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Great!.... any reports on chain wear and sharpening? cheers, steve

I've noticed alot of builder companies employ agency staff for many of the same reasons.... so you could try contacting a few of them for an agency contact. cheers, steve

Off load children to relatives as often as possible! cheers, steve

Thanks for the clarification.... interesting concept and it'll be good to hear your thoughts after using it a while. Makes total sense now. It'd be interesting to compare various room temperatures with your floor vent in an open vs closed (or blocked off) position..... especially comparing temperatures from the opposite side of the room to where the fire is. Intriguing! cheers, steve

I get that.... but according to the photo the external cold air is just being vented into the room, not connected directly to the burner. Also wondering if that floating wooden floor is insulated?.... if not then drawing cold air underneath could make tootsies feel very cold. cheers, steve

What's the deal with drawing air from under a floating wooden floor?.... where's the benefit in doing that? cheers, steve

I've been recently introduced to this stuff.... 'Swedish far' or 'pine tar', or whatever it's officially called?? Not bought or used any myself yet but it does smell nice. http://www.solventfreepaint.com/pine-tar.htm Could be worth further investigation.... cheers, steve

An external air supply should be of benefit & help stop the cold back syndrome or making other rooms colder due to internal air being drawn into the woodburner. Bit more info on this thread here: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/35153-woodburning-stove-internal-external-air.html cheers, steve

I've gotten the same, bought it from Skyland. I'm happy with mine so far & the zippable arm pits really help it to breathe. However, I do find it performs really badly after doing a length of butterfly in the swimming pool.... so it's not strictly 'waterproof'. cheers, Steve

I put the QX in after buying the vehicle... it had an occasional very noisy camchain rattle so I gave it an oil and filter change and the noise went away. Although the oil filter was an absolute pig to remove (it broke my removal tool) so maybe it was more to do with that?! cheers, steve

Nice video of further evidence, but I have already awarded my points. This ain't Strictly Come Bake Off mate! It's still a 5/10 cheers, steve

The hinge looks fairly wide, but fair enough as you've not got a bar long enough to cope with doing it in one hit. The tree including the butt has rolled slightly to the right side of the felling direction so I'm afraid I have to deduct points for that. I also need to deduct points for trying to make out you cut some of that oak tree with an orange axe.... which, by the way, isn't a Gransfors, so why take a photo of it? I will add a bit of a point for the person walking away from the crime scene.... it gives the image a sense of movement.... however, I need to deduct points for cropping the handle of your saw out of shot and I feel you could have better foreground interest via a wide angle lens positioned at a low height..... you may do well to look up the rule of thirds in any future photography. Overall conclusion; not too bad, but certainly could do with improvement. Result: 5 out of 10 (I'm feeling generous). cheers, steve p.s.... the person walking away doesn't have a head!

Looking at my last oil purchase it was Shell Helix Ultra 5w40 which cost £29.99 for 5 litres inc vat plus I got a free oil filter included with that - so a good price I reckon. I've been using TRIPLE QX 5w30 Fully Synthetic (For GM applications) in our Nissan x-trail but not sure if that stuff is any good? Although it did stop the cam chain making so much noise. cheers, steve

Great thread TCD! Our D4D has had quite a hard life but serviced every 10k or 11k if I've been lazy. We've used everything from MOBIL-1 fully synthetic (at Toyota dealers) to semi-synthetic God knows what (at KWIK and extremely KRAP Fit) and currently using Shell Helix fully synthetic (via Europarts). I haven't noticed any unusual engine behaviour or engine rattling/ knocking but will keep this thread in mind if I do.... cheers, steve

Compared with a LandRover I expect there will be a lot of tumbleweeds on this thread! We've had a 2006 Toyota Corolla D4D since 10k miles.... it's now done over 150k and the biggest job we've had to do is put on a new battery and alternator. Although the anti-roll bar drop links need doing now due to driving over bumpy tracks. cheers, steve

Good man, as a fellow 550 user will be good to hear your thoughts.... What length bar did you get? cheers, steve

It's one point for getting the tree down in the approximate direction intended and point number two for making me smirk. Whereas the gobless attempt doesn't officially deserve even half a point.... I consider that very generous. cheers, Steve

Chilling.... literally chilling stuff... cheers, steve

So the thieving swines swapped all your labels over too?.... cheers, steve

I agree and disagree.... the front cut (which I presume was his first cut) appears to be slightly sloping downwards and from what I can see in the photos I do not believe a cheese of Brie was removed.... it appears to be a single cut at the front. He has followed up with a level rear cut that appears to have not gone across the diameter of the tree. The remaining bark section may have slightly pulled the tree to one side as it fell, before it tore out. Never been called Craig before. Definitely a 0.5 from me. cheers, Steve p.s... I would score the flail hinge far higher/ 2 out of 10 for that one.

I don't have a pickup but did fit a set of General Grabber AT's to our Nissan Xtrail (4x4) and they seem great on and off road. cheers, steve

I think the hinge is the bit of bark still attached. I give this a score of 0.5. cheers, steve

Good question Mark. ? Cheers, steve *see what I did there?

Got it!.... it said "ERROR 404 - Page not found" when I clicked on the Oregon wedges (under the accessories tab). And, I got a bit confused in the milling bar section here: http://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product-category/mills-kits/milling-bars-for-stihl-chainsaws/ I was looking at the 42" Sugihara bar thinking it would fit an 880 and wondered why it had 138 links in the chain instead of 120 links (which is what I ordered).... then I realised the 42" Sugihara bar for the 880 wasn't listed.... the one I was looking at was to fit a 660, etc. ....Hope that makes sense! Have you considered selling high-lift wedges? cheers, steve

Thanks for the heads up on this Rob. In case you didn't already know; I had to setup a new account (the website said my username wasn't recognised). um, and there was something else I was gonna mention.... but can't remember what that was now?! Cheers, steve