openspaceman
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Yup, I fixed a 361 which had been dunked while running, the hydraulic lock when the piston hit water stopped it so suddenly that the flywheel sheared its locating key. New flywheel sorted it.
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Less is more 🤔
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Good to hear you are still with us, best wishes for full recovery.
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Yes, I can remember way back getting a Husky stuck at the end of the day and no other saw or axe to get it out. I tried to get the saw off the bar but couldn't quite get the chain loose enough to come over the clutch. Rather than leave it overnight I cut through the tiestrap with a felco wire cutter. @Donnie's tip of withdrawing the saw then using the nose to bore cut the kerf a bit wider repeatedly works too, as long as you do it carefully so that the bottom of the cut has closed on itself before the saw gets jammed. It can be useful if the cut has started wandering off to do this as boring is less affected by one set of cutters being biased to one side if the bar is worn.
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blossom wilt/brown rot
openspaceman replied to openspaceman's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Prompted by your post today in the"apple tree help" thread here are a couple of photos of mine today: I thought it was going alright, it has set a heavy crop of young fruit but I noticed a bit of wilt on the lowest branch, s cut it off today.
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It looks like the heartwood of a living tree has been decayed by a white rotter, this has eaten the lignin, leaving the squashy white cellulose. So some of the fuel value has been lost, once dry it won't degrade further and as you have got this far I would keep it, it will just take up a bit more space for its calories.
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You can do this with an inboard clutch but not much chance with an outboard one. No need to cut directly above the pinched chain a few inches to the side is alright, just be aware the saw is likely to fall as the stump goes up and the top down, top may land on it. I used to carry a sharp hatchet for the purpose of freeing a stuck saw as a last resort.
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Carrying out work on a neighbours trees
openspaceman replied to William Clifford's topic in Trees and the Law
It's your customers responsibility to get all permissions sorted. To go without permission is trespass, to do work without permission on neighbour's trees is an aggravated trespass with, possibly, criminal damage if my interpretation of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 is correct. -
Why not fell small stuff to waste, stacking only bigger stuff to either rot in a stack or extract later?
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Prinz no longer do their debarking attachment, Chainsawbars do one for a sub 45cc saw but it uses a toothless chain to drive the head, like the old Atom drill, instead of a vee belt
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We have just been through that and the other party hired no win no fee solicitors, after the horse had bolted I fitted a cheap nextbase camera to her written-off-bought-back car. The claim against her failed because the opposite side didn't pay the court fee.
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I thought the reason hawthorn blossom was never brought indoors was because it had the smell of death, presumably to attract pollinating insects
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Now is a good time and depending on your usage you could be self sufficient 8-9 months of the year.
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Look on the bright side, at least the airbags worked. Maybe a bit of venison for the freezer.
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Yes but for those logs that just need a single split my old Kisa Combi would do the job, mine doesn't have a conveyor and that is not a problem if you are stacking in a shed.
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It wouldn't surprise me, the thing is farmers target their use of approved pesticides in order to make a profit growing a crop, golf clubs require their workers to have grass monoculture and the men will apply an excessive amount to ensure that because they are answerable to the members. I have long felt golf courses are an an ecological disaster and have never like walking through them, which is a necessity round here as many local farms diversified into golf clubs. including one I helped out on.
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or plain sailing, not seeing, or being any good at, the crossword I don't know
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Yet another one I don't get unless you swap the T for an A
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A bit new to me but older stihls would have a T27 screw into the AV and a white expanding plug covering it.
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I know but it wasn't clear so flagged it
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I do too but I never risk a piston stop AND an impact wrench.
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Would anyone be able to work out dates and cc from these stihl 038 serial numbers? 102521087 118721895 8 5133926 11389327
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Update The handle was slightly bent but the owner had a couple more 038s and the chain brake handle is off a different saw, a bit of swapping around of front handles and the brakes both release, though the one I posted about has to have the brake handle back hard against the saw, flexing the AV to release.
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Do you mean you get the tax back at the end of the year? I always assumed it was set against your end of year profit as a credit for tax already paid, I never suffered it myself.
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Yes and on my 346 the balance is just right with a 15" bar, a longer bar for things like snedding would ruin the feel. Also while I agree a modern 50cc saw is fine for most jobs logging stuff over 12" deserves a 60cc saw, for which I mount an 18" bar.
