MattyF
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Looks more mauve than pink Steve ....
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Confused mate , done about what???
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Soft wood is fetching good prices , there is a massive shortage of saw logs too so don’t right it off as chipwood ... saying that even chip woods making good prices
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Haha ! right there!! Our defender is knackered after two weeks off.... I drove the g wagon from Cambridgeshire to Northumberland a week after it had been in the hedge and it was like a Swiss watch.
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You own two ? I dragged mine out from under a hedge as the fuel pump had gone and the owner never bothered replacing it, fitted a old xr3i pump , Un seized the brakes and it sailed through the mot.
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I do really regret getting rid of mine, pissed all over a defender ... problem was I had to rewire the thing after a wiper fuse blew and the rain getting worse on the motorway, a stop at the service station and they definitely didn’t have the old style fuses a two pence made do ... then it caught fire a few miles down the road , luckily it was raining still [emoji23]
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Not for me ... not saying it doesn’t but I’ve never noticed..once a chain especially on a bigger saw is at this point I’ll bin it and make another any way. Not that I’m the oracle of chain sharpening or out but last time I ran a 560 in timed cuts against ported 357’s and a few other saws that was what in my opinion made the 560 quicker... there was 4-5 other Arb talkers there to witness that and prove I’m not taking bollocks !
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I’ve been sharpening 3/8 chain with 7/32 files since I was a kid and never used a 13-64 that I can remember, I was taught to go down a file size At college but it never worked for me , the old boys in the Feild take the rakers down and clean the gullet right out is what I’ve sort of stuck with and has worked... as long as all the angles and depths are the same it’s never been an issue.
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May have the odd log here and there as we mill or process most of our timber.. I do have some sequoia coming up that I don’t really want in the yard if your interested.
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Whey ... not as shite as I thought it would be ! Time will tell but it seems pretty sturdy and it opens all right when the weights are in , the fact it’s a brighter colour and now my climbing gear fits nicely in too one bag is a plus.
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I brought a kelfri beak and it bent first time on the job! Still works but the steels soft like.
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Spalting is the black lines ... or so I’m led to believe?
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Change of subject but try SRT it will put years on your climbing, I find any work other than climbing hard now!
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I did have one of the Jameson’s poles flex and brake on me ... fixed it with broomstick up the middle... not ideal.
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Thing is if that rubber comes off under force on some Heath Robinson contraption it has the potential to really ruin your day or as above the pole shatters ... personally I’d buy ready made ... not that I’m calling Darrins badly made or out but for the money it’s not worth skimping on.
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Haha you know I would try and not deal with them if possible , mr orange though is sound but I’m sure him and Micheal only deal I’m Raycos or Carlton’s I forget which one I’ve hired off him. Mark has sold me the yellow jackets !
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Cheers John.
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Just changed the bearings so will have to wait a while for that but it was a good set up. I thought for some reason you could just change the standard finger type teeth for a different type ie yellow jackets.
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Thanks josh , do you know if you can keep the standard Vermeer head on and use multi tips? I have used one when I worked at mat bells and was impressed but it’s been a long while. Was thinking maybe you could just change the teeth instead of the whole set up? I seem to remember his ate bearings.
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Any one ?!
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Looking at replacing the standard teeth on our 252 any recommendations or pros and cons of swapping over to green teeth or the yellow jackets ?
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They usually end up on speed lines or saws after retired from climbing for me.
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I can remember what the country side looked like before Elm diseases !
MattyF replied to Mark2's topic in The Lounge
Aye sitting in a local pub and one of the big forestry guys was saying how many ash there was between here and a local town and how he was going to fell them all.. I thought a few things... You ignorant $€\>>....... Felling hardwoods is nothing like sitting in your air con cab felling Sitka even the lads he uses for doing the outside trees his harvesters can’t do will struggle on with some of these gnarly superb examples of ancient ash. I can not genuinely believe people’s selfishness for money at times especially when they consider them selfs country men who’s all pursuits out side of work , fishing and shooting involve being surrounded by these trees. -
But mark they look like they are made from the same materials as the faltimer [emoji23], I bet the metal rods poke out the side in a week but I’ll wager you that for two pints.... after convincing bill he really needed a faltimer in his life , then I lost mine to a tub grinder both of us ended up in gustharts and he had the last one .... so ended up with a courant ....the courant does not fit too great in my kit bag although is not a bad design it does not fold down in wind , it just flips over dumping line every where, I still refuse to get another Stein though...
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I did try the steins as back up cubes and they are not too cheap , did find they had a habit of falling apart quick ! 6 years is good [emoji1303]
