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I would say thats a very simple fix for any one with a fabrication/blacksmithing back ground, stove i would say is a Hunter herald, a log customor of mine has a Herald 12 with back boiler doing both hot water and heating and i call it a good stove,,

looking at the photo that tells me that it is lacking oil on the underside of the bar ? you say tour using good oil but what oil is it ? as what one calls good oil some one else with more expieriance on saws will say its not,, looking at the bar i would say your oil is not up to the job and all being flung off at the tip of the bar and very little being carried round to the underside,,

Well said and some good points there that i 100% agree with, i have seen and read about so many saws bought on line and then took to local dealer when a problem arises, I have never bought a saw on line yet and will not do, got 2 local dealers that i buy off and its one saw from one and then one saw from the other, then when a problem appears and saw goes in its straight to the front of the que no questions or faces pulled as they no it was bought from them,

Can you not upgrade the stub axel size ? that should not be happening on a machine like that ? i take it you grease it regularly like once or twice a week, i would not be replacing that with same part, i would be redesigning that with a upgraded stub axel and bigger bearings regards of cost,, nothing more frustrating than needing a machine thats down,

Up here in Lancashire we are doing OK, seen a few Roe deer all with 2 young except one that only had one, Badger activity seems the norm, Rabbits seem to be on the increase at present after getting RHD a few years back and near on wiping them out, Swallows seem to of had a bumper year with loads of young ones about down at my yard, Greylag,s from some local gravel pits have had a massive year and in a recent chat with a fellow shooter we decided last years numbers where around 7-8000 birds but will be some where around the 20,000 mark this year, crops have done well with one farm we shoot on getting 4.92 tonne of wheat per acre with 3 tonne of straw along side that, maize is about 8ft high but some one told me a few wk back that he had been down south and maize was about 2ft high, we have been lucky here with rain now n then as others have had zero rain fall,

To me it seems like the energy companies and the powers that be are just taking the piss out off us at present, and yes this will cause some major problems now for some of us, but at some point we will all be affected by it in one way or another, spoke to a elderly gent at wk end who i do a bit of dog training and shooting with, he is 83 and he said his DD for gas and elec is £350 a month now but has had a letter saying that sept payment is going to be £435, he said that is one and a half wks combined pension for him and his mrs, its not a big house 3 bed bungalow but now he has decided to get a wood burning stove fitted i tried to talk him out of it and just said you will have to do what a lot of others are going to do, get another jumper on, I for one will not be using much gas this winter as i have put some shitty coni to one side old fence posts and some part rotten beech birch and alder, i might look in to this working tax credit thing my self, but only problem i see is i was born here, lived and paid in to the UK all my life, single male, no dependants under 18, No drug or alcohol problems, and white, so probably get FA, so i will just have to cut back a bit and muddle through, it will be back to my childhood days of the 70s when i used to rub the frost off the inside of my bedroom window in a morning but still could,nt see for the frost on the outside, Good memories but hard harsh times back then and i am sure others on here will of been in the same situation, no coal, no electric dad on 3 day wk, then laid off for 6 wk and no money, all of a sudden rabbits,ducks,pigeons phesents and what ever we could catch out of the river or out at sea became normal food and if we had a good day at sea on the cod some would be sold on and a treat like sausages would be bought with the proceeds, and most of us are moaning about electric going up, but at least we have some,

From a recent outing looking at some windblown spruce,

Yep I put mine up this year and there is no haggling over price it's take it or leave it, there will be one lad ringing up who all ways has to haggle and he will mention mates rates but that is no longer availableb as well, I know the lad who has the garage where I get my fuel and have done for 40+ years, but n don't get mates rates on petrol n diesel of him, the brass neck of some people is beyond belief at times and believe it or not I still have a electric,gas,council tax bill to pay and my pint of milk and loaf of bread are the same as everyone else's,

I have Hever sold as much firewood during the warmer months as i have this year, was on a job on Monday and the neighbour asked if we would move the logs to her house 250yds away if she left us a can of pop each, I just thought that shogun don't run on pop thou, if we are loading it it's back in the yard for it or a price agreed beforehand for delivery and a bit for the timber,,

The driving standards have dropped dramatically in the UK over the last 20 yrs, but we have more cars on the roads now so that is to be expected, and as RAC man said weed, we have a few local meeting places where cars gather and the occupants have a chat over a few cans and joints,,But its just the way of the modern world,,,

Hine sight is a wounderful thing and we have all made the mistakes, late 70s early 80s i had circa a dozen Yamaha FS1E,s go through my hands, used to buy one for a fiver or a tenner get it running and then sell it on for 30-40 quid, all so had DT125s 175s Rd 200 and 250s, but back then they where worth nothing but now very sought after, a elderly neighbour of mine has a MK1 2 door Escort on a F plate and every time i see him i ask have you sold that car yet, and his answer is could of sold it dozen times today, Only good move i made was getting away from Jap bikes in the early 90s and buying my childhood dream,

there was a mk 1 Escort that sold at auction in Holland a couple of years back, it was type of complete, it had been stood outside for near on 30yrs so had vast amounts of rot, which i would of said was far beyond salvage, vin number was 0000000004 so number 4 off the production line, it made 48000 euro !!

You will find that all training courses and assessments today carry a lot of H&S which is not a bad thing in todays world as they dont make common sence any more, When the younger lads say to me, i dont know how to do that, i just say you do as you did it on your training course and you did it in your assessment,, i think most of it is done/said and covered in the assessment so as if any thing was to happen at a later date and that said pearson was issued a certificate, they cant really go back to there employer and say i was not shown that ??

If it was for the National trust i would think it would be a NPTC assessment and yes he would of been told that you dont chip dead wood, dead wood reacts very differently to green wood in many situations, my chipper dont like dead wood at all and with a few Ash die back jobs of late the amount of times a piece or chunk of wood has come flying out the in feed skip is unreal compared to green wood and if your stood in the wrong place they can hurt, we felled a woodland a few year back that was all dead Sycamore and to be honest i did not enjoy it one bit as when they hit the deck they just explode and limbs seem to fly every where,,

I think from the 70s there was quite few and the biggest ones that I can remember are Osmosis Crazy Horses, all about big cars with big engine polluting the sky,s, this msg is near 50 Yr ago now and wouldn't you thought more would of been done by now ??, Sex Pistols Anarchy in the UK very true of what was going on in the UK at the time, bin men, miners, train drivers and British Leyland all on strike, then people ask what happened to our industry ?, then came the true version of God save the Queen and this along with Anarchy in the UK very much sumed up the state the UK was in, Late 60s Bonzo doo dahe dog band, I'm the urban space man, Neil hinds got the idea for the song as he walked to work across manchester and the urban spaces he had played on as a kid where either built on or where being built on, and now I think urban spaces in most towns are long gone ,,

Is this just for the 80s and 90s as they go back long before that ??

Finding wood on the roadside or what's been cut in the woods !! That is theft,, every thing in life is owned by some one and some company, land owners and contractors take the issue of people just helping there self's quite seriously today, so be very very careful, I for one would not be happy if you stole timber from us but would you be happy if I stole your hard earned cash or came and helped myself to your logs out of your log store ? I am sure you would,not be happy, friend of mine has a theft case in progress at present, but when some idiot walk,s in to a wood land on the edge of dark helping his self and is picked up on a night vision sight on a riffle By deer management team !! Land owner asked the said culprit if you had knocked on my door dropped me £50 you could if filled your boots,

What do you call large trees ? 80/90/100 ft tall 600,700,800mm DBH, there is more to it than just cutting it all to a said length, best thing to do is find a buyer and cut to there spec ? but i would think that 12 trees is hardly worth the effort for a timber merchant not with out they are of a very good size and quality, Where you located ?

Have they changed all the code numbers again ? if so ? i was a bit lost when tickets moved from CS 30,31,32,34,35 to the newer codes and if its all changed again i will be totally lost now, !!!

I so one about 11,15 ish and TBH it was one of the best i have every seen, The moon was a fantastic sight last night as it looked very close and very detailed,,

I have never bought any less than 100ltrs of chain oil or 5ltrs of 2 stroke oil for many years now, just find it so much easier to by in bulk and try to get a better deal on it even if i have to buy more than i want to get the deal, cant be doing with running about for small amounts of chain oil /2 stroke oil, when we get to last 25ltr drum of chain oil i just order more,

We are correctly covered for what we do and where we do it, as if we where not we would not be sub contracting to who we do to, we work on approx 20 sites in Lancs ,West Yorks, North Yorks and the lake district, only one site has a power line running through it, one has a public footpath running through it and another one with a public foot path running along a boundry which i have never seen any one use yet, these sites are very remote and phone signal is either very poor or none at all, all this was stipulated when i took the PL out and after several questions later they came back with the price based on the information i had supplied,,,,

My PL used to be with a company of here and when i first took it out the price was OK, so to give you some idea of what we do in the forestry sector is small clear fell jobs like up to about 200 tonne, windblown clearance on boundry lines, stock fence repairs and dry stone wall repairs along with a few other things, i have no size or height limit on the trees we work on, now given every where we work is in the middle of no where and the risk is very very low my PL kept going up by £70 £80 quid a year untill it got to where they was asking for over £700, i just thought enough is enough and spent a wet and windy day ringing round other insurance firms, Ok there was a lot of No,s but came across a very helpful young lady who did what she said she was going to do, like i will ring you back in about 30 mins and yes true to her word she did, after a couple of calls quearing a few things she came back with a price of £186 for the same cover as from previous firm, so i went with her the year after it went up by £8 to £194 and £8 again this year to £202 this sort of increase i find acceptable unlike the £70,£80 a year increases i was getting before, i have been self employed since the mid 80s and only ever had one small claim in 88, i have all ways been a very loyal sort of person but in the last few years i have started to think a bit different as i dont think loyalty goes any where now a days, so top and bottom of it is it does pay to shop around now n then as i did and saved myself over £500 on one years PL insurance,,

I used 4 of them a few year back when i had filled all my IBC,s fastened all 4 corners of panels with clamps and zip tied 3x2 uprights about every 2ft on the inside, put pallets on floor and when it was half full put another layer of pallets in and it worked fine, bulged a bit but not much,,

if its fit to mow for either Hay or silo let some take the grass off it for a bit off money and get the hedge cutting in on the deal, then find some one with some sheep and again rent it off for winter grazing, so let some one else do the work and make a few quid out of it as well,