doobin
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If you REALLY want to feel depressed, I've just done the maths and you're on £15.38 an hour. For using 40k of kit.
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OK, it's a beautiful piece. Will someone PLEASE tell us the going rate? I deal in stuff like that all the time. Everyone is so cagey about prices that I just sling it in the firewood heap. Or even just burn it on site.
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How stiff is it to pull over? If it seems very high on compression, the valves probably need adjusting. Wanky engines if you ask me.
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I've gone back to a hand file from one of these. They're waaaaay too slow IMHO. I've though about getting a machine, but it'll have to be some machine that gets a chain as good as an experienced hand on a fresh file. A year ago I'd never have thought I'd say that, but there you go.
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Whippendell Woods-
doobin replied to Tony Croft aka hamadryad's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Get in there and stick that old deadwood straight on the firewood pile! -
As she starts to drift in an out of consciousness, he shouts at her to stay with him. Holding up his hand, he shouts "How many fingers?" "Oh my God!" she screams. "I'm paralysed from the waist down!"
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Never mind how clean it is, it shouldn't fail so catastrophically with 300 hours on the clock.
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Course it's not sustainable. This country near enough ran out of wood in the middle ages due to the demand for it to make charcoal.
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Where are you based Sandy?
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Thats a journey of 126 miles. With diesel at £6/gallon, that's 38MPG. You do know you can't measure fuel economy just by looking at the gauge?
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Inky black sap from sweet chestnut ???
doobin replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
It's the tanins in the wood reacting with the metal in the wedge and the water in the wood and possibly oxygen in the air. Something like that anyway, it's normal for chestnut. It's the same thing that causes bluey black blade marks on sawn green oak. Sharpen your saw over a chesnut stump and within minutes the filings turn the wood black. -
For £300 I'd just rebuild it. At least then you know it's good.
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Couldn't agree more. It varies from person to person. Bentley Continental? No thanks. For that money I'll have a Fendt 936!
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Picked up an X reg XLWB doublecab with ally dropside and tailift for £1300 recently. Older Transit turbo engine- pulls like a train due to having the lower geared diff. Hauls 2.5 tons of digger and trailer no problem. You get miles more for your money than the equivalent priced Transit- and much less rust! Would recommend that you look for a turbo one though- I only ever go about ten miles from base and even then I wouldn't like to imagine life without the turbo. Cab build quality is shoddy, but you're looking for a work truck not a limo. Bodies were often third party jobs and there are some really nice ones out there.
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For power tools, then Makita all the way. With regard to Silverline sockets etc- you say they're popular. That's because they're the best value on the market today. Forge Steel (screwfix own) have shot up in price over the last year, and looking at the castings Silverline seem to use the same factory for a lot of the stuff. Never understood the obsession with Snap On and the like (Draper Expert in particular- the ratchet is clunky old fashioned rubbish). Good tools but not value for money when compared to Silverline unless you use them every minute of every day. Have used Silverline 1/2" breaker bar, Silverline 32mm socket and a five foot scaffold pole to crack tractor wheel nuts before, without breaking the tool. Very good kit. You'll struggle to find a better, more versatile 1/4" socket set than Silverline. Halfords Professional are also nice tools.
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I hope you don't fill up at their pump- they'll charge you 20p/litre premium for the privilege, even if you buy 500 litre! Robbing bastards
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Nope, looks like it's almost certainly Holm Oak. Thanks anyway for posting the pics. Somebody please tell me that it wouldn't be worth bugger all if it was Box anyway please!
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Can someone please ban this muppet?
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Lol, as I haven't a clue if it's box or not, I wouldn't have had a clue when I cut it down! If it was me that cut it down even- I can't remember what job it might have come from. Just looked up Holm Oak bark and Box wood bark on google images- although it 'might' be box, Holm Oak looks much more likely as the bark pattern is much 'squarer' So come on you tree buffs- is Holm Oak denser than water?
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Haven't a clue what job it came from, and frankly couldn't give a flying f*ck. Is holm oak denser than water then?
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Hi all Have discovered what I think is a bit of Box wood in my woodheap. Sort of square pattern on the bark and very heavy (denser than water). Does this sound like Box? Looks to be about thirty to forty years old. Anyway, is it worth anything and where's best to get rid of it? Biggest is about eight inches diameter and I have about twelve feet of varying diameters. Thanks
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I presume that's with a snatch block rather than a straight line pull.
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It just goes to show how the average 'Mr City worker's wife thinks! They're the worst type to deal with I find.
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Don't be a pussy, if you like it then keep it you muppet.
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How the other half live...
