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Sounds like a nice thing to build. Wish I had the time myself for such a thing.
I’d be keen to see it [emoji106] -
Oh course it will bounce back. It’s a sycamore.
The title of the thread is has it been done well.
Answer is a simple no.-
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What areas of the tree are you referring too? I may have someone else out to fix it.
It’s been butchered from a quality of work perspective. 4 cuts at the base will have it over and not hurt everyone’s eyes anymore.
It’s poor work but hey , it’s smaller than before if that was the primary objective-
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Another 4 cuts and it’ll be finished by the look of it .......
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Mines had an exhaust mod. Run on 10” bar. Perfect. A Long bar on it would be too much and defeats the object of having a small light saw.
Same re panther. The nose splayed apart after about 4 chains. Was told this is normal for them so I went for a Sugi replacement. Only a couple of chains in but seems fine.-
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Saw bench and a venom splitter with 4 way head is a good combo. It’s a good way to make up a short day this time of year when no time to start another job.
We jumped on the venom splitter this afternoon, pile of nice bitch rounds. 3 of us processed circa 3 cube in about an hour. About £220 quids worth of firewood next season. I only do small volume for a few customers although lockdown has driven demand this year and I’m sold out as of today. All just arb waste. The crap goes for biomass and I process the nicer stuff. Might up volumes for next winter. Dare I say my house might be finished then and I’ll have a log fire again [emoji106]
It’s whatever works in your setup really. Although I agree, always nice to buy toys when you can.-
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If it’s arb waste time likely to be rounds of wood a lot is likely to be too big for a small processor
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That’s what I figured.
I’d take the rope with the Eder
The crap you end up pulling the line through whilst winching will fill your day to day rigging line with grit and crud pretty quick.
It’s also got a metal guard on the spliced eye which is good for joining to the d shackles and forestry choker chains.
All comes in a decent waterproof roll top rucksack that is good to carry the rope to where it’s being used. Generally somewhere off the beaten path.
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I though alder was suppose re-coppiced well.?
The NT mange a small alder coppice and make some charcoal near Aber Falls.
I have some alder thinking of coppicing to prolong there lifespan/ & for firewood but might be got too mature to coppice sucessfully as over 20yrs old.?
Also read thats alder not shade tolerant and its in a mixed of mostly ash woodland, thats getting ADB.
Might just try one see it it re-sprouts.
Robinia suppose to ideal for stakes and more eco but prob expensive & seem hard to find....
Made some tree stakes out of larch that last well but shame you can't buy them made out of decent durable hardwoods
Shouldn’t really need to leave stakes in many years. Once the root system has taken they are probably best left doing there own thing and being able to move.
If you want them to last longer you could leave the stakes stood in a bucket of creosote
The alder should still coppice well and grow back nicely it’s more what to do with large alder sticks. As you mention it’s a decent charcoal wood.-
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If you have loads of thorn to work in a welders jacket might be a good call. That green waistcoat thing would most definitely make you the only gay in the blackthorn hedge ....
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I make retorts out of large gas bottles, I place 4 in an Ibc cage with waste wood.
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Not really. I went through the Woodland Trust MOREWoods scheme that gave a substantial discount on the trees and tubes. I've now finished my home grown logs but have more other stuff than I know what to do with thanks to the tip directory on here [emoji846]
Was that just through the sales bit in their website. Been looking at that myself for some planting in my woods this winter-
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I planted the bulk of my trees in early 2014. The alder in particular grew especially fast and I coppiced a few on 16th of December 2019. They've seasoned nicely and I had my first fire burning them today. Was planning on burning them on Christmas Day but had the remnants of a log stack to get rid of first. One of the stumps was recovering really well but I managed to mow over it with my brush mower and it died, which is a shame. I can't find most of the other stumps.
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Anyone in the south east looking to move on a small , say 6.ft ish , size charcoal kiln ? Or have you made any decent home made ones? Oil drums maybe ?
I will be removing a load of ash die back and windblown timbers in my woods soon. Thought out of interest I might try and make some charcoal. Not commercial just curiosity and hopefully end up with a good supply for summer bbq
The one in the picture is for sale on eBay atm but too far to be worth going for.
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The big commercial guys would not have a Forst .
Big commercial clearance work will tend to be 12inch plus so yes, that excludes most chippers talked about in this thread.
All the commercial line clearance and rail work is nearly all forst that I’ve seen around this way. They probably by 5 to 10 chippers at a time so no doubt forst give them a very attractive deal.
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A425 has 15 extra horses, bigger heavier flywheel, bigger feed opening and slightly bigger hopper opening.
Its generally a higher capacity chipper than the a540.
All 8" chippers will chip a log up to 8"dia... But some are happier than others to do it all day, or drag in whole 8" diameter trees/branches without snedding
That’s my thinking. It doesn’t chip bigger really but will have higher productivity / output per hour
Probably a big difference in price .....
The 425 just seemed a bit lost in the line up. I’d miss it and hop up to the 10 inch chipper. A decent chipper all the same I suspect though. -
A425 is 245x200mm infeed
A540 is 210x190mm
whats the Först?
I’d have to look up the opening size to be honest.
Generally just go by the max dimension it will chip. Or the 200mm
Although the bigger opening would most likely speed up chipping smaller brash getting more through
But essentially there is a huge size and weight difference between those two Jensen models with very little difference in large timber capacity. 190 v 200mm.
At a glance there doesn’t seem much point getting the a425 over the a540.
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Trial and error. You never really know anything till you've done it yourself. I just like to see what others are saying/thinking.
I've bought bits and pieces over the years after it looked great on YouTube only to find it's crap in real life conditions.
Haven’t we all done that far too much [emoji23][emoji23] that process of convincing yourself it could be good just to find out as you really suspected it’s crap.-
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Farmi blades are £250 a set so 6 or 7 would be a hell of a spend.
I have had a set 'lost in the post' as well.
It's more about reducing the amount of messing about. Spending 20 minutes sharpening some blades is preferable to sending them away.
This tormeks have a wetstone on it.
They are all wet stones one side and honing leather the other.
I don’t think it’ll be great on the tormek tbh.
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Agreed they chip like a nutter when working , no better than the Jensen its modeled on though ....
It wouldn’t, it’s a Jensen with different paint.
To be fair the newer ones have differed more than the old did. Hasn’t made it more reliable though .....
I was looking at the jensen chipper specs last night.
Substantially heavier than other chippers.
I don’t get the line up though.
The a540 and a425 are only 10mm different in capacity but a huge difference in size of machine. What’s the point of the a425. ? No folding hopper which is nice. Less to wear out.
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By bells and whistles I mean bed extension, boom extension on crane, 600kg winch on crane, large grapple, updated controls, tipping body for bunk, clam shell inserts for grapple etc etc.
About the right price I suppose looking at other kit of similar size. Sadly more than I hoped it would be. [emoji23]
I’ve worked with one of those mini forestry trailers with a similar size crane to the logbullet. Lifted just over 400 kilos I think. Was towed with a 30 ish hp kubota. I was impressed with it.
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Had a Russian student at one tree confrence few years ago, he said in the 70,s all Russian goods had a date stamp on them - you never bought anything made on Friday ( weekly quota to finish) or Monday ( massively hungover) definately not end of month ( whole factory shipping it out so they didnt care if knobs were missing) K
That’s probably got more to do with communism than anything else..........
thankfully I don’t need to factor that in when speaking to forst tomorrow ....
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I am thinking of buying a small grinder and planer jig to sharpen my chipper blades on. Mainly the blades for a Farmi 260 which are 300mm x 135mm x 14mm. I was looking the Tormek T8 and their planer jig. Anyone used it or similar? Any reviews?
I can use postal services for sharpening but the pain in the arse of packaging, dropping to the post office, hoping they get there, waiting a week, hoping they get back and so on is starting to p*ss me off! Usually ends up costing me about £40 to get two blades sharpened so its not a huge issue to sped £400 odd on a grinder.
Obviously need a decent grinder but the main aim is I can just pop the blades out, sharpen up and put them straight back in.
Do you not send them in batches ? Most people I know usually rotate 6/7 sets and send say 4 away at a time for sharpening. Makes postage much more economical.
I’ve got a tormek for other tools. I think you will be frustrated using it for chipper blades. Bit too substantial. It’s more for rough shaping of chisels etc before getting them onto the wet stones after. -
I think the guy is allowed to recount his positive experiences with his machines here, threads develop and change.
Plenty of other issues in the industry have come under discussion in this thread.
Agreed. I’m encouraged to see the positive experiences people have had with forst. Gotta have some hope somewhere eh ....-
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I got my tree reduced has it been done well?
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Can’t agree here. If a customer wants their tree smaller for whatever reason just make sure it’s done properly. Making it smaller will probably mean it’s retained rather than felled.
Managing the interaction of people and trees is our business, not convincing people to leave their property alone because you happen not to like it.