Chris Sheppard
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Some advice on current birch prices roadside
Chris Sheppard replied to Tomatin Firewood's topic in Firewood forum
someone talking sense -
I'd had a 3.2 Patrol previously and the old LC would have at it for breakfast They sound very trucklike I reckon, but soooooo silky smooth too.
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I had one like that, just slightly newer with the square headlights. Mine was rotting but mechanically was really good. Do really miss mine sometimes, especially the sound.
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They're really, really nice
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I find welding gloves are a bit too numb most of the time. I have a pair of the old Husky arbor chainsaw gloves where they have an extra layer of thick leather sewn onto the palms and if extends up the fingers. I picked them u by mistake a few years ago and found they work really well when thorn bashing, especially with another pair of thin gloves inside them too and less numb than welding gloves (still not great for sawing in though) Don't know if the current ones are the same, but from what I could gather the extra leather was supposed to be for when handling ropes - I reckon they'd be as crap for handling ropes as they are for cutting. If it wasn't for how good they are at keeping thorns out then they'd have been bin fodder years ago.
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I'd agree, but the Tr 70 will take the small diameter poles that are otherwise destined to be left on the floor and make them into a product very quickly - it's just the marketing of the product that's causing the problems I reckon really small stuff through a bilke would be like long, rough kindling and not be as fast as a branchlogger on the smaller stuff.
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standing hard wood how much to pay
Chris Sheppard replied to chainsaw surgeon's topic in Firewood forum
Tonnage on everything except decent mill grade hardwood, but that usually goes elsewhere if we get any -
standing hard wood how much to pay
Chris Sheppard replied to chainsaw surgeon's topic in Firewood forum
Have seen some pretty nasty stacks of firewood Even Euroforest/Tilhill etc stil work in tonnage round us - we're maybe just a bit resistant to change -
Can't remember if I asked before (sorry if I did) - do you put coppice poles through yours Phil or is it more joinery type wood?
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standing hard wood how much to pay
Chris Sheppard replied to chainsaw surgeon's topic in Firewood forum
Simples - the longer it sits the more it's going to cost - all decided in advance before it leaves. What a stack measures before it's loaded and once it's unloaded can be two totally different figures as it's going to more than likely be a different guy loading the wagon to who stacked it on the landing - least with weight ticket there's less arguing (not saying it's foolproof ) -
My DR was on a 110 as standard but someone had put an FMF header and backbox on off either a DRZ 125 or maybe a DR 200 (either way it's not quite a perfect fit) and so far I'd got to 117.5 and reckon it could still have gone a bit bigger without too much bother. Plug was about perfect colour wise so am pretty sure it didn't contibute to it's demise (I hope )
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standing hard wood how much to pay
Chris Sheppard replied to chainsaw surgeon's topic in Firewood forum
I don't like volume as it's too easy to manipulate to suit either party and can lead to disagreement, but as TCD says £20/cube standing seems a lot. Plus if it's there's much over 12-15" diameter then it's starting to get into oversize so the roadside cost goes down aswell as the standing price. If it's never been thinned previously then chances are you'll have a lot more non productive stuff to cut to make a way in too. -
Have you gone bigger on the main jet since putting the exhaust on? That should help too. Some cracking pics there Geoff
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Tidy XR I do feel your pain though - 4 stroke 125's are steady at best. Since mine went pop I've been busy on the contingency plan....
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standing hard wood how much to pay
Chris Sheppard replied to chainsaw surgeon's topic in Firewood forum
Too many variables but if it's good processor sized and fairly straight could be anything, getting on for up to £20/T standing if it's real nice. We've missed out on sites where we've been £15 and been a fair bit low - crackers it is. Unless you're lucky it won't be cheap. -
Finally got round to doing a bit of an experiment this week. We'd ran out f kindling and all I could find kicking about dry at home was the bag of branch loggings I'd had off Andy. Lit a firelighter, built up a bit of a pile of chunks, let it take and then loaded up the fire using the coal scuttle to see how well it lasted. Was mainly Hazel with a bit of Ash but I was surprised at how long the pile burns for before wanting topped up. A bit quicker than normal logs but not as fast as you'd think with it being small and it also throws a good amount of heat out. Feeding an open fire and handling it like coal seems to work quite well. Reckon loading a stove could be more of a pain though. Wonder how easy it would be to convince people it's worth a try?
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I don't remember reading anything in particular in the manual other than the bit about setting the autotune first time you use it, which means revving it fairly high right from the off. Seem to remember I just went a bit steady with it for the first day and then pretty much as normal after that.
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Would have agreed once upon a time but it's a shame the Haix boots don't seem as well made as they used to be.
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Am finding the Pfanner wax works well. Don't know what it would be like on normal leather but on the more suedey finish once you've put it on you gently heat it with a hair drier and you can see it melt and the boots absorb it. Welly wise, I've always hated chainsaw wellies but was recommended the Stihl ones - dubiously bought a pair and haven't worn my leather boots since early December and that's even been working on steep banks where wellies are normally awful.
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I wish it would go here - only got one day of work in last week. It's not so much what it's doing during the day, more the fact it's not really melting on the land. Apparently we're due a fair bit of rain later today so that might wash worst of it away.
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Had another three inch or so fall here last night, but on top of the frozen remnants from before so our lane's a bit bad. Just had to help next door extract their car off their drive, which is tight enough in the dry.
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Do it, you know you want to Looks like the little DR's suffered a bit more than I hoped Whipped rocker cover off and everything at first glance looked as it should, til I knocked the inlet valve springs and they moved. Had snapped valve off a bit below the collet. Hoping it wouldnt be too bad once got the head off, could see where it had hit the piston, but nothing really terrible......... Then spotted the two little bits of broken off Ali stuck to the head near the valve. Tapped the valve down a bit to find the valve guide missing half of it. Reckon when the piston hit the valve it's pushed it hard enough against the guide to snap it Going to see if can get the other engine up and running this aft and see what happens.
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Cheers guys That one in west yorkshire looks really quite nice but I reckon there must be something not quite right as it's been on there a week or so now and still not gone. Had a disastrous afternoon. Decided to take DR out for a blat and on the way home it developed a fairly loud rattle that didn't sound like tappets (even with the tappets set where they should be it's still tappety) and almost a bit down on power - very quickly followed by a bang 4 mile push home - was dark by the time got in so abandoned it in the garage til the morning but have my suspicions the timing chain let go
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Good stuff, sounds like it wouldn't be a bad thing to have. I'd alway ridden small 2 strokes in the past so it mightn't feel too much of a change. Whilst have had a few days quiet I might have made a slightly daft desicion that I'm putting down to having a bit of spare time to sit and think . The roughly bike shape pile of bits I bought to use as spares for the little DR turns out to be a bona fide DR 125 (not an "S" or "SE") so was the more off road oriented one with ali wheels, ali swing arm (very RM styled) no pillion pegs (or mounts for them), slightly longer wheelbase and bit better suspension - looks to be a bit of a rarity over here. Quite fancy putting it back together as apparently it was a runner and I've got a logbook for it too. Only missing a few small bits (front brake, side panels and silencer are main bits) and it doesn't seem in bad fettle.
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Good call, best place to be wheen snowed off from work How'd you find the 250 Geoff? Have heard they can be a pig to restart if they conk under load. Hopefully going to get a look at a mid 80's one for Vinduro I've a hankering for a 600 but reckon it'd be a bit much to wrestle round the sort of courses we get out this way.
