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  1. Mr. Squirrel
    I was torn between the LD1 and the grcs a few years ago. Ended up going with the grcs and happy I did. It’s solid, easy to setup and spare parts are readily available. My only experience of the LD1 was up a tree doing a removal for another company. The clutch thing seemed like a massive arse about, if the ground crew can’t safely operate a grcs then I’d question whether I’d really want to be winching big stuff with them anyway.
  2. Mr. Squirrel
    Yeah I swear the Ad blue consumption has increased too. Used to get about 5k between refills, now maybe 3.5k? Checked yesterday and the mpg is sitting at 24.6mpg with a lot of towing. So not too bad actually. But it is pretty thirsty…
  3. Mr. Squirrel
    Apparently it’s us who don’t have a clue how ‘nature operates’, hence the decline.
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    i thought they’d get more. That’s pretty much the same as my 21 plate 2.8L hilux. I’ve done 40,000 in it but don’t have a lifetime average, only since I last reset it when I got new tyres in December. It definitely dropped a bit then. Still about 32mpg if it’s mostly motorway, 21-22 if I’m towing the tracked chipper. Given my last motor was a transit custom I feel like ol’ luxy has a drinking problem
  5. Mr. Squirrel
    Revisiting this thread to say I had a battery fall out last week. Was just going up to fish out a big hanger and my saw bumped my arse/harness. Battery fell about 8m onto grass, bounced another 8m and landed on a patch of gravel about 30cm from a burn. Need to figure out that securing strap…
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    Sounds like a beautiful success story against all odds 😂 I presume I got unlucky. Mine was ok initially but went down hill hard. I took it into the dealer and he repaired the carb and found it needed 10(!!) software updates. After that it ran good for a while. Had I not been working overseas for most of its warranty period a lot of its flaws would’ve been uncovered far quicker and addressed properly I imagine.
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    I’m pretty sure husky do it as a spare, I remember getting a price for one from my dealer. It’s comes as a kit with twin big dogs iirc. It was still really expensive though and I didn’t bother. But worth asking.
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    What batch was yours? Mine was the very first run available in the uk I believe, I put it down to teething issues. I was able to keep it going for nine years so it did a good shift, but it was always very temperamental. Needed far too much maintenance to keep it running sweet.
  9. Mr. Squirrel
    Think you heard wrong. Had the 550 mkii about three years now and it’s bomber. Early 5 series saws were temperamental, with this they ironed out all those quirks. My 2011 560 was awful.
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    Sounds like an old house quirk? Our place was built in the 1830’s and while it looks great and is structurally sound I swear there’s barely a straight line in it now.
  11. Mr. Squirrel
    Going to break the mould and say I hated xstatic when I tried it. Way too stiff for my liking. Kernmaster both ce and non ce is really nice srt, though quite thing for mrs. Non ce cougar as others have said is a nice rope. I’ve been using the courant kalimba since the summer. I didn’t have great expectations of it as it’s a bit thicker than I’d usually go for, but it’s really sweet. Runs beautifully with a hitch climber, zig zag, wrench and rrp. Highly recommend. Only downside is the skinny eye. It did go through my vt once when advancing my anchor. That was a pickle. My hitch was crazy loose tbf though
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    We had far smaller, but kinda similar things on the loch before Christmas. But they ran in a sweeping line right across it. I took a picture but it’s pretty useless, never seen anything like it though. It was about 4-5” at the edges and quite walkable, probably less so in the middle.
  13. Mr. Squirrel
    I’ve removed one mp in my time, it was about 25m and half over a conservatory/house so needed rigged. Worst job I’ve ever done. I was squeezing skelfs out my hands for days. Though I didn’t have much of an adverse reaction besides the light swelling caused by my have being pin cushions.
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    Yeah, with it’s intended use I’d feel like it was putting a little too much faith in the stitching though. You could do a straight bury, out for a locking brummel before going into the full bury perhaps. It would be a bit odd, but the locking brummel would be solid, and you’d still be able to milk a little slack into the eye to pop your ring out. That *might* work, but I’ve never seen it done or tested so no idea really…
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    Ah see, might be too small... I need at least 14", preferably 17.
  16. Mr. Squirrel
    There's plenty in my stores which would probably only have gone in diagonally tbh, around the 45cm mark. While I've said in another comment that I'm reluctant to have the vents installed to allow a 7kw burner, I'd rather that than having to trim down logs every time I go to the shed. I'm shortening nothing. And damn my strangely wide Jotul 😂
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    Just had a quick read, that looks like a braw wee stove! How big a log can you get in though? It's a really annoying sticking point haha
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    We're getting a new liner in so flue isn't the biggest consideration, we'd be getting a 6" in anyway for the current stove. I'd consider going to a 7kw stove, it's a ~46m2 room so I don't think it would be wildly excessive, I'm just reluctant to have the external ventilation put into an already draughty house...
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    We’re just about to have a load of work done to our chimney and liner. I was planning to keep our current Jotul stove, however just realised a part on the back has cracked and there’s a bit of distortion to it, as well as some corrosion. The stoves about 20 years old, so I’m looking at a replacement now. Trouble is all my firewood (~16m3) is cut to 35-42cm to fit my current burner. I’m struggling to find any 5kw stoves which will take logs that size, and I’m not about to cut 5cm off everything. Any suggestions for wide firebox 5kw stoves?
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    I wouldn't be happy with that tbh. There's a chance that under low cyclic loading it could just pull the splice out. Certainly wouldn't give that a loler pass. For lock stitching, Teufelberger have loads of material available online for splicing. They detail their recommended stitch pattern for TRex.
  21. Mr. Squirrel
    The dmm harness will come in three sizes, with the S being pretty small. Who knows when it’ll hit the market though with their nexus recall.
  22. Mr. Squirrel
    Personally, I think he’s just a marauding self important pillock. If we’ve any luck the Russians will get rid of him for us.
  23. Mr. Squirrel
    Garden wolf. Much cheaper and lighter than silky. You can get different pole lengths, mine is 1.6-3.5m I believe. Drill a hole through the bttom of the pole and loop some 5mm cord through for a biner. Let’s you clip it to your harness so that the saw head is below you rather than round your harness. Still shit to climb with but much better than Jameson rods. Wolf Garten Handle and Pruning Saw | World of Wolfgarten WWW.WORLDOFWOLF.CO.UK Wolf Garten Handle and Pruning Saw
  24. Mr. Squirrel
    If you need to ask these questions, you’re ill-experienced to be undertaking rigging options without anyone mentoring you. I’d suggest working with someone who can show you the ropes, as it were, before spunking your cash on rigging kit. That’s not a setup I’d buy for my first, do-it-all rigging kit anyway, hopefully you won’t be needing a 16mm lowering rope often.
  25. Mr. Squirrel
    I found limited reviews from people who aren’t selling them. What they say might be entirely true but it’s nice to have an independent review isn’t it? We live on a hill so it’s an upside down house, the living room kitchen is upstairs. As such there’s no air bricks ventilating the floor space, though it’s certainly quite ventilated between the plaster board and stone wall. Might be an option, though would have to chat to the installer some more. There was definitely a proper lintel, you can see where the person who installed it cut through a beautiful sand stone block and then removed some of the chimney breast in order to get the flue pipe up. This left the framing for the plasterboard much to close to the flue. I’m not in construction, but I can see that isn’t right…

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