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  1. MattyF
    Ash is pretty good at buckling ! just dug out these ash boards ,they have been under a bit of tin for 5 years in the top yard , tree was dead on the stump. a couple have cupped but rest look good , should be ready to be of use for some one the photo doesn’t do them justice as the rippling and colour was unreal when milled, I’d not seen ash like it.
  2. MattyF
    Hope you get it back up and running soon, they are pretty agricultural chippers so relatively easy to fix.
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    So the clutch is on the end of the cutting fly wheel and not the engine , it allows it to spin down when the engines turned off unlike say a Timberwolf which comes to an abrupt stop when the ignition is switched off which puts a lot of force on the bottom end. If the belts are turning from the engine and to the clutch the rest is doing nowt I would say clutch. I’ve circled it in red for you 🫣to make it a bit clearer that it’s not off the engine block itself !
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    I would say clutch then… but I would definitely speak to overland tomorrow to confirm, I’ve found there mechanic spot on to speak to and talk you through repairs if you have any issues or need spares.
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    It’s grease point E on mine .. The 220 is pretty much the same lay out as the 235 so don’t know if your big machine will be the same or an upsized version…. Do you keep the clutch fluid changed regular mick , I was told that was the only thing to be religious on them with.
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    Unless the belts are slipping because the tensioner is seized because it’s never been greased.
  7. MattyF
    Has the main shaft snapped ?
  8. MattyF
    All schliesings have a hydraulic clutch , ideally the fluid needs replacing every few hundred hours, I try and do mine every 100 as I’m anally retarded like that… sounds like you speak to overland on Monday.. sorry Tuesday. if you look after the clutch though the machine should last…as the idea of the hydraulic clutch means it takes the strain off the engine and bearings so they last longer… usually though the clutches kind of go bang and it won’t start unless I imagined that conversation with overland, I did have one go on a 220mx was around £900 from memory 😬
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    I use a petrol stihl for bracing and fencing… as all ready said slow and steady and keep cleaning the auger
  10. MattyF
    Just a moment... WWW.TREESTUFF.COM
  11. MattyF
    Tree stuff in America has what you need , the only problem is you have to pay import duty, but it was the only place I could find an auger big enough for a monster splitting beech we rod braced back together.
  12. MattyF
    Jas p Wilson’s ? On another note I do have a spare rear window tray for a trailer crane valve block that fits a 6400 and n series dunno if it’s any good for yours…..
  13. MattyF
    Simon, can you sharpen schliesing whisper cut blades ? Is there any plans to supply them in the future , thanks.
  14. MattyF
    Hope you heal quick eggs … ffs though the CR500 is the death machine of legends .. my mates dad bump started his when we were teenagers and the thing straight out flipped and broke his nose on the handle bar.. us on our 125’s and kx80’s thought the was legend so hope you had some younguns watching.
  15. MattyF
    I always fancied a LWB tipper conversion myself. After using a one penny for a wiper fuse and the loom melting on the swb I owned I resided that Gwagon ownership would probably not happen again for me though.
  16. MattyF
    Another thing is maybe recruitment firms are part of the problem.. I can remember being constantly contacted by a guy, from possibly arb jobs I think it was who wanted to give me full time or part time jobs …he also wanted say 20% of my wage for getting me work😆 I really honestly thought how does this happen until I met folk who had gone down this route with him and where not happy at all for various reasons … he spent some time trying to convince me I needed to do this with the argument that going self employed takes years to build a customer base up, I wasn’t looking back after 6 months after politely refusing .
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    Very nice diflock !
  18. MattyF
    We got a few thousand robinia stakes for planting a few years back and the forestry commission made us replace them with soft wood stakes as per spec, which was easy enough straight off our mill … I have no idea why they did get funny about using them but it always puzzled me how robinia got in to the mill for stakes in the first place.
  19. MattyF
    I’ve got a shed full of timber I’ve kept from over the last 15 years that I probs should of sold but I’ve convinced myself to save for my build that’s finally getting there , might be a bit much for some folk if you don’t like live edge ! the rest of what I’ve planned won’t be live edge though but I’m no carpenter .. will put picks up hopefully soon when it’s all finished. so far used is beech , maple and oak.
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    Most folk don’t have a spare £20 let alone 20k.
  21. MattyF
    None of those things where mentioned or stated , no location , no real user name and again in my opinion if the forestry commission had recommended the removal of 300+ year old coppice and ancient pollards they need prosecuting… as you have stated the horse as already bolted and I seriously doubt that was the case any way and no where had the OP stated it , something just does not add up… if a contractor can’t fell a tree in the pic to near ground level they need sacking.. also his quip on that’s not what he requested an answer too didn’t help with any hostility from my view…. I’m not a mind reader and if you want to go destroying any ancient trees for good a bit of back ground would be nice.
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    It was used for brashing down in the back of vans and trailers before I owned a chipper when I first went self employed …. I’m not saying I deliberately tried to kill it but holding on to the revs flat out and smashing it repeatedly through brash for 5-10 minutes at a time is a good way to kill a saw.. not something I wanted to do with my new 357 and aging 024 .. wasn’t a bad little felling saw either , I sold it on after a couple of years, the chain brake band had burnt out with some one using it as above for brashing down but it was still mechanical fine engine wise.
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    I got given one once , tried to kill thing but it would not die !
  24. MattyF
    Yeah they are taking the absolute piss, they are either sitting in the truck sucking each other off or slagging you off for getting pricked and looking for another job on there phones or they have done another 5 cash jobs at the neighbours. can you ask the customer what they are doing ? Shit jobs like that from my experience need to be led from the front and pace and example set … in fact all jobs really as employing people seems a f..,,ing waste of time.
  25. MattyF
    I had the same yesterday and had to cancel the felling job booked in for the afternoon, I thought I would have finished 60ft of blackthorn and hawthorn mixed and 20ft of gappy beach done in a morning.. hedge was wider than it was tall, the terrain was a nightmare for setting up steps and the material just a little too big for hedge cutters so needed a chain saw for most of it, I also took it back on there side two feet past previous and bevelled the top to let more light in to thicken it, finished around 5 yesterday , I’m pretty sure if I’d left it to a couple of the guys who work for us to do the cutting it would of been two days.. I begged the customer to next time take full advantage of the estates flail next time it does the outsiders chuck him a drink to do as much as they can reach in the top.

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