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I had a hydrasaw, it was OK for the log pile, ran off an old DB tractor. Low speed but a ton of torque, hardly any vibe and as quiet as your power source. You can run them off a JCB power pack

That made me watch the vid......not the kind of bar I had in mind:laugh1:

The name of the site is "laughed to death" Somewhat ironic

Dude, waaaaay toooo much detail:laugh1:

You can unzip them and if you are climbing they are great at keeping sawdust out, because we all know that once its in your shirt its going to migrate down to your undercrackers:001_huh:

Is it though? Compare the ability to perform a blade change with a minimum of fuss and bother and a minimum of time, to breaking out diverse grinders, drills cutting tools and the like where you will end up with a trashed fastener that you will have to replace anyway. Workshop time is about £35.00 per hour, you can probably buy a whole box of fasteners for the cost of freeing one knackered fastener With a new fastener you will also be able to set the torque properly and lets face it, the cost of the fasteners isn't exactly astronomical.

Oh to be you, we cant wear sunscreen all day because the rain would wash it off:laugh1:

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We have a solution for that, its called a spare wheel, and if you put a bit more pressure in there it will do the same job your C02 bottle does........

Alan Tichmarsh

You gave them advice and a quote, they went another way. Its nothing to do with you, walk away

You keep your saws for a decade? Unless its a model I am particularly fond of they are replaced with new and sold off as soon as they are off the books. Most used saws bring at least half the cost of a new one back, getting rid sooner makes financial sense.

Or just lucky I was at the York farm sale last week and customs were dipping on the car park and any vehicles parked on the sales field. Just before that at the VOSA station on the M62 (Oldham) customs were dipping anything and everything, all day long. last month they rolled onto an equestrian yard I drop logs at "we were just passing, mind if we dip your tanks?" (like we had a choice and its down a narrow back road so they weren't passing) If you were running red you would have to avoid such places like the plague

That doesn't sound right at all, HMCE are interested in road use, the law allows them to prosecute for illegal road use but forage and fencing are off road activities which can be done with rebated fuel.

The only time I wore a vest I got burned above my t shirt tan line and scratched to buggery. Not for me thnks

That's a possibility but it will probably pop not long after you take the band off.

Simple answer is volume, barrows cheap and nasty sell by the truckload, arbtrolly sells in hundreds

A tube on its own would be a liability, over inflate the spare a little and use that use that, just remember to top it up and or let a bit out of you have to use it in anger, or you could stop aresing about and use a brush for field servicing and a compressor in the workshop.

On the right job it's a godsend, you can pile kit on it as well as moving waste. I don't use mine every day but then again I haven't seen much of it since I made it,,,,,,have i Ed?

Well welding your own up, scrounging oddball wheels down the tip, using random steel sizes and getting your mates to powder coat is all well and good for a one off build but you cant make comparisons between that and what fletcher stewart have to do. For a start they don't manufacture so they are tied to providing a drawing to a fabricator, messing about sourcing cheap materials to save a few quid would cost more than any savings and randomise the product. If someone needed new pins you could have to make them as a one off special and that's not how production work is done. The fabricator will want his money for manufacture and will want a handling charge for materials, which is fair. Someone has to take the items to and from the powder coater, they will have to warehouse the stock before paying to send it to retailers who will also want a slice, then there is the capital tied up in materials, advertising and the like. Its easy to see it as a high price for what is essentially a two wheeled trolley and I do think the price is on the high side but I can see where the money is going. You just cant make a direct cost comparison between what they are doing and knocking one up in your garage with your mates to help.

I said to primer (painted) It takes 20 mins to de grease the thing Show me those wheels That was a bit of a joke, Reg is the designer of the stein trolley (AFAIK) there was a patent for another granted in Germany, I used one back in the day. I am not defending the price they charge but similarly your estimates are low by a magnitude.

Some of your other posts/rants sound to have half a grain of truth but this is nonsense and I know because I have made my own trolley. Decent wheels are 45 quid each and it took me half a day to get from raw materials to finished and in primer, that's more than able in a well equipped workshop. If you were making them on a production setup with a jig, you would make them in less than an hour but that's got costs of its own, buy the steel, pay someone to fab it up, wheels are £45 each (bought in ones and twos), it needs to go out to powder coat, storage transport to retailer, retailers markup and all that before they pay Reg his intellectual property rights:laugh1: I agree its not cheap but its not 40 quid and an hour

And DWP these days

Its safetyspeak for as low as reasonably practical What the term should be in this case SFAIRP so far as is reasonably practicable