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  1. Horse chestnut is awful, sweet chestnut is fine. how many tonnes do you need? I have lots of seasoned ash cord here.
  2. You could try local forestry contractors or estates for a tractor and trailer load of cordwood delivered. or a local sawmill for slab wood offcuts.
  3. Taking two machines gives you a backup option though…
  4. That's what I tend to use daily on felling work. Covers all the bases for most small forestry jobs. I do have an MS241 but using it today after using the MS261 yesterday it just seems so tiddly- weight is nice though. Both my MS241s have been unreliable pups even with very low hours, so possibly just as well Stihl discontinued them. Wouldn't mind trying the echo version- think its a CS4310? 2.3kw and 4.3kg from memory.
  5. I didn't realise you were trying to do butt joints, that'll test even a skilled mig welder on a rusty mower deck. You'd want gas for sure and also .6mm wire would give you a lot more control. The problem with butt joints is also that you would have been bringing all the contamination from underneath the deck into the weld pool, and usually there is only a mm or so of decent metal to use. Overlaps joints on a mower deck are easy with a MIG- have it set a touch on the warm/high voltage side, start your arc on the new plate and melt it down into the weaker, more contaminated metal underneath. If thickness allows you can weave back onto the high plate, but it's often easier and faster just to let off and then repeat the process for a series of blobs. If done right this is as strong as you'll get given the weaker underlying metal.
  6. There are industrial shredders built for jobs like that. A chipper is not.
  7. There’s nothing wrong with a short dipper for nearly all digging jobs. More power in the dig and a better load over height on the dumper. Better geometry all around. It’s not so much a ‘short dipper’, it’s the standard dipper that the machine was designed for and is used everywhere else with. The UK mini digger industry has got into a stupid pissing contest on ‘max reach’ in the 1.7-1.9t class, and it’s frankly stupid. About the only place it’s required are graveyards and back gardens on clay with very deep footings but limited access. Otherwise you’d just use a 2.7t and be done in half the time.
  8. You only need a gd1054 to be legal with something like an e27, including bucket. the alumax will fall to bits, avoid!
  9. Only thing with a hydraulic winch is that alpine hydraulic outputs are normally not great. also, hydraulic winches tend to be for recovery. Big torque from smallish motors means they are painfully slow for recovering timber and dangerously slow / useless for assisted felling.
  10. Basic two dial jobby will do you. No need for pea shooter type flow meters with mig. I’d just look on eBay. Parweld or similar will be fine.
  11. Never heard of it, but made by Lincoln I don't think you can go far wrong.
  12. 14% argon is what’s called a ‘heavy’ welding gas mix. It’s for welding thicker steels, it lets you get the heat into it more easily with greater penetration. If you’re used to 5% gas it’s remarkable the difference it makes- your dial positions pretty much end up swapping over, with more wire feed than voltage for once. I keep a bottle at the yard mainly for site work, welding RSJs and the like. It’s not really what you want for a thin mower deck, and it also gives a much messier weld with more splatter than 5%. go on, treat yourself to a bottle of the good stuff. It’s just a deposit and then the price per fill. Get your deposit back when you decide you don’t need the bottle anymore.

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