Macpherson

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. 😁

A band saw Alaskan WTF not.. good stuff, go for it mate, as for your age... I'm jealous 👍

Glad you've got it figured out, cheers.

I guess that's wot I was saying... 👍

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.

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.

Me too, a capable inbetweener, solid but portable and a good price when I got mine 👍

Yeah, If push comes to shove I'll do a 150 mile trip.. often the cheapest as well 👍

Yep same, can't get any cement up here.

266 as well by any chance👍

Lovely to see quality work like yours 👍

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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.

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.

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.

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 👍

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.

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.

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.

+1 for the oil being the problem, I get it when you say you don't want mineral oil all over your woodland but from an engineering standpoint I doubt that there's many metal to metal contact wearing surfaces that could stand being lubbed with veg oil for very long, can't imaging getting away with using it on a motorcycle chain and sprockets for instance. From a felling point of view I don't think the Bar and chain would come under such constant pressure as they will be when ringing up so much hardwood, so you could try felling in the wood with saws using bio oil to be green and then using saws with proper oil back at base to ring the stuff up ... and see if there's any difference, which I suspect there might.... and therefore containing any contamination to a specific area whilst prolonging the life of your equipment , cheers.

There's really not much Pine left in Scotland compared to the vast amounts of Sitka, and the Pine that is available tends to be ' I think ' Pinus Sylvestris which I find burns very hot and particularly the horizontal branches that, in a mature tree can be really quite large, very dense and full of resin. What is a bit sad is that when you're working on old buildings often you come across lintels, cladding etc that are of pine species no longer around and even after perhaps 100's of years when cut into it, the wood smells amazing, full of resin and is perfectly preserved as if it was felled yesterday and is often well worth saving. So yes, I'll burn it... but I'd rather see it growing on our hillsides. I know that Sitka spruce is a useful wood if grown in the right place but that's not Scotland or anywhere further south.. it's just a short sighted disgrace that it's here at all, another example of lcd Britain.... rant over

What future 😂

Very much with you there, and to me this carries over into human medicine driven by pharma's corrupt greed. I'm not anti vet and in fact I have a very conscientious and open minded one, but I think it's worth researching any problem that your hairy companion has in order to keep yourself up to date with current thinking and enabling you to have an educated conversation with your vet if treatment is needed... There's no doubt that at the right time removing a dogs sexual urges whether male or female makes them a lot more stable and reliable about the home, cheers.

Yeah the Logosol range look top quality, possibly the best at that level of the market and I've already looked at them but whatever I eventually get I will have it covered in some way even if only a roof, cheers.

Totally agree, the Norwood I've used is old but will probably be cutting logs many years from now... that Norwood you posted looks very much up there and the, Woodland range look real solid although I have to say your Logosol looks shit hot... I'm only fishing atm as I'll not be buying until I can get it under cover.. feckin sick of stuff rusting 😟