MattyF

Is it running all drive belts ? I’ve had mine performing badly and realised the original drive belts had started to break. is the drive belt tensioner stuck ? The tension is basically the engine weight but the rod it sits on should be greased occasionally and if it isn’t it’s known to get stuck… . The anvil and blades I would not of thought would have made that much difference although there should be a 1mm gap and blades set to that when changed… anvil is easy to change or turn.. personally not a massive fan of the whisper cut, my old 220 with two blades was easier to maintain and chipped better…the whisper cut has to be kept sharp and has a habit of very occasionally getting bits wedged between anvil and v on start up. is the hydraulic clutch starting to fail… this is the machines only week point, overland told me to change the oil every two blade changes but mines still got coming up to 2k hours on original clutch but I’m expecting to change it soon….it will out last another on the market and keep up with others for chipping. Personally I would not look at another chipper.. all of them have weak points but the Schliesing is very agricultural and easy to work on and rarely will it fail..that being said if I was looking for a machine to replace every 3 years the new 280 Timberwolf looks good.

Another thing we used to do for young tree maintenance was use two stakes , then take off one then on the final year take the last stake and cut it in half and stake it lower

Some times they do benefit from being re staked , I’ve bought back quite a few trees that my late father planted that out grew there guards and fell over , re staked and 4-5 years later they are standing up fine.

Looks more like phytopthora to me..

Thing is the stihl combo is marked at 5l so if you do a shot for 5 l and use that mark it’s pretty much bang on, despite what the pumps telling you … alternately shoot up a 20 litre can fill it up and poor it in the combi when needed, this usually happens if we are doing forestry as two hand cutters will easily use 5 l a day and quick fill nozzles are just easy.. I really don’t see a better alternative.

Vertical cracking is the stems drying out after they have died..it would not be the root cause so obviously something has killed them ! is the whole plantation dead or just odd trees , is there deer damage or rodent damage on surviving trees?

I use one for milling chains. I want the chains the same so you don’t get a bad cut with loads of cutter marks on boards. They work well , I usually brush a bit of oil on each cutter to keep them cooler and don’t go heavy pulling it in to the cutter and back it off two three times.. it’s worth the effort for milling but not faster sharpening and not as good for getting a fast cutting chain with deep gullets for felling and cross cutting work.

As best as possible .. I will get a feeler gauge next time I’m in town. Just used an old logging tape cut twice and doubled up as a gauge… I didn’t think it would be that out though.

Rocker arm had just come disconnect.. it didn’t look out of shape next to the other one still in place.

Put it back together after straightening the rod as best as possible , it sounds like it’s missing and won’t rev out.. lots of black smoke .. don’t know if it’s best to assume the crank is bent looking at the push rod in the original photo or try a new rod but I would not of thought it would of made that much difference.

Yes mick , it was like that when I took it off. have straightened the rod and tried to cycle the engine by hand it’s moving that valve but it’s kind of not right it’s moving again up again on the cycle when it should of finished , is that because the rods not perfect

This is what I can see … so obviously not right , should the long thing be at that angle 😂

I know nothing about valves so it will be time to learn I guess then ! The engine is turning over it seems with less compression but I’m hoping the pistons are ok.. this mower was supposed to outlast me 😂

I’ve got a stiga park compact 16 with a Briggs 155 engine. last night I was cutting the grass and it sounded like the exhaust baffles where falling out ! Then like it was running out of fuel. So I stopped and re fuelled. on starting it back fired a few times and then went dead. it has fuel. it has a spark I’ve checked the fly wheel key and it seems intact. any other thoughts ? It seems to have a different note turning over so I’m thinking either a valve is stuck or is dropped a valve.

Guys an absolute cu t of gigantic proportions.. he’s just sold off our fishing until 2038, we were just starting to get sand eels back to sensible levels and now our waters are open to sea destroying super trawlers that will put out more co2 dredging the bottom of our waters than any thing else combined.

I went through hinxworth the other day for the first time in 12 years … I suddenly regretted not filling my boot with bad running saws 😂

I’ve got no end of problems at the moment with saws that have sat …. Some of these are nearly new saws too

Have you seen an increase in fuel problems since e10 fuel mark ?

There is this and maybe a trailer or two more to add to that pile , how long with a cone splitter on a three tone digger to break those logs in to two and three pieces for the processor ? I recon there will be about 25-30 ton. I can get a digger and splitter for €400 a day but if it’s not going to even touch that pile it’s won’t be worth it.. just want to see how that goes and works out for the processor.

What was the price on that new Stevie ?

That’s probably not a bad idea … my thoughts where to buy the splitter this year and get a digger in a year or two but just use the tractor for now.. that could be a better solution for the gear I have and be ideal for the arb waste we use in the boiler once all this over sized 2.8 and 4 m lengths are gone.

Had any one tried this or what are the reasons not too? funds are tight for a digger but I’ve a lot of oversized hardwood that needs breaking down for a processor.

I once bought a farmer tec 066 clone kit to have a spare milling saw … shit plastics ,bearings and seals ,the chain break was barely functioning due to the crap plastics and bad casting ; after buying oem bearings and seals you could of bought a second hand saw… would not touch another.

Japa Saw Bench | eBay UK EBAY.US Japa saw bench only as we up grade to a hakklpilke oH27 has ascrew log splitter perfectly working machine can be seen working. If you are interested call me on... some thing like that would be ideal, would of payed for itself after two years with the cost of what some one would want to come in with a processor for the day.