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Rob D

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  1. This is not available yet as it's a [big] work in progress. It's an idea I've had for a couple of years. The idea is to make it easier to match bars and chains across the range of main manufacturers and put a line under a lot of the nonsense that they create either knowingly or unknowingly. Called the FIVE-O range - because every thing is in .050 guage [or 1.3mm] this is for everything from the small bars to the large bars. It's .050 whether it's Stihl or Husky or Makita regardless of bar size. And if it's .050 in all things then you don't have to think about the gauge of the chain anymore. A 12" bar for Stihl at the moment takes 44 drive links, a 12" bar for Husky takes 45 drive link, a 12" bar for Echo takes 45 drive links - in the FIVE-O range ALL 12" bars will be 44 drive links - so dealers and customers ponly need to have 1 size chain Each bar will be of a size that takes an equal number of left and right cutters - this is not crucial - but it makes sense to do it. There will only be drive link counts that give the same number of cutters for standard full comp chains Right now a Stihl 25" bar and a Husky 24" bar takes the same size chains ie. 84 drive links - but it's confusing that one is called 24" and one is called 25". On the FIVE-O range you will get a bar that has an adapter - so one bar will fit your Stihl straight off - or fit your Husky with the adapter - it can go on both saws Chainsaws will slot into groups - these groups share the same bar mount - so if you have say a Stihl MS462 that would be a Group 4 Stihl saw - you can even put a sticker on it! All the bars will be labelled with that sticker so your saw will have S4 and on the bar sleeve will have S4/H4/E4 so you know that bar fits your saw. On the Chains will be S4-20-L so a 20" chain to go on your S4 [MS462] 20" bar in Chisel [semi chisel would be S4-20-SC] We get all the time 'I want a couple of reels of chain to run on all my saws - how do I do it?' - it's hard work to do it - so when this set up comes out we'll offer a bundle custom deal for folks that want to switch over so that everything is consistent [and you'll need much less 'stuff' as everything is interchangeable - or is as interchangable as much as it possibly can be What about the smaller bars why not have a universal bar thayt goes on everything? Ans - it doesn't work - or it's under research. You could do this - but due to mount differences you may have differing drive link counts for different saws - that said there may be a 'magical' length where the bar will multi fit all small saws without throwing the drive link count out in which case game on! Still something we are working on. For Husky you would have to include a cover to stop the excess oil leaking out [same as what Cannon do] Will the bars be as good as Sugihara or Cannon? Prob not - more like Oregon bars - but they will be priced accordingly and as importantly the supply will be there to hand. Sugihara are not going to want to make them for us and Cannon would but would be mega bucks [but we still might add a Cannon variation in later]. Feel free to comment - am posting this up here mainly so I can direct people to this and save my pinkies endlessly typing the same information!
  2. From what I've read and watched it looks the most likely - what makes you think it was not the US? They have incentive to do it and they have said directly they would do it. What are your arguements against?
  3. I tried all - a Peterson Mill and a band saw and a chainsaw mill - all were a nightmare really - I would likely chiainsaw mill with lots of chains to hand then use a static circular workshop saw to re saw it.
  4. What a bunch of losers - and a waste of beans and lentils 😅
  5. Yep none of what they are doing - actually makes a lot of sense - as in practical sense for saving the future. It seems more about how you can make life harder for who are on the whole hard working people. And a lot of fossil fuel burning we farm out to China - and then buy in their cheaper goods which burn more fossil fuels in transport [and this is my company doing this as well]. Can't we burn our own fossil fuel from the UK and start making stuff again? We'd buy more from within the UK if we could.
  6. For some reason these people that are sitting down in front of roads trigger major anger in me 🤨 I heard a load of them last year at a rally shouting 'No Oil No Gas Keep your Carbon in the Ground'. Which sounds good in principle - but the reality is we have built our society around fossil fuels and it's going to take some time coming off them. And have all these protestors given up on their cars and their central heating or are they expecting everyone else to do this? Prob they all drove to the protest in fossil fuel fed cars. Everyday people trying to drop kids to school, or get to work and do everything else that needs doing to keep some form of economy going then go through unnecessary stress of getting held up by this lot who clearly have time on their hands. By holding up traffic all those vehicles are using MORE fuel as they are stopped with engines running. And it doesn't even seem clear as to what they are actually after - yes we all know fossil fuels are bad - so your solution is? If you want to make a nuisance of yourselves why not pick some better targets - billionaires/private jets/super yachts - where at least you could point to some form of obvious excess rather than blocking a bus full of mums and pensioners on the high street. Right - I feel better after that 😅
  7. Yep I mean it's making assumptions not backed up with facts - but the organisation seems distanced from those that are on the ground working or the equipment suppliers. Does anyone know anyone at CONFOR as to what they are actually like as people?
  8. I made some elderflower wine early in the year - it seems pretty good but I don't like elderflower that much 😅
  9. Out of interest is their anyone high up the ranks in CONFOR who is on this forum?
  10. The whole 'CONFOR' thing seems something of a closed shop to me - do they ever ask for advice or comments from common tree folk and dealers? Each sunsequent show is always a 'massive success building on the last one!'. I don't know any of the personalities or people that are involved - it doesn't feel very unified. If the entry could be reduced to £10 would be good... we had a street food set up on a field near me this year - massive choice and good eating for around £10-00 a go. But if running it all has large costs then maybe you have to pass that on - I looked through their company filings but I am shit at accounting and what it all means! And it's easy to moan about stuff without bothering to find out the facts behind it. CONFOR I think owns the APF Ltd Company - chair of that is Ian Duncan - who it's hard not to type cast reading the below. Is it all just a case of 'jobs for the boys'? Watching vids on youtube the 'honourable lord' comes out with the usual practiced political rhetoric. When are we going to have some folk with some honest dirt under their nails making policys! Ian Duncan Lord Duncan of Springbank PhD FGS Appointed a working peer by UK Prime Minister in 2017, Ian is currently Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. Previously Ian was a UK Government Minister, serving in each of the territorial departments (Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) and laterly as Minister for Climate Change with responsibility for international negotiations. Before joining the Government, he spent over a dozen years in Brussels, finally as an MEP. During his time in the European Parliament, Ian sat on the committees responsible for Environment and for Energy (ITRE). He was the Parliament’s chief negotiator on the reform of EU carbon markets and was his group’s chief negotiator on nine pieces of environmental legislation. APF INTERNATIONAL FOREST MACHINERY EXHIBITION LTD. filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK FIND-AND-UPDATE.COMPANY-INFORMATION.SERVICE.GOV.UK APF INTERNATIONAL FOREST MACHINERY EXHIBITION LTD. - Free company information from Companies House...
  11. The feedback I mostly saw on social media was that the food was pretty poor quality and silly prices and people missed the woodland demo area [I may be wrong this is just the impression I got from social media]. But I suppose better to have some sort of show than no show at all. It's hard to drum up the enthuiasm to do it these days but maybe I'm getting older!
  12. Haha not at the rate it's going up! If I hear of anyone looking to get into charcoal making I'll send them your way. Do you have any literature info or video links for it?
  13. Great to see something like this - I hope it works out and people can make a business from it 👌
  14. Can you post the picture up on here seeing it's on his website anyway?
  15. Another slight issue with sawing oversize is that you can get more tension in the plank - depending on how it is cut and species - so a nice flat looking 4" piece after cut into x2 1 3/4 pieces - after cut they can move and warp as they no longer have the same support that was present in the 4" piece. But I have a some horse chestnut I am cutting at the moment into 4" slabs - to dry in situ - then re saw in 2 years as 2" or just under. Will see how that goes.
  16. Ah ok fair enough - you could do it - but it's more down to time - in that if you say cut to 4" as a rule of thumb it would take around 3-4 years to dry. But if you had the time then what you are suggesting does make sense. I often saw to 4" and then re saw at a later date.
  17. It's a big question - there's a lot to it and to understand it all I'd say is around 4 hours worth of info. It's to do with how wood grows/how it is cut/where the rings are/how fast it is dried/through sawn or quarter sawn - like sharpening a chainsaw or dismantling a tree. You need to already know a certain amount of info to understand it.
  18. China had a lot of issues beginning of the year with their zero Covid policies. A major issue short and medium term I can see now is the £ to $ exchange rate. It hit £1 = $1.08 yesterday - that is the lowest since 1985. If it falls below $1.05 then that is the lowest in history. It may bounce back up but we could live in a world soon where the $ is higher than the £. That would almost stop us from importing some products. Almost everything we buy is in the $ so in effect it puts prices up by 25% on top of all the other price rises that have gone on.
  19. This is the best method I have found to date - as everything matches up perfectly and gives maximum support. It needs to be refined [and another idea is to mill to say 3" or 4" - allow longer to dry - then re saw the planks afterwards if you need accurate 1.5" etc. Full video on the process here - I checked back a year later and it seems to be drying very well.
  20. Ditto on this point - weight I have found the best as it is dynamic - banding needs a fair amount of regular tightening even if it's elastic.
  21. I have a couple of the Stihl MSA 120s running 1/4 .043. Regardless of longevity issues I use them all the time - 1) it's much more relaxing not having to pull a saw to start it each time 2) lack of fumes 3) lack of noise 4) ref power usage - it doesn't use any when 'idling' - not a big deal but not sure that's been pointed out before I would of dreamed of having a little MSA 120 with an 8" 1/4 .043 next to the chipper in the old days to reduce any branches that were getting stuck. I reduced a hedge the other day using a combo of MSA 120s and 8" bar and 12" bar - it was a delight. I'm not sure about other applications but the more I use battery tools [for smaller work] the more I keep picking them up.
  22. Haha yep it really bugs me the insistent meep meep meep when the dishwasher finishes - and then again if you don't open it 5 minutes later. Not sure why it bothers me so much!
  23. It's really one of the reason Bitcoin came about - all currencies in the end go to nothing. Because the power to print ££ is in the hands of people that should not have that power. No one entity should be 'in charge'. It should be like Gold where is a finite supply that can't be made up by someone. In the end the debt is inflated away - all the sensible hard working people who put money aside for their older years lose the value of that money. It's theft.
  24. Could get a rim sprocket kit for the 028 - switch to a lo pro set up - and run a 20" or 25" lo pro bar. We don't have the rim sprocket kit but any of these could be converted by swapping the rim.

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