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The mature leaves won’t be six inches in length but it’s always nice when women report measurements incorrectly in that direction.
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The safety stasi can stay seated. I sent mum up first to make sure it was ok.
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What I was getting round to saying was that the Skidster is undersized for carrying stuff around the garden where there’s space for much bigger, cheaper machines (rough terrain forklift) but I can also sneak those log crates round the cars on the driveway and put them down by either door firewood goes into the house through. I was also today mewping around inside a shed dad and I are building. Low height meant I could get in under the braces. Not sure a sedentary articulator like an Avant or Multione would have fitted.
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I’ve got the firewood at mum and dad’s pretty portable now. Most of it is in pallet crates that tiles or something come in and I collect from a convenient building site. Also made a couple of these sheep net crates. They stack very obligingly, are low enough to bundle whatever into or climb into and are a useful way to use up short scraps of fence. IMG_1543.MOV
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Average cutting and extraction rates.
AHPP replied to Will C's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Hoses are obvious. I assume all but the smallest outfits have equipment to make their own? -
Average cutting and extraction rates.
AHPP replied to Will C's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
I’ve heard of wheeled forwarders breaking various gearboxes, bogey drive things etc. Do diggers die from brash butts poking through cabs and engine compartments? -
It died.
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Average cutting and extraction rates.
AHPP replied to Will C's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
What sort of forestry machines break down the least frequently and the least expensively? -
Kid Kapichi
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What do you do?
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I diced up a pile of branches with a pole saw once. Rested the head on top of a chicken coop, upside down so pulling chain on top, my mother on the throttle, me feeding the logs. Actually worked really well.
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Never actually tried it but I’m fairly sure from reading they’re the same hitch.
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Sorry, don't know. It came with the machine and I've never noticed a manufacturer's plate or anything on it. It's pretty big for the machine (like those crabs with one absurdly big claw) so I suspect a homebrewed item. If I had to buy one now, I'd buy the light blue one from whatever the business in Chesterfield who sell the Sherpas is called, or a Klou. If I had other machines, I'd do what doobin did and make one that could be shared.
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Donner und Blitzen!
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If there’s logic in Stihl model numbers, I can’t tell what it is.
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Further musing: The 441 is pointless when the 461 exists. Farmer saws like the 291 and 391 will feel dead if you're used to a good pro saw like the 261. The farmer/landscaper/prosumer 230 should by that logic be shit too but their power:weight ratio is particularly good.
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A 361/362 isn't much more saw than a 261 but is a tolerable way to run a 20" bar if you have a short one on the 261. A 461/462 is a much more significant step up and ideal for 25" or 20".
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My cooker runs on bottled propane, I tell you hwat. And I'm tight. Woodburner or the kelly kettle bowl for long boils.
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The butter sounds excellent. I love butter and eat tonnes. A friend keeps complaining about the price but I’d say it’s cheap at double.
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I appreciate and approve. What I don’t do though is have the freezer on very often. Nor would I boil stock on gas. I’m not made of money you know.
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The biggest problem with running a long bar on a small saw is the legions of doomsayers who insist you might as well be running it on meths and used engine oil. Fuxking obviously it’s not optimal but if you’ve got a particular need, just crack on. Your bar oil should be on max already anyway. Treat it sympathetically, keep chain speed up and you’ll be amazed how little happens besides you cutting stuff up at an infinitesimally slower pace than a catalogue configuration.
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Hadn't noticed any of that. I heard daytime TV celebrity and my mind shut off fairly instantly.
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Ten points. Staggering waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires
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I don't know why Steve applied a laughing smiley to this. You weren't joking and it isn't funny.
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Ten points to whoever knows what the single artwork is.
