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  1. skc101fc
    Hi Rob. Would you consider looking at skip chain for us lucas millers . The chains are .404 , 063 , 27RX 3 or 5 skip. The machine (10" lucas mill) is supplied with 5 skip which is good all round chain but cutting speed could be increased on softwoods or smaller diameter timber with the 3 skip. I've tried making my own from conventional 404 saw chain with cutters ground away and angles changed but the chains snap too often,- I guess too much horsepower, and loads of vibration issues. At 190 drive links per loop you wouldnt be too long getting through a hundred foot reel. Shaun
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    Hi. One excellent tip I learnt from another miller is to lift the entry end of the log higher than the tail end .That way the slabber self feeds through the log requiring much less manual effort to make a pass. Don't have the slope too extreme or the unit is a real cow to pull back to the top. I got it badly wrong one job and ended up pushing the unit uphill all the time. - Dear God I wanted to die at the end of that job, and with the client stood there watching didn't feel like admitting I cocked up after the first couple of cuts. Just lied and told him the wood was really tough and hard, to explain the sweat and purple face, rather than dropping the unit down and turning it round !! Ya never stop learning Shaun
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    Just keep on buying then you'll be sure to be there at the end
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    Yep, used that one as well. If you're the sort of tit that I am, and spend a long time planning where to get stuck next, you get quite proficient at making solutions like this !!
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    Love the idea of just blowin the needles under the sofa. Saves a whole heap of effort. Thanks for bringing us this. Shaun
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    Good marine ply seems to be getting harder to find.-lots of crap coming out of asia claiming to be marine or wbp that delaminates with the moisture from virgins breath and chicken farts. Creosote away. Shaun
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    Smoke, - over fuel -difficult to assess , or insufficient air - easier to check. Blocked air filter or collapsing flexible intake pipes? Open up a direct air to manifold joint and see if things improve. This will show an air intake issue, if no joy you're then starting to look deeper I'm afraid. Blocked fuel filters/ injectors dont smoke but do kill power. Shaun
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    Going back to the original post, yes a length of chain or even knotted rope works just as well, but try to keep you pins in a straight line on each 'leg of the v' so no one pin is loaded any more than another. Its got me out scrapes/ wet holes many times without spending money on super kit that spends 99.9% of its time taking up usefull space. If ya flush spend away, if ya practical use ya head. Shaun
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    Hi. I have a honda powered garden shredder that used to run fine for maybe 5mins but would then cut out . Once this happened I could get it to start and run with various amounts of choke but never for more than a minute, - used to drive me hairless. Any after numerous stripdowns of carb I noticed the cracked exhaust protection shield would warp and twist to a point where it actually touched and earthed out the plug lead, killing the engine. Now its removed and thrown away engine runs as it should every time. I'd be checking and replacing the float valve though if the sump level is rising.
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    Exactly!
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    Don't know bout da spikes bein home made but that must be one of the most relaxed,comfortable helmets ever. Is it in stock @honey bros?
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    Tickets bought. Many thanks for an easy process. Good luck all and everyone. Stay safe and be happy in 2016. Shaun
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    Oh the wall of death .now ya talkin a good memory. For those outside a 45°grass bank in a curve of the college drive right outside the mansion house and principals front window. The college gestapo put in wooden bollards along the full length to try to stop us. Rag week the whole lot was piled up outside said office window in defiance. Oh glory days
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    Angus was on the nca course I think but yep I was there. Young and stupid then, and lived by the name of 'shep' , now just stupid ha ha ( and obviously much older)
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    Sorry to have kidnapped the OP. Shuttleworth is a grand place to be doing any sort of course.
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    Why do owners do that? Produce pretentious food then wonder why their place is suddenly full of knobs an tossers. Excluding you guys of course. My earlier comment bout wishing I had a memory of it wasn't asking about the food, just wishing I could remember the whole three years!! Shaun
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    Over here in SW Ireland no one ponces about with brushcutters. Just simply get a track digger of any size you wish, but the longer the track the better stability on the mountain sides. As said earlier the roots are very small and light. Roll the bush around a bit to lose ,soil, rocks and more importantly native dormant seed stocks, then pile up and burn carefully. The stuff goes up like rocket fuel. Our land here was very densely coverred almost entirely with gorse. We didn't re seed or anything, the grass and wildflower was already there in seed, just waiting for daylight to shoot away. The sheep took any fresh gorse regrowth. Cutting still leaves quad bike tyre snagging roots and stumps.
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    That's the one. Used to be a charles wells owned pub with some very well kept beers. Maybe because of the high turnover due to the significant amounts drunk by the students. Also did excellent grub very quickly. Aaahh if only I had a memory of it all.!!!!
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    This place is a great setting . Some good mature woodland which I used to break into and rally an old car I won in a raffle, around. Good subsidised college bar and when you've been ejected from that, a fine pub just beyond the college gates. The best three mis-spent years of my life , amazingly managing to pass my hnd in agriculture, back in 1985-87.
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    Stunning piece of work there Si. You really have great vision to do this sort of stuff. Love the setting on the post/stump just as you'd expect to see in life. Shaun
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    Jayzus how can the govt have made such a complicated bollox of the thing. Here in Ireland we've had a bag levy for many years ,not sure of the number but could easily be 10. None of this some businesses but not others, or some products but not others kak. Its just an outright up front, everyone knows it, charge. Works simple and we all know where we stand and what to expect. Because its a blanket coverage there's none of this what if ......rubbish , its just a straightforward pay for a bag or use your own, or one of the boxes the shops provide, thus saving themselves a disposal charge. Many times we criticise the govt here, but they got it right with this one ,unlike your load of muppets. And yes I am a brit living outside. I read the BBC news and am so frequently glad I got out.
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    Got one of those yokes on my lucas, cuts a nice weatherboard, but setting/guaging/ measuring is the devils own work. - I rarely get consistent sizes. Maybe im doing something wrong. Shaun
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    Please let us know how you get on with, which bits get on your wick and what you'd change. I'm currently going through the various similar options. A bit of operator insight could help me make the right decision. Thanks Shaun
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    Slim Jim ? He has a cousin in denmark - Bjorn Slippy. Where's me coat?
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    Used one on a ford 1910 compact tractor on the estate where I was working. Not great results. Very dependent on perfectly smooth ground. Every hollow or lump in ground was amplified by length of arm especially on balloon turf saver tyres. Clean cutting edge though I'd have to go over it twice as some light twigs would be brushed flat and then spring back again afterwards. Ended up using stihl hs85 for faster better cutting. Gimmick rather than time saver Shaun

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