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Chain Sharpening.. Acceptable discrepancy between teeth.
doobin replied to champagnecharly's topic in Chainsaws
If its putting dust instead of even small chips out the back it's not sharp, not even close. How the hell can you pass that? They'd take so long to make a felling cut that it'd run out of fuel, then you'd have to fail them! -
Chain Sharpening.. Acceptable discrepancy between teeth.
doobin replied to champagnecharly's topic in Chainsaws
Seriously? Well, you know what they say. Those who can, do. Those who can't..teach -
Chain Sharpening.. Acceptable discrepancy between teeth.
doobin replied to champagnecharly's topic in Chainsaws
I've seen plenty of saws produce dust...I wouldn't class them as sharp! I would have thought a 1.5mm difference between left and right teeth would produce a curved cut. -
That's fair comment, but light on the right foot all the time can lead to the coked up engine that injector cleaner will alleviate. Always best to give a diesel a good thrashing once a week or so, just for a minute once she's up to temperature.
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£14.99 for a tanks worth of injector cleaner?? Roll up, roll up, get your genuine snake oil right here folks! If you want to add anything, John Deer fuel conditioner is well thought of in the plant game and very, very economical. £14.99 would do you about 1000 litres.
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FFS, just connect it to a cheapy battery charger. Not rocket science.
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17 months is a good run. If you waxed them they might have done a bit longer... Soles do tend to go first though. £180 a year to be proper comfy on your feet all day is well worth it.
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Probably ex hire with a new dipper. Or even just ex hire- the more distinctive a machine is the less attractive to scum.
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Do you guys not find that they tend to wobble all over the place? I have a shag load of fencing coming up, I need to get something better than the manual adjust tractor one. Wainy, where are you based?
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Fine for sitting and running the splitter. They have a 1000rpm PTO so would be very economical. They're not making much money at the moment. You might get it for the maiden bid.
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Cheers mate. Had an eBay search out for one of these but this didn't have 'harness' in the title!
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If you buy a new head you won't regret it. You can get a better engine unit after your first few hedges, and add a pole chainsaw, bed tiller, lawn edger etc later. You can use bike handle machine to cut a hedge if you fold them 90 degrees. Not sure if yours will have this clamp- we used to do it on footpath clearance so we had a bike handle strimmer that could clear grass and then cut the hedge. The Stihl system has the most attachments to my knowledge. Lots of money to be made maintaining gardens on a price per month- investment in a decent combi system was a major step forward for me when starting out.
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Was that covered under warranty??
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To be fair that's half the country he's covering, there should be a fair few places to stop
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Years ago I drove a Combo van around for weeks with mole grips clamped in place of the gearstick. You had to remember which way to twist them and whether to pull or push. Reverse was almost impossible to get. On the plus side it was the best immobiliser ever. I always say, it's only a bodge it if doesn't work. The old Combo was definitely a bodge. Other things I've 'bodged' are still the same three years on- it becomes a 'design improvement'
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Dodgy Ebay listing Bewarned do not buy this truck!!
doobin replied to arniecardigan's topic in General chat
They look like two of a pair. You may have dodged a bullet in that the 'good' one was also in the same nick underneath. -
I had a go on a loop handle Husky the other day and found it most agreeable, very good anti vibe. Stuck with Stihl due to all the (expensive) attachments I have. Can't complain about the FS-70 but the Husky was very nice. Not me that has to use em anyway
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Loop handle and throttle assembly to suit can be had off ebay second hand fairly cheap. Or you could just flog it on eBay for about £150 and buy a brand new FS-70 for £260.
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It will work brilliantly. That's by far your best bet, so long as the FS-55 is the loop handle model? Just be aware that the shaft in the FS-55 is flexible, and so if you keep sticking the head into thick woody growth it might break. Never managed it myself and they're cheap to replace.
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Wait until you get to London then pop into FR Jones.
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I'd pick them up whole with a telehandler and stick them onto a fire. That will be by far the most cost effective.
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What are you currently running? You could buy a new FS-70 and fit a second-hand head from eBay and stay under £350- this would give you decent kit and a new engine (plus a strimmer!), but make sure you get a good head that's not abused and can be sharpened. Stihl attachments are bombproof- all bar two of my seven attachments are second hand, but the FS-70 engines that run them I keep new.
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They don't look cheap in the slightest. Check out their other vehicles (and prices). If I were a builder in London looking for a couple of new vehicles, I would be taking a trip to Southampton for a look at least.
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Yeah, Universal Trailers. Still going strong, or Blendworth Trailer Centre over Rolands Castle. For used trailers though, get on Ebay. There's bugger all to wear out or go wrong on a 750kg caged trailer (if that's what you mean by small).
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What are you on about, the engines weigh about the same. A Stihl combi system is jack of all, and master of long reach hedge trimming, medium reach pole sawing, tilling flowerbeds and edging. The only thing it's not brilliant for is heavy strimming, where you need something like an FS460 with bike handles and anti vibe. A 'dedicated' Stihl long reach hedgecutter or loop handle strimmer is the same damn thing as a Stihl combi system.
