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TimberCutterDartmoor

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  1. NOT how you want bogie oil to look! EP90 should be clear not like Baileys Irish Cream. Water emulsion... Stupid boy
  2. Grind Force has been suggested on here before.
  3. From the ground cover mentioned in the first post, you reckon half a day on a brushcutter? 3 acres... Ok...
  4. +1. Chances are they'll have a better chipper = better chip. Really not enamoured with Heizohack either. Sharpen this, change that, re-jig another thing - still power hungry and fines galore
  5. Never do anything by hand that can be mechanised. Three blokes with brushcutters (£480-600/day) vs 3 tonne swinger and flail (£300 plus £160 transport); I know which way I'd go. Plus, got any hogweed in there? RA will pleclude brushcutters if you're crossing the T's and dotting the I's.
  6. Drain some out!
  7. Nah. Like this: Gallery | Plant Hire in Cornwall Or like LGP Eddies' pics. Forget tractors and skid steers; you want the mulcher on a stick that can be moved independently of the base machine. Been there and done it. You need to leave a good surface finish; leaves the customer far more able to see what they've got.
  8. I sleep like a log, give or take the occasional visit to the bathroom some nights. I get minimum 40 mins brisk walk as soon as I get home; a deliberate exercise in cortisol management. Longer at weekends. Diet wise; Wife and I eat a strict organic diet with bias on plant based, unrefined blah blah. Friday evening is treat night; Sunday permits a good roast; that's it. It's just the one late night thing. Speaking of which... night!
  9. The only way to do it imo. Oak brash! Wiggly, wide, tough! Wee chipper and bin or trug the chip out. I'd sooner crane the chipper over the house than drag brash through it. Sod that.
  10. Yep. Strapped on some old knackered ply so I could dump some mouldy old pine on the fire. Lasted a full afternoon
  11. It was the array of vehicles and the pool that featured more in the pics than the actual sale item... made me laugh
  12. Firewood, Timber Trailer, Logging, Quad, Farm, Forestry, Tree Surgery, Arborist | eBay Nice!
  13. Not far off the mark. Most likely I do live with stress and anxiety; although more the latter which I reckon has become so ingrained it contributes to those now common modern ailments aka chronic fatigue. I'm in that club of having big gear on the never never and I swear I will never do it again; a LOT of heartache; timber goes quiet and the panic sets in. That ol cortisol is probably way over the upper limit a lot of the time. I would describe it like certain forms of malnutrition; your head doesn't feel connected to your body. Very rarely do I switch off from work. Am I that worn out? I'm hardly on a saw anymore, or dragging winch cables. 90% of the time I'm sitting in one of two cabs pulling mini-levers.
  14. Whatya mean please?
  15. Sitting away from the loud music which just makes my head hurt even more. I feel quite shaky so I guess I'm on here just letting off steam about it. Not my own wedding obviously lol. Nope nothing. I've never been a late nighter whereas my Wife is the opposite. Causes arguments at times. Someone asked what time I get up; weekdays generally around 5am or the occasional mega lie-in til 7 if I've got an admin day. My Mrs can stay up til 4am no bother and lie in til 11 on a Saturday to make up for it. I don't seem to work that way. Anything over 0730 and I get a banging headache.
  16. Am I the only one who gets ill after just one late night? I'm not joking when I say that if I get just one particularly late night, it absolutely floors me and takes a week to get over it and more often than not makes me feel so ill, it's horrendous. At a wedding right now, and am feeling rough already, dreading tommorow and the week to come. FTR normal bedtime should for me be 21:30-22:00, often goes over a bit and live with it but significantly over 2300 is well into danger area.
  17. Run it in first. Bad to have modding done pre bedding in.
  18. I can't get this heavier thing! So if a saw weighs 2kg more than another so what?! Yeah, it will tire you more for the first week or two. But then you'll be stronger and will cope. I can understand cutting the labels out of your pants if your climbing Everest; you know life and death, agregation of small factors (Dave Brailsford - TDF) and all that. But tree work! Get a grip; are you men or mice?!
  19. I'll take it but not overly near Totnes!
  20. Subjective, obviously... Dolmar 115 - superbly glossy hood; old school tough saw...
  21. Ditto. This "plasticky" accusation is weird. Pick up a 362 or 560xp and they're just as plasticky...
  22. No electrickery on a 2172 is there? Nice saw I'd imagine.

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