treequip
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Had the pleasure once for a wood turner. He warned me it was "like iron lad" Its nothing like Lime but a professional saw sharpened and wielded by an experienced user bested it although it did take the edge of the saw quicker than most. The white bits are mineral deposits, the ballast flour that ends up in the grain of the sleeper is exactly the same principal but worse. As an aside what's the fascination making things with a timber that's so difficult to work? The old boy I cut it for regarded his chunk with reverence.
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Ask yourself this, does the chain last moments when felling it? Nope, why? because its virgin timber. When its been sitting on top of ballast for a year or three, action of the train pressing down on the ballast causes dust which then finds its way into the surface of the timber by the action of wind and rain. You cant see it but its there and that's what takes the edge off the chain. If you cut used and virgin sleepers you will see the difference. Properly sharpened chains last plenty well in virgin timber no matter how hard.
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Used sleepers have all manner of stones and micro crud embedded in the surface. Thats what kills the chain
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Rear axle surely? The extra cabin space puts the load bed further back and thus the load directly over the rear axle. I once had to drive a LDV double cab linktip body with a read axle capacity of 500kg, the front axle still had most of its capacity.
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Not that the Marlow is a bad rope but consider this. Its a nice rope to work with. I use the 12 and 16mm. Sirius 12mm Bull Rope | Clark Forest : Rigging Ropes Service and shipping second to none and waaaay better than some I have used.
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If the owner wont act you need to write to them by recorded delivery include your pictures and concerns about the condition of the tree, reminding them of their duty of care to others. Once you have put them on notice they will find it difficult to use the "act of god" excuse. If they don't respond to that, another option is to speak to the council tree officer, they have the power but not the duty to intervene. The tree usually has to be an imminent danger but they might be willing to drop a line which ought to rattle a cage somewhere. PS don't call Mr Walnut back, that's an ash tree and he is a nut of some sort
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Standard wash with whatever soap is in the house. I don't make a habit of it but I have tumble dried mine before now. I am not much of a white goods expert but the drier has a button for ambient air temperature and that's the one I use.
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Well I have used and abused mine and never had a problem
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Yup:thumbup1:
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Have you ever had a branch inside a spring?
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Air assistors is gooooood:thumbup1:
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Time to start bringing your own
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Is it going in his saws or yours?
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What additions would you like to see on Arbtalk
treequip replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
And tapping the top edge of the screen will do the same thing on the ipad -
I can do that for you
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Don't underestimate the chain replacement time, I have had chains last hours in contaminated timber, ahhhh the woes of urban tree surgery. I am with Huck on this one, the only exception was a stint of urban poplar felling where the kids off the estate had gone to town with nails over the years but that had as much to do with getting out of bandit country as anything else. The damage was usually quite severe so it was often quicker to put a new chain on the 880 than sharpen 8 feet of mullered chain on site.
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What additions would you like to see on Arbtalk
treequip replied to Steve Bullman's topic in General chat
Could you make the "unread posts" link a bit more conspicuous please. -
Gearbox splines are straight, unless you work them really really hard:laugh1:
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Running a splitter is simple, fir quick release couplings to any service, probably the bucket crowd ram, then just plug them into the splitter.
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Well you might not want a wide board but if you have a big saw you can rip a big stem down to quarters and saw them.
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But we aren't made of the same materials, the human body is way more flexible than wood
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Type "C" are for when its cold, any time else its "A" all the way
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I think you will find there are 2 Morse taper shanks and 2 parallel shanks Huuuuump
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Lube isn't a factor with cutters, squaring the angle will make the cutter a little more durable at the cost of power and vibration. It will also make more dust
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It's the shape of the cutter that reduces vibe, the "hump" on the top of the drive link isn't a depth gauge per se, it's to reduce kickback.
