Chris Sheppard
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Saw nearly impossible to start when cold!
Chris Sheppard replied to samthescam's topic in General chat
I knew that - honest -
Generally I do nearly all the cooking during the week as I'm usually home first. Worst thing I find is I'm real hungry when I get in and end up eating loads before have even thought about starting tea. The odd times I take sandwiches in my bait and Wife's up at a similar time to me, she'll make me a sandwich, but usually I end up making my own packup.
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Saw nearly impossible to start when cold!
Chris Sheppard replied to samthescam's topic in General chat
Does it fire at all? if not, given that it will run when warm, it must be getting some fuel through, I'd guess at too low compression (worn piston ring maybe) but once warm and everythings expanded a bit there's just enough compression to fire. -
Not that far from you johnny
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Let it loose in some pine we're clearfelling at the mo using our shiny new tractor to pull it Really surprised me what it will lift for a little 'un
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I recently had one the other way where I bought a saw that was listed spares or repair, won it at a price I could warrant rebuilding or just to use as spares. Opened the box, poured some fresh fuel in, checked for a spark and it runs mint - bargain.
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Jungle formula works until it sweats off. glad we're not the only ones suffering with them at the mo
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It was more to take the weight off the mox axle rather than the actual drawbar I think a rockinger hitch can spin so it should be all good
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I'd get some box section the same as the current drawbar, cut the hook off and then stack the bits of box up, staggering it a bit and then if you felt it needed it, plate down the sides. Doing the work at the hook end should (I think) be stronger than doing it just near the haedboard too Just need to make sure you leave enough clearance for when you do some sharp turns/climbs decensts Are you able to pull the axle forward a bit to take a bit of nose weight off the drawbar too?
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I've only ever confronted someone who dropped litter once, usually I'm very quiet and whilst grumble about it would let it go. I don't quite know what was different that day but the end result was the three lads looked very embarassed in front of the car full of girls they were trying to impress and they depsosited their rubbish in the bin. Was quite empowering but it never occurred to me until afterwards that there were three of them and one of me and it could have gone horribly wrong
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It's a pet hate of mine too. Was driving along the A64 a while back following one of those incident support lorries that puts the cones out at roadworks and saw a McDonalds bag get hoyed out the window. Surely it'll be their workmates that end up litter picking down the verges
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Get stan to email the pics of his pattruna that Alex converted - it looks like it rolled out the factory set up for a rockinger If nowt else it gives you somethign to work from
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until it goes wrong and has to go back into the dealer for sorting. Maybe I'm stuck in the dark ages a bit but I'm all for keeping things nut and bolt fixable. Modern cars have gone the same way - they're fine til something goes wrong and then it's all dealer serviceable items. Sorry can't help on the 576 though, but only ever heard good stuff so far
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Seen them selling at the weald woddfair at £5 for a small one (about 5-6" diameter by about 12" tall), £10 for a medium one ( about 8" diameter and 15" or so tall) and then bigger ones were priced individually from £15 upwards. I thought that seemed expensive but people were buying them
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They look great, but proper lethal. Wouldn't like to be shoving hairy hawthorn through one and it grab on a sleeve.....
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typically around 30-45 minutes, though at the mo have a site only 20-25min away which is nice. Had a couple sites around an hour to hour and 15 away, and had a spell of woodland trust stuff that could mean a couple of hours. If I'm working away, then usually I'm only 3 hours or so away at the mo. Ultimately if it's worth the drive then i'll go anywhere.
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Peter's gonna be well confused when he finds all these PM's about a pile of wood he had 3 years ago
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pul lthe filter off the end of the pipe and give it a good clean in hot soapy water then refit - if nowt else it rules one more thing out
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Laurel - Cut & Chip or Cut & Burn ???
Chris Sheppard replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
I like that way of thinking -
Found it here
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you can replace just the tape, there's a thread on here somewhere on how to retension the spencer ones, which might be the same as the stihl one. Seen somewhere that you can even get the rivets to repair a cracked tape.
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Hi guys, Starting in a block of decent Scots tomorrow and should be a good mix of sawlogs and firewood. A lot of the sawlogs will be 3.75m but there will be a good amount of 8ft logs also. It's been a while since have done 8fts and can't remember whether we would normally cut at 2.5 or if it was 2.55m. Know it sounds a daft question, but as yet we've not got any orders in for the 8fts so don't have a spec for it yet. As an aside, whilst a reasonable chunk is already accounted for, there should be odd loads of sawlogs available and also softwood firewood too (up to around 15" TD)
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non genuine piston and pot - any advice?
Chris Sheppard replied to Chris Sheppard's topic in Chainsaws
Already got next project, just snaffled a jonsered 2159 off ebay for £51, might be a simple fix but even if needs piston and pot it'll still be a cheap back up middle saw -
Fiat seicento/cinquecento or fiat panda maybe failing that I'd go with treebeard and say 346 Edit: Tom beat me to the little fiat
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non genuine piston and pot - any advice?
Chris Sheppard replied to Chris Sheppard's topic in Chainsaws
Got it up and running last week and gave it a couple of days in some smaller birch as a gentle run in before letting rip on some bigger stuff and so far it seems to be running well. One thing we did notice is it doesn't sound quite as aggressive as mates slightly older one but that might be down to slightly different exhausts maybe? Should get to run them side by side this coming week which should be good.
