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    Alpine with forestry trailer or skidder winch?
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    below about plus 7 they work better than regular tyres even on dry or damp roads due to the softer compound. I would assume that they’ll therefore wear quicker in warmer temperatures. The difference is pretty amazing though, but ice you really need studded tyres, then it’s like driving on gravel
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    If you’ve chickens add it in their dust bath
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    completly understand that, but if for example a council were to send out a tender for new machines then price matters do no manufactures offer them as an optional extra?
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    I guess it comes down to a cost against the competition thing. if Greenmech for example were to lead the way and add them, their machines would be potentially automatically £xxx more expensive than the competition. you’d need (for example) the 3 big uk makes to all do a gentleman’s agreement and all start adding them at the same time simmilar happens here in Sweden when you buy a new car, they’re sold on summer tyres, but no extra set of winter tyres. rendering the vehicle potentially illegal to drive for 4-6 months a year - because if one make started to throw them in automatically then they’d be that much more expensive
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    not really, your opinion that is quoted was based on “what you’ve read” not based on personal, actual experience? As I understand and has been backed with experience is that petrol doesnt “dry out” rubber components but degrades them, symptoms that CAN then appear are when those components are left dry/without petrol present are that those components then shrivel/crack due to the degradation from a substance in normal petrol causing subsequent running problems. Aspen or alkylate fuel doesn’t have this swelling /degradation ingredient/compound (forget which one it is)
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    If you run pump fuel you need to run it regular for the degradation symptoms not to appear, but if you need to let the saw rest months on end the rubber parts can “dry out” and the cracks appear causing running problems. sometimes you can be lucky and run aspen on a older or saw with no problems, (like my 880) sometimes not (like my 020) In theory, and as seems to be the case for my dozen or so saws run on aspen, there’s no problem with long periods of hibernation or fuel going off i guess it’s circumstance, personal preference and personal values that decide on what’s the best fuel though
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    Sounds a great idea! I’ve a small farm, have charged customers for removal of the wood, then dumped it at mine, saving tipp fees, double bubble Realistically, I’ve more than I’ll ever manage to mill or split, if I were greedy it’d just rot away, someone wanting to split and take half would be brilliant! I’ve already someone who takes what he needs in lengths and pays in honey, imagine, being quids in, pantry full of honey and a shed of split firewood just by not being greedy, wouldn’t care less about the splitters motives tbh! Unfortunately Bishops Auckland doesn’t sound very local to Sweden 😆 good luck in your search though
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    how you feel about these young lads with what you see as a lack of PPE for strimmers, is probably how others view you with a chainsaw and lack of appropriate PPE. As you pointed out, PPE is completely useless for days, months, years, decades even……. until the day an accident happens. Unfortunately no one knows when that day is! the fact you’re asking these questions says to me that you know you ought to be wearing it, but for some reason you want to hear that you don’t really need to
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    Looks better, but that lightweight steals the show!
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    Are you SE in Norway or on the books?
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    50s young 😆😂😆😂
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    I screwed in a load of self tapping bolts on mine, much better.
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    Not sure you’d class them as a British car though 😂
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    Norton, triumph, Land Rover, Range Rover, Aston Martin etc not necessarily British owned, or all models but plenty are still built in Britain
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    I’ve only experienced slippage on heavily frozen pine, doubt it’s a problem you’d ever get in the uk though! (Eder titan wedge)
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    Imo you need to think of it as PPE, most PPE is clothing you pay an extortionate price for, hopefully never gets tested but if it does, you’re thankful for the cost if you’re a boss you should be minimizing the risks you expose your employees to, save future law suits and the like
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    Jokes on you joe, that’s big tree dom on a busman’s holiday
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    only fans now!
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    Half the year tracking wolves, lynx, bears and wolverines. The other half general conservation across 140 odd reserves of which about 40 I’m responsible for the practical aspects. I’ve kept the logbullet though 😉
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    It did! Got bored with Arb so changed career 🙂
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    Jokes???

    josharb87 replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

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    I recently sold my 3yr old 50hp Jensen 540 to a gm 160 owner who is thrilled with the extra performance. but now it looks like Jensen are sticking pathetically small engines in. Dunno if they’d do a custom engined machine again? The safe if a little mundane bet would be timberwolf, but if I was in the market again I’d be demoing the GM205 first
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    Here in Sweden, those that know, especially in the middle of the country (according to the map), are cautious to use the wood-ash in farming or food production because after Chernobyl “dirty” clouds travelled over here, and rained.

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