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  1. MattyF
    Good choice ! my go too cutting up wood combo
  2. MattyF
    Mmmmm it's a tough one , personally if you don't do it some one else will , I would do it and make the best job of it you can and make it clear that it means the tree will require future management. You get to go back and have another great climb .That's my bad I thought you had put in 10m!!
  3. MattyF
    Try and explain topping it that much will result in multiple leaders with weak growth patterns and more likely hood of failure and cost in the future. To be fair I've worked on one and managed to reduce it and selectively pruned limbs so it did not looked raped by around 2-3 m but 10m is a bit excessive !!
  4. MattyF
    550 is for felling small stuff and limbing , would not want to work with timber over 9" all day on this saw. The 560 is for medium sized timber but will not struggle at all with any thing you throw at it... If it was a logging saw and a husky your after I would go with a 365 still a pro saw and not as highly strung as the xp range but will carry a 20" bar with ease and plenty of torque for logging.
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    Help

    MattyF replied to case mx270's topic in Chainsaws

    Yeah it will be fine .... If it's 3/8 I'll do it for you if you send a paid return envelope.
  6. MattyF
    Is that ported as well? What sort of exhaust mod Pete? Mine could do with a pick up it !
  7. MattyF
    Did you you put a sneaky bid in for the one on eBay that sold today shavey ??
  8. MattyF
    I thought the Diesel engines were hatz air cooled ? Have seen one roll at least three times , tbh although never seen the bearings fail on one the single feed roller is painful to use.
  9. MattyF
    Was gonna say I've Seen handles on eBay for less than £20, I would not want to use any other saw in the work place, love the 560's !
  10. MattyF
    I'm tempted ! Just need an ignition coil and mine should be a runner though.
  11. MattyF
    In my quest for Sachs dolmar 166 parts it appears that a mcculloch super pro 118 is a direct dolmar 166 copy ..... Only problem is it seems they are rarer than a dolmar 166 so another dead end !
  12. MattyF
    I could of sworn it was a 550 block he had on the desk that prompted me to ask but your probably right then!
  13. MattyF
    Are you sure ? The only reason I found out about the 560 short block was seeing a 550 one in my local dealers and asking what it was all about.
  14. MattyF
    You can buy a complete short block for around £190 .. I think the crank case separate are only just a bit cheaper and you would save labour on the most intensive bit of saw building removing the crank ... you could get spud to swap the bits around and give it a port job at the same time if you fancy some thing a bit more ...Errr suped up !!
  15. MattyF
    Lever came off in my hands on the forwarding trailer and got cross threaded putting bolt back through and took an age to get in the right position so controls would work properly again. Came to a small seem of cord that was quicker to stick through the processor so got it fired up and thawed out. Saw blade on the processor got jammed and slipped knocking out the carbide teeth so that's another £250. Drove miles to the back and beyond in the last bit of day light when I could of been fixing processor to look at a thinning job with the whole crew so we could get a good feel for the site ... It was about half a days work and no timber to take off so cost us more money to look at it.
  16. MattyF
    The older 150 and I'm guessing entec Feed roller hydraulic moters are a lot more bigger than the later 150's but are cast .. If you stick the later blade type replacing the cast roller it performs really well over a new 150 that seems to have slower infeed.
  17. MattyF
    Well done every one! Simon you lucky fella!
  18. MattyF
    Made up on that one !!
  19. MattyF
    Some great prizes !!
  20. MattyF
    Would of liked the splicing course , nice one lads.
  21. MattyF
    Bit more snow last night but it's nice n crispy , just towed Zak through the forest off the back of the truck until we found some nice steep hills.
  22. MattyF

    Dolmar

    MattyF replied to shavey's topic in AJS Dolmar

    Looks interesting ..... Chain is on the wrong way though! Any specs for this saw ?
  23. MattyF
    Tractors are just starting to thaw out, wish I had put thicker socks on.
  24. MattyF
    I have an old Maktec one I brought about 10 years ago for £20. It has done loads of heavy sanding on Alaskan cut boards with a heavy grit , shaping of woodcarvings , cutting and grinding of metal and refuses to die ! I would buy another, in comparison I brought another make and it lasted half a day before the bearings gave up.
  25. MattyF
    Only time I use a silky now is water shoots and a tree that has 3 bits of dead in.... 150 all the way ,so easy to clip in your harness and forget about and combined with SRT it makes pruning all day in comparison to the old silky and DRT seem like being in a day spar in effort comparison.

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