tommer9
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Bang on Will. Cant get rid of beech for love nor money, and now dont even bother milling it, just firewood it. Thing is beech from poor soils and in really large diameter trunks/ mature trees is stunning.
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Not good John. Sorry to hear that.
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Where from mate?
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Sorry, just realised that the first line of your post explained that:blushing:
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You got any idea who it is Pete?
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I have yet to find anyone on line or in the magazines to come close to my dealer for spares prices. If you are intersted then PM me, although i am not sure how willing they would be to send out parts, but for any one in cornwall it is well worth knowing.
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Great thread guys. LMFAO.
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Milling at hotel barcelona.
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Sims metals....... Sorry. Depends what needs fixing? Engine side, chipper side, or trailer side of things?
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This was a tow behind!! I totally agree, and think it is high time that time was called on a lot of farmers. The tractors in question were only going into a field and picking up a trailer. A telehandler could be put in the field, or a tractor and loader, and the lorry loaded straight away fronm there. This is what will happen in future i think. You ever heard of H N Sillifant..Haulier... Just something else for those two face barstewards on the continent to whinge about.
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Swing shovels are plant Tom, and are exempt. Those of us who live in the sticks arent THAT ess likely to get caught, and we pay in other ways, like the anount of fuel we waste just getting anywhere. I put and used nearly £90 in my landy yesterday...
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Well trust have the landy insurance, saving me 180 a year, and they will probably be getting my pl/el too, as they are 120/ year less on that, and offering much more for the money too. Thanks for all your help guys. FWIW arbinsure came a very close second.
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Thank god for that, you are catching me up at last!
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Desperate times. They were pretty helpful TBH, but then i was only buying 15 litres of bar oil....
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I dont understand it, but anecdotal evidence shows that starting to grease a bar halfway through its life as it were can cause that problem. Having said that i think that chain tension could be a factor. Maybe it was a friday afternoon bar. A chap i know recently bought a baby stihl to do hid firewood with at home, and after about a month it split, and i know that the saw was set up right.
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There is a large veg company down here who have just been heavily fined for running tractors pulling cauliflower rigs using red diesel, and now all their tractors run on DERV. It nearly crippled them. There are also so many exemptions and lopholes and what have you that it will always be a grey area. There is talk of scrapping the whole red diesel thing and everyone run on white and farmers etc claiming rebate at the end of the year. That WOULD remove any grey areas. I mentioned the chipper running on DERV thing, as a tree surgeon i was climbing for last year had been stopped while working on the road and told that his chipper should be on white while on the highway!! It was misinformation as the chipper is clearly plant, and plant is exempt.
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I reckon its grease related....but i NEVER grease a bar. I was taught long ago that if you start greasing them you always haveto, and if you use them without grease then no problem unless you suddenly start greasing one, which may well then blow up. In 14 years i have never greased a bar and never had one split on me either. Those who work in forestry will tell tales of bars splitting for a pasttime.
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With over ten years of having an alaskan mill, i have to say that the only set up worth considering for anything other than hobby stuff is on 088 with a 48" bar. With that set up you can mill up to about 40" max. With a 36" bar you would only be able to do about 28".....I really think that with the access to timber you must have John that this would be too small, and would limit your ability as a service offered. No doubt Rob wil be here soon to clarify!
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My god dave- you're so young......I feel a bit like yer dad:lol:
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Read that last year. Nice book.
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A rough average for green oak is £35/cubic foot down here..
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Correct guys, it was.
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Class.
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You never know when you'l meet an Arbtalker out of the blue.... I was working in Exeter today and had to get some bar oil, so dropped into a local arb supplier. I was chatting to the guy serving me and happened to mention Arbtalk- as you do:blushing:- and he said he had just joined! Look out, they're coming soon to a town near you...
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About this high Steve... Thats what i would guess at anyway.
