MikeTM150
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Just been looking on ebay, avoiding the crap on TV, and spotted an 18" bar and chain for an MS880.........can someone answer me WHY?????? :confused1:
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WANTED - Hire or to buy - Block-Aid-Concrete - Blocks
MikeTM150 replied to button1803's topic in The Lounge
we got the local quarry to supply some rocks to block off a customers sheds where ravers kept going through any fencing he put up. They weighed about 4 tons each and it took all the grunt of our big Volvo loading shovel to carry/drag them. They worked out very cheap but were only about 4 miles from the quarry so picked them up with tractor and trailer 3 at a time. Good luck with your project! -
My wife uses everything from the saw bench and saw (apparently i don't leave in tidy piles unless its a big trunk for the 880) and its good stuff. Otherwise she has use straw from the farm, but they pull less sawdust out the boxes than straw which is why she likes it!!
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Well you've all said what i was thinking, probably get away with not needing it. And ulimately if i do need it in the future i can buy it, where as if i buy it and don't use it i'll be bit pissed off!! Hoping to be able to use my browns saw bench to rip down the slabs and boards. Just depend on how heavy they are i guess, but with a telehandler i'm sure i can sort cummat out! Many Thanks Again!
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Now where did prince william in his rescue helicopter go? Drop him in the atlantic and see how he likes swimming infront a oil tanker!!
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right, just in process of ordering an alaskan, and was wondering if i really need a mini mill to square the edge of timbers of or can manage wwithout it?
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sorry to be a downer on this, but my 04 plate ranger overheated (cuz i didn't check the rad was clear before a long tow ) and it hit the red about 30mins down motorway and i stopped soon as i noticed. It cracked the head and warped the block. Never got it to seal again not matter what we tried so i stuck in the local auctions. At the time and looking back, i did wonder if there was something else going on like a water/oil heat exchanger in the engine that was causing the problem. Never got to the bottom of it, i'm afraid so can't help but i hope for your sake it isn't as bad as mine was!! Viscous coupling is bit the bit that joins ur rad fan to the drive from the engine, it controls how hard the fan draws air through the rad according to the temp of the engine!
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Probably to much thinking! Crap maybe, but then it's not female so it'll never be perfect! ;-p
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because you can abuse it, steam clean the inside, feel pleased when you drive something else more comfortable and there's a market full of cheap second hand bits to bodge it back together......and overpriced yes they are!!!!
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Its not a big enough market for the basic things they are is what i mean. Ur not wrong in what you say about them, but they have a niche market and its getting smaller. Most people want what you have posted, but for some of us they wouldn't fulfill the role! That's the long and short of the story of the dinosaur defenders!
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Its just not a big enough market, because most users by second hand workhorses and the workhorses of before wouldn't comply with current emission regs so its a nearly impossible market.
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I have to agree, I clean my farm disco when its MOT time or if the weeds and seeds start growing on the inside or if the you can't open the windows quick enbough before the smell wants to make you puke, and the 90 about the same! So safe to say i'm no clean car fanatic, now my older brother cringes at me. He cleans the engine bay of his car and takes the alloys off everytime to clean behind them. He's a cleaning fanatic, he's just been on a weeks holiday to dartmouth, on the south coast, as there was no garage to put the car in he took his gazebo with him to park the car under all week........thats dedication! We have some good jokes between us about it, but thats what its all about, if we were all the same it'd be boring. I love leaving lumps of mud behind my truck where i park it, wife always says if i got lost anyone could follow the mud to find me!!
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not sure there will ever be a 'true' defender replacement.......
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You obviously were in a neighbour hood where at least the criminals like to be clean and tidy!!
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no and er no!!! What some people pay is daft, long as you described it right why worry?
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All i'd say is don't have that all in one length, otherwise it'll be so heavy to carry and roll up. All our 12mm recovery whips are 20m long with a hook and eye spliced into the end then you can just join two together easily without fear of it falling apart setting it up. And it won't be such a task rolling it up or carrying it!
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the 3000's are very sort after in the tractor restoration world! Good work horse, proper tractor and it was biuilt on the theory, no smoke no poke unlike this modern emission compliant heaps of technology. You've been lucky to be given it, a tidy and a spring clean with a bit of paint, she's probably worth 5k........ you enjoy working her!
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I use our browns saw bench for ripping down timber for fencing or planks. Its got the standard TCT blade on, works a treat. So get ur blade fettled up and she should be good IMO.
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Tis a great bit of kit, just wish they'd do one for .404" on my 880 though.... or do they and i have missed it?
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Rob, how long did it take to make one pass down this trunk in real time? Good job, looked some nice slabs!!
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Yeah Big J's offer is very good with what he's just come with wanting for it!!! I think in an earlier post a said it was a rollermatic when u said it wasn't cuz i was so sure it was........ooppps. Does seem daft they do bigger rollermatics but there must be a reason somewhere!! Best i get and order an alaskan now, not cheap, have considered making my own but i've got a feeling there been a lot of developement in getting the alaskan to work well so it should be money well spent!! Was going to build me own badsaw but cutting wide enough boards is the problem, then i watch ur video using it in conjunction with a peterson and that looked best of both worlds!!!
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Well i guess there's one way to find out, and thats to try it. Big J's offer is a good one to get me going in the right direction. If i buy a 56" alaskan, will i be able to use it with these smaller bars?
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Hi Thinking of buying an alaskan for turning some big logs into something usable instead of just logging it up into wood burner. Currently run a 30" rollermatic bar and a 48" duromatic bar, but really want a bigger bar than 30" but the 48" is going to get to hot i'm guessing doing longer cuts milling timber......i could have swore it was a 48" rollermatic bar but it ain't So what do you lots suggest i use?
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stinks to me, wouldn't do it. I'd do as nick has said, take a big mate or two if ur not a brick out house and pay when u've seen it!!!
