wisecobandit

Not really punishment but building site pranks. Had an old Cortina mk4 at the time and finished work to find it missing. Just at the point of realising it must have been stolen when I saw it hanging some 100ft up by its towbar off a 50t tracked crane swinging in the wind!! All sorts of happenings we used to get up to including locking ppl in portacabins and throwing lit diesel rags thru the windows and leaving parked cars with there rear end 3-4 ft in the air via a chain off the bucket of a swingshovel or dragging them into the thickest deepest mud on site and leaving them there upto there sills in mud. Most you wouldn't dare attempt now with the way everything is with h and s or employers.

395 and a 30" or 36" bar if you ask me. If you have oak butts between 3-5ft I wouldn't want to be cutting that for a day with anything less than a 660. Having both the 660 and 395 I would pick up the 395 every time for that type of work.

I use google. Ive seen yell come up numerous times but I think most see it more as some kind of spam item so personally I wouldn't lose sleep not using it. Obviously you want the locals to find you so I would try and list local villages somehow as well as east devon as main words. If I was searching for somewhere locally I would google similar to goaty and maybe drop in even the manufactuers name. IE Sidmouth Husqvarna Repair and then maybe add strimmer/chainsaw or whatever it was. In fairness I probably wouldn't use the word garden if I was searching if im honest. As you say strimmer its a common word to use and brushcutter very much less so. Professionals may know and call it brushcutter but every private Jo Bloggs who uses one chances are to them its a strimmer or a "strimmer with a blade"

Be a lot of trips with a pick up then. I take it its pretty big lumps? I would try and talk to a friendly farmer with a trailer and loader. That's a lot of work for a pick up and manual lifting.

What is your truck? A pick up?

LOL flooded a big homelite once and in my infinite wisdom wasn't 100% sure so took the plug out earthed it and gave it a pull. Fuel shot out the plug hole and got ignited 12" from my nose as im looking for a spark... Needless to say for that instantaneous second my heart was in my mouth and stomach contents almost shot down my leg...

Just added the part numbers which are all intechangable between themselves. Yours may or may not have a part number but if it does it should relate to one of the above which are also all interchangeable on the 365/372 range

Yes. If yours is a blue module its limited so fitting a black coil will unlimit the rpm but they are interchangeable between blue and black. You should hopefully find one of the below part numbers on the coil. 544047201, 544047201, 537277401, 537277401, 510115701 510115701

Or the diaphragms and gaskets the wrong way around. Was it just the gaskets you replaced or the full kit with the needle and meter arm ect?

I fell asleep watching the speed of it lol. I quit the vid as soon as the ram started moving at a snails pace. Also the lifting arm didn't even get to parallel so big logs you would still have to push/roll uphill to get them on the actual splitter.

I agree with you but the effort involved sometimes would be beyond a sensible amount. The extraction of such a lump of timber, outlay to get it milled and then the storage is questionable when you can just ring it up and split it for logs.

I would guess truth beknown some would be envious of what ends up as my logs. This year ive probably had 10 big European oaks and similar amount of large beeches which have just blown over due to soft soil through no fault of there own and just end up as firewood. All perfectly good wood. When I see others using it for other purposes it just seems criminal at times.

Its not to far away from you its prob 15 mile away. Like you say its not greatly valued etc just seems a shame it all goes for firewood that's all and decent sized stuff I sometimes think could be worth doing something a bit more interesting with rather than end up as logs all the time. I get a reasonable amount of oak and beech and it all goes own that route so it would be nice to find a use. Ive debated doing some field gatepost etc with the oak so assessing I guess if its worth buying a chainsaw mill.

Nice peace of work. What can it be used for in general? I gather its not greatest for outside things so worktops and kitchen related things etc

Well it will certainly be ringed up if its not 100%. It just doesn't make sense to drag it out in the open so whatever I do will be done in situ where its felled in the wood.

I think people maybe missing a bit of a point maybe partly because its not been mentioned or maybe im barking up the wrong tree even but.... In an ideal world it would be nice just to load up a decent wagon or pick up and mammoth trailer and deliver 3-4 loads in 1 outing but unfortunately here in devon it holds the longest network of roads in any county, unfortunately many are country lanes whereby sometimes you may end up reversing 1/4-1/2 a mile up a potholed country lane with overgrown hedges just allow another car to pass. Now common sense prevails and to tow a 14 or 16 foot trailer down some of these roads is usually done as little as one can get away with. On the other hand to take a "main road route" could and usually does take more time and more fuel is doable but that eats into whatever profit you could be making plus how can you charge a customer 7 miles away extra mileage because the main road route could end up being 15 miles? Its a tricky one but around here its mainly repeat business so its a case of keeping existing customers sweet and not just 1 offs. You would be amazed who knows who around here so everyone trys to keep everyone else sweet.

Yeah I know what you mean. I dropped a 52" beech a few months ago and the top half was soft and hardly worth the effort as firewood. The top had been lightening striked out several years ago and water was going in and surprised how quick it had turned given the size etc. Shame as that was spalted to. I will drop them in a month and cut them around a bit and go from there but sounds like I may just go down the firewood route.

Some of the dolmars will accept the big ms880/051/076/070/090 stihl bar and just a new oil hole needs to be drilled iirc. Timber Cutter Dartmoor may know as im sure I pointed him down that route. What was the intial problem in the end with the oiler?

That's what I normally do. Just seems a shame as they are normally good quality.

First to hold my hand up and say ive never done any milling so not got the equipment etc but..... Ive got a couple of big beech to take out in a wood so access is limited so will need to be chopped/milled where it falls. Ive not checked out the trees yet as I know they are mine and going nowhere etc so im waiting for the shooting season to finish and the ground to dry up before doing to much. Now even tho ive not seen said trees in the flesh recently im thinking due to there size (40"+) it maybe interesting to get them milled up? The thing is is it worth it and is there much call for beech planking etc?

I would agree with you woodworks and TDC in respect of charging after the 7-10 mile area. Its a bit tricky when you can take 7 miles of lanes or 10-12 miles of main road or 4 miles as the crow flys to get to said destinations in our locality. Spending most days in the country lanes and using the the vans onboard computer I can be driving 6 hours to cover 120-150 miles some days. That's a lot of wasted time to have to attempt to pay for your time and make a living.

Its lovely to see a personal touch rather than something pre-printed and fairly unmeaning. Keep up the good work Steve!

You did space it between the magnet and ignition module didn't you and not just anywhere on the flywheel? The magnets can sit slightly higher than the rest of the flywheel and they can foul the ignition module if you didn't put a business card or similar between the magnets and module. Saying that you should have felt it binding slightly when you pulled the saw over before it started?

I think the echos usually just use the D shape version but I would wait until you know for sure whats on your saw. Now if your a real tight ar*e sometimes you can just push a bit of rubber pipe snuggly on them and adjust or usually the nib end of a felt tip pen tube can be pushed over it to adjust. There are ways and various methods of madness....

Its probably an over extortionatly priced screwdriver at the end of the day. Recently manufactuers are changing the mixture screws on the carbs from the normal slot head screw to ones which are shaped so require a dedicated screwdriver to adjust. Chances are you will be able to get an aftermarket one from somewhere like garden hire spares etc. All you need to do is look at the side of the carb and determine what shape screw it is. Theres various splines, oval, pacman shaped etc etc.