Mike Dempsey
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My first business advisor with business gateway Fife was called Dick Harden
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Got given a 2007 Mac Cat 438 which still has the original chain and bar on it. The chain is a bit worn but the rest of the saw is immaculate. opened it up to discover no filter, 4 quid on ebay to purchase one from ghs. 14'' bar so it will do as a back up to my smaller stihl 025. I ditched the old petrol and put some fresh in and it started on the 3rd pull. The oil tank had the residues of red 2 stroke oil being used as bar lubricant. Funnily enough I also saw this in a ms250 last week and in about 20 years of using saws had never seen this before. How do folk rate the Mac?
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The writing is 5.5mm high so unless you were close up you couldn't read it. A bit of a tricky job to do in lining it up straight but it came out alright. Sometimes people ask for the strangest things that look weird but as Ian said, the customer is right. Sometimes I just have to bite my tongue!
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A couple of different cards I will be posting this year. 150mm by 120mm and made from sycamore. Also got another couple of ideas and some cherry to laser engrave as well.
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At my last workshop there was a welder opposite me who used to make really crap gates and fences. You can buy in hinges etc ready for welding on to gates. Heavy duty and wouldn't fall apart for years. You can find them on the net np
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quite impressive, I like it
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Horizontal snow in Fife now. Glad I am indoors and not out with the saws!
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I know someone who would like that. I bet it has a ridiculous price to got along with the ridiculous design. Definitely for people with more money than sense!
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Surely if there is a recall from Stihl on these saws he would get his full money back from where he bought it from. As Stihl are now not allowing internet sales it must have been a local purchase. It is second hand if he sells it and wont get nearly as much from a buyer as he would from a refund. Maybe there is something dodgy about this saw (apart from it being a crap saw)
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An expensive way to learn a lesson in basic procedures like checking your chain brake works before you use the saw, and if it doesn't work getting it fixed before you use it. Not everyone gets away so lightly. Bet your mum and dad gave you hell for the sake of a few quid. The main thing is you will remember this for the rest of your life and are unlikely to repeat it. This is why most of us have more than one saw and can put the non working one to the side and use one that works properly. If you only have one saw it can be tempting to use it as 'its only a wee log and I cant come to any harm'
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Hi Eddie I use Meldrums in Cupar for my Stihl spares (01334652561). They are the only Stihl main dealer in Fife and sell everything such as chainsaws, strimmers , ride on mowers and piles of everything. At the other end of Fife in Inverkeithing is Scottish Grass Machinery who are a large concern and in the last couple of years have started to do chainsaws and other arb gear. 08004320440 Mike
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What about fibreglass. I repaired my auxiliary oil tank for milling and it has held ok. Bit of an overkill job and it sure doesn't look pretty but it does the job.
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Which file guide size do you use Daddyola with a 5.2mm file?
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Hi Eddie How about targeting some suppliers in Fife. My nearest supplier is over 30 miles away? Mike
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I get about a dozen or so trees a year to fell and remove for my business landlord a year. I am getting fed up carting away the brash and I am investigating a small dia chipper, probably not more than 50mm at the most. Anything bigger than that gets kept for firewood. Not every tree's brash has to be removed, just maybe about half of them. Anyone got any recommendations (doesn't have to be new). I don't want to hire one in as then I am committed to doing the job on certain days
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Petition against average speed cameras on the A9
Mike Dempsey replied to Big J's topic in The Lounge
Jim, The SNP were outvoted in Parliament and were forced to do the trams in Edinburgh against their wishes. They wanted to make the A9 a dual carriageway, but couldn't do both. For the amount of money wasted on the trams pet project they could have had a triple carriageway instead. -
A few degrees minus now and a clear sky. Going to take ages to scrape the van windscreen tomorrow. This is where I get my weather forecasts from. Windy Wilson, tells it as it is and, unlike the Met Office, has a few wee choice words. He is quite funny and has a large following https://www.facebook.com/windywilson.weather.roads
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Got the saw working yesterday. Will use it properly over the next few days. I found a print out in the workshop from a wee while ago, its from an American website , but it has all the original part numbers listed. Husqvarna 281 Parts List and Diagram - (1986-01) : eReplacementParts.com Funnily enough it has the fuel pipe listed as obsolete. Mike
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Got the correct part today from Jonsie, thanks Max for taking the time and trouble to get it right. Cant remember now as it is so long since I stripped it which end goes to the carb and which end goes to the fuel tank. One end is longer that the other and the ends are different diameters. Any help? Mike
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I much prefer one that uses free fuel which is readily available
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I like my Kelly kettle because if it is raining I can brew up in the back of the van with the door is open and the fire is self contained in the fire bowl. You cant do that with an ecobilly
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Aren't Stenner still in business in Tiverton in Devon. I am sure they would be only too glad to help. Probably have manuals, photos etc and could possibly help with setting it up?
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Going to be a long and cold winter up here. Thank god my Citroen Relay van is front wheel drive so at least I will be able to get to the workshop.
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We have a serious problem in Glenrothes with people helping themselves to windblown timber at the side of the road and in the local woods. The attitude seems to be if its horizontal its a freebie. It got that bad a couple of years ago that the police issued a press release after some big storms as there were dozens of people running around the town with their Aldi,/B&Q specials without any PPE or signs up etc. As a lot of it was hung up it was just a matter of time before someone was injured or worse. The only problem with the police press release was that it was about 8 weeks after the storm. The police actually did nick several people d for theft though.
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The van window was all iced up at 6pm tonight. Supposed to be snowing tomorrow. Just have to wait and see.
