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Almost, it's a fiskars log pick/pickaroon thingy.
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Do Mts bobcat or similar have one? What's about CLS land services at yearby?
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I've got 2 rows of pallets along the back in that open fronted shed. Barely a hint of mould.
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At the bottom yes, the top half of the triangle will do better than if it's a rounder mound though I would think. I'm very pleased by how much that shed of ours has dried. They went in really quite wet and have come down considerably in next to no time at all.
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You either need a telehandler or a conveyor elevator to make the most of shed height. Logs do pile up well if you've got the forward reach!
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Store all our cages, 80 of them, in a windy ally between some sheds, they're down at 20-25%and only processed in June. Felled in February. These go in our kiln on farm 14 at a time. Once that's full we put loose logs in the 'lambing shed' ready to tip into the drying bin. Get about 70cube in there, need an elevator though and I'd get loads more in. Again cut about June/July and they've come down to 25% already even just in a pile like that. When the bin comes back we put them through the cleaner and bag up for storage.
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3455x200x50mm dry oak board wanted for floating shelving, anybody got any or can suggest trying? North East England. Ta
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We had northern power grid in on our small wood about 15 years ago but the wood had zero value so nothing to sell on but it was cut down, mulched with a big fendt and then restocked with variaties that wouldn't get as tall (dog woods and bushes basically) and it didn't cost us a penny. Even got a set of chainsaw boots off the climber for free that he'd barely used because he hated them so was getting another brand! So yes, make them do the leg work and get what you can for the timber at roadside afterwards.
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Most suppliers do it in a 85x85x85 bag round here and are charging anywhere from £70 to £90 which works out at nearly £150 a cube based on the bag holding 0.6m3. We're at £105 a cube this year.
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Aren't Kilworth are farmi dealer?
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The sawmills at Masham, North Yorkshire had some loads of big oak from Rokeby Estate last year. They might be worth a shout
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Nissan cabstar dropside with a cheap ebay swing hoist thing on the back for lifting bags off. Its economical and very nimble but hopeless in the snow even with proper snow tyres on! Hopefully I'll get a proper hydraulic crane on it for this season and and a driver so I can deal with things in the yard instead!
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If he's already chipping on site he's already a self supplier I would think. He'll just need felling licence numbers etc for his records incase of ofgem audit.
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Local, smaller dealers are a good bet. The condition of the seat, steps up to cab and general cab wear and tear are a good indication of how much the owner looked after it. I've seen immaculate 10,000 hour tractors and absolute dogs of a 4000 hour tractor. I know which I'd rather have.
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I think I spend more time waiting for customer's to move their cars off the drive than swapping a few logs off the top of a crate now and then. It's not a huge issue in the grand scheme of things.
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If that's the case, explain to me why the tajfun 11kw motor powers our tajfun 400 to exactly the same performance as the tractor does when it supposedly requires 35hp? I think the same motor does the 480 too with 25t split power... Ive run the processor for 6 weeks on less than 300 litres of diesel. I'd have refilled the 100litre tractor tank every 3 days.
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We do do that amount but it's getting harder to get anything of a decent size. We usually just get whole trees, branches and all rather than graded loads so the size is heavily weighted towards the smaller diameter! Had 75t of sub 10" Birch in the stuff we've just done. Makes nice logs but slow going. My question was as much, why are they are fitting electric motors that can't provide equal power to the pump as the PTO pump can?
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Don't do the volume to warrant it otherwise that'd be the first thing we did. Even if we spent the extra money on a tajfun 480 I'd still end up with almost the same amount of oversize to deal with. There are not many 16-19" logs in my oversize pile. Most of it 20" plus. But I'm only talking maybe 25t a year of over 16" in total currently. Thinking I'm better off with a vertical split so the straightest oversize can be billeted and put through the processor and the knotty stuff ringed and split on the table.
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They'll shrink for a start but also making the most of the stacking/seasoning space. Usually use the extra to top up others or fill an extra if needed.
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Been having a really good run with a friend working on the processor the last 6 weeks to get through all our older stock while the weather is on our side. Using our drying bin at a local farm AD plant has really upped our drying capacity, just need to find space for the dry ones to go now! The cages are full of the logs that have only been down a few months, let the weather do its work on them and finish them off in our kiln prior to sale. Another 20 or so to fill before I need to try buy some more cages though.
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Looking into vertical splitters at the moment, 20t+ ideally. Wanting to run it on 3ph but on all makes the electric models split speed is at least half that of the PTO version. Anyone shed any light as to why? Seems crackers to even offer it as an option when it's so much drastically slower than the PTO option. The ideal splitter for our use is the pezzolato vs60 but at over 11k it's just unrealistic, I could fabricate our own version of it for half the money but not having it CE marked further down the line is a worry if i need to put an employee on it.
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Why not run a double ended bar and use another big husky?
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Not with a fine diamond stone it isn't! [emoji23] Sounds like a circular saw going through wood after that thing!
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Don't want to start an argument and maybe you're better at it than me but I don't see how a machine that sharpens to an exact angle, height and tooth length can possibly be less sharp than doing it by hand. That is how they done at the factory although square ground though. I can do 3 or 4 tanks through the chainsaw before needing a touch up with the granberg but by hand it's crap after 1 tank.
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The incline makes absolutely no difference whatsoever. Have a look at the granberg precision grinder on chainsawbars and the diamond bits for it. Very accurate and fast too! Getting equal cutters and depth gauges is most important. The oregon EXL chain is excellent on the 400 or semi chisel when you have less clean timber to cut. If it's clean wood you should get most of a day's work on one chain. Look after your guide bars too. Keep them in tip top condition or you'll encounter plenty of strange issues!
