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If anyone’s on the fence about taking Rob up on his offer, allow me to possibly help. I want to buy a second hand chainsaw mill. Sell me your old one and use the money to buy yourself a new one.
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Fingernails. Are you sure they’re dead?
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Well there's that small (large) mercy. The 500 will I'm sure be a blip (I've got several other Stihls that ALWAYS start). New tech. They'll sort it. They're not going to put the injector saws out there without being confident they can fix snags.
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A few months ago I had the choice of a 461/462 or a 500 and I went for the 500. Regretting that now because it's currently sat in a box waiting for TNT to pick it up because the fvcker won't start.
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Best rope size for pulling outsiders in?
AHPP replied to drinksloe's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Bolam asks a pertinent question. If you're setting the rope at 20 feet on an 80 foot tree by standing on top of the machine cab, you're going to need way more power and gear strength than if you can get it set at 60 feet. I'm always amazed by how little pull you need when you have a long lever. Do you have time to be shooting a throwline into the top and hoping that you hit a good branch? I assume climbing is out of the question on account of hairiness? My very limited experience with forestry is that the brute strength option is usually the one that gets used, ie get a strong rope in low and pull with machine. For that, I'd use cheap and thick polysteel or similar and make sure you have a nice, smooth place to tie onto the machine so it doesn't break there. Also consider that pulleys multiply your line pull and can allow the machine to pull from a safer/more convenient place. -
661 is here so decision time. Hoping to hear some guidance from people who double end mill. Unused 28" bar and chain from the 661 for sale btw. £100. That's £10 cheaper than the Honey Brothers price and then no VAT (£22). Can deliver most places. PM me.
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I’d put Bolam down for that particular quip but appreciated nevertheless.
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Any double enders care to chime in with what they use and how they get on?
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Do you double end, Saul?
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I can’t answer with any experience or authority but if I was wanting to set a framework like a mill up to be true, I’d want to do it on a nice flat floor to take as much guesswork out of the equation as possible. I’m sure it’s possible without but you’d think that it puts things in your favour.
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I've got a 500i and a 661 that I want to buy a double ended bar for for milling. I'll also need to to either buy or make a mill. I want to get a big enough bar that I don't keep finding trees I can't do (without having to halve, skim and roll etc) but I don't want so big that it's either unreasonably unwieldy or it sags/flexes excessively. DOUBLE ENDED MILLING BARS - Chainsawbars WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK What have people got and how are you finding them? Do the proper mills keep the bar tensioned better than a DIY mill made from plywood and threaded rod? At what length do you run into diminishing returns with bigger bars? What in your opinion is a nice compromise, all rounder size? And I'd welcome any other input you think is relevant. Thanks in advance.
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I for one would be immensely grateful if you could keep your constant pointless advice to yourself, you unrelentingly negative, know-it-all bellend.
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I bought a quick coupler spigot for a nut gun the other day and the threads to go into the nut gun were covered in crusty white/grey/blue stuff. I assume that's liquid PTFE?
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It is. Wranglerstar on YouTube did a burr like that a few months ago.
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Thanks. I get all that. I must have misread something because I thought there was more to it.
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Can someone humour me please. I'm trying to learn things.
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Dad’s got a Zenoah strimmer which is excellent.
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Try asking at either the skip place or the aggregate place on the Great Waldingfield industrial estate.
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What's 7k a quarter? Some threshold?
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Can we save our family's cherished old APPLE TREE??
AHPP replied to JimmySimmy's topic in Tree health care
Hack fvck out of it it. You may be surprised. Apples are tough trees. Silky Fox pruning saw somewhere around £30. A tool worth having anyway. -
That'll be about horizontal and vertical direct effect.
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Has anyone tried one of those pulleys where the wheel turns one way but not the other?
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Electric chippers on electrified lines. I can't think why nobody just asked me before.
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Eminently.
