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theres a lot of narrow gauge rail stuff kicking about on various sites, the wheels are really small dia and there designed to carry very heavy loads, this could be an option, another one I remember from my distant past was a u section rail set in the floor, and a set of skates that fitted in, you could pump them up similar to a pallet truck to manouver loads along the tracks, these thing , when used as a pair would shift about 10 tons at a time
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chris, have you checked if theres any wear in the two black plastic bits that the cradle slides on the rail, it doesnt take much and the whole assembly can rock, i replace mine regularly, another trick I use is to wax the rail with the same stuff i use on the table saw (an ancient tin of lavender floor wax, havent found anything better, its really slippy!!!), i also give the bar a rub every so often, stops the resin building up.
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Some interesting facts about 3/8" lo pro chain and milling....
agrimog replied to Rob D's topic in Milling Forum
the pico ripping chain that I use on my logosol bar takes a little over 1/4", even my local stihl dealer cant get it, it comes direct from sweden through logosol, on specimen trees cut for boards, its a big saving on a large dia tree -
you are skilled trollspiel, that is one piece of art and no mistake, I take my hat off to you
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they are basiclly a castrated mog, built for the utilility companies and LA's that couldnt justify the prices, they are underpowered, lack the mogs usability of road, and are generally built to fill a role that was only brought about by bean counters that hadnt really got a clue, as a cherry picker truck, there fine but thats all there any use for
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chris, have you not got the handbook that came with the M7, it covers setting the mill up in great detail, if you havent got one you can download it from logosol.co.uk. in the download section, or give Ruth at logosol a bell, and get her to send you one., I take it you've got the saw set up on two long wooden battens across the feet to stop it twisting every time i move and resite mine I take 5 mins to check that all my alignments are still good, the joints can, and do move, when you transport it. pm me if you have any questions on fine tuning your mill to aleviate most of the problems, when mine is on song it will turn out boards that are so thin they are transparent and totaly true
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chris , terribly sorry for not getting back quicker, yes itll take a chipper, 2 options, straight on the din plate, or onto 3 point linkage, rotation on the front pto is reversed to the rear, some chippers do this, otherwise its a reverser box from atkinson vos, you can basiclly stick anything on the front that you can stick on the back with a mog
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if its a compound bow, forget wooden arrows, theyll either shatter when you release them, or break when they hit the target, even the ally shafted ones for compound bows are a heavier wall than normal ones, tell him to get the ally ones, or the carbon composite ones. The blanks for arrow building are not expensive, check the web for suppliers, normally buy all the bits and asemble them yourself. as for the force on a compound being smoother, it depends on the cam profiles and release profiles, some of the hunting compounds are very fast on release, imparting almost all there energy in the first few inches of release, whearase a traditional bow slowly accelerates it initial release
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as long as the timber is kept off the ground, rot should never be a problem, never mind that the americans have cabins from colonial times, theres cabins in russia and scandinavia going back for hundreds of years earlier than that. A properly consructed log cabin will far exceed the build standards reqiured for modern houses ( a kit house, ie timber framed, has a life expectancy of around 80-100 years ) your log cabin is a much more enviromentaly sustainable build, and ticks all the boxes for the greenies, 8"to 12" logs are unbelievably eficient in the insulation charts (fast grown uk timber is actualy better than the slow grown scandinavian or russian stuff in this respect). So if you fancy a much better house, get the land and stick up a log cabin, youll love them, a house with real caracter
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walk up the coast a bit , catch the ferry, all go over at once, have a drink in the bar on the way.......simples
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no two windblows ever act the same way, unless you fully understand tension and compression and how it alters and efects the tree as you cut through it, stay well back from them, go do the course, its a very usefull skill to learn, and with a lot of the big hardwoods that are coming down in the storms these days, it might just save your life. A good way to learn about the tensions in wood is to watch someone milling a twisted bit of timber, and try to work out which way it will twist as it comes off the saw, not always as easy as it sounds
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How many of us are involved with tree planting/regeneration?
agrimog replied to Jdtrees's topic in General chat
for every hardwood i take down, I try to put back at least 3 or 4 of the same species, I wont see the benifit, but our children, or there children will, the big estates round here do a good enough job on the evergreens for the most of us -
just got to think positive, every move in a precise way, dont try to snatch gears, double look at every junction, be aware of the length at all times, and most important, especially in town...right of WEIGHT, takes priority...lol
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I have two of the 455 ranchers, one with a 20" bar, and one with a 16" bar, great saws, not quite XP's but will slog all day, both will keep up with my 260 in everything but big old hardwoods, i run stihl chains on everything these days, very good local stihl agent!!!
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gather up your empty cardboard fruitjuice cartons, pack the sawdust into them, add some waste veggie oil(residue from proccesing wvo for the desiel engine in the mog) stand for a few days to let the oil soak through, add to fire......enjoy the heat......simples
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great photos man, they are beautifull animals, Ive been lucky enough to see wild ones myself a few times, I could sit and watch them for hours, they make things seem efortless.
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J, had thoughts that it might have been an ex council one, it got the full extras package, very highly speced, usually only them that go that far, after all, its not there money!!!
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made me laugh, now i ache, 12 hour shift putting up a fence in my mates garden, 10 ft 4x4 larch posts, and 4x2 larch rails, all cut from trees we cleared up after the storms, now all weve got to do is nail up the vertical boards, thank god for a nail gun...lol yup its a BIG fence, screens off an opencast site
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p,s. you can get some very nice "blue" hi-viz vests from a supplier up here, you need sunglasses to look at them!!!!!!!
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nice forestry commision green, stops stupid muppets asking all sorts of stupid questions, like "why are you cutting down that tree mister" a stern look and a growl, they usually "go away" mr gill will comfirm i have a stature that could intimidate....lol
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hi J the Tree, the last photo is a little bit deceptive, the bottom of the chip box is built onto a proper mog "spider", and the base that holds the tipper balls is a proper subframe with the 3 point mounting, its actually got some ally 5 bar covering up most of the vunerable pipes and components when the box is tipped, its been a very well thought out box build, the bar you can see on the back between the balls is really just a belt and braces, a nice touch as ive seen some of them twisted if a lot of heavy loads are repeatedly tipped to one side only
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for all you folks with mogs out there, heres a link to a site( its not a con honest, its a russian site) with a copy of the mercedes epc(electronic parts catalouge), if you persevere it will display most of the parts for most of the mogs, the parts no's are good, gives you somewhere to start at your merc dealer....lol (Ýëåêòðîííûé êàòàëîã çàï÷àñòåé Mercedes-Benz // Àíàëîã EWA NET (EPC, WIS))
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this technology has been used in the engineering industry for years now, you can use the plastic bits produced to make casting moulds, a lot of companys use the rapid protoyping technology now, from engineering to training shoes
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it is a cracking machine Chris, one of the cleanest ones Ive seen in a long time, a lot of folk going to be jealous....lol, now youve joined the rest of us in the "not quite as fast as the transit" crew.
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provided the crack isnt into any oilways, you can get cast iron stiched, it really works, used a lot on heavy plant, theres a lot of info on the web about it, thees even some videos on you tube
