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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!
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Standard A frames for front mounted mo-Co's should be plenty man enough. Sure BRM would get you one.
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That trailer is very smart. PTO through from the tractor and a linkage? Great idea.
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I think his tape measure has shrunk in the wash [emoji23]
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Tsumura Bars coming to a store near you soon! Well soonish...
SbTVF replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsawbars
Will be taking advantage of this for sure. Great deal! -
Same experience here. Have henrys mobile for out of hours emergency issues. Great bunch to deal with!
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There's not a lot you can't do when there's a grab and rotator on this tb175. Lifting these 30ft lengths of windblown Ash out across this dry bog hole in our old sandstone Quarry on this beautiful Saturday. I got bogged down here the winter before last with it, after getting a bit too cocky with one of these lumps pushing me through the frozen crust. No worries this time. Using our old Thwaites as a forwarder!
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Make sure you turn the woodchip piles or mix it with manure until its well rotted or you'll just be pulling nitrogen out of the soil instead of adding to it.
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Don't care what people say, log bags don't stretch that much. You sell it by the volume based on the measurements as if it was a solid box and accept it or sell it in a solid box measurement
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You could set the splitta up so the outfeed went into your farmi conveyor and saved you the cost of second conveyor. With 2 workers you'd get through a fair amount in a day! There are 2 on ebay currently if you weren't already aware?
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10-14" is ideal going through an 8 way on a tajfun 400. Any bigger and you're back to Resplitting. Still produce plenty at that diameter even so. Needs to be on a 12/16 way wedge after that size in my opinion so you're in tajfun 480 territory then. The Uniforest titan is in the same price bracket but circular saw, will take a 12 way wedge though at 16" capacity.
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Is it not just as simple as working out how many you could do yourself in an hour and dividing it by a fair hourly rate? Then if he's able to do more in the hour than you that's his choice.
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Changed phone and lost the videos but still very happy with the newer chain. Definitely holds tension and sharpness better than the old stuff even though they're sharpened identically. I can get a full day's use out of one chain with only 1 tension up (as long as I don't do anything silly with a small log) and that's really all I can ask of them. Harder to see the difference on a standard saw though I feel.
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There's a very capable fabricator over at Stillington that we just found recently after he also fixed our LR discovery. Will pm you his number if you're interested?
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Well I got it done. Worked much better after a sharpen with my granberg and only need the weight of my hand resting on the mill to keep it moving. That being said, bit oh boy could you tell when it was cutting through a knot, shook me to buggery! Pleased overall for my first try. Now the hard part... Getting my brother along to help lift them out!
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Yeah, using plenty. And just to add all the beech I have is heavily spalted and probably past its best so not expecting it to be overly hard.
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Drying Roundwood stacks before processing
SbTVF replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
If I could store enough in sheds to get me past Christmas I'd consider it but my brother keeps putting sheep and other things in there!! When we get a specific sheep shed put up it might be a different story though. If it's about 20% when it goes in the kiln it only takes 2-3 days instead of 7! That's a huge increase in output. Customers are so so fussy in this area I wouldn't want to risk our logs not being sub 15%. -
Drying Roundwood stacks before processing
SbTVF replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
No, at least 5 years use out of them if not much longer. I'd definitely be storing far more if I could. You have to take it when it's offered too so you stay in the loop. We tend to have a load in almost every fortnight if we have the space. IBC'S are half the price here too. I hate them though. I spend far more time moving them and fixing them than I do filling them in sure. -
Drying Roundwood stacks before processing
SbTVF replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
Yes very much so, the money is set aside for it and just keeps rolling round into it for the most part. Apart from out of log season when I'm cutting away and having more deliveres but very little sold of course. There's thousands set aside in bags too and 100 IBC'S but it's the only way to keep up with the rush come autumn. The first one we bought is on the left stack. It's 2 years old and doesn't look a day older than the newest that arrived last week. I'm expecting 5 years at least from them. I've only been able to get hold of 4m wide stuff. All our roundwood is in 3m lengths anyway. Don't think extra overhang would be beneficial in the least. -
Drying Roundwood stacks before processing
SbTVF replied to arboriculturist's topic in Firewood forum
I can get approx 250t on the left and 150t on the right. The right is currently chip wood for the boiler but we have got 100t+ of new storage area courtesy of the neighbour directly opposite our entrance so I'm hoping for an extra 100t of hardwood this year.
