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https://www.donedeal.ie/gardenequipment-for-sale/husqvarna-395xp-chainsaw/19770932 Just come across this little beauty on done deal here in Ireland. I wish I had the €3(.)00 it deserves. Wouldn't like to put a 36" on it for long. Interesting slightly non genuine ("gives technical"...?) serial /data tag , and that lovely sickly lurid orange that all pikey girls like to wear. I really hope the link works for you all. Shaun

That's the fella, he's often around my place.

My explanation sounds like it takes a week to achieve, sorry, in fact longest slowest part of job is the careful shaving to fit, everything else a case of bish, bash, bosch(!) and all done in less than 20 minutes if you've got everything prepared. But personally I'd go with Lazarus and either let him at it or get an education. Always good to see another mans technique.

Get a load of axe shafts of good quality and size, bringem into your house for a few weeks to really dry out. Meanwhile with an electric drill , drill lots of holes into the wood of the broken axe shafts around any wedges you see until they practically fall out or can be tugged out with pliers. Then drill similar holes through the remaining wood of the old shaft to break it into small pieces that chip out easily until you can clear out the old easily. Just driving out the complete old shaft never seems to work for me, things get tighter and more frustrating. Place a new dry shaft into the axe head , it probably wont go in far at all, but will leave a dirty mark showing where wood needs to be removed. Use the flap wheel , a spokeshave or a drawknife for this but take of very little. Repeat several times till a full tight fit is achieved. Drive it home fully. I then shape a hardwood wedge to fit down the full depth of the shaft, and cross this with the earlier recovered steel wedges. Now dump the whole lot in a bucket of water to swell the grain for several days and job should be a goodun. Repeat for the other axe heads, whilst youve got the tools out and in your in the right mood. !

Hope the cat doesn't knock the lid down after drinking outa the bowl. Ouch.

A section of stump ground lead pipe will be just the excuse you need to get rid of it altogether and replace with modern safe alternative. Surprised that wasn't job no.1

Yep, tried once reversing a set of three. Never knew it was possible to jacknife in so many directions at once

Every one I ever had to pull on the roads was definitely Satan's friend. Never would pull straight, weaving wildly from side to side, at least it saved me having to turn around to see how they were doing, - a glance through the side door and there they'd be happily skidding around. They leave some lovely swirly lines on the road surface though.

Its a bit like going to the tool store with the wife in tow, keep her moving and don't give her the opportunity to change direction

The shorter the tree/pole the harder they are to get the hinge to operate normally. Definitely a hard, fast constant pull through and beyond vertical is required. A fat hinge is too slow, but gives holding if your pull rope isn't already taking maximum tension. A winch in this situation is too slow in my opinion.

That's the one I use too.

I've replaced my heavy 4wd tractor for a quad, with a flail topper, light trailer, chain harrows, and small roller for doing all my farm work here. The quad on its own or carrying small loads will go across every bog and into all the tightest steepest parts of my mountain farm. Put a loaded trailer behind or the flail mower (300kgs) and the whole dynamics and balance change completely. I then really have to think about how to get into many places and even more importantly how to get back out if the implement pushes me into a tight corner. A small trailed weight on a slope pushes and jackknifes incredibly easily. There just isn't the weight or traction to deal with these situations. Slow though they may be I'd keep a very open mind to small / compact tractors

Lovely....just lovely, I'd be orgasmic to see something like that come off the mill.

Yep heard of this one before. Had an Aussie lucas miller explain it to me a while back, basically chains and blades are designed to cut perpendicular to the timber. An angled wood edge means one side of cutting edge is doing more work than the other, putting a minute twist into the cutter whilst the other side is lazy on entry, and can if given too much force, start cutting off line. Def another possibility.

A rabbit?

Hi Mark. Is there perhaps something obstructing the clear ejection of sawdust , so that it starts to build up a layer under the bar, pushing the cut upwards? I get this occuring sometimes on the lucas slabber if I'm pushing too fast and not giving it time to clear the dust/ chips. Normally feel an increase in resistance though to let me know somethings not right. Glad to hear you're getting back to working.

All the holes will be a safe harbour for insects at least.

After milling fencing stakes for one particular farmer, I was astounded when he announced he was more delighted with the heap of sawdust than the fence stakes. Said that used in the cow sheds it didn't block up his slurry system like straw does. One good thing about the Lucas mill is it do make a lot of coarse sawdust.

Could be coral spot? Or maybe someones attacked it with a shark implement ? Oh no, here we go again !

To Nathan who's probably wondering what the hell's happening here, the simplest most innocent of spelling mistakes can lead to some of the most spectacularly glorious threads . If you need to know put in 'codwood' into the search box for pages and pages of piscal entertainment. Pure magic !

Now there's the real important issue. My heart sinks when a client tells me he's skidded the logs to a convenient worksite. As a sawmiller the last thing you want to see is logs plastered with mud, with stones and gravel packed into all the crotches, crevices and branch joints. I know its going to be a slow day trying to scrape and brush the worst of the shite off, and expensive in damaged blades. If you need to skid, keep one end as high as possible, so the log drags only on the heel end, which can be cut off at the landing site. Come on keep 'em clean guys. Shaun

The guy in the video is an irish farmer, vid is actually produced by teagasc, the irish farm advisory service. Unfortunately regarding trees in the landscape and on private ground, Ireland lags way behind the standards in the UK. Its not uncommon to see roadside trees smashed to f##k by diggers. I've even recently witnessed 2 council workers stood in a jcb bucket smashing off low branches with spades in Cork city ! The attitude is still one of "sure why should I be paying that amount to a tree company, when my brother will do it for a quarter of the price, and we'll have a days fun doing it ". This is really common place, though attitudes are starting to change a little, helped by vids like this one. However at the moment landowners are far more concerned of being taken to court for litigation reasons arising from risk of roadside trees failing, than of personal risk to themselves by poor practice.

A whole catalogue of cause and effects in there, but health and tiredness must be one of the more important ones. We're conditioned now to accept the 'tiredness kills' motto when driving on the roads but refuse to consider its impact at work. Always a case of 'I'll take a break at the next tree, or tank of fuel,whatever. ' Last week I opened up the outer layer of pants across the knee for that very same reason. Once it occurred I knew it was tiredness caused, but had to finish the job. Forced myself to slow down, pay more attention to risks and be more aware. It happens to us all and we're not indestructible. Luckily the guy in the vid is able to recount clearly what his mistakes were. Take care, take time.

Corr, heroic effort there Peter, I expect you to get a few job offers from guys looking for groundys with determination and stamina.

I think I really was born stupid for the number of filler cap failures I've had. I just fail to grasp the simple mantra of , cap comes off- cap goes back on. I can repeat it to myself a dozen times and at least once a month I'll see the shimmering trail with accompanying wet leg. .....Oooh eerrr mrs before anyone else says it. It never seems to happen with the combi can, only the saws.I consider myself an intelligent man but something about doing the caps up just doesn't register. I think gnomes are tw#ts too. Good for marking the drop zone.