MattyF
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What would cause a piston ring to snap Steve ? Put a genuine husky one on a 550 and it lasted about 8 tanks of fuel before the saw lost all compression and cleanly broke in half ... No damage at all though!
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Maybe they should spend some money and put articles in the farmers weekly ... That would be my first port of call ,I know for a fact they don't see a vet tree ...just a knackered one or a pita that's in the way on there fields for Machinary , most don't realise what they are custodians of..
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Aye mate .. Just passed another pile of veteran ash and a load more marked for felling I can only presume by highways or the council ...Soon this road that made you feel like you where entering some where special and not ruined will end up looking like every other shite and B Barron road in the country.
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Totally agree there Kevin... Would any of the governing bodies in the tree industry be prepared to make and distribute such information though that is the only way I can see it being put across...
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I'm seeing more and more veteran trees getting felled up here , the tree officers seem to encourage it for safety ... Another tragedy is seeing ancient pasture getting ploughed for grazing , one estate seems to manage another Feild every year.
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Didn't know that about the shingles either ... Think I will still give them a try.
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Really like that idea Andrew , may mesh the front but the weather gets pretty wild up here. Hey nick ,it will be from the river side it ended up half the size than when we first looked at it and layed the slabs for , I put the half up and realised I would still need double the timber that I had milled I want to save the last few logs of dry Douglas I have for the floor boards in the house... Did you have enough larch boards ?
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Another thing is just undermine the COG and get huge chogs on the ground nice and easy barely no effort.. If your going to go big rigging it will help as well.
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Ahh that makes sense, watching it on a phone screen ....last pick was still big ..
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Nice Peter , some ballsy cutting I thought the last tree would of been 2 pics !
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Sounds a good idea , I've noticed that in the log drying sheds we use that are Yorkshire clad but with logs they do get wet but lots of air flow is important as well with them. With boards I suppose you want it a lot more stable... I guess open to the elements is not going to help either! How will you achieve a 10mm gap Andrew on the vertical boards? I think having a gap around the bottom will help also when it floods it won't create so much drag on the building.
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That looks nice ! Loads of dry space for sure , mines more of a hobby than a full size industrial effort.. But would like it to do a good job of the timber and not mouldy or dry to fast, biggest problem is that area floods so the racks will have to start 2 -3ft from the ground
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Mine was a replacement for a 372 that was nothing but a pita since day one , it's a very smooth saw with very low anti vibes can't say I notice the weight at all and it's a lot lighter than the 395.. I would like a gen 2 auto tune 70cc but don't know how far away that is !
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Another for cougar blue 👍🏻
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Have been constructing a shed to dry my milled timber in , this is how far I have got ... I plan on putting an oak shingle roof on as it's free and won't cook like tin ,we busted up half a forwarding trailer of the most straightest oak I could find off the fire wood heap so hopefully have enough! My question is how would you construct the sides? Would you leave the front open ? I plan on boarding up the west and east sides and using spaced York boards for the long side and have half of the front open... So York or closed boards and what positions would you use to get a consistent drying atmosphere ?
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Quite like mine.. Nice blocking down saw.
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The Stihl chisel from memory was what was on at that time Dan... Tend not to use any thing else on my bigger toppers.
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I have Lasted 3 months
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Will this be just around London Justin , I can't really imagine doing the logistics with this gear nationwide?
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Your keeping in real for sure there mate nice work.
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Tracked chipper and big grinders are some thing we would consider renting when needed.
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Couple from today , the oak had a back lean towards lots of buildings so needed stripping out which took me most of the day , the lime had two thirds of its crown blow out and was deemed knackered, Like me by the end of the today !
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Yes it's just a fashion statement that I don't like being stuck up to my axles and having to leave a truck for the night at the back of some Wild West housing estate when I've tried to cross some grass and needed a recovery winch to get the transit and chipper out.. Or I like to make work by dragging brash and logs for miles because you can't take a transit on any thing other than asphalt.
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Most vans get stuck on flat grass.... I've got transits stuck on football pitches lawns, you can certainly forget about woodland rides in any thing other than the height of a dry summer.
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Don't agree with most of the comments.......it's just the price you pay for having a small tip on a bar is that that it will wear very fast.. I would say a solid tip wears even faster on a carving bar than one with a sprocket as well, I've ran both genuine Stihl carving and sprocket on 150 the solid rate of wear was frightening! So took it off , it also sapped power.
