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It's not the stihl original, I bought the saw seized from a neighbour in the early 90s, I cannot remember where I got the pot and piston from. Very soon after I put it back to work it came to a sudden stop with the broken conrod, I put this down to my being hamfisted in the rebuild.

DLA Engine Parts - Cylinder Kit fit STIHL 028 AV Super, 028 Q/W/WB (46mm) [#11180201203] - NIKASIL STIHL 028 CYLINDER PISTON ASSY 46MM NEW 12 MONTH WARRANTY I have used both firms and service is good. They won't be as good as OEM or meteor piston in the original bore Farmer Rod may still have some bits left. Check the piston diameter It's unusual for a nikasil bore to get gouged from a simple seizure.

This is the nub for me, the fact it was pollarded is probably what makes it significant. Having said that it's been un managed for over a century at a guess and there's no way anything can be done other than manage the decline. Given this recognition of its problems unless I could effectively interdict access to any likely target area I would severely reduce it to a dead monolith. I have no doubt Mr Humphries will disagree.

I've suffered this for years now, worse in left ear, but still manage to pass NR PTS medical. Chap from Stihl pointed out to me it could be related to my glasses not allowing a good seal to my ear muffs over the years., I always wore earmuffs whether sawing, strimming or tractor driving. It's far far worse when stress or bored. My GPs ( never see the same one twice and never more that need) have just said to live with it so I would be really interested to hear how you get on. BTW you say high frequency loss, this comes with age which is why youths get distracted by the "mosquito" device and older folk don't ; checking with an online tone generator my tinnitus is around 8kHz but I still hear up to 11kHz

This was discussed here: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/59227-how-sharpen-silky-saw.html#post908884 I bought the cheap silverline diamond coated feather edge files from amazon about 4 quid each so I have never lashed out on the expensive ones above. I have had a bash at sharpening about 5 silkys and file still seems to work, as do the saws but not as good as new. If you look at the video you will see the chap explain that the tooth profile is a normal saw tooth but in order for it to only cut on the pull stroke a small ramp is formed on the top of the tooth I found it often enough just to touch up this small ramp on the top of the point with a couple of light strokes

best starter was bombay duck:sad:

I have one, it's 3/4 kg heavier than the Stihl ms261 but that's not a problem for occassional use.

OK I'll drop by with them, How's GUY doing, changed oil yet? I asked MSF not to contact me and they don't. Had a StJohn's guy in full uniform trying to sign me up for a DD, he wouldn't take a cash donation so I told him to go away, turns out it's a marketting company that get 45% of the first years DD and then a tapering amount for 5 years. Fine, the collectors have to make a living but it rankles with me.

They were considered the best when I installed my little Jotul in early 80s, no way could I afford a vermont or a house that needed that much output.

My view too, windblown has to be <12 month down, nudging some with a digger may produce results. Last lot wanted a few trees per assessment and 3 different types of winthrown, snapped hanging, rootplate tipping forward and back. Good job I did all mine in 1991 when there were plantations of softwood down.

Get to the doctor quick, it costs nothing and dr may be able to do something, no point hoping it will get better by itself at our age. Bon chance

Rod I've found some more bits for that saw if you or anyone is interested, again for a donation although technically I owe the bits to you.. The exhaust, Top covers and starter mechanism. I couldn't find the exhaust to the Husky 288xp I was looking for though. I did come across a McCulloch 630 I'd forgotten I'd been given.

I agree with Bob, if it's just returning to grazing why make more mess than necessary, this is what was done on military land when I was driving a mulcher, vid on you tube somewhere, both to allow access for mowers and to stop americans ripping the axles off their 4WDs when they race across a seemingly empty heath. We used 360 to dig and windrow on development sites but if it's a big windrow you need the 360 there to place the stumps on the mulch from the earlier pass otherwise you miss some big bits, The mulch can then be spread on top of the open areas at the end of the development.

It is criminal damage and there is no way I am advocating a public free for all in private woodlands, I was just trying to point out that a landowner should not unilaterally hinder the enjoyment of public rights. The principal of prescriptive rights, to be able to carry on doing something lawful as has been done over a long period, dates back to Saxon times and forms part of English culture. This is why any landowner wishing to keep his land private but with limited permissive access should lodge a document with the highway authority and renew it periodically.

Thanks Ian, I'm not planning on doing it but I've recently seen one of the 4 corners worn very round on our Heizohack in about 4 days of very hard work processing our 5 years worth of arb waste. The anvil is cheap enough, it's the down time that is costly.

It was the bletted (half rotten) berries which have a high sugar content so added strength to the barley malt. I was told the word chequer in this context was derived fro latin for "the strength to the grain". One of the reasons this tree was considered an ancient woodland indicator was that the seed doesn’t ripen well enough to germinate so trees in woodland originated in a time when the climate was hotter except I knew of a large one which was probably only 200+ years old and in an oak wood where I doubt it was planted.

Thanks for answering my question inadvertently, so hard facing doesn't crack off? It didn't on the end of a solid nose bar nor on digger wear parts. Is the reason to using ordinary anvils one of cost, welding the hardfacing and grinding back being far more work than inserting a stock square edged piece? To me the advantage of hard facing would be you could have the strength and resilience of a non brittle steel bar backing the wear face.

Yep why grow your own food when there are lots of gung ho ruperts to go and secure our imports by killing some wiley oriental gentlemen.

It is common land, that is land over which people have rights in common with the landowner. As a result of the law of property act the rights were expanded to include the right for the general public to have free access to the land for air and recreation. Fencing the land diminishes this right and , though the aim for biodiversity is paramount, people have objected to the loss of freedom to roam (NB this never included vehicular rights). In fact many of these commons became SSSIs for insects or herpetological species but the false measure of a good heath was the population of three ground nesting birds. In fact one of these birds does best in thae absence of dog walkers so the backdrop to a firing range was ideal for them and recreating these conditions became the aim of "wildlife" charities, it is but a little step from there to dissuading people to use the heath.Once commoners grazing ceased and military manoeuvring stopped secondary woodland started developing. What the green welly booted brigade didn't appreciate was that commoners maintained the heath in order to graze, not necessarily that grazing maintained the heath, so fencing and clearance was done under massive grants heathland charities received from UK's kickback from common market payments under the euphemism "modulation" a term coined by nulabor to prevent the money going to working farmers which spawned the current conservation industry at the expense of the traditional countryside businesses.

The milk marketting board was the government organisation that bought all the milk and decided how much was sold onto the liquid market, the rest was sold to factories, exported or dried and stored. Then after problems with intervention and butter mountains they were abolished. It's a very long time since I helped on a dairy farm, then a farmer and herdman just about earned a living from 35 cows, infested with mastitus. somewhen the system was deregulated and a quota system was in place, this was an artificial construct to contol production but created a market in these intangible quotas which one had to buy to be able to expand, this was necessary to remain competitive and manage 200 cows per man. This in turn lead to the need to invest millions in milking parlours. In the face of losing the guaranteed market of the MMB farmers formed a co operative , Milk Marque, which was ruled anti competitive by the monopolies commission, so was split into three and other companies piled in, The supermarkets and imported Polish milk picked off the smaller milk companies and bankrupted the co ops.

I was doing a first thinning in Tilford about 1982 and I kept hearing these whistles so I walked along the river to them. There were two traction engines winching a bucket from a dragline across a lake dredging it. Although 360s were around on big civils jobs then (Hymac 508??) they were not seen in the countryside but there were a few priestman cubs and RB42s

] Clever song the background to my childhood

Do those two furrow presses cover the full with of all the ploughs?

And here is the result so far with a couple of other species added. Please note my original oven dry weights based on 30 gram samples seem inaccurate so I won't have the correct figure until I actually put the 5 specimens in the oven for 24 hours at 120C, so look on the figures as being indicative and up to +-10% of the current value either side e.g the birch is probably in the area 8-10% wwb at the moment.. So if I can get enough airflow through my heap and covered it looks like I only need about 3 weeks in the summer to season for my home needs yet I've always been worried about not having enough cut by end of May.

Probably worth doing in that if it's working you can see where it is, if not you should be able to see something is up e.g. reception or power are lost.