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  1. Chris Sheppard
    After using a 20" on your 346, then a 20" or 24" on a 372 will definitely feel better, but if you wanted to run a 24" on it all the time then I'd be looking for a few more CC myself. I've yet to put bigger than a 20" on mine and generally that's more for felling than ringing. Ringing up big stuff usually means 90cc + coming out to play.
  2. Chris Sheppard
    Still not quite sure what I think on this one - I quite like the quirkiness of it but do keep thinking "why?" Think there's got to have been more efficient ways to do it for similar outlay (time and materials etc). I'd have thought a small two wheel tractor with arch would have been better and would go anywhere the pedal skidder would I'd have thought. For what it is though, it does seem to have been fairly well thought out when it was built and it did seem to pull it fairly well
  3. Chris Sheppard
    I've heard the biggest stihl one is quite good too, think Kev P on here has one (I know he has an electric one he gets on well with anyway)
  4. Chris Sheppard
    Wet and windy here too, not too fussed to be doing indoor stuff today now instead
  5. Chris Sheppard
    Quite fancy getting a bike again after nearly 10 years without one and think I want an early/mid 80's XL125 for blatting about on. Think the first one needs a loving home, the second one looks pretty tidy, but the third one I really think I should be going up to Lockerbie to collect it Honda XL125 RC | eBay HONDA XL 125 | eBay XL 125 R 1986 Mot & Tax Good Condition Learner Legal Must Sell !!! | eBay
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    Cheers . It is indeed a kubota - Can't remmeber model but we think it's about 40hp. Don't think it's a UK model and reckon it's about 30 years old. It's pretty much the size of a fergie 135/ford 3000 and plays with the trailer. Trailer's a 4 tonne Weimer - it's a cracking little trailer but coudl do with a few inches wider wheel track and ideally a slightly longer crane but we manage. I looked into it and we can get the booms off the 4.1m version of the crane and they'll bolt straight on as everything else is the same. From what I have seen, the Weimer cranes are very similar to the Farma ones.
  7. Chris Sheppard
    Still have a hankering for a 200 EXC - was in the right place at the right time once and got a go on Ady Smith's. Was ace, was like a 125 with some bottom end
  8. Chris Sheppard
    Just bought a set of the new husky helmet mount radio muffs to replace an old pair of Sordin ones - first impressions seem pretty good and they seem to seal to your head better too. Liking the option to plug mp3 player into it too.
  9. Chris Sheppard
    Mines been OK so far. Can't remember exactly when I got mine but it's a 2011 model.
  10. Chris Sheppard
    This week's forwarding - shelter belt round a big farm, fairly long extraction from one side but generally not bad (40 min turnaround averaging). 4 days so far 8-10 loads per day but not really been going for it and rippign a valve off stopped play for a bit. Photos don't do it justice but stack is just over 40m long averaging about 2.5m tall and is all 3.75's last photo was driving out last night.
  11. Chris Sheppard
    My 550 is still on 325 and runs a 13" bar. Seems to hold power in the cut better than a 346, makes power from lower down and the throttle response seems so much quicker when snedding than any older type saws. It seems to handle better than a 346 too - while it's not actually much lighter, it feels like it is and is very very flickable. the 346 in comparison feels very dated now. Can't comment on longevity as yet but mine's doing OK so far.
  12. Chris Sheppard
    Circular rack bench would probably be fairly simple to build in comparison to the others, but would have a fair sized footprint compared to a band/chainsaw mill where the saw carriage moved and the timber satyed put. One thing we used to find with the old rack benches was that they weren't that accurate either as the wood tended to have a habit of moving during cutting as it mostly relied on the weight of the timber to hold it in place. Certainly don't miss using it (or shovelling out the pit )
  13. Chris Sheppard
    I really don't think you'd be disappointed with a 560 (especially compared to a stihl ) - it's on my shopping list but I've too many saws as it is at the mo and the 372 on little bar is doing a good job in the 560 sized stuff we're in at the mo.
  14. Chris Sheppard
    As above. Mine was a pig to start after refuelling (but still warm) til I read the manual. I kept flooding it by trying to get it to fire on full choke and not using the primer either (like you could with a normal saw) Normal warm starts don't seem to be a problem though, most of the time it'll go without half revs though if it's just been off for a few min. EDIT: was a bit slow with my reply. Is it all hot starts that it's a pig on?
  15. Chris Sheppard
    I'm not scared, we're hopefully sticking a 15" and 9 toother on brett's 3120 If we can find somwhere for a cut off, one way or another I'll try and get a 560 along for you to try if you've not got one by then Spud, have you given a 372 the spud treatment yet? I'm going to dig out the barrel that came off mine when I bought it - from what I can gather it was run on neat fuel so if it will clean up well enough might you fancy giving it a fettle?
  16. Chris Sheppard
    Don't know if the 254 has it, but I'm sure one of my huskies has a plug a bit like that in the top fins of the barrel. No idea what it was for though. Other than that, I think maybe my 181 had something similar in a hole under the carb (not the grommet where the fuel line comes through though).
  17. Chris Sheppard
    You starting to worry about putting your 361 up against a 560 now Pete Sorry haven't had chance to give you a call - dunno where the last week has gone. Agree with the spark arrester, took it out of my 550 and it definitely made it better again. From what our dealer said, if you really wanted to and could make it fit, then there's no reason why a normal carb couldn't go on - other than the auto tune they're pretty much a normal saw still.
  18. Chris Sheppard
    That sounds like what my body needed to do today
  19. Chris Sheppard
    A decent set of T handle allen keys is a worthwhile purchase
  20. Chris Sheppard
    The BCS looks to have been a good buy at that price. Bet it's a handy setup with the drive to the trailer.
  21. Chris Sheppard
    Bad luck Nige, couldn't have hit the one in the top photo any worse We've been suffering a bit lately with those metal clips off those square plaggy tree guards - whose stupid idea was it to use metal ties that the tree swallows up, right at felling height
  22. Chris Sheppard
    We had one like that a while back. Somehow managed to miss all but one with the saw
  23. Chris Sheppard
    Logs or chips to and end user is 5% vat, timber isn't. Bit like heating oil is 5% but a barrel of Crude isn't That's my understanding of it anyway
  24. Chris Sheppard
    That's my understanding too, though it doesn't become a domestic fuel until it's been processed - so a wagon load of roundwood is still a wagon load of wood at 20% vat and doesn't become 5% vat until it's been processed into a useable fuel if that mkes sense.
  25. Chris Sheppard
    Got any pics of the rest of the winch in case anyone can ID it? I'd be talking to local brake/clutch place as they might be able to send it away to get some made up

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