doobin
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Everything posted by doobin
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But given that I order randomly whenever I run low of a certain size, you'd think I'd have got a duff one by now?
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That's been the total opposite of my experience. I run them from Makita 36v up to MS462 and have no complaints.
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I’ve used my makita 36v saw today. Firstly to take down a twelve foot privet bush and cut a couple of boards for forms on a landscaping job. Then when I got back to the yard to cut up a load of plastic pipes for fit into the skip to fill it up. Ideal for light duty tasks like those. Nice not to worry about ear protection.
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Is this tree going to die and dangerous
doobin replied to Bigben143's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
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Briggs don't make the oil, they just brand it. It's a small single cyclinder engine, any 10/30 will do (most likely semi synthetic, its hard to find straight mineral these days). What's more important is changing it regularly. As for less oil consumption.... I've never known a Honda or Loncin to use any oil! Besides all that, Briggs are just shit in my experience anyway. *retires to bunker*
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Anything.
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Airless sprayer is easiest. If using air compressor then you’ll be refilling the gravity fed pot every two minutes unless you get a static paint pot with a wander hose.
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The point I and Eggs are trying to make is that a 4-6hr session would be a 1 hour session with something with a decent flow rate...🤣
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I fear I may be a bit special, I find changing a chain considerably more annoying on an outboard than an inboard clutch! It's that annoying bit when you have the chain and bar o, and then you need to stick the cover back on and align it with the tention hole in the bar, without the chain coming out of the rails. That's what gets me. So much simpler with an inboard clutch.
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Stick a pressure relief in the plumbing that diverts excess pressure back to tank.
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Way too pricey for the bobcat. It should be the cheapest. Haggle if you can. You will be waiting months regardless of what any dealer promises at the moment.
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If the manager had any sense, he’d have taken them through in his car for free publicity.
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6 ply all the way. Can't stand the puncture proof ones, twice as much effort.
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Anyone else just fed up of customers at the moment
doobin replied to Clutchy's topic in General chat
So is a new machine for the 5k you’ve wasted on finance... -
It’ll be the rejects from cleft fencing!!
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The dealer only wants you to buy the Westwood because they sell them... You're almost certainly going to want a diesel model for that amount of mowing.
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If you're wanting to realise a value with minimal hassle then biomass or firewood (logs). Anything else is simply not worth the effort, especially with prices as they are currently.
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100%, but he's so full of shit he just writes whatever comes into his head first.
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That's way too cheap for here in Sussex. I'd want £8+ per m.
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I feel lucky to have got fleet renewal sorted last year, everything is sub 3 year old now. Let my outgoing 1.7t go a bit cheap in hindsight, but then I bought the new one cheap too going by today’s prices. Swings and roundabouts.
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Grapples are great bits of kit. Mine is old, it’s on its third digger now. Rebushed it once, welded up the tips twice and added a hydraulic back stay. Proper handy, and still in use regularly despite upgrading to a rotating grab two years ago.
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The truck is the last thing you should be financing. New vehichles are not really needed unless you are doing 50k miles a year, they don't add to the profitability of the job, and they depreciate like a stone. New machinery, on the other hand, hold it's it's value and makes the job more profitable. I have four new diggers and all kinds of machinery, but my newest truck is an 09 Iveco.
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You do- and that's the very reason I changed to clear cans!
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I reckon there’s a lot of that going around. Think you’ve dodged a bullet though personally. As you have no access restrictions, you don’t need expanding tracks with the lower ground clearance that entails, especially with your soft banks. Consider stepping up from 2.4 to 2.7t on a proper excavator X frame.
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I've never had a mix up but have always been paranoid about it. The best thing I ever did was to shell out (and not much extra either!) for those Stihl transparant petrol cans. The lids are also much better than standard cans, but most importantly it's plainly obvious whether fuel has mix in it or now. Recommended.
