rowan lee
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The old man and I have a 250 each, one with a 14'' and the other with a 16'' bar. Thinking of trading one of the 250's (the older machine) for bigger saw at our local stihl dealer. This saw will be for domestic use around the estate on small scale occasional felling and weekend firewood duties. I would like to run an 18'' to 20'' bar (max.) on this new saw - but don't want to go down the professional stihl range. Thinking about an ms 290 or 390. Any comments and suggestions welcomed please. Rowan.
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heres the original wood shack my old man built when he first moved to the gate lodge, a little bit hick but does the job and the latest addition just adjacent, complete with draught guinness on tap
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Big bolt, those are some serious rims and tyres your running there. Bet you haven't been bogged recently. Are those flotation tyres and rims easy to source, and are they expensive?
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Wow, nice action shots there. Did she go over quickly, looks like a fairly rotten core? Good job.
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Smooth Work, the more I watch these video's the more I'm allured into this line of work some day. Would be great if i could just get my head around heights. I noticed how the tree trunk begins to wobble less as you cut down the trunk. The first lump that falls off must make for a scary old time as you hold on for dear life up there! Keep 'em coming.
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Thats a really eye catching piece of work, great finish mate.
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If your picking up the firewood yourself, it would want to be be at min. 4-5m3(loose) of softwood.
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Enjoyed that alot, as mentioned already, its great seeing all the kit being assembled for the likes of myself (not in the tree industry) and other interested parties. Very smooth operation.
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Mulching blades are great in dry weather alright, grinds the grass to dust if your doing a light cut. Will look alot neater then typical side/rear eject clippings, and if yours is a side eject machine, with the mulch guard in place you won't have to worry about how you approach raised beds, gravelled foot paths, etc.
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Double up perhaps, safety spec's and mesh visor. Always go down this route when I'm using the brush blade anyways, especially when its stoney old ground.
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Nice little Kubota mate, is that one of the B30 series tractors?
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Howdy, Have you looked at any of the Negri machines - inparticular the R185 with hydraulic infeed roller. Negri, il marchio verde - Homepage - Attrezzature da giardino hobbistiche e professionali Irish dealer is PJ Callan, co.louth - Paddy Callan Farm Machinery, Ardee, Co.Louth, Ireland Can't vouch for this particular machine but i have a slightly bigger pto Negri chipper/shreddder and its a pretty nice, simple, easy to maintain piece of kit. Excellent back up service from Callans as well, always have parts for my machine in stock, etc.
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some lump its winching out there, looks twice the size of the landini.
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Use URL links if you have uploaded images to a host website online i.e. imageshack, etc (forget this mate). When you hit reply - use that icon that looks like a paperclip for putting photos up here.
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thanks man.
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Not familiar with this logging term. Does it mean cutting through the hinge during the gob cut?
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DOH!
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No pun intended
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I'm a domestic user myself, and have found over time and through trial and error my skills have improved. Funnily enough, i started using the stihl guide holder as well first off and found it didn't work as nicely as my dads oregon file guide. Then as brushcutter mentioned i tried one of the husky roller guides File gauges - Filing equipment and haven't looked back since, by far the best method i have used over the last few years.
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What do you's experienced tree fellers reckon then - a leaner? with too high a back cut? or was it always gonna snap, without the use of a bore cut?
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Homemade firewood processor with hydraulic chain saw
rowan lee replied to ferguson's topic in Firewood forum
Thanks for getting a video sorted, didn't expect it to be as fast a system as it is. You most be well chuffed having built that as well. Good job mate. Tell me, is the chainsaw automatic when you tilt it, or do you have to engage a hydraulic lever for it to cut? Looks like it could be, but couldn't be sure from the footage. -
Great definition of the craters in the second shot
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Lovely looking estate.
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I missed our uni's class annual field trip to lyme regis. The bug people used to love this place. seems to be a good place for finds alright. Not quite the 'burgess shales' of places but not bad.
