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  1. Remove every other cutter and you'll have a fine chain for cutting round corners ! And youll need another with the opposite cuters removed to go in the other direction !! I cut off every third cutter to gve pairs of cuutters followed by the skip on my 066 wirh 36 " 3/8 chain. Mark and check several times before taking the grinder to the chain to make sure you dont get successive same side cutters together, depending on how the chain was joined initially. Make sure you dont get the grinder too close to the rivets. I learnt to use good light, a solid vice and my glasses the expensive way. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  2. Nice one, I've already thought of half a dozen other uses I could put this table to. Me and paypal will be getting on just fine - again. Thanks Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  3. Nice bit of work there. Well done. Are the antennas delicate using cross cut log slices? What's the table/clamp underneath it? Always looking for more kit to spend my money on ! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  4. Hi, I've also had this effect from my lucasmill slabber. It was actually more pronounced when using the correct hyper-skip milling chain than my own doctored standard chain. Anyway the long and short of it is, I can expect to see this washboarding if I'm putting too much pressure on trying to speed the cut, often a succession of patches like this interspersed with normal cut texture. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  5. Cripey, the speed it occurs is so frightening. A good reminder to me and definitely to him. What a lucky guy Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  6. Had a karcher , can't remember model but its a medium sized domestic, with a spool of light hose contained within. Twas a great washer but hose got kinked and damaged , it split / got holed in many places and wouldn't pressure any more. Tried to get new hose and almost died of shock at the price. Specialised fittings I believe prevent any other type of hose being used, or being made up. It remains to this day in the heap of things I may get round to repairing one day or will be canibalised for something else. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  7. The groundy's lunchbox ? Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  8. Love my 266sg dearly. Heated handles on a wet day are such a pleasure. Heavy saw in comparison to modern ones, but good balance and reliable Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  9. skc101fc

    Moles

    You keepya mules over there , I've enough trouble with donkeys Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  10. Alec, what's the book you have? Sounds historical, but we shouldn't dismiss old techniques -always useful stuff for the practical and adaptable mind. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  11. We all need help, divine or otherwise. I'll get my glass of holy brandy charged and raised in your direction. May your God go with you. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  12. If you listen or attempt to listen to the peeps in the churches out here in SW Ireland, it won't take long at all to do the hail marys. A couple of seconds per verse is slow Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  13. Will ya do one for me if I raise a glass in your direction ? I think I need it if you read earlier Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  14. That is a superb sentiment to the year. Aside from all the celebrity losses this year, I seem to have spent the entire year needing to be somewhere else in 5 minutes, or a succession of friends relatives or neighbours all needing tools ,assistance or transport also within 5 minutes. Work has been good when it's been there but also a worrying number of lean times. Just when I've been getting my head above water another raft of bills or unexpecteds come in to take the bank account back down to scratching the line. But despite all this I'm still alive and able to boot 2016 into the bad history dustbin and look forward to next year not being as mental. Wishing all reading this the very best for 2017. Stay safe. Shaun 2016 kiss my hole ! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  15. What the f@@# is goin on this year. Now we've lost George Michael. Its bloody crazy out there. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  16. Butt rot, gut rot my missus reckons ive got them all anyway!! I don't wear glasses/goggles anyway, so fogging isn't an issue.- oil and resin smeared clear lenses with rain droplets or saw cooling water mist are perhaps the wrong side of useless. Usually just using forestry helmet with mesh visor, so the 3 m type mask should do. Was just interested to know what others use. Thanks Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  17. Luckily no beard as really don't wish to be going down the helmet /air route if possible. Looking for practicality and comfort. Oh and some have said in the past, I've a big nose ! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  18. I've been cutting a fair number of fungi laced logs recently for clients, producing some gorgeous spalted slabs and planks, but being very aware of the strong essence of mushrooms/ fungus. Obviously this suggests that I'm heavily exposed to spores in the lungs. Does anyone have any sensible, practical suggestions for dust masks that are comfortable to use for extended periods -disposable or otherwise. Not heavy intrusive or restrictive in any way otherwise I just wont use em! - Or is wood fungi not an issue at all in which case I'll just crack on. Also needs to be weather resistant as all my work is outside. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  19. Nice colour too! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  20. I see Dave has put his axe to rest :sad: Breaking News : David Gilmour to announce retirement from music - Mediamass I worked in his garden taking out a dead apple tree, if I remember right, then grinding out the stump. One of those grand houses on Maida Vale, where the back garden is down a steep long flight of stairs at the side of the property. Got stumpy in, did the job with himself glaring out of the window all the time. Sweated me tits off getting all the scriff back up them bloody steps. Did I get a cup of tea or even a hello? Did I buggery!! Couldn't get Stumpy back up the steps , roasted the hydrostat drive - too steep and too long, but knew they ( the London garden company I was contracted to) were going to crane in a new tree , so left Stumpy there for several days and came back on Sunday to a complete road closure, a 120 tonne crane (simply to achieve the reach required) and the tiniest willow tree in a 40 litre pot. Christ it looked stupidly small swinging over the rooftops from the street outside. Craned Stumpy back out and away. Still no bloody greeting or cuppa or anything. It still stings now 20 years later. Knob was the word then, don't think I'm gonna change it even now. Funny how some things stay with you. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  21. There's a Layby close to my brothers place in leek on the Ashbourne road- everyone else seems to just drop it there !!! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  22. Got the engine running sweetly now. Yes the idle jet was blocked solid, I still didn't spot it first time round. Couldn't blow it out with the airline, so had to force it through with a strand from the wire brush. Gave the rest of the carb another blow through whilst it was on the bench, and got a lovely jet of petrol straight in the eye from one of the fuel passages! Don't that sting and burn like f@@k !!!! Anyway a nice sweet tickover now. That's the first time I've heard that since I bought the mill back to my yard. This is the one that was for sale here on Arbtalk a little while back. When I arrived to collect it the guy had the carb in bits then ,saying that suddenly it wouldn't idle. It really is as clean and fresh as he described it. All I need to do now is to construct a frame to stiffen it and raise it off the deck of my ifor williams, then it will be a great complement to my lucas mill for the smaller logs. Once again, Thanks Bob. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
  23. Doh. Sorry pressed wrong button and not for the first time. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app
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  25. Nice one Bob. I'll give it another strip down tomorrow, I don't recall seeing that item but now I know what I'm looking for I'll keep at it. It definitely behaves like a blockage here. A handy document to have anyway Thanks Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

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