Chris Sheppard
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The 550's on the whole seem to have had less problems than the 560's. My 550 is nearly two years old now and so far has never caused me any problems. Either way, I'd buy either without hesitation.
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whole tree chipper required in leeds j46 m1
Chris Sheppard replied to Johny Walker's topic in Large equipment
Reckon Richard Blakey would be worth a try johnny. -
Newbie considering going into the log trade!
Chris Sheppard replied to tomg's topic in Firewood forum
If you can get hold of the timber than what's the harm in giving it a go. What I would say though is you will more than likely struggle to get hold of any, and if you can, there's half a chance it will be stuff nobody else wants otherwise it wouldn't be out on the open market - pretty much every stick of firewood has a buyer sorted out before the tree hits the floor round here. -
I've never been a fan of the 346 really. It wasn't that it was a bad saw particularly, just that it was almost a step back from the older saws and needed updated a lot sooner.
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The newer style husky ones aren't a patch on the old type. I had a couple of pairs of the old ones (the grey ones the same shape as normal husky defenders), with one set lasting about 7 years being used nearly every day. Bought a set of the new Husky ones (the orange ones that are funny shaped) and they don't fit as well, are floppy on the mountings, fall off the mountings easily and genreally just aren't as robust. The Husky ones are rebadged MSA/Sordin ones from what I could find. I also have a set of the Lidl ones and other than losing the battery cover, am really impressed with them for the money. They don't like getting wet, but fit well, keep the noise out well and the radio is much better than the Husky/Sordin ones.
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This is where I sit too.
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Prepare to have your socks blown off then In my experience though, a 346 on an 18" is far from phenominal
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I think so - it's almost a bit to tongue in cheek to be a serious scammer I reckon. But, there's half a chance someone might get sucked in by it.
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My 550 is a 2011 one - as far as the dealer knew, it was about the first one sold in the UK (rather than a demo one). So far, mine's been faultless. But, it doesn't come out every day.
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That looks a great set up. Sort of similar to what I used to run when I had an alpine tracto with winch and the County with roof mount. Really do like the look of the little Valmet - don't think I've ever seen a 4 wheel one like that before. That is cool Looks like it could be interesting on the wrong sites though!
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The problem was, the 346 just wasn't as good as it should have been by the end. Sure it's fine for Arb, but as a forestry saw it was less good, but perhaps best of a bad bunch. It never handled as well as the older 2 series saws and was just a bit bland IMO - I could never bring myself to buy one. Maybe I've just been lucky with my 550. it was no secret I hated the idea of autotune, but it looks like it's here to stay whether we like it or not. Other than the relaibility problems that some people have had, the saw itself feels sooooo much ncer than the 346 ever did! Not that a newish saw breaking is ever a good thing, but what always amused me was how few people would actually have a back up saw in the truck - it always seemed like people were yelling about how they had to go all the way back to the yard for a spare saw to be able to finish the day off
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Wow, that sounds like a great place to work That's an interesting take on it. I disagree though. Threads like this make me really glad I don't work with some of you. Everyone I work for or with gets on well, with no bickering, sniping or "banter" and, oddly enough, we seem to get the work done OK. It does sound like some of you have never left the school playground - yet wonder why sometimes people have a problem with it.
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13 or 15. It would probably pull an 18 but I've never tried it as it would probably upset the balance and it feel awful.
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I'd agree with everything Brushcutter said in either post. Weight wise, even if on paper the 550 is similar weight to the 346 (I don't know if they are) the 550 feels like it weighs less as it handles so much better - it reminds me of the old 242 huskys in how flickable it is on a short bar.
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broken out thread in Husky 262 engine case
Chris Sheppard replied to openspaceman's topic in Chainsaws
I'm going to go with the others. JB weld is magic stuff -
Cheers, Problem with spacers is that it uses O rings instead of gaskets so would need to be quite thick to accomodate a second set of O rings. I'm ideally looking to lower the compression the equivalent to adding a second base gasket, lose the worst of the damage and keep the squish the same. It's the squish bit I get lost on It's bad to see from the photo but the damaged bit is angled a bit. Between the flat surface that meets the top of the cylinder, and the domed bit.
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I'd agree that on the whole, most modern mechanics are useless at anything other than swapping parts. Been fairly lucky in finding a garage that is a little more old school, and will fix things instead of replacing them if possible. He is good at putting the working man at the top of the list too, but if they really are flat out have an astra van, some big renault van and a nissan navara as courtesy cars. I've known him in some circumstances even let people take his personal D3 too.
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If it's the one I think it was, I nearly went to look at it a few years ago - it did look a bit peculiar, but in wasn't very much money for what it was.
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I forgot the best bit - got AA'd back to my house and then a few days later we towed the 90 the 10 miles or so to the garage (once I'd thought about it and decided that dipping into the top of an injector pump on a gravel drive wasn't a good idea) and it still works fine so far a few weeks later Not done a half shaft on one yet but did a diff and a couple of drive flanges on the front of the old 130 - but that did work hard Always wondered why they never put the salisbury front axles on the 130 and hd 110?
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I've found that it's not that they can't, more that they won't. When my injector pump started sucking in air I needed a tow from Driffield back to Malton (pretty much) and they said if it was a mile or two they'd reluctantly consider towing it but made me wait another hour or so for a flatbed. We definitely had our moneys worth this year - had two recoveries within a couple of weeks, the first one only a week or so after paying the renewal:laugh1: (and no they weren't both for the Landy!) Interestingly enough, when they towed our old Jimny (with selectable 4wd) they still whipped the rear prop off too, despite there being no drive to the front axle anyway. I'd agree with that - bit like when people panic if the MOT man puts it on the rollers for the brake test. How can it do any damage - there's three open diffs to lose any wind up!
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Nice editing, almsot has the look of a sales vid I'm fairly sure it didn't look like that in Ayrshire last time I was there though...... Bet you'll have some fun on that.
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Cool. Never seen one of thoe before - sounds like Scorpa's take on the KTM Freeride
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That looks ace Stevie, what size is it?
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Cool It's something I need to get done eventually, but it's still running something like as it is. Think it must have had something like a bit of ring bouncing round in there at some point. What I'd like to try and do is take some of the damage out and reduce compression slightly at the same time so as to calm the power slightly (250 motocross bike pretending to be an enduro bike) without having to resort to adding an extra base gasket. I just need to work out how much to take off and what angle for it to still run something like - that's proving the hard bit
