Macpherson
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What tune ?
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Yeah Stubby, I know the pain... when I first got mine it was similar, I striped it down found nothing obvious, cleaned and greased it and put it back together and it was improved but why ? I think the most important part of using it is to make sure that the cable doesn't drag in any shit as the cable tolerances are very tight. With green paint, mine is prob ex army and by the look of it 40+ years old with very little use, but as I think it has a second gear for quickly taking up slack which is jammed, I tried to download a manual and to top it all somewhat unbelievably by doing this I got a deeply embedded computer virus which cost me a lot. So does anyone know if an old TU35 has a second gear, cheers.
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Hi, I use a TU 35 [ occasionally ] which I have pulled a 5 ton [ estimated ] boulder about 30 yards with the Tractel wire rope, wire rope slings and chains... it was at it's limit, I don't think that the handle was anywhere near long enough and watching your video has given me PTSD😄 I don't think that the Tractel rope stretches hardly at all and if a chain slips it's very undramatic.. but it's also very eye opening just how much even large pp ropes and strops stretch before you get any movement of what your trying to shift. That wee version looks very handy from my point of view .. and for a Tirfor what you need is a cable long enough that you do as few resets as possible or you just wear yourself out taking up slack.... But there's no better tool when needed.
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I know some will like this,
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Holly hedge trimmings disposal
Macpherson replied to Newark Jim's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Exactly, although I'd change sometimes to often 👍 -
As a long term user of this stuff I can say that it has definitely helped protect my machinery from the effects of ethanol damage that I see every day in all the other engines that I repair.. in fact the combined costs due to ethanol globally must be truly enormous cancelling any box ticking green agenda piss. Although I'm not so sure about it protecting against E85.... B3C Ethanol Shield Fuel Stabiliser 118ml - Treats up to 150L WEIBANG.UK.COM PREVENT future engine problems with Ethanol ShieldSUITABLE for power equipment with either 2 or...
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I don't understand your comment, how else would you cut stone ? it's just a chainsaw with a different cutting tool. Mine gets used every other day and I'm very grateful for it's existence. If I had to guess I'd imagine you get asked to fix endless TS 400's owned and completely fecked by mechanically inept and clueless builders.. in which case I sympathise and totally agree with you. 😁
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A band saw Alaskan WTF not.. good stuff, go for it mate, as for your age... I'm jealous 👍
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Glad you've got it figured out, cheers.
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I guess that's wot I was saying... 👍
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Suppose you'd have to buy it to try it..... If you want to get into milling I'd go for the Alaskan or the chinky copy which gets a reasonable crit and is probably cheaper, cheers.
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I've found similar and like you put it down to a very hot engine ceasing to be cooled by the flywheel when stopped and the air pressure in the tank being increased by the temp rise forcing oil through...very annoying when it makes a right mess of a previously clean surface 👍 The tank vent seems to let air in but not out so when that happens to fail a lot of oil can be lost out of it when using the saw tilted well over... as you do, and on my ' older ' Stihl models the vent overflows into the same area behind the clutch, drips out under the sprocket and had me flummoxed for a while.
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Me too, a capable inbetweener, solid but portable and a good price when I got mine 👍
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Yeah, If push comes to shove I'll do a 150 mile trip.. often the cheapest as well 👍
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Yep same, can't get any cement up here.
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266 as well by any chance👍
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Lovely to see quality work like yours 👍
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Yep, there's no doubt that Monsanto are global poisoners.... This doesn't really make our news with any impact, what a surprise ! I use this source but there are many others. Roundup Maker to Pay $10 Billion to Settle Cancer Suits - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Bayer faced tens of thousands of claims linking the weedkiller to cases of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Some of the money is...
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Yep, even with the Stihl bar the bolts are only just long enough and no more. I suppose at least for these bolts you can just use easy to find M8 nuts and bolts. I fitted my new brackets today and although I can see that they'll not snap like the old ones, I didn't like the way that the U bolt ends a nuts now stick out right at the saw's oil tank and lose me a 1/2" in the max cut + another 1/4" to be safe... so I turned the end bracket next to the saw round but that means reading the scale doesn't line up, pita. I can see that I'll probably weld up and strengthen the originals and refit that next to the saw, if I ever get round to it....I'm not bothered about the unified threads and I love milling with it, but considering the price of a mill now I'm not super impressed with the ' all American ' engineering... hope tomorrow goes better, cheers.
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Hi, There's been quite a lot of stuff on here on this subject so if you search you'll find it all but fwiw pulse induction detectors used for beech detecting seem to have the deepest reach in wet wood, I use a Cscope cs4pi which might be a bit old hat by now but it finds metal at varying depths depending on uncertain variables, cheers.
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If your stuck for tomorrow 3/16 is 4.76mm so shouldn't be too hard to take a tiny wee bit off a 5mm Allen key.
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Hi, they are imperial unified threads and wrench sizes, It's because it's American and they've not gone metric, you're probably using a 13mm AF spanner as well which fits but not as well as a 1/2" AF, easy to find, cheers. Yep, just checked my new brackets which I'll be fitting tonight ... 1/4" unc Allen bolt, 3/16" af Allen key 👍
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I suppose it boils down to how much you want a stove as it sounds like the flue is the main problem, pictures of how bad or otherwise that is would be revealing, like I said the hearth problem is easy sorted, all the best.
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A new twin wall flue straight up from a short stove pipe and through the ceiling and roof, then , I believe only 50mm clearance required with the correct fittings and as for the Gyproc and wallpaper [ you get fireline plasterboard ]... just strip it off and line with slate or something incombustible, that might get you 2" a side extra .... your half way there already with the new stove. Sorting the hearth is easy.... did the guy that came round offer to take the stove off your hands ? Sounds like the original fitting was a cowboy job but I don't see the problem as unsortable in a bungalow, only my opinion of course, cheers.
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And that would / could have been my next post... pretty sure the brand name Castrol was originally a play on words due to the fact that before mineral oils were a thing Castor oil was the best known or most popular veg based machine oil available and I'm sure it would lube a bar and chain... at a price. And yes, used to run my bikes on the stuff, loved it👍 Here, get yer self a bargain, a wee splash in the tank of any petrol machine and you'll still turn heads today😁 Castrol R40 WWW.EBAY.CO.UK Condition is "New". 3 X 5 Litres Castrol R40. Just to say all Three Cans are Full of Castrol R as described on the tin.
