Firewood News
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Hakki Pilke Pro Series firewood processor virtual event – Watch the event recording!
Last year, we organized the international Hakki Pilke Pro series event virtually. We had the pleasure of having participants from 27 countries around the world from six different continents. If you missed it, check out this interesting event on our Youtube channel You get to hear customer stories from the users of Hakki Pilke Pro series from all over the world and on top of this we ...
By Hakki Pilke
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Introducing the revolutionary Hakki Pilke 55 Pro
The innovative functions of 55 Pro ensures superior performance in all conditions and situations. It demolishes 55 cm logs of hardwood to high quality firewood with 40 tons splitting power and high-performance hydraulic functions. The Hakki Pilke 55 Pro was designed for effective professional firewood processing in close cooperation with firewood professionals around the world. The innovative ...
By Hakki Pilke
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Hakki Pilke 38 Pro and 43 Pro Firewood Processors Have a NEW Half-Stroke Function
The Hakki Pilke 38 Pro and 43 Pro firewood processors now have the half-stroke function for making short firewood faster as a standard equipment. Take your efficiency to a whole new level and double the cycle speed with half-stroke. With this activated, the splitting returns already after half of the stroke, thus halving the cycle time. The half-stroke splitting can be easily controlled with a ...
By Hakki Pilke
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I turned Firewood Into Siding! Warrior Sawmill Off Grid
Okay that was a second log on Mill and now off the mill. I ran out of daylight though so I had to kinda patch this one together for you guys. It’s the next morning, I woke up early this morning and I started getting the boards the ends cut off so they were nice and square and also to rip them I have to cut them because they’re so wide down to 11inches and a quarter for our boards were ...
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The EasyOne FlowTube is a carbon neutral product
In 2017, we introduced into the market our spirometer EasyOne Air and its disposable mouthpiece, the EasyOne FlowTube. From the start, FlowTubes have been produced and distributed in a carbon neutral fashion. For every EasyOne FlowTube we sell, we make a valuable contribution towards a more sustainable future by supporting a project in Madagascar committed to the production and sale of efficient ...
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Crushing Machine Straw Crusher Manufacturer
The straw crusher mainly used for chopping processing of plant straws such as crop straws and branches with a diameter of 5 cm or less, and can also use for chopping processing of various crop straws and pastures. Zhengzhou Fusmar Machinery is a professional crushing machine manufacturer, this article will introduce this machine in detail. Straw Crushing Machine Introduction The straw crusher ...
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IUCN Director General’s statement for International Women’s Day 2019
We are all fighters in the global battle for gender equality. And as we fast approach International Women’s Day we should rightly celebrate our successes, while also highlighting the areas where the world urgently needs more progress. #MeToo swept across global headlines last year, putting a spotlight on the inequalities women face in the workplace and in their ...
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Feeding stock with rubber seed proteins
Residues from rubber seeds can be used to enrich animal feed. Besides reducing waste during the production of rubber, this can also result in higher revenues for the farmers since feed is the highest cost component in livestock production. At 13 April 2016, Widyarani defended her PhD-thesis on the opportunities of rubber production at Wageningen University. Over fifty per cent of our biomass use ...
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Sawmill and Firewood processor at New Zealand National fieldays
Sawmills New Zealand demonstrated their Mahoe Supermill and the Whoppa Choppa firewood processor on site G103 at New Zealand National field days in Mystery Creek, Hamilton. The main feature of the Mahoe sawmills is the twinsaw cutting system. The twinsaw is lever operated and cuts a board in a single pass and returns it. The advantages of a Mahoe sawmill over many other sawmills The Mahoe ...
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As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive
On a sun-scorched wasteland near India's southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping with drought and possibly offering viable farming alternatives for a future in which rising seas have inundated countless coastal farmlands. Sea rise, one of the consequences of climate change, ...
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Putting People at the Centre of Forest Policies - The State of the World`s Forests (SOFO)
Countries should put more policy emphasis on maintaining and enhancing the vital contributions of forests to livelihoods, food, health and energy, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today. FAO's flagship publication The State of the World's Forests(SOFO), presented today at the opening of the 22nd Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry (COFO), shows that a significant ...
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South Sudan facing major food and nutrition crisis
FAO today warned of a major food security and nutrition crisis in South Sudan, where some 3.7 million people are now facing acute or emergency levels of food insecurity. The Organization is calling for $77 million for critical food security and livelihood support for the crisis-affected population as prices of staple crops soar and basic commodities run out. UN agencies and NGOs have revised a ...
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Climate change killing trees across the Sahel, says study
Trees throughout Africa's Sahel region — vital to peoples' livelihoods — are dying as a result of long-term drought linked to climate change, according to a study. It found that one in six trees in the region has died since the 1950s, whilst a fifth of species has disappeared locally, because of rising temperatures and lower rainfall linked to climate change. At some sites, average ...
By SciDev.Net
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Locally Cut Firewood Can Prevent the Spread of Invasive Pests and Create Substanial Savings For Communities
As fall turns into winter, people across the country buy or gather firewood to heat their homes, campsites, and cabins, and many aren't aware that moving firewood more than 50 miles can increase the risk of new invasive pest infestations that kill trees. A recent study, "Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States" by Aukema et al. estimates that the costs of ...
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Women & entrepreneurism
Investing in Women & Girls – Step One: 3/8/11 by Emily Drew, BCLC Researcher and Writer If you were a woman in rural Benin today, you would spend 10 hours each week carrying food and water. As a Tanzania Masaai woman, you would walk up to 30 kilometers to collect water in the dry season and, of course, walk back with your liquid burden. “Women’s time poverty and income ...
By 3BL Media
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Insights: The Earth Is Shrinking
WASHINGTON, DC, November 20, 2006 (ENS) - Our early 21st century civilization is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. Measured by the land area that can support human habitation, the earth is shrinking. Mounting population densities, once generated solely by the addition of over 70 million people per year, are now also fueled by the relentless advance of deserts and the rise ...
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