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  1. Mr. Ed
    because he could? If it’s enough reason for dogs to lick their elbows … yours for 15k
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    Anyone seen anything like this? Take a 2wd tractor, remove the front axle, do something clever with the transmission so’s you can steer it, and join it to a trailer. seen in a Swedish small ad. Maybe it’s a thing there.
  3. Mr. Ed
    Fuel Stock — sawdustboilers.co.uk WWW.SAWDUSTBOILERS.CO.UK fascinating that they demand wet wood to burn! if your sawdust is too dry you must soak it before burning. Riddle me that …
  4. Mr. Ed
    Crikey, that's the real deal . . . Er, I don't think I'll show you mine . . . How long does a load take?
  5. Mr. Ed
    Thanks for this interesting post. Electric powered kilning? What sort of fuel cost do you see?
  6. Mr. Ed
    Now can you tell us the make of stove?
  7. Mr. Ed
    Thanks for this thread. I thought it was just me - we’re just cutting enough firewood for ourselves, and what seemed dry enough in September is now fizzing like sherbet and sulking like a teenager. I’m having to give even these little sticks a day or two in my “dehumidifier kiln” (aka a big cupboard with a fan a heater and a dehumidifier)
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    BeanQ Logs

    Mr. Ed replied to Steven P's topic in Firewood forum

    Books are shite to burn - more ash than heat. Use them for what they’re intended - underlay for motorways. BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | M6 Toll built with pulped fiction NEWS.BBC.CO.UK
  9. Mr. Ed
    ah. Never heard that usage. Thx
  10. Mr. Ed
    “Cut them with no sink.”? Sounds interesting. What’s a sink in this context?
  11. Mr. Ed
    If there's doubt about an interpretation of a rule, it can be unwise to ask for a ruling. If formally asked, there is a tendency to favour the strictest interpretation. If there really is ambiguity then you at least have a case to argue (not to say you would win in the unlikely event...) and you're unlikely to be spanked for what you've already done, although you might be asked to do it differently. Many tales of outrageously strict interpretations of rules are in the context of players who have antagonised and repeatedly dodged the law: this is certainly true of planning problems. Civil servants are humans too.
  12. Mr. Ed
    Lovely pictures. Thanks for sharing. As to size and not-splitting, they would dry much more quickly and predictably once split.
  13. Mr. Ed
    Third that
  14. Mr. Ed
    Well I bought a cheap chipper (cheap as pommes frites since you ask) with a few hours on the clock for 1500 euros or so. Jansen’s cheapest PTO offering. Quite a lot of metal, seem like good bearings, easy access to blades, terrible paint job (already peeling off at 18 months age). It works all right - you get no feed mechanism at that price point so it’s difficult doing briars and so on but do-able. Branches up to a few inches it enjoys doing and goes chop-chop over them in a gratifyingly busy way. Bad colour choice - we’ll never find that in the woods …
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    VF105 RED IRON | DOCMA S.R.L. WWW.DOCMA.IT The VF105 Red Iron is the latest addition to the ForestWinch winches series: increased power, maximum... I have one of these which is pretty good - despite some clumsy design around the integration with the engine making it hard to tune the engine (and in fact hard to stop - which could be serious). They do pull fairly well.
  16. Mr. Ed
    For a few quid you can hang the sticks below the loader like I do, using lifting slings. You lose some height of course and handling takes longer than with something more proper. I’d been meaning to get some big tongs to speed up the process but the slings are safer.
  17. Mr. Ed
    I like Lot 29. They can’t even try to describe what this super-complex machine is, and just use the manufacturer’s name.
  18. Mr. Ed
    Based in Poland indeed but they make no claims to making the cheap stuff - the usual “designed with professionalism and skill at our fine works”.
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    Hi Guys I have only read part of this entertaining thread, so forgive me if this is answered elsewhere. We think we want a PTO chipper for occasional work in the woods and garden, including mulching scabs from our wee mill. Local dealers offer either Remet or Jansen. Any preference between the two? I assume they’re both generic Chinese manufactured machines - we’re talking c €2,000 so I’m not expecting great quality, but would rather not buy a complete pup. To hang off the back of a Ford 4000. Thanks in advance. Cheers Ed
  20. Mr. Ed
    Ah, yes. I go gaga after n iterations of “subtract 28 mm plus 3 mm from the number you first thought of”. After many silly mistakes when tired I learnt to make a test cut then measure it by hand each time. This on my weekend-wannabe Christmas Cracker mill with nothing digital about it
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    DRO?
  22. Mr. Ed
    Baby’s first skirtings. Now I realise that yiu fit architraves first so back to the moulder. Having died-back Ash with Danish oil.
  23. Mr. Ed
    I'm a great fan of Alder - it’s lovely timber to work and is a popular tree with the birds (and doubtless the bees). Were you thinking of letting the best stems grow to maturity? Pretty fast growing initially.
  24. Mr. Ed
    and softwood is better for you as you have to get off the sofa more often to load the stove.
  25. Mr. Ed
    can you sell the scabs as firewood?

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