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It sounds like it’s going to be a pup. And you’ve not put any money down? Thank your lucky stars and walk away. What brand was it? It’s a buyers market at the moment for both new and used.

Get over youself mate. Bugger off and spunk your 7k on a new walk behind flail to do a piss poor job of mowing a 4ft strip (why???) around your hobby hay field. If it's senseless to have two engines running, it's even more senseless to spend 7k to burn double the fuel cost of a trqactor you already have to cut a quarter of the speed with more effort. You're clearly not Einstein, but surely even you can work out that a pedestrian flail with 15 or whatever hp is going to be about the same as a Logic flail with the same..... I've owned and used both machines you ask about and both are shite compared to even a basic compact tractor and topper.

For 7k he’d get a small alpine tractor and topper! Way more fun.

So get a 4ft topper 🤣 a ride on mower with a rear discharge deck would do what you want too.

7k will get you a good secondhand compact tractor along with a topper. Twice the width cut, three times the speed, four wheel drive and a seat to sit on. You’d be mad to buy the scag for that job. im presuming you don’t already have a tractor and use contractors to mow?

No flail will work well on long grass, even with y knives rather than hammers. if it’s predominately grass you want to cut then I’d get a rotary. I’d also get a compact tractor and topper rather than a scag. They are silly money for what they are. are you looking to buy new or secondhand?

yes, one needs to spend on a decent brand bench sharpener, the cheap ones are a waste of money. Even on the oregon ones I replace the plastic depth stop with a bolt with a rounded off head for a more positive stop.

Baltic Abrasives.

I’d say 3k cash a very fair price.

Way more money in being a service engineer! Much less effort too. Are you really ready to start at the bottom of a career again?

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.