Dean Lofthouse
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Tintin....I wasn't having a dig at you, I was having a dig with you, thats why I put a smilie Someone who does not know to connect earth directly to the flywheel to avoid tracking through the bearings and doesn't know to disconnect the battery, is very unlikely to have the aptitude to operate a mig
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3. If you don't know the above two points, don't use a welder
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...or simply a thicker blade and deeper flywheel pocket Mine are countersunk hex heads
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I've made a special tool where the torx bit fits in the bolt head, then you rotate the flywheel till the bit goes behind the case, the bit is the exact length needed to touch the back of the case and not let the bit ride out of the slot. But there is very little helps when someone else has had a go and rounded them slightly. My point here is, I have never ever, even slightly rounded the hex key bolts on my Bandit, I know you are supposed to change them, but mine are the original bolts and I have had my blades off maybe 40 times. TW used such shallow heads there is a huge risk of a novice damaging them, whereas on my bandit, the hex bit would snap off before it rounded
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All the above plus tens of other techniques... Top and bottom of it is you should not have to tap on the back of anything. TW need to use a deeper headed bolt, not a shallow one. I even flatten the small dome on the end of the torx bit so the spline sits deeper
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No prizes for guessing : 1. What I've just done 2. To what machine 3. To what make of machine Come on TW, it's about time you used something different
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I'd try araldite again, only this time clean the plastic to be glued with thinners and maybe even rough the area with sandpaper as a key
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For the one in the picture with 250 hours you'd pay £12-14k
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I have just got this one and although I have not used it in tree work much, it has been invaluable around the yard and in the process of me moving yards to just over the road. I trialed it on a woodland job I did recently and it exceeded my expectations. This little machine that weighs not much more than a ton was picking up huge lumps of timber and FULL trees and moving them with ease I have also just quoted and won, a very big domestic job where this machine gave me the time saving ability, to quote much cheaper than anyone else and still make the same amount of profit. Access to this jobs site is very poor and awkward to get the timber out, but perfect for this little machine to shine at what it does best I think they are awesome
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It's all well and good the client having the money and desire to save the tree. Can he or the "tree cutter" guarantee public safety whilst conducting their samaritan work on the tree. Also who do we claim off, should the tree fail and kill child It would be nice if the tree were in a nice open area where it could be cordoned off whilst the suggested remedial work is done
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I'm not one for taking money off clients uneccessarily. The tree is in a garden, probably with neighbouring gardens, a footpath and a road under it. My first question would be public safety before deciding on the remedial course of action
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Exactly what I would do Matty If it do decline fast thereafter, then it will make a good habitat pole It would be nice if all customers had loads of money to throw at a tree
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Just been down this morning and tested the splitter on the loader hydraulics The loader has three pumps, one for driving the wheels and two that can be brought in independently for aux services With one pump running it's just as it should be, nice and powerful, loads of grunt. If you bring in the second pump, it it just as powerful, but twice as fast I'm chuffed to bit with that setup now, glad I converted it from three point mount and pto drive The real test is after it has split a barn full of wood without an hiccup
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He seemed pretty keen on conservation and was delighted when I mentioned the pole. He had me stacking the logs behind some laurels because he was trying to get hold of some or encourage some stag horned beetles or something ??
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Men can't multitask, thats a known fact The cd storage slots were on the back side, put some in for bugs and beasties to reside so the tree creepers can have a do
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Saved me two hours and the customer a £100 That stem is chunkier than it looks tha knows
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Haaa, it was you, I thought it was some pesky customer ringing me whilst I was trying to DRIVE !!
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Has anyone noticed the attention to detail ??? The drainage channel
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I wanted to coronet Sean but didn't have time, I sold the "Habitat pole" idea to the customer telling him it would save him a bit o brass, so couldn't waste time doing the bart simpson look. All the time I was doing it I had Mr David Humphries in my head breathing down my neck
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I must be going soft
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I have an XL with 270 hours on it also. I had the usual issues with deadwood jamming all the time but after leaving the trap door alone and letting it pack solid, it isn't as much of an issue. The only other thing I have had to do is extend the disharged shoot to make the chip disharge more directional and accurate. Other than that, if serviced well, they are bomb proof Oh....and conifer goes through really well if your blade are sharp, if they are dull, conifer will wrap and jam the rollers
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I'm still standing after all this time
Dean Lofthouse replied to Dean Lofthouse's topic in Picture Forum
No...the picture was taken quite a few weeks ago -
Pass this often, so last time I took a photo
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There is a certain age (around 45) when people start counting how many years they have left of life rather than how many years they have lived life. I started thinking on those lines just after you mick
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47 in may another 13 years before I stop climbing
