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Hello Villain, I am with Mick on this one. When using a bramble blade in bramble type growth you should "pulse" the throttle, basically hold full throttle on and off in rhythm with when you drop the blade down into the growth. You develop a timing, and you can be aggressive with it and have it fully tuned up and all that, stihl red etc, no probs, but full throttle on just before and as you're going in, then a quick release of throttle, then on again. It helps cool it and lube it, while keeping the revs up and power on. I've personally seen a Husky in good condition, held on full revs while doing this job, overheat and jam up. A hone and a piston set and it was recovered luckily, and still runs fine a year later, full power and used aggressively, but pulsed. Try it. I'll give you demo when I next am over if you want to put up with more of my sonorous lecturing. Yours sincerely, X
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It burns well, when dry. Occasional crackle/pop. Quite light when dry, so burns quickly when given full air. We've burnt it in large quantity on it's own in a log burner heating a workshop and it kicked out a lot of heat. In the house, we mix it with slower woods to get steady heat over a longer period. Have noticed it went out if just aspen and reduced air to try and keep it in longer. Hence mixing with other.
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Horse chestnut is light, yes, but I wasn't aware of it spitting. Sweet chestnut spits for sure, but I haven't noticed horse ch doing it. It's a good wood, it burns. It is here and there in some woods, obviously about in gardens, and can be burnt on it's own no problem, or mixed with something slower to keep in all night. Lets not be too fussy over all this.
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Worth my time to extract alder
Logan replied to Marsh Monkey's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Highlead sounds more fun. Charcoal is for massikists. With beards. -
Worth my time to extract alder
Logan replied to Marsh Monkey's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
Ring kiln sounds great. I'll help! Quite like hand splitting 18" alder, done quite a bit several years ago, did some standing in water, too. 60 tonnes, would only take a few weeks or so if 2 of us. Could leave it stacked for a few months, then get that kiln in! Even with my poor history with recovery, if we burn most to ashes we only have to carry 6 tonne across the bog. Beautiful. Then reap the profits as summer bbq season peaks. Piece of cake. -
Best of luck there mate, what a pig. Shocking.
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If it's for timber, the time of pruning is relevant for at least 2 reasons. As treesrus said, they heal over fast. 2nd thing is if you do during full leaf in summer, the shade in place helps stop regrowth of shoots exactly where you just pruned them off. As I understand it, anyway.
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Hello Toby, do you know if there is campsite for visitors, thinking of coming for the 2 days. Thanks, John.
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I thought I bought your caravan last year??! Gonna have to hide keys better if you're thinking of further soiling it with travelling log merchants...
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That said, we're felling ash right now and I can almost see the moisture leaving it in this heat. Can't wait to get some over the weighbridge before it loses weight...
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1.1m here as have two machines and that size fits both, gives 5 x 220mm (~9") logs or 4 x 275mm (~11") logs which fits our circular saw and customers seem to like these sizes.
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Aspenarb, that truck will beat having to rev the .... out of a tractor only to rodeo along at 25mph, think a truck is the way to go if regularly moving wood about. Tax and insurance not too dear on your TK?
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REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
Logan replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
I've been learning from the master of vagueness this past couple of weeks. -
REF what the price of hard wood cord now thanks
Logan replied to mendiplogs's topic in Firewood forum
2.750649m3 to be more precise. -
Thanks sawtroll. Which of those is for the 3/8" rim, the standard (large) one I presume.
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It's all new parts on our 357. Double checked part numbers the other day. It works fine with "shim" but it nags the brain cells. Will triple check next time clutch is off.
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Just to re open this post, we had this same issue on a 357 a while ago, and we have the 3/8" rim & drum set which only seems to be a 357 part, and has the extra flange/step as mentioned above. It still had excessive play, enough to cause the oiler to come away from splines. We fitted a "shim" (w----r) behind the clutch and all the evils etc do seems to be cured. I would like to think we've got the wrong part, but all seems to be right... Back to the washer then.
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Yes, filter is the 1st suspect. And new spark plug after that.
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No adjustment on 028. Does it become less oily when it's used for a few hours and plenty of sawdust inside cover? All clean saws will run with oil if spun over long enough. It sprays around in there if the saw is not cutting wood and producing dust that takes the oil away. As long as it still has chain oil left in the tank when the fuel tank runs dry, and your bar groove and oil hole are clear and chain showing signs of oil up near the bar nose, your ok.
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Isn't import duty just plain old vat?
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All I could find when I googled it is that the 028 and other versions etc, that had the black /white handle yet were not quite the pro forestry saw, is that they had magnesium crankcases, decent carbs, and a (b----- I've forgotten already) might of been a longer stroke on the piston giving good power range, yet not having adjustable oiler (which has higher and lower flow than non-adjustable pump, no decompression valve, plus various other might haves that set the pro saws apart. So those black and whites but not quite pro saws had a position of semi (or "prosumer"???) rating, that's significantly better than the plastic crank case, cheap carb, short stroke cheapies that are the lower cost end of the range. I have to go now. My 2 year old wants to watch mana manah Muppet song on youtube. Friday night fun!
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Don't know, but I notice they've lately dropped the 034/341. Bit of redundancy in the old range, even some claim the 441/461 could be "fixed", though I know a few people that swear by each...
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Is TT oil good to use in saws then? Coz I have cans of it left from the good old days.
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Fair enough. The ms280 not the same build quality of 028 then? I had an 028 in '89, but never it's newer replacement the ms280. Did buy the ms260 later. As I recall, the 028 was sold at same time as 026 during late 80's, never considered the 026 as the 028's replacement. Was it then Sawtroll? I shall be googling this now you know!
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The pro saws have had white lower part/black top strip to the rear handle, since 80's. The 028/ms280 was exception as also had this handle style, was told by a dealer years back that 028 was a pro saw in quality, but listed in the farm range and with fixed flow oiler. Possibly 038 also, discontinued here but 381 is a forestry saw (handle is white with black top) in other parts of world still. I must get a life really.
