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  1. openspaceman
    Yes you are right, I did not explain myself very well. I meant I wouldn't want anything smaller. I like the lightness and high revs of a modern saw like the 550 and have never used a 560 but the bigger saws have more grunt for gutty work like ringing up.
  2. openspaceman
    So do I but the OP may not. I am suggesting that the little saws, even the husky 550 may not survive too long doing a job like this.
  3. openspaceman
    A 60c saw is what I would use on ringing up a tree like this and it is possible to deal with even the trunk with an 18" bar by cutting it into cuboidal chunks in the same way a lucas sawmill cuts one vertical pass then one horizontal one to make a beam. It is hard on the saw (and operator) and more work than cutting rings then splitting but I have done it.
  4. openspaceman
    I agree but not having a job it is good exercise for me. Having been away from work for 8 years it is surprising how few sources of logs are available to me, considering how I used to harvest a few thousand tonnes a year.
  5. openspaceman
    I have old saws without bulbs too and they depend on the impulse from the crankcase to fill the carb diaphragm chamber, my youngest Husky 262 takes 11 good pulls to fire from cold if it hasn't been used for a day or two. I put it down to the pumping section in the carb being a bit weak. However I would not drip fuel down the plug but rather spray it onto the air filter, I use an old scent spray with petroil in it.
  6. openspaceman
    Does the MS210 have a purge bulb?
  7. openspaceman
    Yes definitely don't treat anything for a problem that doesn't exist. This is another thing against the systemic neonicotoids.
  8. openspaceman
    Yes it definitely needs getting off the ground, cut, split and stored under cover asap. Those front four bits look like ash to me.
  9. openspaceman
    More a comment on your mum's trust and bravery
  10. openspaceman
    I agree but at the end you still need to pay for the assessment . I think chainsaw use and lift truck driving are the only assessments that are required by law to be done by an independent assessor, to the standard that only NPTC can award in the case of chainsaws. Although I have been out of it for 20 years now so am not sure how the arrangement with LANTRA stands.
  11. openspaceman
    The oregon ones I had as spares became unusable because the soles perished. I don't buy boots with polyurethane soles and generally go for vibram soles in walking boots (I do not expect to buy another pair of chainsaw boots).
  12. openspaceman
    That's a great price, how long have you worn them?
  13. openspaceman
    I only buy 5 or 10 ltr cans at one time, as I top up the car, and I haven't recently had the pump switched off on me but yes, it's a pain having to pay at the kiosk again at my local pumps as they have disabled payment at pump. Too much fraud perhaps?
  14. openspaceman
    That's right, it will let you know when it has had enough😉. Just keep it simple, add the keyhole slider to the wire rope and pass the chain through that. Hitch the chain round the log about a foot back and then shorten it so the keyhole is a couple of inches in front of the butt end when you pull.
  15. openspaceman
    Yes I use aspen in my hedge cutters because they get used near my face, too expensive for the saws.
  16. openspaceman
    I have never used one, how will it join to the line, I suspect it needs a special slider to attach to the line. I mostly used chains because we were hauling predominantly sawlog size whole tree lengths but with the Holder and 3 tonne winches early on I used polypropylene rope loops with larks head around the tree and sliders of 13mm spring steel bent to push and twist onto the line. The line was terminated with a soft eye which had a pin and loop, like a very big tractor lynch pin. With up to 8 tiny trees on each winch you remove the lynch pin and winch in the wire rope to disconnect the trees from the wire. Very strange way to try and make a living looking back, two of us would struggle to get 3 m3 out a day in first thinnings.
  17. openspaceman
    I think Clark are a bit cheaper for skidding gear but their chokers are 8mm which is too big for smaller winches, I'm guessing that 6mm choker chain and slider would be better for the iron horse. I use 8mm gear in case I need it with the 6 tonne Farmi winch but it's galling hauling it and some 50m of wire rope up a steep slope.
  18. openspaceman
    No not too bad, just wear gloves as Mick says. Easiest thing to do is buy a keyhole slider to hook to, this will distribute the load, then you can also use a chain to do the chokering. Keyhole Slider For Forestry Choker Chalns 6mm or 7-8mm WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Keyhole Slider for Forestry Choker Chains. Slider and keyhole plate for choker chains.
  19. openspaceman
    Yes and if a lesser one will do @Al Cormack hires himself out with his, so may be worthwhile for just a day, though he is 20 miles from Dorking.
  20. openspaceman
    Same here but I imagine it can be the straw that breaks the donkeys back if it's a troublesome engine.
  21. openspaceman
    It seems to me you may have loosely spooled the wire onto the drum and then winched in hard causing the loose bits to buckle under the now taut rope as it wound on. Spool it all out and attach it to a heavy but moveable load and slowly winch it in under steady tension, weaving the iron horse so that the cable lays evenly on the drum. If however you mean the rope has sprouted hairy bits then you have damaged it and someone will end up getting spiked. To me a pig tail is when one passes the wire through a socket and then unwinds and splays out all the individual strands prior to pouring molten metal onto the wire to fix it in the socket.
  22. openspaceman
    Well what can one do? Bunded boundary, infill suspended floors, bolt down drain covers, bung for downstairs toilets, sump for submersible pump with float switch???
  23. openspaceman
    I had a quote for an 8 wheeler on a 40 mile delivery for £480 which seems reasonable, with the ash we have done I guess that would be 20m3 on a 70% stack measure but it doesn't seem to be moving from the job in Hampshire. I'm thinking this woodsure business has made some smaller firewood people give up.
  24. openspaceman
    In practice I haven't had a problem either way on automotive stuff, I think it is more important with high current solar PV cables. If you think about it most crimpers don't uniformly compress the wired into a perfect circle which is why you don't want strands crossing at the crimp, no harm in twisting to get everything into the crimp as long as the crimp is on parallel strands.
  25. openspaceman
    Great for producing dimensioned timber, not so good for oak beams

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