i dont give a flying **** bring it on

[mattydred]

snow, power cuts whatever bring it on im ready for ya:sifone:
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[Planehazza]

Zombie apocalypse?

[mattydred]

[QUOTE=Planehazza;944137]Zombie apocalypse?[/QUOTE]

yeah no sweat diesal will sort them out

[pgkevet]

..well I cut & stored 4 loader buckets of logs today..but lucky if that lasts 2 weeks here: reckon to get through about a garage-full over a winter - scary since the store of cutdown tree is getting low and I'm going to have to punt around the farm to find fallen trees and accessible low branches to refill with. I may need some help to knock a tree or two down. Big trees scare me to take down

[mattydred]

[QUOTE=pgkevet;944146]..well I cut & stored 4 loader buckets of logs today..but lucky if that lasts 2 weeks here: reckon to get through about a garage-full over a winter - scary since the store of cutdown tree is getting low and I'm going to have to punt around the farm to find fallen trees and accessible low branches to refill with. I may need some help to knock a tree or two down. Big trees scare me to take down[/QUOTE]

that what i got stacked up there was 1 and a half transit tipper loads. was chopping for hours and thursday and about 4 hours today. diesal keeps nickin it and leaving it all round the garden. i dont mind chopping down big trees as long as there is plenty of space around them.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vddHbbCCUC0]The Top 10 Worst Attempts at Cutting Down a Tree - YouTube[/url]

[RcRotaryMadness]

Nice store of logs you have there... It's our first year with a real fire so well looking forward to Xmas day to have it lit... Trouble is burned thru a one tonne bag already! Doesn't go far does it

[pgkevet]

[QUOTE=mattydred;944174]that what i got stacked up there was 1 and a half transit tipper loads. was chopping for hours and thursday and about 4 hours today. diesal keeps nickin it and leaving it all round the garden. i dont mind chopping down big trees as long as there is plenty of space around them.[/QUOTE]

There was 20-30 tons of timber stacked in a dutch barn here when i bought the place..over 12years old and hard as rock,,,chainsaw can start smoking if not given a rest (it's a decent stihl). I stack an oregon log holder and cut batches but hard on arms and back. Oddly splitting with a maul actually helps my back.

The big trees I have an eye on are on steep slopes on the edge of my woodland - too wet to get a tractor there right now. Really need branches off first.. and I don't fancy climb cutting (too old for that). The last thing you need when felling is to have the thing fall off track and hang against another tree or on a load of now sprung-loaded branches. Small to medium trees easy.

Arborist took down a dead huge cherry for me last year and rung it up..splitting that was fun just taking a dozen or so pie slices out of each ring: filled quarter of my wood store with that one. The lazy way would have been to borrow a PTO splitter.

Dalmatian ignores the logs..but if he snatches my hat or gloves then trying to catch him on 54acres is impossible (or finding where he buried the prize)

[tourerjim]

Corrr.!!! lovely reminds me of the days of the lingering smog, i do miss that good old smell

[pgkevet]

[QUOTE=Young Gun;944221]Nice store of logs you have there... It's our first year with a real fire so well looking forward to Xmas day to have it lit... Trouble is burned thru a one tonne bag already! Doesn't go far does it[/QUOTE]

You can imagine how much we get through... the logburner has a backboiler and when it's really roaring it cooks up the house radiators too. If I didn't have my own woods I wouldn't bother: hard work, plenty dust and smoke whenever you open up to chuck more timber in (every hour) . Fill it with coal instead and it lasts 6 hours.

I don't even agree with the idea of environmental friendliness.. the amount of wood got through, petrol to cut and ship it etc.. even with my 8 acres or so of woodland and the hedgerows I doubt trees can grow fast enough for what we use...and now they're importing wood from eastern europe and the americas to burn here: crazy

[MarkG_R1]

i dont give a flying **** bring it on

We have a Rayburn no1 in the kitchen and a wood burner in the living room ;)
We know how to rip through firewood :)

It's only when it's -10 outside that we fire both up ;)

[Dan22]

Looks good.
I've had a wood burner for a couple of years now and is the best thing ever.
You can't beat it on a cold winter night, or when you come in after a days flying!

Dan.

[RcRotaryMadness]

[QUOTE=pgkevet;944234]You can imagine how much we get through... the logburner has a backboiler and when it's really roaring it cooks up the house radiators too. If I didn't have my own woods I wouldn't bother: hard work, plenty dust and smoke whenever you open up to chuck more timber in (every hour) . Fill it with coal instead and it lasts 6 hours.

I don't even agree with the idea of environmental friendliness.. the amount of wood got through, petrol to cut and ship it etc.. even with my 8 acres or so of woodland and the hedgerows I doubt trees can grow fast enough for what we use...and now they're importing wood from eastern europe and the americas to burn here: crazy[/QUOTE]
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Haha true BUT nothing beats the heat you get off a real fire, well toastie. Chuck a load of coal on and it stays even hotter for hours =)

[pgkevet]

[QUOTE=Young Gun;946499].


Haha true BUT nothing beats the heat you get off a real fire, well toastie. Chuck a load of coal on and it stays even hotter for hours =)[/QUOTE]
even better when yu cook a load of chestnuts on a shovel..

[RcRotaryMadness]

...Now there's an idea! :-P