Chris Sheppard
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Don't know the family personally but know of them as they are fairly local. Some of the photos were even on the Estate I used to work on Thansk for posting that - was great reading
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...or nose weight or axle weight
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Just watched it now, found it really quite interesting
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Husky 372XP your ratings This question for Owners /Users
Chris Sheppard replied to Littletree's topic in Chainsaws
I get on well with mine, can't comment from an arb point of view particularly, more from a felling side of things. Ran mine 90% of the time with a 15" and 8tooth front sprocket (so up one tooth) and it flies and is well balanced. Do have a 20" bar for it and it pulls that well with a 7 tooth sprocket but is a bit nose heavy for snedding all day (unless you really need the long bar). Never ran a 24" on it but in my opinion if you wanted somethign to run a 24" regularly I personally would go for somethign with more power, which unfortunatle means more weight (or tweaking the 372 maybe). -
Not used one but have had a good poke and prod round the ETA boilers from Austria - definitely not the lower end of the market pricewise but very wel built and very efficient from what I can gather. The chip boilers have a blade int the auger which helps reduce the chance of anything jamming up the auger and it will handle quite rough chips. As well as teh boiler, it's worth investing in a decent accumulator/storage tank - seen some that are supposed to keep the water hot for something stupid like a week if you don't use it all - think they were called Akvatherm or somethign similar.
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i was always husky btuuon on as I got on well with them apart fro man odd button pinging off. Got a pair of Makita clip on ones free wit ha pair of chainsaw trousers a few years ago and didn't think they'd be very good but they work really well and don't think they've pinged ever (or not enough to remember anyway!)
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a 110 HD will carry loads of weight - an extra 450 kg more than a standard one
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and one day you'll do that and find it's one of those pumps with the hard plastic "U" bend in the pipe to stop people doing just that
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Agreed - proper thick and gloopy 2 stroke - usually Oregon too
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plus on some estates they don't like to let the cutters think for themselves either
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When do I need an operators licence/tacho?
Chris Sheppard replied to bingoben's topic in General chat
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yep, plus it's usually easier to see a blaze than a paint blob - it's amazing how even fluo colours can blend in when the light is right (or wrong) - or whoever's marking only puts a tiny blob on one side (and not the same sides!)
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Generally speaking, the weight quoted by a manufacturer is the gross weight of the trailer, including the weight of the trailer, the crane and the load - but on a 10 tonne trailer I'd have said you'd want to be able to squeeze a good 7 tonne of straight sawlogs on - as mentioned the post above - a few crooked stems will soon knock the weight down.
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I like the sound of that too.
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It's scary to think it was only 4 or so years ago we did well if we could get £17-£18 per tonne roadside for processor sized stuff. Yes - absolutely charge more -or even better process it yourself and sell it that way
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I've never used a 576 so can't comment on it but I would ask myself the question of if the 576 is that good, why do they still make (and sell so many) the 372?
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Good call
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Don't know the proper name for it but have heard it called something along the lines of a cross over relief valve - it looks like an ally block with 3 ports and a removable cover where the valve sits. That Practico was a beast - I used to crane chunks under it with the county
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Dean, this style where they cut o nthe pull stroke, are always a bit slower on power but quicker return - there should be a height stop on it somewhere though to make up for some of the lack of speed? One problem with upping the flow on a small petrol engine is whether the engine has the guts to turn it under load. Somethign to look at (but I don't know how it works properly ) is what some of the bigger splitters have for auto two speed. It's like an extra relief valve and the ram will go on a high flow/low pressure circuit until it hits the log and builds up pressure to trip the valve, giving full pressure but slower speed until it can gear back up again. Hope that made more sense than I think it did That's all on a standard pump too - not dual stage or anything fancy and it won't affect the small engine either as the slow speed would just be the same as it's normal working speed.
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Tom, These guys might be worth a try for hiring a grab and rotator - might not be a proper timber one but might be cost effective over buying one Sandhurst: Attachment Hire for Excavators. Call now for Grapples I have no link to these, just knew about them from a previous enquiry
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felling licence?
Chris Sheppard replied to armchairarborist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I seem t oremember we had one site that needed one and was fairly time sensitive and the Estate spoke to the FC and explained they needed it quicker and the FC were dead helpful and got it through really quickly. -
felling licence?
Chris Sheppard replied to armchairarborist's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
yes, I'm fairly sure you'd need one if over 5 cube coming off in one go unless it was less than xcm dbh (i just can't remember what the x cm is but it's not a lot whatever). we always needed them on the estate, and that was no TPO -
When do I need an operators licence/tacho?
Chris Sheppard replied to bingoben's topic in General chat
not sure - be close either way though I reckon. -
When do I need an operators licence/tacho?
Chris Sheppard replied to bingoben's topic in General chat
Ah, but a 130 abulance probably is more than 2040kg -
whats good and what bad with your log splitters
Chris Sheppard replied to 33bk's topic in Firewood forum
Agree with the big table part - one thing that none of the mainstream manufacturers do but would be good to see. Unfortunately the double handed thing is the Law - sell them one handed at your peril. To meet CE standards, the definition for the design of the two handed part states somethign like it shouldn't be possible to convert to one hand operation using simple hand tools. HSE shut down a stand at one show as they were demoing their machines one handed and telling customers how to convert them. I don't necessarily agree with it but hey ho. I think good speed is as important as good pressure - no point being able to split big stuff if it takes ages to cycle.
