My local village of Camerton, south of Bath UK was one of many coal mining villages in the North Somerset area. The mines closed in the 50's as they were very hard to extract coal. The two mines in the village had their spoil heaps and these, known locally as 'Batches' are now fully wooded with pine, ash, sycamore and oak.
For the second year the village has held a "green Day" where the batch is opened up to rural craftsmen and women. To utilise the felled trees a racksaw and steam engine were located in the wood at the bottom part of the batch to saw up the tree trunks.
I was asked to bring along my Dexta and Cordwood saw (from that grey paint manufacturer).
I spent most of the day cutting up the off cuts from the logs and other round wood. Both the Dexta and Saw performed well and for a first outing was a great experience.
The only sad thing was that after disconnecting the saw bench I raised the linkage and the left hand arm fouled the inside rim of the pully and 'Ping' went a chunk!!
I think I can repair it.The pictures are rather large so I've put them on photobucket which is accessible from here:
http://s307.photobucket.com/albums/nn28 ... 0Pictures/
Please browse my other tractor pictures if you want.
Regards
Jerry
