The 'Today's Job' thread

[V8Druid]

BADGERS!! ........ disturbing badgers, how on earth can you disturb a badger ? .
The honoury mother in law would dearly love to know how to discourage the badgers that are taking over her garden.

I'm clearing an overgrown garden currently within easy eye sight of hers and concerns have been raised that a small depression in the ground could be a summer set and that the tiny scratches in the lawn could be badger foraging . Not a sign of any badgers and I'd welcome the chance to drag an unwilling "planning ecologist" for a field study of what the territory of a town badger really looks like

(Oddly enough the girlfriend calls me "the old badger" and thinks I'm stubborn & disruptive )
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2ltr coke bottle oxy bombs on a long lead ... that'd disturb/discourage most things I can think of .... wanna be a fair way from any windows though

 

[Lancs Lad]

THAT is SOME chipper

It's a pezzo...even got a pic when she was new...

 

[Monkeybusiness]

It's a pezzo...even got a pic when she was new...
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Apparently it’s still the only one in the UK. Very similar overall design to the Albach that we have fairly often, one has obviously copied the other!

 

[Mogman]

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Is that Mr Lord loading the trucks

 

[doobin]

tractor all ready but turned wet. So Olly is adding an extension to the mill to do 4.8m lengths and I’m replacing the central core of my forwarder rim sawdust burner. Upped the holes from 6 to 8mm this time.

 

[V8Druid]

interesting mount on the flail Doob

 

[doobin]

interesting mount on the flail Doob

its an offset one, and the head tilts for doing verges, banks and hedges. I leave the tilt in float mode and it follows the ground nicely.

 

[V8Druid]

its an offset one, and the head tilts for doing verges, banks and hedges. I leave the tilt in float mode and it follows the ground nicely.View attachment 45596

looks ideal

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Is that Mr Lord loading the trucks

No, it’s a firm from Preston area mate.

 

[Lancs Lad]

No, it’s a firm from Preston area mate.

Wilson's. Afaik they run the largest hire of rental choppers in UK and hire them all over the world. and big into biomass. Their chip pile is impressive. biggest ag contractors round here by a long shot. Harry Wilson is a legend of a bloke.

 

[Lancs Lad]

adding an extension to the mill to do 4.8m lengths

Bought or made in house Doob?

 

[Brendan]

2.3m deep reduces to 1.9m then 1.5m

 

[JerryRtilt]

View attachment 455972.3m deep reduces to 1.9m then 1.5m

Hope you have better weather than we do! Concrete on its way?

 

[doobin]

Bought or made in house Doob?

I've had the extention kit since I bought the mill. Got asked for some 3.6m cladding, was halfway through collecting the first log when I remembered that the mill was only 3m capacity!

The subframe is just old universal column and some fishplates, works well. I never get asked to take it to site, if I do it can unblolt or can all fit on the 18' trailer with 1' overhang. Although that makes taking to site with the loader in one trip awkward although probably not impossible!

There's also the issue that the barn it's currently in is not wide enough to forklift it out- but it's OK, I have a backhoe now!

 

[doobin]

I also found time to do the mowing!

 

[Lancs Lad]

I've had the extention kit since I bought the mill. Got asked for some 3.6m cladding, was halfway through collecting the first log when I remembered that the mill was only 3m capacity!

The subframe is just old universal column and some fishplates, works well. I never get asked to take it to site, if I do it can unblolt or can all fit on the 18' trailer with 1' overhang. Although that makes taking to site with the loader in one trip awkward although probably not impossible!

There's also the issue that the barn it's currently in is not wide enough to forklift it out- but it's OK, I have a backhoe now! View attachment 45604View attachment 45605View attachment 45606View attachment 45607

Agar nice one.
Yes I've a project for some 4m odd beams but may try the poor man's method

 

[Brendan]

Hope you have better weather than we do! Concrete on its way?

They couldn't get concrete till first thing Thursday so they have added some more boards and braces.

Got to where the wall returns to the house and the footing was 1.9m down so had to dig out what was at 1.5m

 

[Storrsy]

I also found time to do the mowing! View attachment 45609View attachment 45610

Nice little trenching job lined up too!?

 

[doobin]

Nice little trenching job lined up too!?

This farmer would never pay to do that properly. Drag the water pipe out the way to mow and then drag it back again afterwards

 

[6feetdown]

I also found time to do the mowing! View attachment 45609View attachment 45610

No chance mowing here today abysmal weather