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Post by rgsp on Dec 26, 2013 16:26:02 GMT
For all it's a bit over-popular at times, I like Farndale.
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Post by rgsp on Dec 30, 2013 10:25:25 GMT
One sunny day, and the geriatric ewes + the last of last year's lambs remember what loafing is all about. My hips don't like stepping over hurdles, so I made up a couple of short (4') ones with squeeze stiles in them. They're only 4' because it needs quite a lot of extra metal to keep them rigid as compared with a standard hurdle, and a 6' version would be rather heavy. The dimensions of the gap were rather carefully chosen, and the fixing loops on the ends were very carefully placed as well, et voila! Upside down now, and we have a creep hurdle. On the scale of prices where decent standard 6' hurdles cost about £20 each, these stile/creep hurdles would not be cheap at all - about £60 I should think, but it was mainly my time in making them up, and I hope they're going to be very useful this lambing season. Big barrow (about 20 cubic feet: standard big builders' barrows are 4 cubic feet) full of split logs, with the splitter behind sitting on its new stand. I really wish I'd made up the stand years ago: I hadn't realised just how bad using the splitter on a lower trolley was for my back. I note the Pink Peril is slinking around in the background, which wasn't intended. Then off to the wood-store piggeries, complete with the small lake filled in with half a dozen big barrow loads of fresh wood-chip. This years "being filled" piggery - about 3/4 full now.
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Post by 4wd on Dec 30, 2013 10:33:52 GMT
That's a nice set, I am in awe of your log organisation! Good idea with the splitter, here I have one of those hycrack ones and you can raise it on the links which helps, at th eexpense of making it a bigger 'lift' to put a large one on the table. Basically dealing with logs is never good for your back and it's frustrating how you seem to have to pick up and handle each one several times.
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Post by mcfarmer on Dec 30, 2013 14:45:50 GMT
Good job on the hurdles. I guess the trade off on the splitter is on the larger logs, having to lift them.
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Post by rgsp on Dec 30, 2013 21:30:08 GMT
Good job on the hurdles. I guess the trade off on the splitter is on the larger logs, having to lift them. Mac, if a log is too heavy for me to lift reasonably easily, it gets the chainsaw through it one more time. Once I've lifted something, I tend to hold it clutched close in front of me, and the current height for the splitter lets me do that, and then let it go straight onto the splitter bed without either lifting it up further, or indeed dropping it. Ergonomics is a strange business, and what does and doesn't suit backs is a strange part of that business: I freely admit I don't understand it (and I have grave suspicions about anyone who claims that they do). However, I do know that the present height for the splitter suits me personally very well, but I can't really claim to know why.
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Post by mcfarmer on Dec 31, 2013 1:51:25 GMT
Good job on the hurdles. I guess the trade off on the splitter is on the larger logs, having to lift them. Mac, if a log is too heavy for me to lift reasonably easily, it gets the chainsaw through it one more time. Once I've lifted something, I tend to hold it clutched close in front of me, and the current height for the splitter lets me do that, and then let it go straight onto the splitter bed without either lifting it up further, or indeed dropping it. Ergonomics is a strange business, and what does and doesn't suit backs is a strange part of that business: I freely admit I don't understand it (and I have grave suspicions about anyone who claims that they do). However, I do know that the present height for the splitter suits me personally very well, but I can't really claim to know why. Ingenuity wood splitter (click here)
Don't try this at home
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Post by rgsp on Jan 2, 2014 16:15:53 GMT
Airborne tree-rat 0, Black Beast 1. Accrington Stanley 0 ... no sorry wrong thread for that!
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Post by 4wd on Jan 2, 2014 16:19:12 GMT
We need a new thread for 2014 really, Would you like to start one rgsp?
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Post by rgsp on Jan 2, 2014 16:21:58 GMT
We need a new thread for 2014 really, Would you like to start one rgsp? Why not if you'd like me to. I think the Black Beast with her tree rat is a worthy first photo.
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Post by stockslave on May 4, 2014 14:52:30 GMT
On rounds this morning and the sheep and the beautiful Wisp who is supposedly a fully trained working sheepdog (who takes his commands in Welsh) that I am fostering for Protecting Preloved Border Collies
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Post by stockslave on May 4, 2014 14:53:39 GMT
Oops stuck it in the wrong thread duh
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Post by Joyce on Oct 7, 2014 11:18:49 GMT
save
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