Chris Sheppard
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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. -
We're with the AA and they've been good each time we've needed them. Last couple of times have more than paid for the membership each time as one recovery took three different vehicles and the last one got me a brand spanking new battery for free.
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It's really addictive I found
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I think it got taken down recently, well the full episodes anyway. The guy's been suspended form youtube for copyright breach, which is a bit pants as he had loads of good vids I reckon the crushed saw was a set up for the cameras.
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I looked into similar when I had mine and was told by our local dealer that it was a fairly big task as many bits on the PTO one arent the same as the petrol one, including the different gearing. That was based on using H.P parts though to do a complete conversion to the same spec as one of the petrol ones. I'd have guessed it shouldn't be too hard to either fit a suitable gearbox or even put a pulley onto the end of the existing gearbox and change the gearing with the right combination of pulley sizes. Nowt a bit of fettlign couldn't sort I reckon
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once upon a time maybe
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Which it should be easily
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That was how I was thinking too
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Ah, thought you meant the three pronged bit on the plastic part of the chainbrake handle where it sits into the metal three pronged bit of the chain brake mechanism - mine chewed the plastic up and won't knock the chain brake off.
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I know what you mean - I reckon there's a market out there but it's just a case of thinking outside the box a little. We've got a huge amount of small diameter birch (sub 3") but 20-30' long that I'd hope would be ideal for it.
