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Ms260 made 2008 weight 4.8 kg 3.5 hp ms 181 made 2012 weight 4.6 kg 2.0 hp Nearly twice the power for an extra 200g I was told a larger chain should stay sharper could be wrong could be right dont know dont care go and pick a fight elsewhere:thumbdown:
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If most of your customers are commercial and you supply logs to domestic market and you need alot of new toys it will work very well for you.
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I like our 181 for taking out 2" shoots along hedge rows when you may catch some wire of a flint. The chains are nice and cheap and quick to sharpen
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Can you make a new chart with lime being a 4 as I have quite a few tonnes
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That chart is not endorsed by anyone. It looks like something anyone of us could knock up in word if we had too much ash in stock and wait for a civil servant from an over staffed council office to cut and paste.
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Please no one copy in that chart again I dont have a 37 in screen I dont like oak oin my wood burner. I find lime, beech and ash equally good when fully seasoned cant comment on the rest never burnt it.
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I am thinking of buying a D4 commercial in May with about 10,000 miles on the clock unless someone talks me out of it:biggrin:
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I find it quite funny that we agree on absolutely nothing. Your view is completely the oposite to mine I guess thats the great thing about a forum. I hope we dont confuse the original poster. My view, I have a ms 181 and a 260 if I was cross cutting 6" cord I would not pick up the 181 . If I could not handle the weight of a 260 I would look for a different job. I spend alot of days cross cutting with an old ms390 putting 10-15 tanks through. A 460 is heavy by lunch time but an ms260 ? If you buy in cord alot of it will probably be 3" some 16" and the rest 6-10" so 25% will be too small to process efficiently 25% will be too big to go through processor. I would go with a good auto return vertical splitter and bigger saw unless you are going to do more than 250 tonnes a year.
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I have a 1998 hilux tipper which is nippy and comfortable yet still very well built. I have had alot of 4x4 and never really fell out with any of them. But being a HGV mechanic I tend to buy them well and know when to sell them on.
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Upgrading your saw will make a major difference I have a new ms181 and it stays in the shed unless we need to cut some thing like a root or may be metal in a branch. The ms 181 is very low powered even compared to a ms 260 which is about the same size and weight but has nearly twice the power, the 325 will stay sharp for longer aswell . firewood over 12" I tend to strike up the ms390.
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Alot of it is down to personal choice I like Disco, toyota Landcruiser, Hilux, Rodeo, even the Mazda if I had to, the only one definately would not want is the L200 But the last time I drove a new one was 53 plate I thought noisey, high reving, gutless, heavy on fuel, uncomfortable seats, dreadful gearbox, hard jolting rear suspension and servicing every 4500 miles. but like I say its personal choice. I have a disco for work but would not want one for pleasure. Ours has done 150,000 miles of hard work and very little trouble.
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I had a D1 van good truck in its day but engine sluggish and crude compared to td5. Did alot of towing spent my life replacing void bushes. The 53 plate disco van we have now much better on fuel and towing much more reliable vastly better on rot and nicer to drive. Cant find anything to replace it currently. Nice spring or air suspension and tows 3.5 tonne
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I have tried burning well seasoned lime with beech and there is no difference imo. If you start the fire with lime it has a very woody smell until the stove is hot. If putting it in a mixed load I would sort the bark to one side as its a bit thick and looks like trash. Otherwise I was very impressed.
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1000 bags of Top Quality kindling available Now
gensetsteve replied to gensetsteve's topic in Firewood forum
Sorry if I have overlooked something. Last message I had you had been on the wine and I had been on the vodka. Think the plan was to collect a van load in May. Will send you a pm. -
was 15/40 about 50% to white diesel and it was in high summer.
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Cheapo from lidls about six months ago £20. Has coped well with one processor and 6 chainsaws. I would think a silverline or machine mart would be similar. I dont use it all time tend to file unless teeth are uneven or hit a stone.
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Maybe stating the obvious but thought it may help someone. I bought a cheap bench grinder sharpener and for the first 6 chains it was great. Then the cutting performance dropped off. After a few other members mentioned dressing the wheel I had a look and noticed the the grinding wheel wears on one edge. This seems to take too much off the top edge of the cutter. Being impatient and too tight to buy a dressing stone I dug around the workshop until I found an old diamond disk from a grinder ( the type you use to cut paving slabs ) put a pair of gogles on and dressed the ginder in a couple of secs.
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Just managed to make enough to keep in front of our regular orders:crazy:If anybody needs a truck load during the cold snap let me know. Warm welcome and free coffee awaits
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I am surprised honda have not brought out a 4 stroke petrol chainsaw. I have a 4s strimmer from Honda which produces alot less fumes. Not as powerful as a proper orange strimmer but if it kills me slower I can sacrifice some performance.
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If I cross cut alot of dry beech it can clog the nose sprocket. I leave the chain just a little on the slack side this helps the problem. I never grease if you do I think you get a ring of grease that stops the bar oil getting to the bearing. Clean in a solvent bath then lube with bar oil and should be fine
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If I was to replace my old 2x I would want something to handle larger timber than 12" . If the manufacturer quotes 12" max that generally means 91/2" or you will be chucking the big bits back in the splitter. I would want another machine with powered in feed conveyor same as the 2x I have now. A swinging out feed conveyor would be good to.
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Notice the pattern here you go in too low they say nothing but go in a bit high they are quick to point it out. You cant do favours in business no point being a busy fool.
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REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
gensetsteve replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
Could be useful if we can sell this years first. Thats kind of where we get money from. This money then pays for cord next year. Perhaps winter will come next week. -
Not sure if I have enough experience to advise. But if it was me I would buy something like a ford 4000 with 4x4 if they do one . I have had a couple of compacts and found them really expensive on parts and a bit light weight. I will buy what I call a big little tractor if that makes sense something 35 hp + with cab not japanese and defo not chinese.
