Chris Sheppard
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JB weld should do it ok - used it on a motorbike casing in the past and that's similar stuff.
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I have seen, once, an actual left handed saw in a forestry museum in Canada (all I can remember was it was proper old and was yellow and don't know if it was a standard factory item or not) but other than that I've never seen one any different to normal. Seen a few people use them wrong handed though and it looks weird. Ocaisonally felling bigger stuff though I've swapped hands on the back cut if it meant I could get into a more comfortable position. Just wondered if I was missing something obvious with this one?
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husqvarna 365 special petrol chainsaw left handed | eBay Other than the fact it looks like it's got a jonsered chainbrake handle on it, I can't see owt different to a normal one?
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North Yorkshire - Scrap/Unprocessed wood wanted
Chris Sheppard replied to Johnnyboxer's topic in Firewood forum
Might have some near Kirkbymoorside later in the year if it's of interest - probably all sub 12" diameter. -
Yep, green and it'll be a doddle
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North Yorkshire - Scrap/Unprocessed wood wanted
Chris Sheppard replied to Johnnyboxer's topic in Firewood forum
North Yorkshire's a big place - roughly whereabouts are you? -
Agree with most of others - it's a £500 run til the test's out jobber. Welding on patches is only ever goign to be a short term solution - if you want to do it right then it wants boot floor takign right out and shoving new door shuts on. Then maybe a few months later you'll find another hole some where else and another and another - even of they aren't going to cost you financially it's all the hassle and time involved having it off the road while it's being done.
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I remember when I first left school we got a 5/6 year old fourtrack come in for some fairly serious rust removal/rectifying - under the screen was proper holey.
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Now there's something that even make landrover's rust proofing look good
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Yawn.......
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I just left boss at the time to deal with them as they had us both in two vehicles. Fined and given a prohibition notice (but they did later give us an exemption to drive the 350 miles back unloaded at no more than 40mph). Had us there for a cuple of hours and if they really wanted to could of had on overloading but went after the lack of tacho instead. Thankfully I don't do anything like as much driving like that now.
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Would Newton Stewart be too far south? Father in Law uses a garage who's proper into older stuff and I think even used to be a renault main dealer.
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That's a cracker - up there with the worst ones I've seen
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Sort of similar, I used to buy £4-600 discoveries with as much MOT on them as could find and run them til the test ran out (or it died) - if they didn't re-test then they'd still fetch £500 on ebay. That was cheap motoring most of the time but you win some you lose some.
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That's what we thought but when we got stopped by VOSA we got told that it wasn't good enough to do that and that we had to have a tacho fitted. We'd have gotten into less bother if we'd pleaded ignorance but in their eyes, the fact we'd been keeping records meant that we were aware of the rules and were trying to sidestep them as such.
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It wasn't steep on that bit as we were on the track - a few stumps but now much. Think it was a combination of a few things. That 1010 looks interesting. Bet that larch made you jump Done that a few times too - usually managed to put it right with the crane and a ratchet strap off a stump. Dad did once lose a wheel off the old carraro (sheared studs) and the County used to cock a leg well on full reach but no pics.
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Feel free to add your own photos as and when We've been skidding out the last of some sycamore on a steep site this week. It's gone fairly well but had it's ups and downs This happened a couple of days ago - was wandering back up and nattering to Joe and turned around to just see it start to go and driver get clear as it was going. From it happening to getting back to work was about an hour - only took a few min to get it back upright but wanted to make sure all the oil was where it was meant to be before starting it back up. We're still not quite sure why it started to go over - it did though and luckily no one hurt and the only casualty on the tractor was the wing mirror lense.
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18" beech or oak are going to be pretty hard whether green or not - a 45cc domestic saw definitely isn't going to eat it at anything other than a steady chew, especially after only 30 mins of being fresh out of the box.
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Abolutely, seems their only aiming them at the bigger firms or farmers.
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If it's just for one big bonfire, probably be better value for money if you were to speak to local sawmills and buy in some of their slabwood. We're all booked up timber wise at the mo else we could have helped
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Still think LR should have had the option of something like a 3.5/4L straight six diesel in a defender - turboed or not it would have been an improvement. Can think of worse towing vehicles than any defender, mark 1/2/3 hilux anyone
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Looks a bit like a small Norse - the swinging lip at the bottom of the buttplate is something I've only ever really seen on them.
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My saws range from a 1985 husky 181 (fair enough has had new barrel and piston) to a 2011 Husky 550 and a smattering of saws between 1989 and 2005. Other than the 181 which had dropped a piston ring pin, the only other one which has needed a new barrel and piston was a 357 which only went pop because the auto decomp pipe split. If you look after them, saws generally last pretty well - most stuff is smaller wear and tear stuff that needs replacing or if you're unlucky, physical damage caused by dropping/running over etc.
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Size between a hilux and land rover
Chris Sheppard replied to not for sale sorry's topic in Arb-Trucks
110 tipper will carry more weight than a hilux, especially if you go for a HD version at 3500kg GVW - chances are it will then carry more weight than the LDV can too. I work with a guy who used to run a hilux tipper and upgraded to a 110 HD tipper and he says the difference in how it handles the weight compared to the hilux is huge. -
aye, but that's a bit bigger than a £200 4 tonner though
