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Stayed in a hotel last night and had a bath. The control identification for hot and cold were non existent and the direction for shower or bath the same. So I managed to have scalding hot water on my scalp instead of nice warm water in the bath. Venturing to the basin to clean my teeth there are no symbols on the single lever tap to identify hot and cold. You are meant to assume I suppose that all hot water is on the right side or right tap, but I stayed in Italy where it was the other way round. I see this everywhere now and in some places they have a red and blue dot. So you my turn the tap to the right in the direction of the red dot but now right in front of you is the blue dot and the red one out of vision to the side. You might think it is obvious to feel the water but in some hotels it takes ages for the hot to come through. It really is not too difficult surely to put a static line on the tap stem and a red or blue dot that lines up with the line when you move the lever. I have such a tap on my shower here at home. You would have thought with 'Elf an Safety everywhere this might be a priority. Rant over (I think!)

I'm still hurting!

I tried fitting a cone splitter on my posthole digger on the front of the Matbro but it was not successful. (I blame the driver¬) In reality I used an old track motor from another swing shovel and it may have seen better days Either the hydraulic motor was tired or the cone was not good enough. I do have a 15 ton 360 so it would still be an option as I was impressed with some youtube videos.

I did not know that until I tried it!

There will be messing around but if I can drop four 2 foot diameter logs twenty feet long with the teleporter and then load the 8x8 inch lengths again onto the teleporter to take to the Palax at least there will be no lifting on my part and I am betting it will be quicker. Yes the splitter is slow but some pieces are very knotty and even with that ex army ram powered by the Fastrac hydraulics, I can see the table bend with the strain. The Lucas would go through them like a knife through butter My Palax will only deal with 12 inch through the splitter and 10 inch through the circular saw. Again quite honestly I would not want to be loading 20 inch diameter logs into a processor hopper all day as they are bloody heavy.

Well I tried the first option and it took over two hours to fill a box 1. Cut the logs into rounds, new chain on the Stihl 340 2. Heave the weighty rounds into the teleporter bucket ( aargh! My back!) 3. Heave weighty rounds onto splitter platform. ( aaarrrgh! My back again) 4 Operate strong but slow splitter ram, bend down pick up pieces, put them on table again for second split, pick up all the pieces and chuck into teleporter bucket. ( now need painkiller) 5 tipbucket into box, two loads) the the pieces of wood are all different sizes due to the knotty nature of the wood. Fine for my Aarrow Stratford but generally unsaleable to the general public. Now looking forward to doing the remainder with the Lucas Mill and hopefully no lifting involved!

No I did mean the other one below and I thought that it was the cover release but when I undid it the cover seemed to be locked solid so I did not wish to break anything. It is probably just glued together with age. I am quite strong but by hell that saw sometimes gives me an arm wrenching kickback! I assume that it is nearly as new since I have never heard the neighbour using it. The compression seems all right anyway and it runs well. I gather that they were only made for a short time in the early 2000s so it must be about fifteen years old.

Does anybody know if the Stihl MS340 was fitted with a decompression device local dealer says not but elsewhere on the internet it does show some spare parts listing a 340 decompression valve I always assumed that the thing on top of the cylinder head in the photo was a valve with the plunger missing but it must be something else. I do not see this item on some other photos of 340s

There are plenty about, Garboldisham, Stiffkey, Marham (Not the RAF version!), Costessey, Setchey, Hunstanton They do it so that they know if you are a foreigner or not, meaning North of the Great Ouse or South of the Waveney, ma old buty!

My brother and I were coming home through a muddy track in the woods after dark. I misjudged a corner and became very stuck with the six wheel drive Land Rover V8 Sandringham Six. No worries, had a good winch in the front and sent brother off into the gloom to tie the cable onto a tree. He went into a clump of Blackthorn and tied it around a stout 30 inch diameter Ash trunk. Started the winch, and the cable took the strain and started to come in but there was no forward movement on the Land Rover. "What's happening" I yelled. The answer "The whole tree plus root ball has come out of the ground and is heading towards you!" Turns out that the tree had broken off about ten feet up and was rotten but he could not see this in the dark and amongst the Blackthorn.

In Flying Magazine there is a page near the end headed "I learned about flying from that" where pilots confess their sins in the hope that it might help others not do the same thing. I'll start it off! Just replaced the stolen branch logger with a tractor driven one which I am very pleased with. The feed hopper folds up neatly to reduce the width for road work. It is mounted on my Little Grey Fergie which is a good combination as the Fergie is petrol and I have rigged the safety bar on the feed hopper to cut the coil out to stop the engine. I also noticed that when folded up the hopper makes a neat little storage compartment for transporting the Stihl 170 and the oil/fuel can. (no room on the cabless Fergie) Somehow my mind went blank when I set off and lifted the hydraulic lever to raise the logger for transport. The Grey Fergie is unusual in that it does not have constant flow hydraulics and the power take off must be engaged to power the pump to lift the arms................... I was very lucky in that there was only a loud "Twack" as the orange chainsaw cover was ejected from the rear of the machine, luckily the chainsaw blade was not drawn in! No harm to the logger blades but it does show the strength of the Stihl bar cover as apart from a couple of slits it survives to be used again. Next time before I engage pto I will endeavour to engage brain at the same time!

My Split Dilemma seems to have already split into two topics all on its own! I will put a new chain on the Stihl 340 to give you a chance. A lot depends on how much time it takes to change logs on the Lucas If I had one big twenty foot long five foot diameter log on the Lucas it would win hands down.

I think that the prime suspect must be "The Village Hallfwit" !

I am afraid they are not very good otherwise I would put them through the Lucas more carefully

I have quite a large heap of two foot plus diameter logs, many 10-15 feet long Ash Beech and Sycamore, too big and heavy for the 10 inch capacity Palax. I have been trying out a very strong vertical tractor hydraulic driven splitter with a four way wedge. It has dealt with some really awkward knotty pieces with ease. This means quite a bit of chainsawing large rounds into the Teleporter bucket to take a load to the splitter and then tip the split pieces into a 2 cubic metre box. The ram is slow on the splitter An alternative is to grab a couple of logs with the Teleporter, maybe four if they fit within the 20 foot length of the Lucas Mill. Faff about lining them up. Cutting into 8x8 inch length and then putting them through the Palax to cut and split them and load into the same box. This would produce the most consistent sized firewood. I will time how long it takes to fill each box, which one do you think will be the winner?

I have quite a large heap of two foot plus diameter logs, many 10-15 feet long Ash Beech and Sycamore, too big and heavy for the 10 inch capacity Palax. I have been trying out a very strong vertical tractor hydraulic driven splitter with a four way wedge. It has dealt with some really awkward knotty pieces with ease. This means quite a bit of chainsawing large rounds into the Teleporter bucket to take a load to the splitter and then tip the split pieces into a 2 cubic metre box. The ram is slow on the splitter An alternative is to grab a couple of logs with the Teleporter, maybe four if they fit within the 20 foot length of the Lucas Mill. Faff about lining them up. Cutting into 8x8 inch length and then putting them through the Palax to cut and split them and load into the same box. This would produce the most consistent sized firewood. I will time how long it takes to fill each box, which one do you think will be the winner?

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr and thrice times Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I just opened a five gallon jerry can. The cap was under pressure and when it released I am now covered in petrol! So it is now. " I stink therefore I am!" (I think I shall be using the cordless saw if this sort of thing keeps happening)

Now there's a thought, because of course "thinking is the best way to travel!"

Dan Maynard Junior Member 3 posts Report post Posted 13 hours ago I don't know what the chain is exactly but my Stihl Kombi pole saw has bumper links between the teeth - won't cut on the tip of the bar at all so doesn't kick back, you can't bore. That's 3/8" narrow kerf so may fit the MSA120? TigerTree Junior Member Posted 13 hours ago An Oregon Guard Mate might be what you want... Both those are good thoughts thank you

In search of the lost chord?? That's very moody and blue!

All sounds a bit diminished to me!

Taken on most of the advice and today went off and bought a MSA 120 with two AK 20 batteries and a short bar. It has the tiny PM3 Micro chain for which I have not managed to find a small enough grindstone for my Oregon Suresharp. I will test it myself tomorrow in a variety of possible kickback situations and see whether I need to put any more protection on the blade as described above.

Are all your guitars chordless as well???

I like the sound of that saw and chain and bar. How long does the battery last, can you buy different sizes of battery? Where did you buy your saw?