Daniël Bos
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So, just to see if I understand: Your chipper is broken, but it's not the chipper's fault because the part of the chipper that is broken broke because another part on the chipper had broken a while before that? And just to be clear I have no opinions on chippers and find your loyalty to your machine endearing, it's just your explanation that baffles me.
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I'm after a new saw in the 70-80 cc sort of band, have any of you Dolly-Doters tried a 7310, and if so, what is it like?
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I thought the 365 and the 372 were the same saw.....? Anyway, sounds like clutch as you say on the 372, Does it have an inboard or an outboard clutch?
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Some really good stuff on here, going back a few years and regularly revisited. http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/tree-health-care/2847-mulch-not-mulch.html
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I use rapeseed oil, not had any issues ever. Some people say i can gum up the system but I'v only seen that when different oils have mixed (ie putting rape in after "proper" chain oil made chewing gum) Pulled a 346 off the shelf a wee while ago that had been there for the best part of a year. Started on the second pull (Aspen...) but the chain was admittedly a little stiff. Gave it a push against a bit of wood, a couple of rev-blasts and it was free as a new chain. Is Eco, you can lick up spills if needed. Works well, chains move easily without heat build-up Is Cheap! Paid £1.29/l from Lidls the other day, sure it can be had cheaper still.
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Aspen 2T is pre-mixed, it has oil in already.
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The following is for the benefit of all of us who either spend this day without a partner/lover/secret crush/long lost pal/whatever or those of us who simply choose not to partake in the event. I created this simulator, so that we too can enjoy that special feeling inside, that warmth, that unique emotion. You're welcome:001_smile: .
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The only stupid question is the one that is not asked. If you're afraid to ask a question for fear of being mocked you'll never learn the answer. Apologies if my reply seemed unfriendly, I was trying to be funny:blushing: (against my wife's advise, she tells me time and time again that I am not). As far as burning willow, it burns ok if a little quick.
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As the old poem says: Wood, when dry burns good. As recently revised on an Arbtalk thread.
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I see your 36" and raise you a 46":001_tt2::001_tt2:
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I'll be driving past Grantham in a couple of hours...?
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Hi, I have a somewhat urgent need for chip at the moment, in Scredington near Sleaford NG34. We can always take as much chip as anyone can provide (theoretically we could take at least 200.000 tons:biggrin:). But it being so wet at the moment we need as much as we can get which is pitifully little at the moment. If you're working near us or even not that near, please bring me some chip. I could also bring a trailer to your jobsite to be chipped into(3t capacity) , but would need a bit of notice as the trailer often comes with me to work. PM me or phone/text me on 07 889 774 773:thumbup: Thanks, Daniel:thumbup:
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If you've only just milled them I'd wait until the planks are dry, unless the surface is really really bad, in which case I might consider a rough plane...
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What are you putting it on? If you've got a height adjustable already, I'd just get an extra plate with a nato hitch on.
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I have this one from screwfix: Erbauer ERB080PMP 1000W Dirty Water Pump | Water Pumps & Fittings | Screwfix.com I've had it for about two years and it's been great. I use it with either 250m of 32mm pipe when 1m3 takes about 1/2 an hour on level ground. Or a 2 1/2" pipe of 3m when 1m3 takes but a few minutes. If you're moving over short distance I would put a hose bigger than the outlet size on, it makes quite a difference. It's been run of a genny about half the time (and a genny that doesn't quite get to the right voltage and Hz at that) with no issues at all. I did take the plug off it and put a normal one on (it came with an inbuilt rcd one that didn't like my genny)
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no...
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They have the right to complain, just like anybody does... I've never heard of suckering blackthorn leading to any legal action though. I'd have thought that the suckers would be considered in the same way as falling leaves. Out of the control of the owner of the tree and therefore not their responsibility?
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I have, I can't recommended it......
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The shelter will be built in a circle shape, green reciprocal roof with a glass/plexi centre, lime plastered straw bale walls. Cows better be grateful..... One man's terrorist... He's the worlds' poorest president, chooses to live a sober life, donates over 90% of his salary to charity, owns only two vehicles (a beat up old vw beetle and an old massey tractor) and has led Uruguay to have the worlds most progressive cannabis laws:001_cool:
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What Alec said above:thumbup1: The stem in the first series of pics is 30" or so, the one in the last two pics is over 38". For scale, that 880 has a 46" bar on. They could be cleft, but not by just me and not in the time I have available:001_smile:
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I just follow the middle of the tree really:001_smile: I try taking into account the "side profile" as well to make sure that as well as following the centre line there is not one quarter getting too thin.
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Just to clarify: The object of the exercise is not to cut straight. Rather than straight, I cut along the lines of the tree following the pith. The resulting beams are stronger than If they were cut straight for two reasons: Firstly they can be thicker, as taking a straight line means that wherever the tree is not dead straight the result is thinner on one side, thicker on the other. Freehand following the tree avoids this. This also means that the resulting beam has much less "wane". Where the tree has a natural bend I've followed it keeping the fibres intact. When cutting straight you'd sever the fibres resulting in a weaker timber. Timber cut the way I cut it above is stronger than straight cut timber of the same dimensions (unless the tree was totally dead straight)
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ps, I was using an old camera body, that refuses to control the AF in the lens I put on it. I was not wearing my glasses so it was hard to see if the pictures I took were in focus or not....
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Did some freehand milling of oak today:001_smile: I'm milling these trees for beams to construct a field shelter. It'll be oak framed with a reciprocal roof:001_cool: So I need bits of wood of high strength rather than dimensional accuracy as all the joints will be unique anyway.
