Surely you will not use it, @Jan. You already have all Sweden wood on your backyard 
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I respectfully disagree. You will find many uses for the device especially if you have a yard tractor and a bit of imagination just to save your back I can see multiple uses. Coming from an old man sitting in his chair with an ice pack on his back.
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From a younger man that just spent the last 4 hours under a big rig, I concur. Anything that takes the beating off your body is a good investment to keep around
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You guys at Argos are not the only ones having fun. I’ve been milling some and taking care of the slabs. A rough estemation is the slabs are worth as much as motor fuel as the dimentional lumber produced.
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Couldn’t remember where we were talking about preserving wooden posts, here’s a good video. The 3 secrets to ROT PROOF POSTS and how to make them - YouTube
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So, I’ve been running these 70/30% spruce/pine slab-chunks for a few days now. I know I’ve been over this again and again, but I think it’s worth repeting that especially spruce produces very poor char - flakes that collapse as soon as I put the poker down at lightup.
For the first time in a long time the accellerator doesn’t move as freely as it should. I’ve been running mostly alder for the past few months and no problem, but as soon as this fuel was introduced I suspect trace amounts of tar in the gas. Still a nice smoth idle but sometimes a low vacuum ratio, close to 2:1, and a slight decrease in power. The hopper runs a tad hotter than usual - maybe semi bridging going on as well.
So, if in doubt, avoid spruce. I’ll mix in say 25% into my standard fuel in the future, just to get rid of it over time.
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Im 100% woth JO. I dont recall ever NOT making tar while runing spruce. Except the limbs, those are a premium fuel if mixed with some other wood.
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Agree. The limbs are sturdier stuff. More denst. The limbs you saw Walter chunking a couple weeks back were spruce limbs. They didn’t bother me at all.
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I have renovated a crane do not really know why, bought it for 40 dollars to make a wood cut of it, but thought it was too good.
Wondering if I made the crane arm too short, i did 2.3 meters.
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I think that if you went out much farther with the boom, the angle of the guy wires would be too small to hold any weight. If you got all that for forty bucks you got the deal of the century. I never come across stuff like that.
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Hello Jan, a good elevator for home use, and Zetor too, …
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Could be helpful for those extra heavy gasifier parts if you need to pull it off for maintenance. I wish I had a crane or outside lift.
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I was trying to figure out what kind of a tractor that was and knew I should know.
But you don’t find many of them around here.
I do think the crane could be very useful I can think of an almost endless number of times I used a loader to lift things hanging them and then realized that I needed to back something under it because swinging infornt of your tractor is not very safe. It would be much safer to have that frame between the hanging thing and your tractor as you moved it around.
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I was looking at that yellow pto shaft and wondering if that was a pto winch? If it is then how do you reverse it?
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Ha, Czech engeneering 
im speaking from my own experiances with 40 yo+ Zetors and newer could be different but Zetor has a real interesting gearbox. Put it short, you basicly have every possibility/speed on the pto you want, because you can shift it the pto trugh drive gears also. This also means you can put it in reverse.
We used to have a 47hp Zetor that mainly just powered a screw log spliter. Put in first gear the PTO spun super slow with crazy torque. Im talking like maybee 60rpm at full throtle. Yet still on more thain a few occasions l witnessed the full reved 47hp engine dye or slip a clutch when the screw bored its self in to a stringy beech log. At such forces steam and hot water strt to spray out of the log. This is one machine l hope l never deal with again!
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It says on the nameplate for the crane that it lifts 600kg (1320lb) at 3.2 meters, (3yards),
and I made the boom 2.3 meters, I’ll see if it’s too short for a cart.
Don, I can disengage the drum and pull out the wire by hand.
I know I have 540 and 1000rpm on the pto, but it is possible that it can be changed, there is a lot on a Zetor, I think it is a pretty good tractor from the beginning.
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One can never have enough fiber in his/her diet. Getting a few stems out for firewood and lumber. Hard to see in the weeds but that’s life in the real world.
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Looks like some good firewood not too straight so you don’t feel bad cutting it up. It makes me want to cry when I see a nice butt log become stove wood. I have seen people cut up oak that would buy several winters oil just because they had it I guess.
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Good number of logs in there. Hard to see them in the weeds. Make 6’ out of the larger curved ones. Still get firewood from logs - slab wood. That is the most of my fire wood. Mater of fact, 80% will go over the mill. Still can get lumber out of a curved log. Thinking about making a slab desk top out of one of the curved larger logs.
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