Mountain man
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Everything posted by Mountain man
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Brilliant, great card!
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Fair enough, on reflection I think that recessing the top bolt so it sat flush on the top shelf would look better. (Like they said on the other thread)
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Looks good, shame about the iron stain bottom shelf left end.
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If the 88 or 3120 is paid for and in good nick, stick em in a corner (empty of fuel or with aspen) they'll never wear out and will pay for itself in the next 20 or so years.
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Bizarrely I have all four of those saws. The 560 is not comparable to the 660, keep your stihls and buy the huskys. Thing is, when you really need the 880 it'll come through. Keep em all.
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Looks like it. Nowt so queer as folk, as they say.
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Hey, your only doing what you're told to do. Could you not have convinced him to bring it at least 2ft below gutter level? then you've a chance of keeping it from under the tiles. Zooming in on the roof, it probably lets water in anyway.
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So you left it like that?
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Did you get up in the morning, lick the road clean, get thrashed to within an inch of your life ( and thank him for the privilege) work 26 hours, come home, eat gravel for your tea.........
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Could be any one of a number of Pinus.
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Well it all went well today. It was a good way of really showing how annoyed about it without actually tearing him off a strip. Making a joke of it. He used the saw of shame all morning. In the van on the way back to the yard I said we'd do some sharpening practice at some point. Naturally (for him!) he said he could do it perfectly well already.....yeah right!
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Nice shape on the alianthus Jay.
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Good feeling, well done.
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What's the difference between drop crotching and reduction? I know, I know about 250 quid!
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Serious grinding! Good pics.
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My letter is winging its way as we speak. (Joke, joke)
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Oh it's not so bad, like I say he's great at lots of stuff. I picked up the 372, which was a light saber 10 minutes earlier, to fell a spar, suddenly couldn't cut butter. "What happened to this I say?" "I don't know" says he "one minute it was great, next I doesn't cut so good" I've noticed that in life, there are people who just deny everything. Until you prove otherwise, then just shake their heads in disbelief. My wife is a founder member!
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They never helped for me. He's actually very engineery, fixes stuff I can't. He'll pick up the theory quick enough. Maybe just the morning with the 271!
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Good advice (and you CornishWoodburner) I still feel he should use the saw of shame for at least a day.
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I'm not sure staring counts as the ultimate deterrent.
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Because in many others aspects he excels. Nobody is perfect, I doubt many people who have recently passed their CS whatever can REALLY sharpen a saw. It's just a lighthearted rant. Feel free to do one:001_smile:
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Yes, and I'm sure he's not the only one.
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In which case he can spend all day on it smoking through wood, the other bloke can use the hot saws. That'll eat away at him.
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I have had this guy working for me for a couple of months. Very good in many ways, bit of a newbie but wants to learn etc. I've got high hopes for him. He just keeps blunting saws and denying it! 560/562/372 all get blunted by the saw fairy, he cannot sharpen so I spend a fair proportion of the day with a file. I've tried fronting him up but to no avail. I've even caught him at it, bucking up a trunk and touching the tip into the ground. He just says it didn't happen! Tomorrow I will have a little ceremony before work, I'll announce that for this day only he is banned from the good saws and must use the Stihl 271, our most hated saw. Let's see if that works.
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Yep I was thinking that, plus a loader on the tractor for the trunk sections. Get him to do it for the wood or at the most 100 quid. Price wise it's up to you, if it's as easy as it looks around a grand.
