wd JD and the 285 is great for anything smaller. The air wrench very rarely gets used these days I'll say that.

Fair play Bob that's a cracking little invention! Would be done in seconds with our 360. The rotator is rapid!!