jmac
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I think it also depends where you are in the country spud, up here on the west coast of Scotland it's prob more like 30:1 husky to stihl because most wood cutters use husky here. Imo both stihl and husky have gone downhill with reliability! Hard to beat a 461 stihl, had mine 3 years full time forestry use and only replaced oil pump and starter cord ?
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Thanks @ForestryFinance. I have used both chippers so don't need a demo, both good chippers but I couldn't go back down to a 6inch chipper ?. Do you know the price of a safetrack 1928? Cheers.
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Anyone know how much a tr8 is?
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Old Massey tractors are so hardy! Seen this old 35 while on holiday on tiree, looked rough but still fired up no bother ?.
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I had the same happen to me when asked to sharpen a customer's chains for his firewood saw, chains were badly damaged from cutting the ground and were of unknown make, And were really really hard and new file did nothing. I put it down to work hardening but could have been the cheap chain.
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The red rocket! ?
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Nice one! And could you have made money if you'd done it for £1800?
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Nice work Steve.
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It certainly is! Mine is sitting in a heap with a blown head gasket, one of the many things I've had to fix on her in the last three years ( she has had a hard paper round ) the black bonnet one is older but looks to be in much better Nick than mine.
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Are you eyeing that one up too? ?
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Must be some tree with those prices!
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Hope you gave Stevie a healthy discount? He must have helped sell a fair few cs 100 s with his wee chipper thread ???.
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And haggis don't have a spine! ???
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No it's Ben cruachan, the hollow mountain ?.
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It's not a skull, looks like back of pheasant or similar bird.
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Wee bit of blue sky here.
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The blades are round. No option to put square blades on my 2009 machine. It's a great machine but because of their design they quite often get used or more like abused on railway and motorway embankment. Just need to pick the right machine.
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It's on my list of things to do ?. There is a greenmech video showing the process, pretty handy. Wasn't a dig at greenmech about rollers and idler failure, I can't see past the greenmech safetrack 1928 now, goes almost anywhere and chips really well. Just wish I could have a nice new one.
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A bit different on tracked machines as they have run for that long but not necessarily chipped for that long as can spend a fair amount of time just getting themselves to site, downside is a worn trackbase can become very expensive very quickly if your unlucky! Yes I'd agree with you there. I bought my safetrack nearly 3 years ago now with 1500hrs on the clock, had to rebuild one idler wheel and all the bottom rollers and put a new set of tracks on it! The guy said it had been on motorway embankment contract so prob done a few miles in it's life.
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Yeah mine does the nose dive thing. Know a guy with a wee tracked jenson that has nearly 4000 hrs on and the actual chipper drum has started to wear out, he's had to weld patches on the thin bits! Still goes and chips really well because he looks after it.
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A lot of chipper for the money but quite high hours imo. Read somewhere that 3000hrs is the lifespan of a chipper, what do others think about that?
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Here is the foster grain trailer, very rusty!
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I've just got a road tow compressor, it's not giant but produces plenty air. The blasting media is quite expensive right enough and a 25kg bag does not go very far !
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It's proper blasting media I've got, iron silicate from scangrit. I think sand is a banned substance here ?. I used it years ago but it breaks down too easily and you get loads of dangerous dust!
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I will be taking pictures of the spruce up ?.
