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  1. muttley9050
    Chain sharpening and set up is key. The bar needs to be set dead level and true. Mine needed a fair but of shiming. The chain needs to be exact in tooth length and angle. If you can try to cut down hill a little bit. I just park my bum against the carriage. Give it a gentle lean. Listen to the radio. Jobs a gooden. I can point you in the direction if some helpful set up internet pages if you wish.?
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    This is a surprise to me. I love my lucas slabber. It's pretty effortless for me. Just park my bum against it and give a gentle lean to push it along. I timed myself cutting a 4ft plane tree last week and a 4m x 1.2 m cut was taking around 3.5 to 4 minutes. Chain sharpening is easy with a granberg precision grinder. If I'm slabbing clean wood all day I change chains once or twice and always sharpen in workshop. Took me quite a while to get my slabber set up to cut like this but it is possible . I accept the kerf is big but the portability and ease of setting up on a 5ft log negates this for me. Takes me 15 mins to change between the two blades. I guess it depends how you cut. Most of my contract milling is mobile so the lucas is easy. Most if my personal milling is dimensional for construction so the lucas wins here too. Horses for courses I suppose but I love my lucas slabber.
  3. muttley9050
    Can't really help with your question, but would be interested in why don't rate the lucas slabber. Is it just the kerf or something else?
  4. muttley9050
    My main concern when considering my countries future should always be people who left 20 years ago! I feel for them. Only 60 acres and not allowed to move to Spain.
  5. muttley9050
    Beautiful hedge mate.
  6. muttley9050
    I'd have the shavings all day long.
  7. muttley9050
    I have quite a large stock of timber for my own use and maybe a bit of a retirement fund. I sell a fair bit without trying. It's a good bonus income but i don't try to make a living from it. Can't cut oak quick enough mind. But I dont seem to get offered that much oak.
  8. muttley9050
    If it's really 200 links. Which It doesn't look to me . You may want to try the 27rx 5 skip chain that Rob sells. But Oregon ripping chain in 404 is the usual..
  9. muttley9050
    Not taught in schools anymore as only correct sometimes.
  10. muttley9050
    I agree with your sentiment exactly. And apologies for making it look like I was calling you naive. I too have little understanding of costs of running beaches and I'm sure there are many more. Any busy public space is going to suffer running costs. I assume beaches will be higher as they are generally more dangerous places. (Gangs, muggings, rapes etc excluded) Charging cash in hand businesses to use parks might make them have to pay tax, although I too doubt a profit will ever be the outcome.
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    I think it's rather naive to think that there are no costs in running a beach. A lot of beaches have flora to maintain, lifeguards to pay, a small fortune in erosion management. Path maintenance to beech, possibly steep and dangerous if not maintained. Car parking as you mention for parks but this should be self funding in both cases. Litter picking needs doing on beaches too. I would say there are potentially more costs in beaches than parks, depending on the beach.
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    app.
  13. muttley9050
    But not as much fun
  14. muttley9050
    I get lots of duplicates on android. I scroll down then will get 3 or 4 of the threads ice just seen before more scroll in. Not too much of a problem though
  15. muttley9050
    Give that man a toffee. No expensive r and d. No multinationals corrupting the planet. Much better tool than makitas
  16. muttley9050
    Osmo poly x matt. Put it on take it off quick. Light sand and same again. Don't buff it. Will bring out colour and darken a bit but will still be Matt.
  17. muttley9050
    That looks pointless. Did they reinvent the wheel. No they just made a pointless wheelbarrow that's harder to control .
  18. muttley9050
    Vesp for president! Or maybe just Chief Justice. Remember if vesp thinks like that then obviously we all should or we are wrong.
  19. muttley9050
    I may be interested. What size is it.?
  20. muttley9050
    That is very cheap 2 years ago I imported a reel of it from the USA as the only place I could buy it was fuelwood and they want £200+ or something for a 190 link loop or the lucas. Your selling it cheaper than it cost me imported and delivered and I still had to make the loops up myself. Make sure the lucas owners know you have it.
  21. muttley9050
    Why did that post as a link?
  22. muttley9050
    Does that mean you will start selling 27rx Rob?
  23. muttley9050
    I think the historical problem is that most arborists can't afford a multione loader. Not sure about the solution though.
  24. muttley9050
    If I didn't have a router if try and find a joinery shop to flatten it for me. A friend of mine would put that through his sander for me for £20.
  25. muttley9050
    Best not to cut it if you can in my opinion. Where in the country are you.

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