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  1. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Drain some out!
  2. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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.
  3. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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!
  4. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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.
  5. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Yep. Strapped on some old knackered ply so I could dump some mouldy old pine on the fire. Lasted a full afternoon
  6. TimberCutterDartmoor
    It was the array of vehicles and the pool that featured more in the pics than the actual sale item... made me laugh
  7. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Firewood, Timber Trailer, Logging, Quad, Farm, Forestry, Tree Surgery, Arborist | eBay Nice!
  8. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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.
  9. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Whatya mean please?
  10. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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.
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    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.
  12. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Run it in first. Bad to have modding done pre bedding in.
  13. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Hell yeah. Lol.
  14. TimberCutterDartmoor
    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?!
  15. TimberCutterDartmoor
    I'll take it but not overly near Totnes!
  16. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Subjective, obviously... Dolmar 115 - superbly glossy hood; old school tough saw...
  17. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Ditto. This "plasticky" accusation is weird. Pick up a 362 or 560xp and they're just as plasticky...
  18. TimberCutterDartmoor
    No electrickery on a 2172 is there? Nice saw I'd imagine.
  19. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Impartiality is hard work mate! The thing I've learnt this time, 20 years later, is that what is "good" for one user is less so for another. Not the application, but the user. Not so much lab analysis on this one, more test beds, uoa and duty cycle analysis. Engines were larger displacement than the range I wanted to include. I wanted air cooled hatz single cylinder, high speed idi and then the bigger stuff. Due to Plymouth Uni asset changes, longer term tests had to move into base load generators which knackers mixed duty cycle observations. Part load was doable but not mixed rpm, temperature extremes etc. Lines of Jenbachers in individual containers vs Cummins QSV's in a shared room. These are the variables that skew "lab conditions". Still we wanted real world life-cycle analysis despite the challenges.
  20. TimberCutterDartmoor
    You think!
  21. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Waiting on parts from Mexico so started the end of the beginning of this report today; my head seriously hurts!
  22. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Off Highway Brakes and Controls Ltd Very on the ball; preempted my enquiry and organised things asap, altho the part I need is in Mexico! Old machine; not surprising... Love it when you get service above the norm tho.
  23. TimberCutterDartmoor
    .404 harvester? I'm currently trialing some Rotatech aka Piranha (?) on the harvester; lost its edge very very rapidly. Didn't put it on a brand spanking bar but soon got fed up (after a good few tries) that I just whipped it off and put Oregon 18HX back on - problem instantly solved and stayed like it. I will put the Piranha on the grinder when I get chance and have a few more goes but sorry to pre-empt my report - not looking great so far... I can with 18HX put a hundred ton of first thinnings or 1000 of log through no problem before noticeable drop in cutting speed; this was smoking after 10 tonnes. I even upped the oiler to be sure. Only cutting hemlock!
  24. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Haha Yes! Freedom from broke machines is the life I promise. No good for saw shops tho
  25. TimberCutterDartmoor
    Roger

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