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  1. Chris Sheppard
    Speak to someone like EuroForest or Tilhill and whatever they offer roadside, add a chunk to it and that's what you should get if you sell direct.
  2. Chris Sheppard
    You must not have seen proper Yorkshire Hawthorn then Some of the scrub clearing jobs we've been on there's no way no how you could get it out without a machine or through any sort of hand fed chipper economically. I'm still going with 360 with grab and a few fires. Fraction of the cost of a Mulcher.
  3. Chris Sheppard
    360 with a grapple - one of the fixed ones will do, and rip them out, separating them up a bit as he goes and row them up a bit. Telehandler/tractor and loader and grab to load them up into fire heaps. Job done and home in time for tea
  4. Chris Sheppard
    good to get some feedback but unfortunately I think it went clear over their heads
  5. Chris Sheppard
    Sweet or Horse? Reckon if it's Horse you might struggle to get much interest as it's not even great firewood.
  6. Chris Sheppard
    The odd thing is that it looks like the hole is there for it though Almost like on some of the older 346's ( I think) where there's a hole in the casting but no thread or decompressor.
  7. Chris Sheppard
    Isn't it just
  8. Chris Sheppard
    But surely if it was a genuine new one but had bits robbed off and replaced with non gen, it's not technically a brand new saw anymore is it?
  9. Chris Sheppard
    Thankfully no one's got any photos, but I think I managed the biggest barbers chair I'd ever seen earlier in the year. Reckon it must have gone 30ft or so up . It was a skanky pop with a back lean and swept butt of around 90/100ft. We were winching it against the lean too and it really didn't like it. Had 5 others to do the same, next one went better but we resorted to ratchet straps. On the same job managed to strip a rare youngish Chestnut back to a pole with the end of one of the branches off one of the Pop on it's way down right in front of the landowner We knew it was going to be tight but...... To be fair, it was a pig of a drop zone (full of young trees) and he was given the choice of one day crash bash stunt felling and accept a bit of risk or best part of a week to dismantle/lower etc. Did redeem myself with the other 4 but it really rattled me for a while.
  10. Chris Sheppard
    Yep, all sorted again here
  11. Chris Sheppard
    On the Estate round us they'll have been cutting christmas trees for the last 3 weeks by now - crazy they somehow survive. Im trying not to think too much about Christmas yet, it seems ages away still. Though did dig out the fermenting bin today to get a batch of cider on ready for Christmas.
  12. Chris Sheppard
    Husqvarna 365 66cc Logging saws Import of crankshaft box Petrol Chain Saw | eBay At a glance looks pretty normal but there's a few little bitts make me think it's a fake. Writing on bar, stickers, odd colours, some of the moulding. If it is a fake, it's a reasonably convincing one. Bit scary that.
  13. Chris Sheppard
    most of the buttons on the page (except the ones at the top of the page) now are blank but have little white boxes with red crosses in them. They do still have writing on them though mostly.
  14. Chris Sheppard
    Would a sack barrow help any?
  15. Chris Sheppard
    Johny, you make me chuckle
  16. Chris Sheppard
    Cleaning a saw Paintbrush with half the length of bristles cut off (so making it more stiffer bristled) works pretty well. Airline only really seems to work if it's soft/loose crud anyway IME. Dipping the brush in petrol can help shift stubborn bits too. Did try some spray on stuff once and that helped shift it - think it was designed for pushbikes. HAve to be careful though as it eats ali if leftt too long.
  17. Chris Sheppard
    Haven't you realised Stevie, that extra 0.5 seconds they'll save is soo important to them - how rude of you to slow them down by turning off
  18. Chris Sheppard
    Totally agree - lane discipline at roundabouts annoys me massively. Either people being in the wrong lane or straight lining across them. Drives me crackers. The other one is the general poor quality of motorway/dual carriageway driving in the UK. Anywhere else in Europe, people generally overtake and then pull back across and they flow really well. Over here people seem to think that left lane for lorries, middle for cars and right lane for rep mobiles. Used to spend a lot of time on the motorways and am glad I don't so much now. Used to really drive me nuts when I had the trailer on and got stuck behind a slow car sat in the middle lane that wouldn't move across. Figured the best way to drive is to treat every other car as being out to get you as it seems most of them are
  19. Chris Sheppard
    Liking the sound of that
  20. Chris Sheppard
    What are the 2.5 tdi like on fuel? We've been looking for a bit but it would need to replace Wife's 307 hdi and she does about 75 miles a day going to work and back. Did consider the synchro and replace my 90 but think I'd end up battering it too much. Have seen quite a few Vauxhall vivaro (and the nissan version) that looked quite smart with seats in the middle/back too. Think they work out cheaper for newer too as they're not so sought after.
  21. Chris Sheppard
    I've not done owt but the unread posts button seems to be working again for me now
  22. Chris Sheppard
    When I click on unread posts, it still thinks it's 6pm and won't show any of thee new posts. If I go to each forum individually I can see the new posts though. EDIT: just found a today's posts button and that seems to work.
  23. Chris Sheppard
    Done it once or twice and it's not fun Boots start to rub, trousers get mega heavy and it's just not a good place to be. Think it was quite late in the year too so proper cold after a while.
  24. Chris Sheppard
    I like that
  25. Chris Sheppard
    Done that before, only thing to watch for is that MS200 triggers are fairly fragile as we managed to break one in transit when locked up.

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