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Makes the heart sing when you get logs like that, that's when you know you're in the right job.🙂

I visited Cologne (and frankfurt) way back in late 1980s. Noticed most street trees with any sort of defect filled with cement/concrete, and held together with massive galvanised through bolts. If they're still there I'd guess its because they're practically fossilised and no-one would want to put a saw anywhere near the poor things

Why fill with concrete? - It's not like they were going to float 🤔

Isn't there just a little bit of you that wants to grab hold of those stringy bits to clear them away......

Yep, rolled an articulated dumper going downhill then turning across hillside. Steering brings the uphill side wheels closer together and widens the gap on the downhill side. The skipfull of earth moves centre of G. down outside the wheelbase and over she goes. Terrific traction, and good self recovery when stuck, but not without their own particular set of risks.

Don't know the particular machine, but always used to make my heart sink to see a site with a zero swing turn up for milling work, craning over my lucas mill. I knew it was always going to be a trialing day , that reach and lift were compromised by balance and ability. There's a reason why zero's were manufactured, and why road construction and service industries love them- there's less restrictions to traffic flow when passing a working site, you can keep full lane open passing the excavation rather than narrowing to accommodate the extra length of a full fat machine as it swings. Horses for courses, but if your doing street work zero is the way to go, if not, old school will give way more capacity in all directions.

In all my years of arbtalk, the codwood/cordwood threads have given me and so many others so much delight and laughs. Don't know how it ever struck such a brill response but hey guys, run with it and don't perch on the fence.

I have a recollection of it being used for decks of lorries and trailers, as its light, flexible, not brittle, squashes and compresses under point pressure from heavy loads but expands back out when unloaded, and takes preservatives relatively well.

Whoaaaa ..... how does that work? Incredible. At first I thought either the statement was stupid or I was stupid, then it happened.👍👍

Stunning, but how did he get it on?

Sorry Steve, only looked at first picture and didn't spot the second one of your iron wheels. A wooden beam axle would look really shit with those.

Shaved and shaped wooden beam as axle, turned or sanded, round wheel areas ( "journals") then either wooden pins or large lynch pins ( available from farm stores, usually for securing jcb fork attachment bars) to retain wheels in place and allow rotation.

Yep, me. They always look so tempting, then I lose the appetite to eat them.

That's where stocks on the village green and public retribution come in. Oh how I want to hear the sound of a three year old, well seasoned coconut bouncing off his slippery vegetable encrusted head.

We'll still never be able to truly despise him, as the little shit will have his hoody pulled tightly down over his face and be claiming all manner of underage protections, and will only grunt when asked to give his name. Expose, shame and humiliate rather than give them free absolution to carry on being the turds of society

If you're running TVO, she'll smell lovely too, once warmed up

Wow ,how does that work then?

Wow , that's an entire years engineering education course neatly wrapped up there. I don't have the luxury of a proper heated rod oven/store, but all rods remain in my airing cupboard. New boxes go straight in there sealed, opened boxes never leave it. I only ever take out as many loose rods as I estimate I'll need to do the job. I used to waste so much time fighting to strike and maintain the arc with ones left on top the welder for months, and then was taught by an old boy, to treat the rods with more respect than the work I was doing.

Have you ever considered writing a novel, or poetry perhaps? I've done a fair amount of oxy acet welding and stick welding to a reasonable standard. But hell, you've made it sound sexy ! Yep most important technique is preparation before even switching on the welder, and control and monitoring the weld pool.

Holy f@@k, you are one of the luckiest guys alive to have been rescued before all blood and life was lost. Dear God if this isn't the best education to all workers to respect their machinery. Truly horrific, but sometimes we need a good shake up. Well done for posting them and keep on talking to us as you rehab. Hope your family is well, and looking after you and coping with I would guess massive mood swings Shaun

I had a mcdonald's the size of a half inch socket 😉

Ok. Sorry

I'm sorry for your loss of understanding. Experience of 3 of these dreadful machines has taught me to leave them well alone. Yes the mechanics of them is perfectly sound!, the materials they're made from is unfortunately of really really poor standard. Look at the low grade studs that barely secure the exhaust onto the block - soft unstressed steel that continuously stretches to make a poor fit that stretches the first time it gets used for real hard work. Bar studs also made of similar low stress steel. There's a really strong reason why these machines are a third of the price of quality kit, but I think you know that already - a quick buck which hopefully you can pass on as quickly as possible, . I now refuse to service them anymore even for friends, - torque any component up to the correct level, and either threads strip out , or the fixings actually shear . I realise the disappointment of what should be a great business opportunity. Sure there's bucketloads of customers desperate to get their equipment mended, having used them for maybe a couple of weekends, and finding customer services impossible to contact or get any viable resolution from when failures start to occur. If you become a trader in used ones, you will also have a duty of care to service and maintain. Simple advice from long experience without insults.

If your going to be a trader in saws that really should remain in the skip, then you'd best stock up on a good quality set of taps and dies to rebuild and strengthen all the fittings made of chocolate and cheese. There's a damn good reason working guys, whose businesses depend on being able to do a day's work use only top quality or best affordable kit. Cheap disposable householder stock is just that- disposable! Rebuilding and selling on this tripe is only going to break your heart as your 'clients' will be bringing this shit back to you for more and more infuriating repairs as the next bit vibrates loose and falls off. Mick is spot on with the best course of action. Oh, and his membership is honest and impressive I believe. Xx

Nice methodology. If we all followed this approach and worked out which component was failing each time, at least half of us wouldn't be on this forum, and the other half wouldn't have a mass of bits they'd forgotten how to put back together.