Bolt
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Cheers all. you are bang on the nail about the 12" bar measuring tool there, S_T_S, that small radius nose on the husky makes the perfect measuring tool, but it pays to make sure the rakers aren't filed down too low I have found. Ha Ha Good feedback on the alternative suggestions. After all, I spent days doing the thing, I want to get my 'moneys worth' . Coming to think of it, I was in my thirties when I started on the thing (about 10 days ago) I am now in my Forties! :lol:
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Cheers for the comment guys! It was quite hard to shape it without it looking like a toilet seat She is better off with the 020 Josh, the 375 is a bit on the heavy side.
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Don't worry about the MS200t. It was out so I could fix the kill switch. The 338 was out only for carb tuning. Honest.
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The environmental department ruled out creosote. Used some varnish type stuff instead. The finished effect. I really am quite pleased (although the recent "book chair" posted is so much in a different league, I almost didn't have the nerve to post) Anyway, to my darling wife...... ..... :001_smile:Its over to you now:001_smile:
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Sanding, sanding, sanding! Thought it would take forever... AND I still had no idea how to do the legs (the stool is supposed to be about 12" high. Then, one night in bed - in a bad mood - Inspiration!!! Retrive the offcut from the log shed... and it is done :thumbup:
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sooooo true Mr Blair (though I think at some point I used every tool I own)... The outline coming along nicely (neighbours a little annoyed by the noise ) 24" bar makes short work of cutting the log neatly in two And hey-presto. One half for the seat (and one for the woodshed:thumbup1:) Its kind of the right shape, but at this point, I had no idea how to do the legs:confused1:
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Bit of initial chopping down to size. The Basic shape is not too much of a problem. Loose bark! Dead wood! All work halted by the environmental auditor so she can undertake a bat survey :lol:
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My good lady wife is due any day now (#3) and looks fit to burst. No2 child was supposed to be a home birth, but due to a series of hilarious events we ended up having the baby in the maternity unit. This time, a home birth is planned again. What I need (she declares a few weeks ago) is a birthing stool. Any chance you could carve me one up. TBH, I don’t do carving (and I am rather proud that in over 20 years I have never made even a mushroom (but I am not dissing those that have)). I am simply more into destruction than construction!! Did a bit of Google research to find out what its all about.... This is how they once were (you can probably work out how it works yourself) The new ones arn't quite so pretty!! Anyway, It’s a poor plan to turn a heavily pregnant woman down, so I kept my eyes open on the felling course I was taking, and grabbed myself a 'prime' willow fork..... ... and set to work :biggrin:
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Greetings all, Normally skulk around arbtalk at the office (nice proper fast broadband) as the home internet connection is mobile broadband via a 3g skypephone (can't be doing with BT). The skypephone sometimes manages to slow arbtalk down to a stop. Anyway, took up microsofts kind offer of ditching explorer, and choosing a browser from a company that understands how to write a proper bit of code. Decided to go with firefox (as I have heard of it before). Wow, the speed! Home arbtalking (or should that be arb-reading) is fun once more.
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We've probably spent more time on this than a tool box talk would have taken:lol:
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If you want to really cover your back, pick up afew ready made loops here and there. How could anyone ever prove that a loop that failed was one you joined?
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Its a slim chance a chain will snap, and if it does, its an even slimmer chance it will be on your join, and if it is, its an even slimmer chance it will injure someone, and if it does, its an even slimmer chance they will be seriously injured, and if they are, what are the odds of HSE getting involved.
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Question is, Bob, Who has been asking you such impertinent questions?
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It's never the accident you expect that gets you (well, not unless you are really stupid) (and if you are really stupid, we have the darwin awards)
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hopefully about to be used to remove the little red bit on top.
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not smart
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As you are making up the chains, using the links provided with the links, on a rivet spinner designed for the task, what could possably be the problem? If in doubt, do yourself a generic risk assessment to make pen pushers feel better:lol:. after all, do you have a history of the links you have spun snapping?? NO? I thought not. There is no problem then is there! (is it just me though, or are there never quite enough links in the box:blushing:)
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ironic really, the 200t wont stop, but my 338 dosn't want to go at all!
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I was going to give the hint about making sure you remove the little bolt from the orange switch before trying to seperate the handle. And the one about taking a photo of the linkage positions in the handle before it all flys apart on reassembly. Don't think i'll bother now, its all gone hostile. Interest anyone in a used 338?
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Fear not, Thelogstore, you could still be the first . It maybe a 90 tipper picture, but its not a picture of a 90 tipper. Just a picture of a 110 tipper thats been cut and pasted a bit, see below for origional picture found elsewhere on this thread. I had a 90 truck cab a while back that I was toying with removing the butt and replacing it with somthing else, but I couldn't decide what (flatbed, built in chipper, etc, etc). Although I took the back off, and even got as far a purchasing a rear bulkhead, I never did any more, and the Landy finished its days just pushing chippers round the yard
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I think it looks like madness, but I can't decide if thats in a good or bad way?? Bet it would be a crack to drive (Log deliveries by airstrike), but probably it would handle like a whale when loaded (especially on tired old springs) On the good side, if you wish to try it, Take off the landys roof and butt, get a few brackets knocked up to fit a rear bulkhead and stick on a truck cab roof. You dont need to chop up anything. If you dont like it, refit the origionals (you will prob sell any bits you dont want for what you paid for them). Landys...... great for lifes experimenters
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They are also built bomb proof unlike some other brands of saw I own. ...and they come with more than a half-hearted warranty. Used to use them for training, and they just went on and on (except for the chainbrakes which didn't like too much operation). All in all, good robust saws, which will carry on going after you've broken all your other saws.
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best thing about Makita, is that you can keep out of the whole "I love Stihl... I love Husky" thing.
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this kind of thing??
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Mittens like these I hope.... First ever chainsaw gloves I was given, and I have still got them (yes, they are THAT useful )
