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  1. SbTVF
    Standard A frames for front mounted mo-Co's should be plenty man enough. Sure BRM would get you one.
  2. SbTVF
    That trailer is very smart. PTO through from the tractor and a linkage? Great idea.
  3. SbTVF
    I think his tape measure has shrunk in the wash [emoji23]
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    Will be taking advantage of this for sure. Great deal!
  5. SbTVF
    Same experience here. Have henrys mobile for out of hours emergency issues. Great bunch to deal with!
  6. SbTVF
    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!
  7. SbTVF
    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.
  8. SbTVF
    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
  9. SbTVF
    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?
  10. SbTVF
    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.
  11. SbTVF
    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.
  12. SbTVF
    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.
  13. SbTVF
    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?
  14. SbTVF
    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!
  15. SbTVF
    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.
  16. SbTVF
    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%.
  17. SbTVF
    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.
  18. SbTVF
    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.
  19. SbTVF
    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.
  20. SbTVF
    Yeah it's very much perpendicular to the prevailing wind. Thats centre grain while processing. The sub 6" diameter is lower in that moisture range obviously but I find keeping it out of the rain like that encourages the bark to dry out faster and flake off sooner particularly with sycamore which is the majority of that stack. The ease of rolling it up makes it worth doing if no rain is forecast for a while particularly in summer.
  21. SbTVF
    It is indeed. I'm struggling to get more than 6months ahead of delivery date before it's cut generally but at this time of year when it's not unseasonably warm its usually about 25-30%. Softwood is sub 20% even now. Most importantly though it's not getting rewet at all prior to processing. We kiln so it's not essential for it to be dry but it speeds things up dramatically and reduces risk of surface mould because of wetness where logs are touching. When I say it let's water through... That's only in really heavy rain, it runs off it in droplets most of the time. It chucked it down last night and those sheets are dry as a bone this morning. Only the odd patch of wet where the holding down logs are in contact with it. A bit like when water goes through a tent when you touch it in wet weather. I leave them off if there's a period of prolonged dry weather predicted
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    Not hugely exposed but it is a site that dries well for certain.
  23. SbTVF
    Not thrown one away yet. Not showing any signs of UV damage either. Only damage I've done to it is moving it with the grab but that was laziness, easier to just get up on top and roll it back. Only needs a few branch logs down it to hold it on. Doesn't take as much holding down as plastic and its light enough to unravel a 10m or more section on your own on top of a stack by hand. And because its a cloth type material it doesn't puddle on the top and block airflow under it. It allows some water through if it's heavy rain but certainly less than the ends of the stack get in a shower.
  24. SbTVF
    We use this stuff. Works brilliantly. https://www.google.com/search?q=toptex+fabric&oq=top&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j69i60j35i39j0l2j69i61.1865j0j9&client=ms-android-h3g-gb-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
  25. SbTVF
    Excellent advise guys thanks. I'll give it a go and report back. Got tonnes of beech and a few bits of oak and elm to play with too.

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