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14 hours ago, tim361 said:

I have the same with my hilux. The rear bar is removable but it’s quicker just to tip the body up a little. 

If you can - could you ping me a photo of how your removable bar is set up? 

15 hours ago, Ty Korrigan said:

GM might be able to supply a taller chute base. They did so for my 150P.

Improved the throw.

 

That sounds interesting - can you ping me a picture so I can visualise it?  And does it throw further/neater now, or just from higher? 

3 minutes ago, jameshs22 said:

Tip the bed up slightly while chipping. That's what I do with no problems 

I hadn't even thought of that - I will defo try that asap 

Just got a Hilux tipper to go with the Quadchip but small problem.. 

The rear ladder rack is currently right in the line of fire for the chipper and can't really fire over or under efficiently without making a total mess. 

Any clever engineering mods your can think of to keep the ladder rack but move it out the way for chipping?

Perhaps some kind of swing/hinge/folding/ mechanism? 

13 hours ago, Will C said:

Have a look here, covers most of what you will want to know.

 

 

I'll save you a bit of time reading through the 2.5k replies in that thread - get a Greenmech CS100

You would want to be tall to feed this all day but apart from that I reckon it looks pretty useful - esp being on a 4x4 (and for mainly rural work)...

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

Not Ganoderma. Possibly Perenniporia fraxinea.

 

Put a bag around the brackets, chisel them off, will not get rid of it but there won't be nay more spores for a year.

P fraxinea sounds more like it - I think the spores are white.  Will check tomorrow (as the tree is outside my kitchen window!) 

I'm now trying to minimise the spread of spores to the other nearby mature ash.  Maybe best to completely and carefully remove the brackets and then the tree?  Without delay? 

+1 for sycamore, I'm sure I've seen the exact same patterns

I think you can see some fallen bark plates around the base

Found on the base of a dead Ash tree. 

Firstly, is it ganoderma? 

What is the safest way (and time of year) to remove this tree esp with a view to reducing the fungi spreading to the rest of the avenue of mature ash?  

The customer was previously told "fell and remove it on a hot day midsummer to reduce risk of spores spreading".  This advice is new to me.. 

4 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Going to have to have a nickname as your real name only Big J could say it on here 🤣 Good luck

Disappointingly illiterate observation there.  

Sounds like a really decent plan Pascal and Maurice - good luck!

Hi

Small 7 tonne electric hydraulic splitter has just started shuddering and losing power.  Oil looked a bit bubbly so changed it. 

But not sure how to bleed the system?  Any ideas?? 

There is an oil fill hole, a wing-nut "air valve" and a flat head screw that might be used for adjustment.. 

Levi 501

20 hours ago, Stubby said:

Just the pedant in me but when you " thread it " you are making a thread . Its when you strip the thread that you have a problem .

Absolutely correct - doh

In the past month both a 261 and 660 blew their sparkplug out - kindly threading the hole.  I've got a piston kit going in the 660 and trying a helicoil in the smaller saw.

It's mildly annoying and costs a bit, so wondered how to reduce the chances of this happening again?  As the cheap sparkplug is always going to win against the softer metal of the expensive engine. 

With the more and more common addition of ethanol E10/E5 in petrol, what is the best fuel to use for 2-stoke mixes?  95, 95-E10 or 98?

I haven't really had any obvious fuel related problems in the past 12 years but don't mind channing to 98 if that's recommended. 

I've been trying alkylate premixes in the small Echo 2511t and Eder 1800 winch from new - so far so good. 

Any thoughts? 

Plant willow and harvest as a coppiced crop for biomass.  Anecdotally you should be profitable in 6 years.  

On 11/11/2020 at 18:34, Stere said:

Woder whats the  idea of theese italian axes heads with such offset angle?

Being a Calabrian design - it's perhaps not designed for chopping up wood... 

33 minutes ago, Will C said:

Are they valuable black walnuts??

 

Sorry I will be quite now ?

Spud @spudulike was right! Tiny piece of bark trapped behind LA screw on carb of 150 was causing it to rev high on idle!!  

Tiny blast with air line and its perfect again 

Just wondered what accounts app people are using?  Basically something to create customer files, track mileage, send and track invoices, snap receipts, calculate VAT etc.  

The 2 that seem to come up first are Quickbooks and Freshbooks.  Freshbooks claims to be better for service based businesses.

Basically I am looking for an app that will get rid of paper and: easily crate new customer file, allow quotes to be written and sent on site, track jobs until payment, record expenses and allow easy quarterly and end of year tax calculations to be made.

Any one found a really good, simple and functional one for small tree surgery companies?

As above.  Saw starts fine but will only run at high revs from the start (without touching throttle).

Any ideas what is wrong and how to fix?

Just got a 550 XPG II.  Haven't used a 550 for 3 years.  Is the gap between the clutch cover and main body normal?  Photos show with and without Sugi bar.  Gap just doesn't look quite right. 

Also, what's the current advice for running a new auto-tune in?