Chris Sheppard
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Or whip the clutch drum off, shove the cover on, flick off the brake and then refit the drum.
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Will the friction hitch become extinct?
Chris Sheppard replied to holdatcharlie's topic in Climbers talk
Agreed. Whilst I don't climb and don't aspire to either, surely it makes sense to be able to climb on as basic set up as possible before going mad for shiny bits? What would happen if your mechanical device unexpectdly broke/stopped working/got damaged etc during the course of the day and you were useless on prussics etc? Some of the best climbing I've seen first hand has been on both ends of the rope and using prussics - perhaps a little slower round the tree but usually making much less cuts than someone using jangly shiny gear so faster anyway. I realise that's a sweeping generalisation but that' what I've seen so far. -
Reckon this could become quite an amusing thread
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Been lightly falling most of the afternoon between Leeds and Selby. Nowt at home, if anything it's been melting.
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I don't mind Scot; burns fairly slowly for softwood - lasts as long as some hardwoods do. Can be a bit of a pig to split by hand if it's a big one as it's often stringy.
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Have you taken the spark arrestor out of the exhaust yet? That seems to help it pick up from the bottom better. You should find it just gets better and better over the next few days. Once you get your head around not trying to start it like an older one you should get along fine
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I usuallly run my 550 on 13" and yes it's quick, but I had the 15" on it for some sycamore thinning and it was fine. Whilst it'd probably pull an 18" at a push I reckon it would throw the balance out of what is a really nicely balanced saw.
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I would tend to agree
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A Landrover one, a few overlanding ones, couple of motorbike ones. Too many anyway Not on FB or Twitter or owt like that though.
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I honestly don't know. Chances are someone will have one though you might be able to go see working.
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I quite like the Farmi WP, but don't have any expereince of the newer hakki pilke. Used to own their old style towable (the Hawk), which was OK but not very fast. I've towed the WP's all over the UK when I used to work for the importer and they tow well and are easier to set up from towing to operating than the old Hawk was. Whilst the WP is fairly light build, they are very fast for for the spec/price IMO.
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Didn't think you'd be far away
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Reckon one of those 70hp tracked carltons would make short work of them. Surely digging would mean some of the tarmac/concrete needing removed anyway so maybe a bit of work round the edes with a breaker or digger mounted pecker and then let rip with the grinder might not be too bad to do? Save the headache of disposal and probably end up with less of a hole in the tarmac too.
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Had Mod 2 Booked in for today but that got cancelled a few min ago. Bit gutted but bit releived in a way too as it'd be pretty grim out on bike. Really feel for a lot of the younger guys who were trying to get A2 passed before it all changes on 19th Jan and their A2 mod 1 passes mean they'd end up only being able to do A1 Mod 2 after the 19th and ride a low powered 125 and nothing else. Glad I went DAS in the end - just means I get to do test on a SV 650 instead of the GS 500 I've been riding so far.
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No more snow here over night but proper cold. Cold enough they've cancelled all Module 2 bike tests in Scarborough for today - which included mine
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Yesterday we got about 3-4 inches of snow during the day where we were working but only a couple at home. Been snowing on and off all day today but never came to much. Cold though now.
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Arbtalk glitches, please report here
Chris Sheppard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Mines definitely quicker again now -
Lets be honest here, how many dealers actually really know what they're talking about when it comes to using the saws they sell? Absolutely.
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It must be awesome if at 45cc it can cut 20" Oak convincingy - I'd be reaching for something more like 70cc ideally.....
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It is indeed - imagine a 346 that feels lighter, slimmer and goes better and you're about there:thumbup1: Doing my accounts the other day and I realised I've had mine for just over 11 months now. It's not been out much since the Autumn but over the spring and summer was out a fair bit and it's been fine. As someone else said, the 560 isn't much more expensive really (or much heavier than a 346) and is fairly bonkers in how much torque it's got. I can't really justify a 560 at the mo as have three 60cc saws already but it's on the shopping list once we get back felling properly again.
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Could you not stretch another £50/£60 or so and go for something like a 550 so ending up with a fully pro saw instead?
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Chalk grassland restoration on the north downs
Chris Sheppard replied to Gollum's topic in General chat
We've spent the last few weeks doing similar but on the Yorkshire Wolds. Fair bit of it too steep to drive anything on so had lots of thorn rolling to do. Landowner came to help out on one site where it was less steep with their Loadall and was really surprised where it would travel but on the very last grabful of the day he did manage to pick a topside wheel up and looked fairly rattled once it came back down again -
Whats the weather like this sunday nightwatch?
Chris Sheppard replied to zeroluke's topic in General chat
There looked to have been a real light dusting of snow in Scarborough this morning and it had tried snowing a bit while I was there but nothing proper as yet. Fairly chilly though. -
It's not really doing owt in particular here - been mild and sunny with showers today. Hope snow stays away for a bit longer.
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Arbtalk glitches, please report here
Chris Sheppard replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Is anyone else having bother with the site taking a while to load each page? every other site seems to be as fast as usual which made me wonder if it's not just my computer being slow. Am on IE though if that makes any difference. Only been like it a day or so.
