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Love the cat's paw details in some of those, and never worked with elm - gorgeous colouring.
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How's the ankle doing overall mark ? After my fusion op I carried on for a while commercial mobile milling, but the pain would be beyond unbearable. 3 days work would lead to 2 more unable to walk. After a year an opportunity unlooked for popped up out the blue to make me change direction. 2 years later I've sold my lucas mill, but still kept my woodlands126 as a hobby/ one day retirement mill. The damage to my ankle was nothing as extreme as yours, so I don't know how you do it. Shaun
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Before you go making adjustments on band wheel angles, are you truly sure it's not tension coming out of the timber? Or that one edge ( of the lower teeth) hasn't been minutely damaged by grit, steel or as we all do ,more than once, in my case, cutting too close to the log stops.Looking at your sawlog pile in one of your pics, you have some less than perfect lengths with crooks and twists. Timber from leaning or woodland edge trees will often have wild grain, with lots of tension/ compression issues that will deflect the saw blade a surprising amount if there is any slight damage or lack of sharpness and set. Similarly when tension is released each time you remove a board the fibres can expand causing movement in the log by several mm. If tension is suspected, flip the cant over frequently to keep the movement in the fibres of the wood equalised. Where abouts in SW are you? I'm near Drimoleague, West Cork
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That isn't a slur on you Steve, please don't misread it that way. Over the years I've loved and respected what you created, for the tree, landscape and wood working community. A superb resource to share amongst us all. - For people who care by people who care ! Shaun
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There are unfortunately too many instances when I wish we had a dislike button as well as the like one. Perhaps our magnificent Mr Bullman could facilitate this ?
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Oops sorry,
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Hey mark, here's one to try. The grooves look like a resonance is building in the frame of the saw, (assuming your tracks are mounted securely and evenly over their whole length). Try slackening off all frame mounting bolts - the same ones you tightened when building the saw, then push it up and down the rails a few times, shaking and twisting the frame as much as you can frequently. Then retighten everything. Doing this should ensure that all track rollers and frame posts carry the weight evenly with no single roller being even imperceptibly lighter than any other,and no cross frame twists or tensions being present . Do this with no tension on the blade. Worked for my hm126, as did finding the sweet spot of forward speed , and slightly overtensioning blade. Shaun
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Chainsaw wellies: new old stock, out of date - safe to use?
skc101fc replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Chainsaws
Better still get them at least 2 sizes smaller, so that you will never wear them, then find ,like Cinderella, the lucky groundy they will fit -
Chainsaw wellies: new old stock, out of date - safe to use?
skc101fc replied to carbs for arbs's topic in Chainsaws
Size 13......chainsaw wellies......you poor saint of endurance. You will go to heaven, your purgatory has been completed. Corpses have been secured to river bottoms with things that must weigh less ! - I can't think of anything less torturous that didn't involve cackling, smells of burning flesh, and men in pointy hats, that could be worse than the sheer misery of chainsaw wellies -
Yeah all good with me, life as employee, in the dry, as a distillery cooper is damned good. Has some very tasty advantages too, though I do miss the fantastic people and places I worked in. [emoji106]
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Sorry to read and hear of your dads passing. My very belated thoughts to all the family. A very good ,kind and interesting man who lived life to the full. I heard towards the end of last year that he was suddenly and unexpectedly diagnosed, but expected him as always to simply shrug it off and bounce back. Now that I'm out of timber and milling news takes a long time to get to me. - I'm sorry. I used to break down with my lucas mill ,huge, oversize, ugly sawlogs that were too large to process, ready for him to run through the Baker. Anyway regarding this saw, I can vouch for its condition and completeness. He was a good man for the maintenance and had a lifetime of skill to get the best out of both timber and saw. Best of luck to you, hope it sells soon, there's nothing worse than machinery standing idle. Shaun
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Gosh I'm even more stupid than I imagined. ... read it several times and didn't get it, then even more stupider, googled the Budgie association. I think I need to go and lie down for a bit. ! [emoji85] [emoji85]
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It's taken me 4 attempts,so definitely a bit slower in the brain. Half tempted to try it again to see if I get a different answer! [emoji85]
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Just googled it, it is less dense than air, so up it goes
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Ready to give it a try anyway. Love flames and bangs !!
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Isn't acetylene denser than air, therefore don't float/rise or am I wrong? Got 2 acet cylinders here so looking forward to some bangs [emoji12]
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Mounted ?
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Video Blowing through a log to prove its ok to burnr
skc101fc replied to cessna's topic in Firewood forum
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Sorry for my derail too Hot whiskey in my defence
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We'd only just got basic mobile phones back in the early 90's. YouTube definitely hadn't even been considered then. Scary how much has changed in such a short space of time.
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What's the point of a stally that can't swim? Damned expensive load carrier for f@#k all load. Going back to my earlier post, when I was active in arb, we had a job clearing scrub on an island in maidenhead. For the sheer thrill of it thought of hiring a stally to chip into.( Never even considered the horrific thought of shoveling it all back out on the other side !). Then an owner told us of the fuel consumption swimming which seemed 12x as bad as road. We hired a tug and barge instead ! Would have been a job to be remembered forever in all ways.S
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Never get past the end of the hose at the fuel station either ![emoji12]
