oldwoodcutter
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Once you've got your shanks hang them in dry airy place for at least a year.Even though they were straight,after drying they will warp,i use a hot air gun to bend straight again. If your handles are going to be 'shepherds crook' pattern,you can obtain hardwood blocks and cut and carve to the crook shape then attach as previous posts. Hope this helps.
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Yep,spot on there Dave.
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If the owner brings you out a nice cup of tea and a slice of her home made victoria sponge,well,that should take care of it i'd say.
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I would have said something round the 80/90 quid mark with a boy clearing up. If they hummed and harred at that,ide then say 70 and do it by myself on a saturday morning.
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I think ive seen enough of that picture now.
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I think the worst job i ever had was when i worked in a shoe recycling factory. It was soul destroying.
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Good points there Tony,ime being undercut left right and centre round here at the moment on hedges and trees,with part timers doing it for beer money. Somehow retirement doesnt seem such a bad option after all.
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Will keep a look out over my way peter.
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Last year one of my 200t's kicked back,chain & bar finished up flat on my chest,about 3" from my throat,had to have a sit down for a minute or 2 after that i can tell you. Not saw related but 3 weeks ago was loading little rings onto truck with a hand sappie,the last lump was a biggie,maybe 10 kilo,lifted with sappie at head height to go on top of load and ring fell off,and blunt end of sappie hit me on eye socket. When i fell out of truck back home mrs oldwoodcutter wanted to get me stiched up,but after a couple of hours of ice pack on,it stopped bleeding.
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Agree with you there scraggs,and best time to go knocking is about 9 on a sunday morning ive found.
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Like most villages we have a memorial inscribed with the names who fell in the two wars from here,and the other night some little scrote nicked the heavy decorative chain that encircles it,that had been there since 1924.
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Good work there Adam.
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theres a beet pad with big bales on 3 sides near my yard,noticed a big new mercedes tucked right inside the corner one lunch time, so i thought whats that doin there.Drove up to it,windows bit steamy and startled a couple on the back seat.Then realised what was happening. I cleared off and left them to it.
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The only corporate things i bought my 'workers' is a Stein arbortrolley and a Bulldog rake.
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Sensible!!!! Suggestions for Combating Theft
oldwoodcutter replied to woodland's topic in General chat
I had a couple of young scruffs walk in to my main yard on a scouting expidition the other day,after any scrap at all. I gave them some free advice as to the quickest way back out,and that if they came back in again they'd feel my old boot up their backsides. -
Yes Ian,ive got one, and very good it is too. Also get out my dolmar 111 from time to time,hasnt missed a beat in yonks.
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Would be handy enough to do a bit of logging up i suppose.
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Sometimes let them ride to the jobsite with me,but under strict instruction not to fart,spit,smoke,or relate last nights liason with some young 'lady' ,whilst in the vehicle.
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460 is a very handy saw, 25" and 18" bars and will be able to do a good variety of cutting work. Hope this helps rowan.
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Pick up broken into tools stolen pluckley kent
oldwoodcutter replied to Tractor62's topic in Stolen Equipment
The lowest of the low,resorting to stealing another mans belongings. -
Pal of mines got a 53 plate defender done about 80k and he's always crawling underneath it. He refers to it as 3 oil leaks connected by an electrical fault.
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About 50 years ago mrs oldwoodcutters dad took me into the slaughterhouse where he worked in Halifax. Does that count?
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For what its worth TCD,i know of 2 brian james trailers that just about disintigrated with use,this was few years ago when he was starting to do more than just car transporters. When i was in a bateson dealers yard last year i saw a big pallet stacked high with faulty axles being returned to stockport. Ive had a brenderup bravo for the last 5 years and i cant fault it.
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Yes,agree with that,i only wear mine for lifting something heavy,or if the job involves a lot of humping i wear it. Like most in this game my back muscles are strong,but my vert is worn.
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No mate,just 6" wide with heavy duty velcro to adjust it,was ok when you're upright,but found that it would burst apart when you bent down as velcro not up to it. With the buckled leather one nothing moves.
