mark_j

Afternoon all Following on from an earlier thread, i had our spare sawblade, reground, sharpened and plenty of set applied to it. East mids saw and tool did it within an hour and a half and only charged £18. Fitted it to our Mc Connel sawbench and now it shows up the old blade, it rips through wood with ease and makes a lovely whine. Two pics from yesterday

Thanks for that the one i mentioned is listed on the site you mentioned. Been thinking earlier, we have a local timber yard which has several massive bench saws, i bet they can tell me of a local place who does theres. will find out tomorrow.

just found the website of east midlands saw and tool which someone told me about, there in long eaton in nottingham so not far away, anyone used them?? wondered what they are like?? i want the blade doing properly, any muppet can put some set on with an adjustable spanner, i want it doing properly on a machine.

I have a spare used 24" circular sawblade from off our sawbench. I need to find someone local who can re gillet it and put some serious set on it, I want it to rip through timber, not bothered about a fine finish caus its only for sawing logs. Im near burton on trent in the midlands, ive looked on yellow pages to no avail, anyone know of anyone who can help me? Thanks Mark

Ive used both saws you have mentioned in the original post, at this end of the market, i would and did go stihl, i tried both before buying and the stihl is definantly the better saw A pic of ours Stihl MS 880 and a 48" rail

cant see the vid caus im at work, but i should imagine its means its a modded saw, ie, had the inlet/ outlet ports opened up to gain some extra power.

Is there no editing facilities on this forum?? Should of read that we carted piles of felled timber not fallen, alot of ash,oak,birch and pine. Im hoping the weather is ok tomorrow, ive got 3 loads of logs to deliver, and ive put the 25" chain and rail on my 880 to cut up some big slabs of ash. Whats everyone else got planned?? Not sure if it interests people on this forum but ive spent about 15 hours at the start of the week chain harrowing and rolling with one of our vintage tractors, trying to sort some of the fields out so we get plenty of nice hay in summer

We had the job of clearing piles of fallen timber from a local wood which had been replanted by a friend. There was alot of wood so we ended up loading the trailer about 2 foot higher than the sides, around 4-5 tonne in weight, the David Brown pulled it out of the woods with ease, we travelled back around 6 miles to our wood yard, i followed back initially in my pickup, i was sitting at 20mph and the db was pulling away from me very slightly, not bad for a tractor over 40 years old pulling that kind of weight!!!

another pic of it

Its was the big tractor show at the three counties showground in malvern - worcestershire. Pugh were the auctioneers, i had a buyers card, i took the truck and intended to buy but the prices are going up all the time, there was some real rough off farm condition - obviously unrestored, fergies 20's and mf35s etc went for over 2k, they would need another 2.5k spending on to look and perform like the one im selling, most places are charging between 800-1000 to paint a 2wd vintage tractor in 2pack at the minute. yeah im close to you, burton on trent.

Current prices are going through the roof, we went to a big sale on saturday where over 1300 lots were sold, people are paying alot of money for old machinery, its becoming big business.The ever escalating scrap metal value doesnt help either.You can buy tractors for half this money, i have done it a million times but 99% of the time bits are misssing and stuff doesnt work correctly or as is should do. I disagree with your comment regarding the best place to buy from, i would much rather buy from someone who knows what they are talking about and who is selling something which has been restored correctly rather than an old knacker, with brakes not working correctly, thermostat sticking/boiling up,not starting correctly etc. It really depends what you want and what you intend to use it for. The cost of bits for old tractors arnt cheap and the old saying "you only get what you pay for" rings true.

Thats cheap! do you follow the prices of vintage tractors and machinery?

My Massey Ferguson 35 4 cylinder petrol / tvo with livedrive Recently reregistered - now complete with v5 and tax disc and reg no. 730 XUG Built on Monday 2nd may 1960, it was one of 177 made that day. Has had many new parts fitted recently including New tractormeter and cable Thermostat Tipping pipe - with push fit connection Control box Wiring Loom Battery 2 New front tyres Wheel nuts Serviced to include new engine oil and filter New numberplate bracket and numberplate Glass fuel bowl and gaskets This tractor is very reliable and hardworking, it spent this last half of 2007 bale carting,powering a sawbench,powering a hay bob,carting logs on trailers, chain harrowing and much more.All the above was completed without a problem, the tractor is mechanically and cosmetically great Tractor is in very good condition - not concourse but very tidy Hydraulics work fine Livedrive is fitted and works fine All gears and high/low range work fine Starts fine on the key New tractormeter works fine, counting hours and revs Oil pressure and water temp guages work fine - new thermostat fitted Two new front tyres, rears 40% The price is £2300 , please have a look at the pics and tell me what you think, this is not a ebay special tractor with bits missing and parts not working correctly. Everything works as it should,its age is verfied and registered correctly, the tractor runs very well and is used alot, i spent six hours last week with it carting logs/felling trees. you are welcome to come and see it if you wish.

Oh, and a current pic of my massey ferguson 35 which im selling if anyone is interested. Ideal for running a sawbench or splitter / pulling a trailer etc

Spent yesterday sawing with mc connel sawbench and carting logs with our David brown and new trailer. The excator wasnt on site so i had to load the trailer by hand, nearly killed myself throwing big slabs of wood 6 foot over the sides of the trailer. Never again whats everyone else been upto??