Chris Sheppard

That looks ace

Sorted - Honey Bros had them sat on the shelf

Just had call from the supplier saying they've not got the size I want in stock and that they just spoke with the importer who told them that the Tirol Fighter is being discontinued for the UK and they can't get hold of any more. More than a bit P'd off - why show something as available on their website if they don't actually have them sat there ready to go Also, it's funny how the money comes out of your account instantly but is going to tkae 2/3 days to come back

Yep, rain and wind here - it eased off a bit briefly but still not good to be out in.

As much as it should make sense for me to do logs at the moment, I don't. I used to sell firewood up until around 5 years ago - it was something to work in with quieter spells or bad weather and in the end also ran nicely around my employed work too. With the cost of wood going up at roadside, the cost of a load needed to go up to match but around us no one seemed to be doing, or not by enough to make up the shortfall so I decided not to bother. Around us, it's still far too cheap so I tend to concentrate of selling the raw material at roadside and that keeps me fairly busy and keeps the volume of customers and dodgy hours delivering to a minimum. Am quite lucky that if the weather's not great I can sometimes get to go and process wood for other people on their machines - nice and stress free

That's a proper tractor - complete with family size cab Used to use one very similar as a skidder with full cab guarding and fixed double drum igland on the back. Bomb proof little things.

We did look at that option too, but didn't manage to find anything sensible net wise that was seen to be green to burn (i.e not plastic)

Can't help on where to get bits but do now they are/were available within the last few years as the guy who bought my old one did a full refurb on it. I never got on with mine, but it was fairly tired. The weak spot tended to be the measuring system, hit and miss at the best of times and then died completley and I never did manage to get it working again. Also, mine didn't have much in the way of feeding power, often had to help a bit with the crane if they were long or particularly hairy.

Am going to have to go +1 too, SWMBO's blagged telly or X factor

Was a abit of an arse nipper wasn't it From memory I think that old van was some russian 4x4 van called something that sounded like furgon. Did look a bit like an old round light transit though

Just ordered a pair of the Tirol's, hopefully should be in some shiny new boots by the end of the week Do I need to use special stuff on them for waterproofing or will stuff for ordinary leather be OK? I've got some Mink Oil that works really well on normal leather.

I managed to get hold of one bag of bits off the machine and they seem to dry out OK without going mouldy. Think it depends on what material goes through, but the bag I got had a lot of small slivers in amongst it. I really really think they could be a good tool for use in neglected woodlands but think the market for the end product is still fairly limited in the UK.

That's a beast, Rob I made something similar but much smaller and found it's great for loading up with small diameter poles up to around 10ft long. Three fills of it fills the sankey trailer and from start ing loading the rack to having a full trailer i about 30min.

Am liking that a lot

Looks a nice one - a good all rounder tht's got plenty of ground clearance for if you want to go play in the woods too

I've got the small Ali one - it fits behind the landy seats OK and boils enough to do 2 cups worth. So far been OK for what I wanted

On a typical day's arbing I'd have thought the cost difference for the day between petrol and aspen would only be £5-£10 for the whole job, tops - there's not that many days when we'll do 5l of fuel on an arb job unless the big saws come out or we're ringing everything up. Out in the woods, now that's a different matter altogether. Each man will use a fair bit of fuel and be earning little enough as it is. I've never bought Aspen myself, but have used it a few times, mainly in hedgecutters but also in saws a bit. Liked the smell, but can't say I've ever really noticed the fumes using ordinary fuel much unless it's been a particularly still or murky day. EDIT: was too slow typing

Yep, there's definitely a knack, especially if it's still fairly low hours - mine seemed to get better once it had done some work. Try like Stubby says, but if you still can't get it to run, try starting it as though it's flooded (so chain brake on, no choke, throttle wide open and pull it over like that till it fires.) Mine was fine from cold and fine on warm starts but was a bit of a pig after refueling from empty. As much as I hate the idea of a primer bubble, it's the one saw I've found that really does seem to need priming. You should feel the first few pumps of the primer don't do much and then it'll get a bit of pressure once the air's out. Give it 2/3 good pumps once there's pressure and it should be fine. When you said about it running for a couple of minutes and then when you went to rev it, it died, that's the autotune adjusting itself - they're not like old type saws and need to be worked hard. Try whipping the spark arrester screen out of the exhaust as that seems to help it ick up a bit cleaner off the bottom if it's been idling a bit. Once you get used to it I'm pretty sure you'll love it

Used a palax 35 recently and didn't find it a great experience - it was OK but not very instinctive to use and also had a good amount falling sideways too. Was nice having a joystick control but didn't like that the ram comes out everytime the saw returns - if they made it so you just flipped the joystick back a bit more to set the ram going, IMO it would be a much faster and easier to use machine.

That'd be the Tajfun ones - meant to be pretty good.

Reckon BigJ might be worth speaking to, isn't he out Edinburgh way?

I used to suffer a fair bit with migraines when I was younger - not so muchnow but still occaisionally. Yours sounds similar in that it's behind the eyes and knocks your concentration. I find that 2 paracetomol and 2 ibruprofen (cheap supermarket grade ones) usually do a good job of either getting rid or at least clming it down enough to finish off the day and get home. If I'm not working then a couple of cocodamol do the trick but then I'm no good for anything.

The TR 70 was around £3K plus vat and the Rojek 9cm one as £3500 plus vat - petrol ones were a bit dearer. The TR110 from memory was a fairly big jump in price from the TR70 - I've got it on an email somewhere but can't find it at mo. From what I can gather, in other countries they are producing fuel for gassisfication boilers.

I'm pretty sure it's exactly the same photo as when R and R civils had the one for sale a couple of weeks ago. There's was a bargain and that was double the price of the current one listed. Scam Scam Scammity Scam