william127
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Does anyone use i tirfor tu8? Are they up to doing things like pulling a lightly bogged land rover or trailer out or draging 3/4 of a tonne logs up ramps onto a trailer? I have an electric winch on the land rover and have permant acess to a tu35 but would quite like a small one to keep in the tractor to avoid having to do the walk of shame and for general back garden/woodland/constrution work. thanks, william.
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I had insa special tracks Jon, no problems with them and I got 25 thousand plus miles out of them
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There's an easy way to get round it just take off the front number plate! Sorry wrong thread
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Id give a bit off on a good size job say £50 0ff £750 for the convenience of not having to wait for the cheque to clear, which is almost always the best part of a week! Do the job, knock on the door, walk round the site and leave with the money, all done until the next time they want something doing:thumbup1: I wouldnt knock off a percentage though, as that would seem very suspect!
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I love having the radio on, either headphones, makita site radio or tractor cassette radio, wouldn't have it on when we are doing a tree job tho as its hard enough talking to someone 30ft away as it is!
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390 and 461(25 inch bar) in the cupboard, 390 with 18 inch bar, 291 with a 15 inch bar on the saw bench. A couple more to add when my outstanding invoices are paid- something big and old for milling and a back handled top handle of some kind:thumbup:
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My mate spent ages debating one or two pins with the bloke in the trailer shop before buying 1 with 2 as apparently they rattle less! over thinking I think! My trucks have all had 1 pin, no problems.
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My old high flex trousers ar well and truly had it, and Im wondering what ti replace them with. Should I get the same again or something else? I where them 2 or 3 days a week in winter, for logging and hedge cutting, but not climbing, although I do climb fruit trees, over fences up and down the back of the land rover etc so they need to be nice and flexible. My hi flexes are xxl so id obviously need something similar. I was looking at sip progress trousers at a show last week and they looked quite good? Thanks, William
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When you say agricultural hitch do you mean a trailer designed for a tractor (eg hay trailer or grain trailer) or a ring on a standard trailer? I tried to tow a tractor trailer with a Dixon bate hitch last year and the ring was too deep for the hitch.
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Seems well worked out and very reasonable to me. I love buzzing 8 or ten inch timberlocks through sleepers when the customer is watching, they are usual pretty impressed, then you can explain that they are 50p or whatever each and you need 4 o6 or so per sleeper, and it starts to show them why theese 'little' jobs cost 3 or 4 hundred quid!!
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Ah, you have a 391 dont you? Sorry ive got the older 390:blushing:, hopefully someone else will have an idea or 2 for you.
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You and me both! They are probably 5mm holes, as that's the size drill bit I usually have lying around from putting in rivets! Just undo the 3 nuts on the front and slide off the plate that directs the exhaust gasses and drill the holes in the pressed in bit.
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Pictures for lowestoft firewood as asked for:thumbup1: Oh and my rattle was just a loose bolt:thumbup1:
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Now you mention it mines started rattleing from the front end, will have to look at the exhaust in the morning:lol:
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Iv had 1 from new since 2005. It was gutless and underpowered from new so I was only useing a 16 inch bar. But last year I drilled out the exhaust, retuned the carb and had it thoroughly serviced. Its now like a different saw, iv been using it all weekend on an 18 inch bar and its been great. I had been thinking about selling it but no way will I be now! I lll be keeping it for using in the logmaster sawbench and rough work like stumps and river work. It is thirst y though compared to my 291 and 461.
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Iv done the job, there really was no access for anything that could not be picked up by 2 blokes, took me about 2 hours in total, plus 1 hour to sharpen and thoroughly clean out both saws (although they were pretty clean and although they were blunt they took no more sharpening than a normal dull chain) charged £100, everybody happy, and I may be getting some tractor/Chipping work from him so a good outcome from what could have been a pig of a job:thumbup1:
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I do a lot of labouring for an engineer who does acoustic/generator installation for big companies, and he is always paid on a minimum of 30 days wait, so so am I when I work for him, that's fine by me as I knew the deal full well when I started working for him. But if a domestic client wanted to wait 30 days to pay me id be pretty peeed off really, they new what they were having done, when and how much it would be, so why would it take more than a couple of days to sort out payment? (Providing they were happy with the work, obviously).
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I generally just wear a fleece or 2, and a good hat, and gloves if the job allows. Iv also got a £20 bright orange cycling waterproof that I wear sometimes. I prefer being damp but warm to having the cold wet lines you get from waterproof s.
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just realised i've done something very stupid!
william127 replied to Matthew Storrs's topic in General chat
Before I drove to Scotland last year I changed the oil, dropped the oil and old filter off, put a new filter on and put the sump plug in, poured in the first 5 litres of oil, went to get the second can, reAlised I had 2 identical cans left and id filled the engine with gear oil:thumbdown: -
Onxy thats about where im at, and in general/ other circumstances I would be recommending/ arranging grinding. Thanks
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Its for someone my dad used to work with, he said it was some 18 inch trunks to cut down when we were passing:001_rolleyes: Hes seen the one's I have done, and has asked me to just get them finished and let him know how much he owes. Not the way I like to go about charging, but things do have to be got on with sometimes I suppose.
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Just curious really, iv already done all but the big 2, they are only going an inch or 2 below ground, all the digging was done by someone else, I'll probably charge at hourly rate plus a new chain or 2! If it was my job I would have a stump grinder on it, I think im getting the back end of someone trying to save a few quid:thumbdown:
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How much/ how would people charge for cutting these 6 or 7 stumps down to just below ground level? Sort of ended up with the job, to help someone out, want to make a profit(bearing in mind its quite hard on the saw and chain) but not take the pss. Thanks.
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I got a 461 in November, with 25 and 18 inch bars, mainly on the 25, its brilliant.
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Looks like a kingone/goodwinch to me, what i have on the front of the 127.
