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Digger Assisted Felling
doobin replied to Haironyourchest's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I rotate the grab and use that open. -
If it’s static you’d find it much easier to fit a skid unit. If you have three phase on site that’s a simple way to do it depending upon power required.
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stihl ms 500i Dilemma: What to do with a totally new MS 500i ?
doobin replied to HackneyAndBeyond's topic in Chainsaws
Stihl warranty expires after a year anyway. I think you should turn this thread into an open bidding thread- it'll find a good home on here. If I didn't have a 462 that I was very happy with I'd offer £600 posted. Come on lads, who'll give the man £620?? Actually, eBay might be a better place for it- plenty of non VAT registered smallholders would jump at teh chance to save just the VAT on an as new saw. Pictures will show that it's not been used, and an original receipt with matching serials will show that it's genuine and not stolen. -
Let's see how many of you are all saying 1.5x when the shit hits the fan next year.. We may not be far away from a return to the days of cut throat undercutting and scrabbling for a work. Market forces will determine. Do you think McDonalds staff get double for working Sundays?
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Your problem is that no one machine will do all. Only a digger can be towed to site to dig the root plates out, and a towable 2.7t would struggle with larger roots anyway. An Avant would lift a fair weight and be towable, but very expensive. No good for digging out roots. If your yard is relatively hardstanding, then you won't get bigger bang for your buck than a counterbalance forklift. It does one thing and it does it very well. If the yard is not totally paved then a rough terrain would be a good bet, at the expense of manouverability. Secondhand forklifts are peanuts compared to diggers. I picked an old Kalmar up for £1200, and a mint 600 hour 2012 Hyundai for 4.5k plus VAT- see what kind of secondhand digger or loader that buys you!
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Digger Assisted Felling
doobin replied to Haironyourchest's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Sounds like the operator was the problem in both cases. Safety pin missing is obvious, and when it ended up on top of the digger I'd wager that it was a heavy leaner and the saw bloke cut through the hinge to the point where it couldn't be controlled. 30" pines with no lean I would think nothing of doing with a 3 tonner. You'd do it with a bottle jack otherwise, the digger has a lot of push and it's the leverage that really makes it work. -
Digger Assisted Felling
doobin replied to Haironyourchest's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
You can do a lot with a smaller digger so long as you don't try massive heavy leaners and don't leave a silly amount on the hinge. I do it all the time. -
Just bought a 26hp compact tractor, planning to use it for small flail mowing or topping jobs, grading large areas, small areas of flail collecting for nature reserves and overgrown lawns and similar. Now, we don't do a lot of domestic tree work and as such don't have a chipper other than a wee 15hp petrol model. I've been looking at the Woodland Mills type of imported PTO chippers, the 4 and maybe the 6" (may well upgrade to 35hp tractor later). I'm thinking it would serve as a self propelled chipper for the few jobs we get where we need a chipper. However I think the feed roller mechanism with a single roller would be lacking. Has anyone tried one or can suggest something better for what I want?
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Are you sure it's the right size spark plug?
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I’ll be getting one if that’s true.
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From a business perspective, Whatever you can get away with, but I’d not put up with a subby wanting to charge me 25% extra for working on a Saturday.
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First thing you need a is a loud alarm linked to your mobile.
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I'm ashamed to have him as the Duke of my fair county.
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That’s good, it’s a real letdown the cs501sx being on rubbers.
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Is it on springs or rubbers?
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^That looks the same bar the manifold as my Wolf 2.5hp compressor. It's been faultless over six years at least, and 2.5hp is a major step up in CFM which is important for running arb type things such as blowguns. I'd highly recommend the above over any 1.5hp 6 litre compressor.
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More to the point, will they tell you that an engine literally eating an air filter is totally normal and nothing to worry about? Further to Stuart's post above, not only is price no indication of quality, it's no indication of dealer ability either from what I can make out. I'm only having a pop because you have a pop every time Chinese machines are mentioned...
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If you're gonna panic buy, do it early. Simple. That way you're just a 'crazy prepper' rather than a 'panic buying asshole'
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One word- liability. Anything goes wrong there's no fallback. But this is coming from the guy who builds his own digger attachments. I'd crack on.
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If just cleaning the mud off then a pressure washer would on paper be miles better. Less trying to abrade it off, more washing it off.
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I think you're crazy at those hours but it sure beats getting fat in front of the telly so fair play to you.
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Sell it whilst they are making stupid money with idiots and their BBL. Only issue would be the year long wait for a new machine! Or you could fit a proportional cetop valve. Lot of work though. I've had a proportional rocker since I bought that Hyundai mini five years ago, and I'd never go back.
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The only thing the extra power is useful for is strimming and possibly polesawing if you are using it for some reason on lots of big stuff with a 16" bar.
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I'd love it if knocking that stop in made it run out of oil first. But the adjuster only moved a fraction more. We shall see!
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Just had a Google, and for the first time in my life, read a chainsaw manual! The MS462 has a stop on the oil pump adjustment. You knock this in with a punch, and then you can turn the screw a fraction more. Probably some bullshit environmental thing. Bloody pointless because if you know you need to adjust the oiler, you also know how much you need to adjust it! I'll see how it goes. On 'max' prior to knocking the stop in, it was using half a tank to a tank of fuel. Not enough to lube a 20" bar properly in hardwood. I've got a 28" for it which I'd like to use regularly, and I've also got a 36" which it pulls OK if you're careful, but that's always needed supplementary oiling and I'd imagine it still will with the oiler stop knocked in.
