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They can be used under exceptional circumstances but not for planned or routing tasks. A Telehandler may be used as a MEWP but the basket needs to be integrated so the controls can be used from the basket. Working platforms (non-integrated) on forklift trucks - PM28 You will see that it is very unlikely any tree work would come under any of the exceptions.

I know of a market garden, now the site of a car factory, where poplars were planted with the intention of producing punnets or crated for the produce. When I last visited the poplar tree company some 15 years ago they had a poplar slicing line mothballed.

It's for producing a cant with two flat sides which can then be resawn by multiple passes through another saw, typically to produce pallet boards or slats from bars. The kerf was of little consequence as it was in the waste slab. The resaw would often be a bandsaw for its thinner kerf. As things got more sophisticated and there was a demand for white chip they were superseded by machines that removed the bark and then chipped the slab to prodice a cant with no slab. Later still big mills had chipper canters that produced a profiled cant in order to recover an extra two outer boards per cant.

Delivery will be the problem, the waste heap at the cricket bat maker by Roberstbridge station TN32 5DH would have all you need but probably too far, my mate ran the last batch through the chipper for biomass.

As I shall be buying a Komb km56 engine unit I wondered how the kombi blower compares with a BG56 hand held blower?

Double slabber A gang of saws with circular saws top and bottom is a multirip

No Vince and I came to an understanding about our thing, is he still alive? It was around 1989.

This should be interesting, may I come along and watch? I was hauling a bit of beech out of the canal and an eytie chap demanded I stop as he had sole rights to work on trees in the canal.

Probably the route I'll take then, I'll take the hedge trimmer attachment to the Stihl dealer and see if they'll let me try it on a km head.

It will never be as good as new as the piston is damaged and the bore will be too. The bore is very hard and will still seal but you have to scrupulously remove all aluminium pick up from the bore, I use repeated applications of gel oven cleaner until no white reisdue is left. Then emery the rough bits off the piston and scrape the ring lads so the new ring will seal top and bottom. You shouldn't have to do this unless you can negotiate a refund but for the price of a ring and a bit of work at least you can see if the rest of it works before deciding on a new piston. Next time whip the exhaust off before you start the saw and look at the ring.

One way f getting a saw with a stuck ring to fire is to put a small does of oil on top of the piston, once that has burned off the saw loses compression and stops

Six years ago I bought a Ryobi 4 stroke kombi tool as a "lending out" tool for all the acquaintances that ask to borrow tools. I have seldom used it but bought some extra attachments. I wondered why an old school friend was a bit slow to return it, turns out the camshaft is plastic and has melted the lobes off the exhaust cam. Unfortunately the part is not listed, it appears to be a common problem and people have made their own but that's a bit much for me as it only cost 80 quid. What to do with those attachments though? The oil feed to the cam seems to be through a bicuspid val;ve in the cylinder from the crankcase and there is some sort of impulse line through the overhead camshaft.

Yes but its a solid rear axle so the unsprung weight ratio is compromised from the beginning. I don't drive fast and my bucket list comprises reaching 300k miles in the pug, sometime in the next month I guess.

That's my understanding, higher octane resists detonation better but comes at the price of less calories, so you have to burn more fuel for the same power.

I was assuming the ring was a bit stuck before he got it and then further pick up of ally in the bore finished the job.

Mate at school had one with a JAP 500 twin, exposed rockers. Why should they handle well compared with modern suspension?

Agreed but for the sake of some elbow grease, some oven cleaner and a new ring it would go again, looks like a simple seizure from no oil. The ring lands will need scraping with a bit of the old ring. A new meteor piston is less than 20 quid.

OK thanks understood Not even seen one and haven't used a timberwolf, or was it its predecessor, since the turn of the millenium. I plan to hire for a week and see how the lads find it as I seldom go on site now.

I'd go for another Forst but we need to replace two sub 750kg tow chippers, it seems to narrow down to the GM150 and TW 230. Can you expand on that; many engines sense the rpm off the alternator, so if alternator packs up rollers don't spin but why is this related to the belt tension problem?

Yes but that's consumer driven law, business to business is often different. Mind £150 for a good 200 hours service with materials isn't too bad.

Do they stipulate a dealer has to do the service?

Yes, we dispose of heizohack blades after one use and they seem to take a bit of abuse so I wonder about using them for something else.

This looks similar to one I bought off ebay as a sports HD DV. Worked we but the usb port broke when using it as a car cam. May be worth considering gluing it in place if using it that way as I couldn't repair it.

I suspect I have never earned more than the average wage but consider myself well off for what I do, at my age it's a bit like falling off a log. I have no doubt this industry is not well paid compared with an advancing career in management, judiciary or academia, my younger brother looked like he was going to be a perpetual student, I loaned him money, but he got on the career path and ended up with 100k/annum and retired at 60 on a 30k pension, he has since paid me back in spades. As you say the average isn't a useful figure but a good statistician should be able to work out the median knowing the shape of the curve ( gamma I suspect)and number of workers but the way I visualise this type of average is that one person earning 100k balances 10 people earning 10k so there are always a lot more people earning less than the average than those earning above.

I've seen this on the internet but wondered what happens to the chrome plating, does it get lost or become part of the alloy? The thing is I have never got a good edge on stainless steel and sort of thought this may be due to the presence of chromium. Late to the fray, because I've been making a fool of myself in the Ogwen valley, I did make some gouges for spoon carving from old flat files, heat the lot up to dull red and allow to cool slowly to make the steel less brittle, form the cutting "spoon" at red heat and then quench the cutting edge in a potato which hardens the tip and then let the residual heat temper the cutting edge to straw colour before quenching in water. Worked for me. Originally I was told that files were pre hardened and then the teeth were etched with acid, is this still the case. I often wonder if there is a service that can analyse the content of a steel alloy, other than the spark test Bob mentioned, to see what other elements are used to change characteristics and whether they are machineable or weldable. As we all know chainsaw files are very brittle but when I lost one of the S hooks on a hammock I heated one up and shaped it with the Oxy-acetylene and made a replacement which held me up with no problems, the brittleness comes from the rapid cooling forming smaller crystals of iron with the carbon interspersed in the matrix which holds the iron in place and stops it deforming as it can in the larger crystals formed during slower cooling.