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Two black working cockers, the older is a real 'red neck' sits in the passenger seat - no matter if the wife wants to sit there, looks out of the window when revering so I can't see where I'm going. Both ride on a quad on shoot days and come to the woods working with me. The older one jumps into the truck when a saw or tractor starts up - break time = stick time Oh yes both sleep on our bed - it's like the Simpsons sofa some nights:thumbup1:
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Often seen tailgate sticker - 'well driven?' how about 'well managed?' I know of one city council who wanting to be flexible about trucks, to be more 'efficeint' but really mean all trucks have to be unloaded every night and reloaded in the morning with anybody using any saw = they are all blunt as who is going to sharpen one for the next day when you will get issued a blunt one. So every morning at least 1 hour is lost sorting out gear into trucks. it's not the guys, I used to work for the NHS - don't get me started:confused1:
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Were you slipping the clutch as you went through? It may be as the others have said mud/grit on the clutch plate, if it now works ok no probs but. as was said water may have got into the transmission + front diff. Check for any whiteness in all the oil systems = emulsified oil = drain and refilll. next time remember - we want pictures:thumbup1:
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Yep, Big Ben (against little ben) blew a fuse - and they all went home early after a very bad day. Not that Iain was bothered, he's just moved into his flat:thumbup: I was planning to go to Oxford Wednesday and do some oak felling on Shotover hill but gave it a miss, so went on Thursday and had a good day. No chipping just fell and cut into 10ft lenghts and use a tractor with a large grap and stack for a mega fire - if we can light it:confused1: Iain loves his tree work, really happy lad since he started with Ben a year ago, he doesn't go on Arbtalk much, uses 'gravity always wins'.
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Blast it! Just drove into flood and damaged engine???
blazer replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
sounds bad. I was told that some cars have the air inlet so low down so they will suck up water even in a small flood. -
Transporting quads produces the same problem, I sometimes clamp off the fuel line.
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Your are not getting old, first rule for a long life - remember there is a good reason for fear:sneaky2:
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scarry at night with that amout of rain. I got caught in a flash flood in wales once, thought a stream had overflowed but no stream just run off from a hill. My son is on standby for tree work with tonights wind, bit of a worry.
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Still on candles in the west country? only joking:001_tt2: Working on a hill by Oxford today, windy but ok. Yesterday, my son was working in the rain, landy stuck with a chipper on in deep mud at the back of a church, working in heavy rain until a piece of rusty metal fence rail went into the chipper, 'rain with added sparks' boss swore = time to go home early. Locally in North Oxfordshire - flooded fields everywhere, some roads flooded, never as bad as some areas. Dogs love it, sticks and water games.
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I have had an alloy kelly for years (not used for a while) but I found it could corrode inside as unless left inverted as it will not dry out. Alloy is a bit bad for you but not too bad if not used every day. Must get it out again now it's getting colder:thumbup:
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My dad told me of when he brought some new 'cheap plugs' for his pre-war car in the fifties, took it to a mate because it ran a bit rough - so off his mate went of to his scrap heap, found x4 old rusty plugs - cleaned them up and his old car ran a treat. Same now - go for the best:thumbup1: Being an ex two stroke biker Suzuki T500, made me very aware of fitting the correct temp rated plugs and not over tightening - split a head once:blushing:
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I have had my Suzuki Eiger for 5 years and after a layup for a few months it had flooded out - that bad when the plug was out it pumps fuel out of the plug hole:confused1: So I cleaned out the carb and the fuel tap and all was ok for a year, now it's done it again. One of the probs of quads on trailers is with the carb float going up/down and the fuel tap not being able to shut off, I used to use hose clamps on the fuel line but still had a running problem. So I when I stripped it down this morning the carb had dirt in again, (filling it from cans) so I fitted an in-line fuel filter to see if it cures the problem. I'm out on the quad on a shoot Thursday so will see if it worked. Anybody else had simular problems and found any answers?
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I could only watch with one eye open:thumbdown: I guess, it's the tree equivent of watching your team miss a penelty:001_tt2:
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Yep that's the way to do it. I brought a new 460 gave it a year to run in then fitted a twin port muffler, removed the restrictors to retune using a 'tiny tacho' to 4-stroke a 13.5k, and the power - well lest say my other saws are like 'push and go toys' compared to the 460. but it does use more fuel.
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Poll: Who re-tunes their new saw after break-in?
blazer replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in Chainsaws
Yep - well since I brought a tiny tacho. When I fitted an twin port exhast to my MS460. I had to remove the resistrictors and retune, both hi/lo + tickover of course. It really produces more power but drinks alot more fuel - if I had just fitted the twin port and run it I would had been posting a 'dear Spud' post. I brought my son one of the last MS200T, after breakin I retuned it. Compared to the other MS200T he uses at work, his saw revs lower (14k) but produces more torque, meaning the other saws he uses are over revving and running lean. For me I can see how you can 'tune by ear' without a tacho, when you have no reference of what 14K against 15k sounds like. -
You don't have to be a monocultured woodsman - bit of young and old will brighten your day:blushing: I still use my old 266xp brill saw or should I say 'awe***e'
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I can't see the problem dropping from 3/8 to .325, look on 'mister solutions' for parts. I have a 280 which from new had an 18"bar on .325 but the chain was apt to coming off so dropped to 16" no probs. On the ms280 I fitted an 8T.325:thumbup1: sproket against the 7T on a ms260, again runs fine - bit more wizz, if you are down to a 13" bar it may work for you. (I fitted a 16" bar to my 460 with a 8T 3/8 sprocket = awesome)
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I have an 03 does it alot, I just clean out the exhaust to inlet cross over gas valve with some solvent (x4 12mm bolts 15 min job), or if on a trip just push the plunger in a couple of times and clean it when home. I have had it come on and the engine go flat if over revved, so I have to pull over and switch the engine off for a moment, then it's ok. only prob I over revved it getting past a caravan, so now I have to follow the frigging thing for another 10 miles before I can overtake it again:lol:
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love to see them, totally harmless but do make a lot of holes:thumbup1:
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My daughter lives 'up north' Hepden Bridge and trains for ironman, visited her to see her in a fell race in January, those guys are tough as they are friendly - after race shower = cattle trough, then off to the pub:thumbup1: Tod fell runners are known as a drinking club with a running problem:sneaky2: Watching the olympic chicks, I can't help thinking it's not much fun if you are not a 'leg man'
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and don't forget as Jasper Carrot said,"listening to abba while driving a Volvo to the sauna'- there's not much else to do beside's telling jokes about Norway.
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pull the other one:sneaky2: how about 'gamekeepers' - no birds over guns, living in a house that goes with the job:thumbdown:
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Sorry to hear of your problem - easy answer is to find a mate with a bigger trailer to drag it onto, or drag it into the nearest farm yard, or pick it up with a tractor with forks, big fat tip may help:sneaky2: . failing that, strip off all the good stuff, cover it in crap and it should be there the nexr day.
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We had a tree on the village green say 30+ft high and 18"dia, with the first 10ft one type of bark and the rest a different bark, as if glued on to of it's trunk. needless to say the local tree officer decided it must come down:thumbdown:
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My Husky was a bitch the other day it wouldn't start, which made me think; are saws male or female, or are Husky's female and Stihl male being more reliable.
