Chris Sheppard
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Nowt worse than diesel flavoured sandwiches Managed to get it down to a fine art after a few times: would unscrew it so far and then be ready with a fresh tap and filter so as soon as the bklocked one was out the other was jammed in and screwed tight. In the end I had to drain the tank and wipe it clean as i'd only get a days running before the filter clogged up again
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I would if I could - sold it last year You don't happen to know a bloke who used to live in Bedale called Martin, who did a bit of fencing and fellin do you? I might be putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5
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Yep - Run of the mill scrap is £160 a tonne. Ali copper, brass etc is massive amounts more than that
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...... but not for too long otherwise it goes like stew.
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Can't go letting the side down now can we. I once had to do the little filter on the bottom of the tank on the County and ended up with a diesel puddle under the tractor - only way I could hide it was to move the tractor and then burn the puddle
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Majors tend to be popular tractor to mount them on - apparently the back ends are fairly tough, though the 3 point linkage is a lot weaker than if it was permanently mounted IMO. We have a 10tonne Cookes mounted to a Major at work But it's a Pig to use. it's either on or off - very hard to have a controlled pull. As Mr ed said, Looping the Loop is very much a possiblility - most pulls will end up with it sitting up on the spades. Make sure that you pull in a perfectly straight line with it or it will swing the tractor round when you get some tension
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Yep, I agree. It's getting to the stage where everyone seems to be cutting back on things which, in their eyes, are non-essential.
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imo don't rush out to do medium trees until you feel you need it - I've only got Small trees and spent the last five years (before going back employed) felling stuff up to the upper size of medium (in a forestry environment) - no questions asked - reckon your climbing ones would be money better spent
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Anyone managed to get their partners up in the trees?
Chris Sheppard replied to rafregtgunner's topic in General chat
Take it your Wife doesn't look in on here much then Steve - brave, brave words My Wife did at one point fancy having a go in the woods but came and helped my thinning some firewood one afternoon and decided it was too much like hard work - now climbing i reckon she'd be a bit more intrigued by (and probably better than me) -
That's what mines got still - stripped the roof rack and shelving off mine so the 2550 sounds about right
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Took some scrap in after work tonight and mine went over the weighbridge empty @ 2380kg - thats a single cab with Quadtec box on.
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That'd be good, cheers
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I wasn't meaning to sound arsey if it did :wave: it just shows what this country is coming too when most employees (whatever line of work) have to run at least one other job to have any kind of quality life
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Is your employer aware of this? What can they say unless your work starts to suffer? Responsible? Probably not Necessary? Yes most likely
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in it's simplest form, If the deer population wasn't controlled, then eventually the older Deer's teeth all fall out and they starve to death. Wouldn't you say shooting is more humane than that? By shooting you are selectively controlling the population i.e just old or injured ones
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Yes and Yes - Downside of being your own boss
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Looks good -will try that
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Little bit of a thread hi jack but it's still V8 Landy related - Picked up an old N/a diesel 110 hicap to use instead of the 130 and was fancying going down the 3.9 EFI, possibly auto box and lpg route with it but have heard a few people say its a bit of a pig to do repositioning engine mounts. Have any of you guys ever done a swap like and are able to shed some light?
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I always found that if I left a saw for even a few months then any fuel in the tank would evaporate (usually anyway) and haven't had any probs with pipes deteriorating. They always seem to start fairly well afterwards too. Think this is one of those that doesn't have a right or wrong answer
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Yum - could think of worse things :wave:
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Maybe, but then there'll always be someone who forgets or the pump will clog - IMO just something else to go wrong and add weight. Did hear the other day that some companies have had timers fitted to saws so that you can only use them for a limited amount of time between breaks - H&S gone mad me thinks
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That sounds a good idea for those with numpty employees - in this day and age of rushing around to get jobs done it could be a costly mistake I suppose you can see where they're coming from (Obviously they're going to want us all to spend as much as possible) as Pro saws are usually fairly highly strung and are likely to be worked hard. That said though I've not come across many nipped saws - maybe the amount of 357's nipping is a bad batch?
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Had never thought of that Best place for it is the bin
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We use Bio oil at work and IMO I much prefer the old non bio stuff for it's lubrication properties. Oregon and Husky were the ones I always liked, didn't get on with the stihl one and the odd samples of bio I tried in my own saws weren't great - chains always seemed to stretch real quickly and bars got slack. Did anyone else ever see that stuff Oregon were trying to sell where you mixed a small amount of it with water and that was your chain "oil" ? Got given a sample bottle, used it for 10 minutes and decided it was complete S*%t.
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I've always ended up using Oregon oil - never had any probs. Don't be tempted to use the cheap rubbish you can pick up in petrol stations - I had to one day and ended up with about 300ml of oil into 5l of petrol before I'd chance it Daft thing was it didn't even smoke much
