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    i have 4 out of about 60 log customers who buy good quantities of logs (4 - 7 cube) in june july some buy after the first couple nights frost and then its about 2 wk before christmas for the rest of them with the odd prick ringing at 8pm on dec 23rd asking if i can get a load of logs delivered tomorrow for christmas , IF only we could educate customers to buy early ? but i think we would have more chance of walking on the sun than the above happening,
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    new trailer or second hand ? just plug both feed and return pipes in to spool block on tractor and you should be fine all them tractors should be well on top of the job
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    Stihl ms241

    spuddog0507 replied to gary112's topic in Chainsaws

    hi 241 is a fully blown pro saw been using one for last 5 years as my main go to saw for thinning and general use, 14" bar on it and all ways seemed to be a gutsy little saw, bought it new in march 2013 when i got a 2 year job felling to waste infected larch on some steep banks and just wanted a saw i could use all day with little effort and when looking through the brochers the 241 seemed to catch my eye been very little trouble at all and it has had some use, but yesterday while in the hands of a subbie it gave up the ghost dont know whats up with it yet but will find out this week when i get a spar hour,
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    spectrum plant hire , hire out road tow self drive processors or used to ? in warrington i think.
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    running hot with cap off , no thermostat , rad is clean and you can see water being moved round , pointing to several things hear, as some one said pourous liners cracked head / warped head or head gasket gone NO WATER IN OIL ? one thing i would do is run it up and put pressure in to rad with a air line while running , did this with a old bedford van that was running hotter than normal after fitting another rad and it was just air in system some where but putting air line in cured it then put about 3 pints of water in it,
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    have you tried it with out rad cap on ? and if you took cap off when hot is it pressurising the system ?
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    yes i agree with alot of the above, estates no, small harvesting crews like myself no, but the big harvesting crews will have to have it and one harvesting crew i spoke to said they would put a partition in the back of sprinter van fit old elec shower and shower tray wont be piped or wired up but its there and they have hot n cold water plus toilet in caravan, and harvester driver came up with some good info and that was as the FC management team is getting smaller there seems to be more decisions being made alot quicker than befor.
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    hi been working with a HSE guy for last 2 days and this has cropped up in conversation and his answer was, That if the FC bring it in, all the other major forestry companies like Tilhill, Euroforest etc will follow ,
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    when you have removed the plug turn engine over if it turns over 360 degrees with out plug in ? check that it is the correct plug for the machine ? they may have put the wrong spec plug in it , some one brought me a rtrimmer that was doing same thing ok short reach plug in it but slackend it off about 3 turns and engine turned over fully put a different plug in and it was fine,
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    better get a drink as well and may be some tissues and oh could you bring a dictionary please,
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    WHO said i was doing it ? because it was not me, and i am not predicting the future to either you or myself or any one else , just because some guy on a HS day mentions something does not mean i will be doing it , i will probably be the last to do it and as drinksloe said there are some stupid rules about and some one some where will be thinking up even more stupider rules and i aint going over the top son but ignorance is bliss
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    cumbria is a big county ? which end as there is a guy in preston .
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    NO its not horseshit, its coming and we will have to follow suit, and if you read the post i quoted ? yes its got nothing to do with refresher courses but you might find its got a lot to do with how things have and are changing all the time, when some of us started there was no such thing as chainsaw tickets and very little PPE the younger generations have PPE , HSE drummed in to them but in these days common sense is becoming more and more scarce,
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    photos video would be good to see J i await with interest along with many others,
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    changed, its changing every month, just been on a HS day welfare is now coming in to forestry dont know about arb as you would not be far from faciliteys, or in other words working in forestry, we will have to supply employes and sub contractors with hot & cold running water, clean place to eat,and a thunderbox (mobile toilet that you see on events) if the job is more than 3 days ? so if your site base is 800 yds up a 45 degree banking by the time you get to the thunderbox you would proberbly be looking for clean under wear ? several years ago me and another lad had a disgussion about this and we both said that one day you would have to have a NPTC ticket to have a shit in the woods, WELL BY THE LOOK OF THINGS ITS ON ITS WAY, dont know who would want to ascess this but some one will for £350 a day.
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    hi if your using it mainly for dismantles and stood on spikes i would be looking at the saw weight / power output and go for best weight/power out put that suits you, and as for heated handles my view is they are a total waist of time and if you need heated handles your not doing enough,
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    i will go with steve on this got both 460 & 461 both fantastic saws run both on 20" bars, there does not seem to be much between them if anything the older 460 has the edge as it screems but that may of been tweeked at some point in its life, the new 462 has some very good reviews on youtube and people speak highly of it, go for it but are they out on the uk yet.
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    thats the one expert ? i think , got 2 of them ones ok and one i ran over with tractor,
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    some stihl helmets have had a UV indicator for about 4 years now,
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    a 461 is a pretty decent saw and cuts well on a 3/8 chain i cant see why you would want to change to a .325 if you did change it and chain snaps and hits you ? then you end up with time of work its a dear experiment , personally i wouldnt do it, we run 461s on 20 @ 25" bars chains sharpened as per book then 2 more strokes across each depth gauge and they cut well.
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    is the pump a gear pump or piston pump ? 2 very different pumps with different working pressures and needing different type of hose have a look at the working pressure on the other hoses it will be stamped on.
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    Hi just take the smaller softwood and hardwood out leave all decent trees and if you take the softwood out round oaks to let the light in all you will end up with is oaks with loads of branches when its got more value as a nice straight pole and was the stump in the picture cut at that height for a reason ?.
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    petzal vertex and most petzal helmets will be climbing helmets with no peak on them so not for forestry work, unlike a stihl or husky ground helmet that has a peak and that peak is there for a reason on a forestry helmet, and lets face it if i or any one was working for someone like the FC for the first time surely you would want every thing right, lads turning up with wrong kit for the job is a big no no for me, sorry.
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    hi helmets are 5 years from date of manufacture and not purchase date, and inside the helmet there will be a clock face with an arrow pointing to the relivant number so lets say arrow is pointing to 10 on the outside and then another number with in the clock face and lets say that number is 14 so helmet was made oct 2014, a tip for you all when buying a helmet either look for date or ask about it , 2 lads who have worked with me over the years have been and bought a new helmet and 1 was nearly 2 years old and another 2 1/2 years old so life span only half but still paid full price, and these helmets are tougher than you think as ran over 1 of mine with tractor and i was amazed at the amount of damage i did which was very little ,
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    Hi J i can add make sure your cutters are carrying a whistle and large wound dressing on there person and the dressing is in date, all so make sure helmets are in date and they are proper ground/forestry helmets with a peak and not just a pudding basin climbing helmet, and first aid + F is a good ticket to have and its cheap @ about £70 per head apart from that do as asked and if you can leave the site tidyer than asked and they will have you back, good luck,

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