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  1. andy cobb
    I'll be honest bud it's not tatty, it's fucked! Most no all plastics will be marked or damaged or slightly melted. itll get sent to the old mans house for him to play about with, see if he can use it for spares. If it doesn't start tomorrow morning with battery drill it will also have a landrover tyre mark on it.
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    No not stripped it. Starter ate itself today, looked like starter housing has worn through.but ongoing injures that it's been limping along with include cracked exhaust , knackered AV mount , cracked air filter cover , temperamental trigger linkage and low compression. basically the poor things been pleading to be put out of its misery for quite some time. but it has some paving to cut tomorrow so it'll have to have a jump start with drill on flywheel. Think I'm gonna order a makita at weekend.
  3. andy cobb
    I always think that stihls have the air filter in the wrong place, if your cutting blocks dry all the dust naturally goes to the handle end of the saw where the filter is.
  4. andy cobb
    Yeah I guess the warranty is probably not worth all that much as I'm sure they will have a long long list of reasons why the user has voided it.
  5. andy cobb
    Think it's a ts 400, also have an obscure Italian thing called a baurmant or something like that, that we use as a second saw or anywhere there's a chance of it getting nicked or run over
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    After 16 years of abuse and lack of servicing my old Stihl saw has finally given up and no amount of swearing at it seems to make it go so..... Been looking online and the new makita EK6100 can be bought for £415, which is a weekend on the beer cheaper than the Stihl 410 but,...... are they any good? Do any of you guys out there run 1 and can give me a bit of an idea how they compare to a Stihl or husky. can also get 3 years servicing and repairs with makita at the moment which is a bonus.
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    Do you think that with it being quite a small machine punching above its weight, it may be more prone to break downs and premature wear in pins and drive train?
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    Jokes???

    andy cobb replied to brownie1964's topic in The Lounge

    They said I would never be able to do poetry because I'm dyslexic. ive proved them wrong though.... live made 3 mugs and a vase this week
  9. andy cobb
    I had the exact same problem, only it would affect the chain after only a couple of cuts, sometimes halfway through a back cut it would get so tight the clutch couldn't turn the sprocket.
  10. andy cobb
    I placed an order for a few roto tech chains with northern arb last year. unfortunatly they turned up!!
  11. andy cobb
    Instead of the big lump of steel as a heat sink could you not use the heat bricks from old storage heaters?
  12. andy cobb
    With the price of timber rising and rumours of farm subsidies being more biased towards environmental stewardship post brexit, could a small tractor powered skyline set up become viable again as landowners look to cash in on poor access hardwood without the impact of heavy machinery?
  13. andy cobb
    Richard. Love the vertical log storage! Such a simple idea that works, and with the right logs also looks good.
  14. andy cobb
    I think small 2wd will always have a place in small scale forestry. Most of my work is felling for game keepers to create gun tracks, shoot pegs etc. Although we have a big 8210 the double drum lives on the back of the major, it's so easy to wiggle into the tightest of places and, worst case scenario if it decides to lay on its side for a little rest you just rarve it back on its paws, with no broken glass , fancy dashboard in tatters just the usual walk of shame to go get help.
  15. andy cobb
    As someone mentioned earlier the poacher alarm mines that fire a blank 12 cartridge are brilliant tools, until you forget where you've set them, go storming into the yard stressed and in a rush to grab something, set one off, drop to the floor like a Vietnam vet, crush your phone screen and pooh your pants a little. a friend told me.
  16. andy cobb
    It's something I've been wanting to learn for a while, for wire winch ropes more than anything. Do you happen to know of any good books showing simple splices?
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    I have thought about poly rope, how are you finding durability? Does the small diameter rope cause problems going through the pullies We fitted some pieces of wood around the fair lead rollers so the rope can't run down the side of them. We were using a simple 8mm snatch block at the far end but found that after we'd knotted the poly rope when it broke it obviously wouldn't run, so we swapped for a 3/4 snatch block and seems to work ok. Seems to last ok but we haven't been winching over stony ground. think we've done about 100 ton on same length of rope (with a few knots in) so it's probably earn't it's worth
  18. andy cobb
    How we work it for haul back is to run winch cable on 1 drum and 6 mm poly rope on the other , so we can load the second drum with 150/200m of poly rope
  19. andy cobb
    Shot Beatle maybe?
  20. andy cobb
    With the bilke do you have to process it while it's still green or does it not matter too much? also what size diameter is the real world maximum?
  21. andy cobb
    There is a hell of a lotta sense in that but it doesn't account for human nature, after a few weeks felling I long for a week processing. After a week processing I'm longing for the woods again. Once you've got sap in your veins your screwed.
  22. andy cobb
    I'm running an old Palax and managed to do 10 cube in a day with no log deck and cutting timber to length myself, taking copious smoking breaks etc. Mixture of 3" to 12" was f*%#ed next day
  23. andy cobb
    Often thought about an 8 tonner with a shear on, but dismissed it as being to niche for my area. going to look at a shear head for the forwarding trailer for next season but would like to see one working on real world trees first.
  24. andy cobb
    Yeah I can see why you wouldn't be able to compete with a harvesting crew on that scale. i only fell about 200 ton a year and it's nearly all sites that aren't suitable for a harvester. ive seen what the other guys near me are buying in and it's nearly all 2-3 foot diameter beach and Knarly ash usually with rot down the middle circa £50 ton delivered.
  25. andy cobb
    I agree we all have to start somewhere, but round my area maybe 2 new guys will set up every year ( especially after a cold winter ) charge rock bottom prices, then realise it's not making money and move on to something else, but by then 2 more are starting up and the whole cycle restarts . All the while prices seem to be stagnant, and it's bloody annoying when customers compare an established, long term reliable operation with the local pikey selling fresh cut logs.

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