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  1. openspaceman
    Saw. I might still be able to find invoices for my first motor saws, starting with the 165r then a 280cd
  2. openspaceman
    Have you a date for that? i was thinking £192 in around 1976 and whilst house prices were rising fast (probably doubled from 76 to 79 when I bought at 29k)... I never had one and where I worked the big saw was the dolmar CT but I only got to use the partners and poulans till I bought my first Husky chainsaw in 76 as I was climbing then and establishment before that
  3. openspaceman
    many sssi sites need low fertility to favour target species. As the sites revert to woodland via shrubby species like broom and gorse, which can fix their own nitrogen, minerals are taken up from the lower soil layers, if the ash is left it fertilizes the top soil layer and this favours plants which can compete with the preferred species.
  4. openspaceman
    Eddie our fitter suggested doing this on a machine that was easy to de track, have you actually seen it done? The alternative suggestion is to add a longer axle to the roller nearest the idler with outrigger idlers.
  5. openspaceman
    Same here but sitting in an office pressing buttons and answering the 'phone is same pay, no graft and best of all no expenses.
  6. openspaceman
    I always wanted to try cutting the roof off a scrap hi roof transit van for this purpose
  7. openspaceman
    They are what I remember, the cheapest saw one could have with a 42" bar.
  8. openspaceman
    Looks like Difflock is spot on. I imagine if the wound bleeds the bacteria are more likely to get swept out before the would closes.
  9. openspaceman
    Good reason to have a steel or kevlar midsole.
  10. openspaceman
    This happened to me also, after I walked into a twig on a hedge i was dragging to. Didn't think much of it at the time but the following morning was just as you say and it recurred for a long time after each time I wasn't careful when waking up.
  11. openspaceman
    Could be very tax efficient in the right circumstances
  12. openspaceman
    Para 5 seems to be missing Either way para 6 and 7 become out of date next week as the radius increase to 100km for those exemptions
  13. openspaceman
    I suspect not for most of us for the next week
  14. openspaceman
    100km is the current exemption for agricultural or forestry enterprises
  15. openspaceman
    I thought they imported them from america and re engined them with a diesel. We had one where I worked in 1976.
  16. openspaceman
    Yes your reply made me do a check and the qualifying statement fronm GV74 is: "trailer exemption A trailer with an unladen weight of less than 1,020kg need not be taken into account in the weight calculation for a vehicle pulling a trailer. It therefore can be ignored for the purposes of adding up total gross weights or unladen weights to determine whether they are above the threshold for requiring an operator’s licence. However, this exemption does not apply if you are carrying other people’s goods for hire or reward (e.g. working as a courier or freight transport business). In such circumstances, the weight calculation must include any trailer attached (irrespective of the trailer’s weight). In this case, if the vehicle and trailer combination exceeds 3.5 tonnes gross plated weight or (where there is no plated weight) an unladen weight of more than 1,525 kg) , a standard licence is required"
  17. openspaceman
    Not so as I understand it an operator's licence is necessary as soon as the maximum allowable mass of the combination exceeds 3.5 tonnes. The exception is as I stated or the towing vehicle is dual purpose, which a 3.5 tonne truck is not. CPC generally has the same exemptions as the tachograph rules for carrying tools or equipment.
  18. openspaceman
    OP stated trailer and vehicle with gross train weight 3.5+3.5=7 tonne
  19. openspaceman
    I should have said 1020kg for the trailer unladen weight
  20. openspaceman
    Yes it can be slowed down and yes the no stress kicks in but if it's set to feed at a rate it can handle it throws the chip further and there is less risk of blockage. In fact it produces a superior chip for the boiler when fed poles at low feed rates, far better than the GM1928 (which is no way a criticism as both are disposal devices rather than biomass chippers).
  21. openspaceman
    It's 50km (31 miles) radius for the distance exemption, this may increase to 100km in March. Trailer must be less than 1024kg unladen for the operator's licence exemption. You can only carry tools and equipments for the job you are travelling to, not goods for delivery, for the exemption to need a tachograph to record drivers' hours
  22. openspaceman
    The two I see have only 329 and 325 hours on so far and they are early tr6s. No signs of significant wear but they have not been problem free. Lots more problems with operators especially with feed rate always maxed out.
  23. openspaceman
    Yes and it remains good practice to apply the chainbrake before putting the saw down. I just mentioned it because it struck me it would be easy to develop bad habits.
  24. openspaceman
    This doesn't make sense to me. The saw still makes a noise whilst cutting but between cuts it is silent so a normal conversation is possible. I worry that one can get blasé with it as it switches on as soon as the deadman handle is squeezed whereas the engine can be heard by the user with a conventional saw. Anyway I had a young chap who had never used one before take down a 30ft sallow and adjacent 2 stemmed norway maple on Friday. Used one battery, spare was available. The skip chain means it can cut to its 14 inch length but that takes the battery out too quickly so in this instance he dismantled to 5 inch cuts and then the stems were felled and ringed up with a conventional (Husky 254 as I couldn't get a new saw in time). His boss was there and didn't want to try the battery saw, preferring the ms200t, but I don't believe the job would have been any quicker with the petrol saw and communication was much better.
  25. openspaceman
    I didn't realise the shafts were shorter but my first powered saw was a 165r, still have it, and we did just as you say and yes the thumb trigger too. At first I used the blade which one sharpened on the leading edge only and then moved to the teeth like saw chain. We weren't coppicing per se but trying to recover (cleaning) douglas fir plantations over old chestnut coppice. With practice using the head momentum and the shaft one could lay the stems in rows. This was back in 1974 when PAWS wasn't an issue and often the stumps were treated with 245t. I used to saddle soap and oil the all leather harness I was so proud of the saw!

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