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lol just a Chinese airline powered mist nozzle like you’d use on a lathe.

They work well but be careful of heat build up blueing chains. Peck at it, keep your stone clean. Once you understand the settings it’s easy to do a decent job. i use a cbn wheel and waster mist cooling which is pretty much ultimate if you want to spend another £150. the grinder with the automatic clamp is well worth spending more money on, saves a lot of repetition.

I do the same for neat petrol kit, but I was under the impression than Stihl 2t oil had a stabiliser in it?

Looks like Biden has prostate cancer according to the news today.

I don't want a leader who waffles on like the majority of current leaders, you are correct. I'd like a real leader, who leads by example and can eruditely put his point across in a debate. Who wins others over by logic and reason. A man of honour and standards. That's sure as hell not Trump. We are where we are because the alternative is even worse, which is a very sorry indictment of the state of office on both sides of the Atlantic today. That rambling rant by Trump is just embarassing. Incoherant ranting, attacking Springsteen for things totally unrelated to his politicaly views. Playground insults, with primary school punctuation to match. This is the President of the United States! The world is laughing at America.

Pallets are treated wood hence why it costs. Doubt OP would want to take the risk in a commercial setting.

If you already have M18 batteries I'd be looking at the Milwaukee combi tool and accesories- I only hear good things about it. The M18 top handle is pretty pokey but a big lump. The polesaw is the best I've used.

I'd have to agree. My 881 with 36" bar is used mainly for cutting off large stumps prior to grinding and dealing with oversized butts prior to milling. It's exceptionally cumbersome, but once it's in the cut the torque is incredible. My next smallest saw is an MS462. I debated getting a 660, but decided that given the timber I deal with for the mill and the possibility of chainsaw milling in future, I might as well go big or go home.

I’d be looking at burning grain then! Lots of calories in it.

Come now mate, you and I are not much more than pee wee outfits. Yet I still have better things to do with yard space than accumulate shite and odd size lumps in the hope of selling it for £18 per ton in a years time. As OP says above, time and space are money. Much of my sawmill slabs go straight onto the burn pile. @Woodwanter- if there is a sawmill local then that would be a very good place to start looking. If you can undertake to pay the going rate and clear the yard straight away of everything reject each time there's a lorry, then it would work well for both of you. It'll be everything from slabwood (lots of it!) to whole oak butts that are full of rot when they open them up. The competitor for this market are the local chip boys with their biomass chippers behind tractors. The price of chip (underpinned by the RHI) is distorting the market. Politely, if you have RHI on this boiler, then you are already creaming it in and you may as well accept that you need to pay the going rate for the feedstocks!

Lazy fker! t’s a Donaldson P171502.

Arms up, front plate off. Open tank cap, Vacuum it out of the tank, replace with new hydraulic 46. There might be a drain plug if you don’t have a vacuum extractor. Filter apparently doesn’t need doing at the same time as the hydraulic oil change but I did mine anyhow. I posted the part number on this thread somewhere.

They are a right faff to use even with all the agility a digger offers. I think a tractor would be even more frustrating. I also found that the processor really didn't like dealing with the resultant lengths- usually wedge shaped. I'd not bother personally.

The 241 is now discontinued, but it was a pro level saw. Very handy for coppicing etc. basically the power of a 251 with the weight of a 181- plus pro build with magnesium clutch housing etc.

Sorry thought this was the todays job thread! Quick- a recent tractor thing! Picked this up cheap the other day.

Alarm with sensors that sends a photo and sets a siren off somewhere else/maybe turns a light on (can be 12v off a battery) I use an Ajax system on my kit on site. Sends me a photo from the sensors if triggered and also has a battery alarm that can be hidden somewhere else on site to confuse them. here’s the view this morning from sensor number 2

Usually shenanigans here- all back gardens are massive in Sussex! 🤣

Yup, firewood is as much about image as it is heating (if not more so) here in Sussex.

That's not a lot indeed, and it's all very short lengths for processor grade. Probably the best tool for the job is something with a circular saw. As this is going to be regular occurance for you (one presumes) I'd invest in something like a Hakke Pilke Eagle for the back of that tractor.

It may be that it's double acting only. It doesn't have to be in single acting to run a flail but it helps keep the oil cooler. Plenty of people run flails on things like a Bobcat E19 which is double acting only. You'd need to chat to the flail mainfacturer regarding motor suitability, but most modern ones are set up to run in either direction with a cross line relief. I'd give your cooling system a good blow out and try it. There should be a warning light for oil overheating too.

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How many gangs and what machines do you run mate?

Lawyer up....

A nature reserve I contract to got £65 per ton for crappy birch the other day. Mix of sizes from 6” to 20”

Depends what work you do and how important image is. for me it’s not, so I run multiple tippers and pickups on a fleet policy. this leaves change in the kitty for all the toys that make the cash. Caveat is that I only work locally. If I were driving fifty miles each day for a job then I’d be doing like I do with the machinery- buying it new with as long as warranty as possible and then changing it soon as that’s up.