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Last winter a local unimog stopped with frozen fuel pipes - took ages to get it going, I assume it was on DERV. I thought 'modern' diesel was less prone to freezing? One old tip I heard of yrs ago was for truck drivers to put a gallon of Paraffin into a full tank - so say 40-1 to stop the fuel freezing. Any truth in that or any other winter fuel tips:thumbup1:

97db more info needed; Are Blue bins louder than Red Wheelie bin mass - full or empty, Velocity how fast is it moving. Type of surface wheeled over. Distance measured and background noise - do you include other bin men. What maintance is needed to comply at 97db - does it need annual testing. maybe I need to get out more:confused1:

Must fit on on the back of my Quad for squirrel shootin - yee haa

Thanks Rover & Simon, I later realized if I disconnected a heater hose and connected it to a garden hose I could flush the heater & block, plus loosen the water pump outlet to flush the turbo & water pump, then do the same with the rad. Will run it tomorrow and see if it stays clear then refill with more Red. Need to do the wifes Jimny just to play safe if it's goes as cold as last year.

Thinking I was being a good boy I ordered up some red Antifreeze for my 03 L200. Had a few probs draining the lot out, although I changed the head a while ago, when I refilled and started up again there was still some green in the system. From reading up (wish I done it before ordering Red) some claim if blue/green is mixed with Red it will 'gel up'. I will drain again and flush again but how clean does the system need to be for changing to Red antifreeze to be sure I won't have problems - or am I worrying again. Thanks in advance, got confused by the claim Red is best for +2000 and Blue for pre2000.

not the best tree or method to select, but needed a ratchet strap - well I would use one. Why not get a guy in with an 'Elwell 7' real axe for the 'man lab'

Mate had an old sidecar on his bike - well it was a few planks on the sidecar frame with a car seat fixed onto it. All went well on a trip to Devon in Winter when the upper bracket holding the sidecar to the bike broke, so the bike leaned in - so he walked into a wood and came out with a forked branch, put the forked end into the bike and jammed the other end between the sidecar seat. With the bike now leaning out off we went, but the branch kept coming out, so we stopped by a cottage and asked for a 'hammer & nails', the old boy watched in disbelief as the 'bodge' went on nailing the branch to the sidecar planks. He waved us off and we drove 100+ miles home no probs:thumbup:

Another vote for a rachet strap & 'dog tooth' I noticed on a video a while ago a climber who swopped the ends of his ratchet strap so one end had a loop and the other a hook, so no shackle needed:thumbup1: I will put up a video of my son felling a large tree with a 60 degree lean tomorrow

One guy kindly made some 'toffee onions' as a suprise for the local kids:sneaky2:

my vote is for a Kelly kettle but take some dry twigs/shavings etc ( best fuel birch bark), line up the spout with the burner hole and turn into the wind = fast boil. tip leave upside down to drain or the inside will corrode.

A few yrs ago I left our front gates shut, when a group walked by with one saying 'gates means dogs', so I worked on it a bit more after our new postie almost refused to del-mail because of my cockers. So I made a second mesh gate further down the drive, the sight of x2 sets of gates = silent night.

Have a look on 'mister solutions' on their bars & chain section by model they sell 'Charlton' semi-chisel, (should be a 15 " bar). use the old chain for the workshop session but fit a new chain for work and assessment is brill. My son had to do alot of small trees so it needed to be accurate but a full chisel will jump about a bit. You will be able to put a 25" bar through with a full chisel later but for the test go for a semi only about £8'ish. Good luck:thumbup1:

me too about using too much force, especially with energy going through bearings. It's a hard one of what to use, with some jobs like stripping the prop shaft on my truck last week, the choice tool was a homemade 6lb lump hammer with a large alloy drift held in a vice working 'Indian style' on the floor. It's a real experience job to strip down some parts without doing damage - or luck

Great 'lid' when it hot, you can fit different visor/ear defenders, my son found the visor supplied wasn't big enough for chipper work. On your CS30/31 our tip is to find out what saws & bar you are using (if not your own) and buy a semi-chisel chain, they are much easier to do 'letter boxing' with than 'full chisel'

Good point on vol work, I did some for yrs up Oxford for the city rangers (may start back soon). Often the image of Vol work is some old people or Chaves as a punishment with loppers & bowsaws but through the city rangers we laid on courses for hedgelaying, axe felling & survival ( build a camp and fire etc) and they worked well attracting more younger people, this developed into coppicing, deadhedging etc- then with the cut backs stopped. It really has good potential as a way for students to get into woodland work - just needs structure to gain points for later, my son has helped me for yrs and now at 19 with his A-levels he doesn't want to go to uni but do practical tree work and gain level 6 if possible, so it gave him a way in. On the shoot we have another 'vol group', truckers/contractors that often drive 50 miles from 'Brum' to do woodland/shoot jobs all year. I was thinking after your earlier posts how on 'Nature telly' you will only see Sheep dogs working but never a keeper with his dogs, in the autumn although we are surrounded by shoots in this area. The keepers friend is the game adviser for 'the Archers' and there was talk about doing a programme - fingers crossed:thumbup1:

I doubt if you could take PPM more seriously than me, I worked in heavy engineering before HSE, where accidents were so common amputations every week, plus on high voltage construction sites in Brazil where there was burnt skin on the structures, plus the last 34 yrs in A+E/ICU I've seen it all. I brought my petzl for work on my quad when doing saw work so I didn't have to carry a separate saw helmet, which kept falling off. So I used it on my course & my son also borrowed it when doing trials and knowbody took the 'michael'. My message is don't worry what the other guys are wearing or what you look like just make sure you are wearing your PPE.

Good points about the fungi Armybloke, but there must be a way of showing the real side of nature on TVand the way it needs to be managed. A walk through a old wood needs to be shown how it got to that state by active work. It seems to be ok to show seals & happyfeet been eaten by killer whales but not squirrels, not that I want the detail shown (I have done butchering since a kid, plus hospital medical engineering work). My wife was a bit of a 'veggy' but was frustrated when she joined a nature group to find there was more wildlife on a large shooting estate than most 'nature reserves'. I'm sure if the real work is shown it would attract more younger people into getting involved, even like me doing it as a 'hobby job' for 15 yrs.

I just wish 'TV nature' would show the whole picture including woodland & the work of say the game conservation, and the other side of gamekeeper work eg, keepers feeding Barn owls to save them in the snow at their own cost. Plus the way woods have been 'work places' and still good for nature for hundreds of years. I remember the mouthfuls of abuse from 'nice little old ladies' who see us as the 'anti-christ of nature, when a saw starts up - come back next spring and see the wild flowers, doesn't cut it with them.

Congrats to you all - enjoy it, they soon growup:thumbup:

Many thanks for you help, from reading up I will need to buy a 'tacho' in the near future to ensure I get it right - any tacho recomendations at a reasonable price & where to buy one from for new & older saws. When I mentioned putting a tacho on my saws, my son thought I wanted to 'pimp it up' - with,"how about fitting a sub-system and some fluffy dice":blushing:

Doubt if I would ever me on Autumnwatch as I shoot squirrels by the hundred to increase wild song birds and use my well trained 2 working cockers on a large shoot, the number of small birds coming out of cover crops must be seen. I feel the prog has become an urban image of nature but biased views by Packman as the expert on strippy charlies.

I brought one and used it on my 30/31 and I'm 62, as my old groundie helmet is a bit old so don't worry if it's new - it conforms thats it. My son also used it for his course being a bit hot he could leave the vents open. He also used it on his trial on hot days with a large gang of guys, nobody mentioned it. Manup - this is tree work not 'the does my bum look big in this forum' good luck

I listed all the vib & other data before buying my 460, all I can say is the vibs are alot lower than expected, real beast but very controllable to use. I did wonder if the 460 was a bit 'old school' but it's been constantly upgraded, so it feels like a new saw, with good product support. To me a 460 is the standard that all other big saws are measured against & when you are putting your own money down you want to play safe its a 460 for me:thumbup1:

Thanks very much - hopefully this will help others. I don't think I'm that far out but I will give them all a retune on Sunday and let you know if they are much different. I was going to try a 2 - man set up with me adjusting the H screw under load with my son operating but this sounds much easier. I do the normal plug colour under load bit. Had a prob tuning my MS280 back in the summer but it turned out to be a ign unit prob.

Although I always wear chainsaw gloves as I would hate to think of getting my hands minced but I have heard of alot of guys not wearing them. Their argument goes along the line of, they were designed for saws before modern protection features was built into saws. How many have heard of saw accidents where the operator didn't have saw gloves on and was injured against guys not getting injured due to wearing saw gloves, just a thought:confused1: