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    Stihl MS660

    oldwoodcutter posted an advert in Chainsaws

    This item is SOLD

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    Done very little work, been to Spuds workshop had power increase, 20mm muffler mod, cylinder & piston ported, runs perfect. Comes with 20” 25” 30” 36” bars & new 3/8 .063 gauge full chisel 75EXL chains.

    £900

  2. oldwoodcutter
    I’m putting my lovely 660 on Arbtalk classifieds in a day or two, if I can work out how to do it .
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    Looks like a 625 mk2, but can’t be sure. I had one about 25 years ago and it was a good strong saw, around 60cc and would cut anything in a hurry.
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    Oregon discontinued LPX 2 years ago, it’s EXL full chisel now. I run 75 EXL on my 660, cuts perfectly.
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    Many years ago I had a cash customer in Necton who upon completion, informed me that she would now have to go into the bank in Swaffham (when swaffham had banks) and draw it out. It was about 2 on a Friday and the last job of the week,so the lads went back to the yard in one truck while I waited in the other. She’d been a bit slippery with us so I had my doubts about getting paid at all but I never the less decided to wait it out. From memory she rolled back and coughed up between 6 and 7, can’t remember her excuse but I was determined to have it .
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    Running a successful day to day tree business keeping the work coming in is hard enough, without pussy footing around wet nursing brash draggers with guaranteed hours and school run dispensations. Of course try and keep good experienced workers but on your terms, firm but fair. Climbers we know are a separate breed, but here the poster was talking about a groundie.
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    I’d have to think long and hard before I jumped in. At least I’d get some prices off a proper forestry harvesting firm with all the big kit to see what’s what. Theres been more falling out, and friendships broken getting tangled up with this kind of work scenario than anything.
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    I looked at 4 of these in a front garden at Weasenham the other day, and the owner wanted just that, 10 feet off the top and reshape to a point, but stressed that she didn’t want to see any brown bits at all. Too tall for even the tallest tripod, it would have to be a mewp job. We all know that is just about impossible, when you feather the top you can’t do it without going into the brown. She wouldn’t have it , so I suggested removal, grind out, and fence up, but she then said she had a budget of £250 max, so I rather abruptly got back on the road again.
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    Seems like that may have to remain one of civilisation’s great unanswered questions . . .
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    Yes willow, get it split as soon as.
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    What a load of old cods, and his firewood looks a bit on the damp side.
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    Red fir
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    I think the last time I saw a chain filed that badly was when the forestry commission used its own ‘operatives’ to fell all its trees, half never could file and used to get the roving mechanic to do it properly for them whenever he came up the rideway, which could be once a week.
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    He looked to be panicking a bit there when it pinched. I used to see old cutters spend a good while walking round tapping the base of a Lombardy’s with a hammer, with their ear close to the trunk, and with good reason. Often it was adjudged to be rotten and I’ve seen the face cut put in up to 10’ off the ground to get into good holding wood, and once on the deck the evidence of rot was there for us to see.
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    No good at all, you may as well draw your cash out of an atm and wipe your arse with it.
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    Tarmac and turf also laid by award winning assistants
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    I think when our 230 rad got busted I got one from Wrexham at about 1/4 the cost of genuine, just quote all the numbers off old one .
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    Don’t forget to send us a vid of the surgeon and his , er , assistants.
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    I was standing around while my truck tyres were being changed. A young fellow came in and started talking to the fitter, his mate I guessed . The walk in guy regaled all his exploits of the previous night with a woman they both seemed to know. I won’t go into details of course, but I was disgusted with the misogynistic language he was spewing out, and I’m sure if she had been there to overhear, she would have booted him sharply in the balls. The boss is an old friend of mine, and when I went to settle up in his office I told him what had happened out in the bays, and he assured me he’d sort it out.
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    Par for the course, I’ve double hazard taped whole forestry blocks off , only for them to actually lift the tapes up and bob under to continue on their way , straight into the mouth of death valley.
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    Yes it’s always been a favourite for turners , the white wood of the mp. They used to craze me for it, and after all the effort I put in to sort out nice lengths and cuts, with offers of a top dollar ,they would offer a derisory price upon collection or delivery. After one joker too many, I soon learnt to not bother with it, except to make the woodyard bonfire bigger.
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    The day after there were members of the public marching off down that bank looking for her. You would assume that Lily Law would have sealed off the bank immediately they got there, and got a fingertip and/or forensic search underway.
  23. oldwoodcutter
    Yes artics of mixed hardwood cord from rideside are around £1250 plus vat, with haulage extra £300 for up to about 20/30 miles out, but more if delivery further afield pro rata.
  24. oldwoodcutter
    I’ve done several monkey puzzles, some big specimen ones, but the last one I dismantled was as rotten as a pear at Nordelph. The branches exploded as they hit the ground, and chipping up was frought with even more dangers. I overheard my lads say at the finish that they hoped they didn’t get any more of those bast*rds to do. Just got to be careful with spikes but I can’t remember getting infected, just hurt at the time.
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    If I was going to be handing out that kind of money, I would at the very least made contact in person, including looking at his site of operation . Or if he was at the other end of the country I would have made arrangements for someone acting on my behalf to do same.

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