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    Vertical or Horizontal Splitting?

    big stuff vertical (pile up about a cubic metre's worth next to me and sit on a bucket) smaller stuff horizontal
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    Stumped-by-a-stump questions

    did a 40" dia poplar on the end of a railway station platform(only access was down two flights of stairs) the stump was ground out by a guy with a alpine magnum in less than an hour, top piece of kit
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    New Firewood Friend

    nice one rep sent ped
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    sycamore education.

    what i'm starting to do with it is ring it them leave it for 3-4 months so it dries out a fair bit then split and put in the log stores this is purely for cosmetic reasons as most of the bark falls of when i split it, as some times the bark can go white and look mouldy
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    sycamore education.

    i was told london plane has microscopic hairs on the leaves with barbs on them when you work on them you end up breathing them in,could be wrong on this best time to work on them is in winter(especially if chipping them) or do it in the rain to keep the dust down i did one last year and felt...
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    Building a new tip-up log splitter

    i totally agree with you i much prefer to sit behind my splitter especially if i'm doing 4' rings
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    sycamore education.

    just looked up american sycamore and its variety of platanus which is the plane family where as our sycamore is acer pseudoplatanus and similar to maples
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    sycamore education.

    sounds similar to london plane thats evil stuff as to seasoning,as the stoves in the uk are generally smaller i split to 10" approx and can get the moisture down to below 20% in 4 month (thats our sycamore)
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    sycamore education.

    you lads must have a different variety to us in the uk as sycamore splits dead easy as you say it's pretty light when seasoned, i also find the bark can go white if it doesn't get enough air. on the whole a medium grade firewood
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    Question for anyone who has the answer. Have a problem with my logsplitter.

    have you tried it when the oil has warmed up mine takes a while to switch to the high pressure side when its below freezing you could adjust the screw which determins at what pressure it changes from low pressure to high pressure
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    Poll....Splitter valve and power beyond

    thats the same way i've piped this splitter ,but if all the levers are being operated from the same position i'd use a 3 lever spool valve
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    Wood Hauler Pics

    this is what i use in the woods or in the yard and the trusty land rover with trailer for every thing else
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    trailer springs on splitters

    i've used a small torsion beam car axle on this splitter, tows at 60 no problem
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    Anybody use a pickaroon?

    i use an old stainless steel ice axe
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    bought my dad a stihl

    18" bar's a bit large for a 25 would run a 15 on it myself still a nice saw
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    Please post pics of your splitter in action...

    the chassis is an old 1 ton dumper ,i wanted a splitter to process small logs up to 8". I was going to make it trailer mounted but as i had this chassis in the yard i ended up with what you see in the pics next is a small conveyor ped
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    What are you building with your milled wood? merged

    hi bob the seat back and base are alder and the legs are ash, the plugs covering the fixings are flowering cherry ped
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    What are you building with your milled wood? merged

    hi all newbie here, i'd like to thank you all for the wealth of info i've learnt on this forum here a couple of pics of a bench i've made with my home made mill thanks ped
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    Please post pics of your splitter in action...

    hi all newbie here, here's some pics of my splitters
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