doobin
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Low oil sensors on small petrol engines generally work by shorting the spark to earth, so I would have thought the same for a twin.
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Won't fit back up the tunnel-it concrete sections are laid behind it as it goes, narrowing the bore.
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It's a ****************ing embarassment. Well done for getting out mate.
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Ash tree removal - risk of ground heave?
doobin replied to Claire Bennett's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
There's just absoloutely no way that tree is causing subsidence- look at the height difference FFS! And being right next to a brook, well there's the water table. It's not got to go far for water and it's not a particularly thirsty tree either. -
I'd have the AGT at half the age for the same money. Parts availabilty will only get worse.Doesn't sound like you need the extra 'output' of the Holder.
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There's no time lost with .404- they have their own drawer like all the other 3/8 chains in varying lengths do, and they use the same wheel on the grinder.
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I use mine for trimming big butts for the mill, stumping prior to grinding, and ringing up small when a machine is holding the load. All saws weigh the same in the cut and I want these repetitive jobs done as quick as possible. No way I’d want one up a tree even if I climbed! The anti vibe is noticeably old school too.
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I have both. the tracked machine is too heavy for that, and the lack of a round thing (wheel) at the front means that even lifting it slightly requires a lot of effort- enough to bend the handlebars if loaded. Try it in the creeper box and see if the problem is still there or if steering gets easier.
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Problem is the roofs aren’t built to take the weight in an awful lot of cases.
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Ah, I see. To be fair I’m happy enough buying the chains singly. And .404 seems to clear the chips better in softwood (not often you’ll use one in softwood normally but it’s very handy round the mill).
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What area and length of grass do you want to cut with it? I tried a new g1600 and found it very lacking in power.
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Yes, gotta get max surface area to help it burn.
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I had no idea the elevator side was different! I’m pretty sure it’s a jappa 355+, whatever that is. Al I know it it was £4500 plus vat and five miles away, we got there first! Its great. Will run on just 26hp. Fast splitter action. With the .325 bar and Oregon low profile chain it’s quick to cut also. It’s taken a while to iron out some niggles, but now we have the sawdust extraction working it’s right how we need it. It’s worst habit is the slide blocking up with dust and crap, so the ram never properly returns and starts heating up the oil- hopefully the extractor will sort the worst of it.
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Jesus you’re keen! Gonna need to fit heated handles soon.
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I took the last lot back to the yard and wished I hadn’t bothered. manky, wiggly, useless. I’ve got the cypress in the mill stack, if that’s what you meant?
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No idea! Sorry.
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Luckily we had one cypress left to get it going with- wind stopped play before Christmas. you can just see it standing at the edge of this pic.
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404, I didn’t think you could run it on 3/8? Or at least, the bar mount is different than my other stihl bars!
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Playing ‘fire jenga’. Getting some manky old poplar to burn. I don’t regret going with the 881 rather than a 661. When you are handling things mechanically there’s very little bending down to be done, so the extra weight is more than offset by raw power, even in smaller timber like this. There was a squirrel in the tree when weset the rope- I saw him bolting upwards. No sign of him on the deck, he either got impaled and buried or he scampered down before we set the gob cut!
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Branch logger and sell the logs for fire pits on site. Win win.
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Let’s see anything from 2023 still going in seventy years time!!!!
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Good to see dealers getting hungry. The same goes for estate agents!
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To be fair I’d expect a lot more than £200 a day for £100k worth of kit 👍🏻 However I’m under no illusion that I can earn more then £200 a day leaving the kit in the shed!!! What are you classing as £100k worth of kit? Cause to my mind that’s a 3t Arb digger, a loader, a chipper, stump grinder and small compact tractor too…. Are you trying to say a freelance climbers saws and rigging kit are 100k? 🤪
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I'd imagine you just brake a wheel to steer.
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So run your own jobs if you're that good at it! Or become a brickie.... FFS.
