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    Home Brew

    Chris Sheppard replied to Dax's topic in The Lounge

    Morrisons usually have a half decent range - I did one of their cheap Mild kits and it was fantastic. I've swapped from using granulated sugar to demarara when bottling and that's made a difference too - a lot less gassy and a bit smoother. Did have a batch of cider done using granulated at bottlign and it started to crack bottles. So far have tried Ale, Cider and Mild from kits, the cider wasn't great but very strong, the ale was OK but gassy and the Mild was well good spirits wise we've currently got some bramble rum (both white and dark) on the go as well as some bramle gin and some mixed fruit gin. Plannign on some elderberry wine and I've been tryign to get chance for a few years to tap some birch at the right time for birch sap wine. Did some sloe whisky last year and that was nice too.
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    I've a 18" .325 bar and chain hanging around that I want to put onto a 2159 jonsered but have found it's a bit of an oddball. It shares loads of bits with the 357 except where the 357 is on small hole rims (so will run 325 no prob), the 2159 is on large hole rims and I can only find a 9 tooth one listed. Is there such a thing as a 7 or 8 tooth .325 rim with the standard hole or am I going to have to stay 3/8? (or try it with a 9 - not convinced it will like it though)
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    If it's the same as the older one I've seen from them then quite a bit of the front end of the trailer is refabricated to take the extra stresses. Looked really nicely done but very heavy on the drawbar.
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    Surely that's a whole new thread I'm a brick fan myself
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    I used to run koni heavy track shocks on my old 130 and they seemed to work well, just a bit pricey.
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    The old type ones were the best IME, very rarely that you couldn't undo by hand. Dunno why they changed them.
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    a similar machine, but a bit cheaper , is the Klapi Tuiko - can quite often see them second hand on Mascus for not huge money
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    we never tried it, but a piece of string round the handle and through one of the convenient holes that the lever would bolt to should do the same job, just in a heath robinson one handed kind of way
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    You'll find quite a few places do th e7.5 tonne training in Iveco turbo dailies which aren't much bigger than a transit so it shouldn't take too much gettign used to
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    Thanks for all the messages guys, sorry for not gettign back to you all a bit quicker - it's been a bit mad this week. Will reply to rest of PM's as soon as I can
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    Is that a little Vimek? Looks a useful machine
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    That'd be me Glad you're getting on well with it I think I left just about the same time you got yours.
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    I don't know if it would just bolt on, I'd guess not though as the newer ones look to be made a bit different. Wouldn't have thought it would take too much to fabricate somethign to suit though. Know what you mean about big stuff, but I found that stuff small enough to go through the processor was generally not too bad to handle and the four way would make billeting very fast.
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    That foam stuff you can get in the supermarket worked a lot better than I ever expected
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    I had one - I only paid £400 for it I never used mine a lot but it was quite handy for shifting small stuff behind the carraro
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    Billeting - it's the future If I was in the market for another Processor I'd be hard pushed not to go for a Farmi - regardless that I used to work for the one of the importers - within minutes of using the new style ones (like what Billy has) I was convinced. The controls are a little different to how everyone else does it but it works well once you get you're head round it. It made my old Hawk look proper slow and it seemed to take bendy stuff well as it has a big throat on it. There's a couple of good vids on youtube - might be under superpilke or mastersplit rather than Farmi Processor.
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    and that's nearly half of what the list price is on them too I'm always amazed that Logic ever managed to sell any.
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    I liek the idea, but as others have mentioned, it's the last log of each piece that would make me a bit twitchy. Reckon it could be guarded up fairly easily but liek most stuff - start adding guards and the whole process slows down. As it is though, I don't reckon it's any more dangerous than using something like a Hy-Crack.
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    On the right wood, you should see a massive improvement ofver using a splitter and chainsaw, but unless you're using nice straight thinnings, then you'll probably not be as impressed by a processor as you first expect to be as wiggly stuff can have a tendency to drop in the chamber sideways meaning you have to go in a nd fish them out. Some, like the farmi and I think Tajfun and now Hakki Pilke, can be equipped with a lifter like in Billy's photos - if you are movign the machine to the stack (and/or going out on hire) then this can be a very usefull back saving addition. I used to have the Hakki Pilke Hawk, after going from a Hakki Pilke Eagle and that old Thor splitter - for what I was doing, I'd almost have been better staying with the sawbench and splitter, though on the odd occaisons I was processing decent timber the processor did make for easier work.
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    357 are fantastic, feels like a big saw in a little body I really like my 372. Can't compare it to the 576 as never used one but find it nicer to handle than the 440 and 441. Never ran bigger than a 20" on it but in softwood it will pull that on an 8 tooth rim and semi chisel. I reckon in a few years, the 372 will be a bit like the 242's now - everyone will be buying them up on ebay once they stop making them
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    It's been a long time since I've done one, but there was a way of doing the new style farmi's that made it easier to get at in situ - one side was fairly easy to get at, but I think the other one was better to get at if you stood at the front of the machine rather than the back (or something like that) - was a bit of a revelation once I'd sussed it
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    we had one (though there is a possibility it could have been a 288) on one estate and it was a bit of a pig to start at times but once going it wasn't bad. one thing i do remember with it though was that it used to not be able to clear the chips fast enough at times and would clog. Seen those MOD ones on ebay and can't help thinking the guy is a bit optimistic on pricing
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    New Saw Chains - Oregon Chainsaw Saw Chains, Guide Bars, Oil & Accessories at below trade prices! FREE UK delivery on all Bars and Chains! Tel: 01202 580612 usually seem pretty reasonable price wise and only ever had good service so far. Can get either Oregon or Carlton from them so covers all budgets.
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    Something like one of those oregon easy cut saw horses might not be a bad thing to make if you're chainsawing it and you'd probably be as fast hand splitting as it shouldn' tbe very tough at all.
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    Forgot about these as I've not bought any for a while - as a replacement to instant, Kenco do some coffee bags a bit like big tea bags - they aren't bad and you can get two cups out of them

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