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Hey it's just shown again, but noticed some script missing. Turned screen on its side and there was the rest of the words including the sure thing rate now option. So your pop up isn't sorting itself out for screen orientation ! Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

I keep getting a pop up box this morning, asking me to rate the app. Asks me if don't want to, or if I want to rate later , but doesn't give a rate now option . Seems a weird couple of choices . Never seen this one before, but disappears on next click so not an issue. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Sperm or hump? Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

My 066 does this same scenario, but at all times. The stop/choke control rod is worn and doesn't operate the half throttle position properly. With a bit of jiggling I can get it to almost work, but I usually end up applying the chain brake, resting my knee on the top cover to restrain the saw, and squeezing the trigger whilst pullin the starter. I must invest in a new control rod one day !!! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Dragging, compressing stones into the bark and branch unions, pressure Washing and more sharpening add time and cost to the sawmillers bill. Better to keep em clean in the first place. Keeps me happy which keeps the client happy. So you've heard about our rain? - a very particular type indeed !! Shaun http://www.sawmilling.ie

Carlos, obviously we've both suffered helpful west cork fellas dragging trees about and making life hell afterwards. The "ooooohh no, don't do it" response just leaps out. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Believe me , if you're thinking of milling , the last thing you need is anyone, least of all a farmer dragging sawlogs about. Any sort of digger lifting the bulk of the log cleanly is far more preferable to spend hours sharpening because of mud and stone encrusted logs. Well meaning farmers with poor log handling techniques are the bane of my life. Diggers on site make my job a dream. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

"When you're milling up trees" - bloody hell you're a mighty man, I think my days tough enough doing it on the ground Sent from my GT-P5100 using Arbtalk mobile app

Cripey, wish I could even stay awake til midnight these days. However did we manage to dance all night, most of the early morning and still do a day's work afterwards. Oh the speed was good then! ;-);-) Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

There's five years of my life missing from my memory for some strange reason! I know I had a crazy mad time though. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

I'd certainly be interested to know how you get on with this idea/project. Ive been bouncing a similar idea around for a while, for a loading carrying unit for sawlogs into my lucas mill, with good off road capability and to look as ugly as possible. Mad Max machines rock my boat ! Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

I really hate being shot in the legs with stones or brash chippings, especially the ones with thorns still attached, and on lighter growth the guard does help to act as a sort of cutting anvil rather than winding it into a rope and then killing the blade speed. So a nuisance though they are, I prefer a guard in place. My blade of choice though is the 3 legged mulcher, as heavy a blade as the machine will spin. Mass is the key for destruction. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Following on from this on a very slight derail, does anyone have any good tips for blade guards. Smashing through light brush, gorse and briars, cracks and fractures the genuine , plastic guards on my 43cc kawasaki with annoying and expensive regularity. Any suggestions for good durable ( and cheap ) guards ? I've already tried the thin flimsy metal jobs that twist around the shaft and feed themselves into the blade. Shaun Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Takes away half the pleasure and fun , in my small mind. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

So if you get a really fat guy inside it does it behave like a 6 tonner? Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Pictures? Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Yep, I was caught out with that advertising pitch too. Found myself promising capacity I couldn't achieve. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

If only it was the case that my mill had been bought for me. I had to save hard, and sell other stuff to buy the mill outright before a grant was given, this itself took almost 6 months of writing and rewriting business plans, jumping through constant political hoops and stonewalls, to get a 1/6th reimbursement as an 0 interest loan over 3years with constant scrutiny, so climb back down, - a freebie it most definitely wasn't. If we hadn't made the decision 20 year ago to leave England and start a new life from absolute rock bottom and crawl and scrape every bit of a job we could find to keep climbing the ladder ,I would not be in the position where I am now. I advertise hard, I go to cattle markets trying to increase my visibility to other customers, most of whom arent even aware that mobile milling is a viable option to their timber needs. I'm out quoting, site visits on jobs where client have magnificent and unattainable dreams or don't have either an end use or a market for their timber, so no, not just sat on my arse dreaming about work, I have to generate it . - Some jobs turn into absolute gems, you just never can tell. Combine that with the pi$$ing wet west coast irish weather, mud and stone encrusted logs where the clients have skidded them behind a weak and knackered tractor, blade repairs etc all add up to a less than easy peasey job. The one thing we do agree on is that if you have an existing tree work business then the mobile mill is a usefull and viable added value item to consider, just don't be looking for it to instantly turn you into the most successful entrepreneur ever, and if you have other high overheads to meet don't tie up your capital in a sawmill that isn't earning its keep every day. Shiny new kit isn't necessarily an indicator of success.- nice to look at but if it's preventing a fulfilling life is it worth it? Sent from my GT-P5100 using Arbtalk mobile app

I do mobile milling as my sole business. I'm lucky in that I have no mortgage, loans or kids. - all money pits of varying degrees. All my equipment is paid for in cash, if I can't afford it I can't have it. I work probably 2 days per week averaged out over the year and live a relatively simple life . If my living requirements were any higher than this I'd be looking at a different occupation, I could always do with more customers, they just aren't there. I read a motto from an American site that I often quote back to myself- "if you want to make a million dollars as a sawmiller , start off with two " ! But at the end of the day, I love what I do, I meet some amazing, forward thinking people and I see some beautiful parts of the country. Shaun http://www.sawmilling.ie Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

I once made the mistake of blasting one inside our stone turkey house of about 12'x8'. Got the little bugger, but the stone shrapnel spattered across the face hurt like hell, and it was 3 days before the hearing returned back to normal. I now use a live capture trap and call the cat , who comes legging across the yard when she knows the cage is going to be opened. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

Gone ? Gone where ? On holiday or has he been really nasty to them? Perhaps an appeal on local radio will get them returned ! - Never been known for being paticularly sensible. ;-) ;-) Sent from my GT-I9195 using Arbtalk mobile app

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

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

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

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