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Steve, give me a shout if you get booked at Cumbernauld and if I am available I might be interested in doing the course as well. I am close to Cumbernauld. I was in a similar situation to yourself, heavy industry for 30 odd years etc. I started using a chainsaw about 12 years ago and use it frequently. Industry does give you the common sense but there is some chainsaw 'rules' to learn. It's up to you but I would resell the chainsaw and get yourself a new Industry standard one like a Stihl, Husky, Echo, Dolmar. Get yourself the PPE as well, steelies, visor, helmet if there is branches above you, ear defenders, I bought chainsaw chaps as well, I know a lot of the proper users don't like them but they are fine a handy to clip on for an hour chainsaw work, the proper guys prefer the chainsaw trousers but they have a saw in there hand all day.
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I had the fs450 that I was convinced had a fuel issue, stripped the carb down, cleaned and poked about still use to flatten out at full tilt under load, eventually just changed the spark plug to eliminate it, hey presto sorted, must have been breaking down under load.
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What a set of pics, thanks for posting that Steve, currently looking at my hand just now, no V, no increase in smelling but still a bit there and still local pain if I press the puncture point.
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My turn !!!! Using a Hawthorn as an anchor for my Tirfor (no other choice) to pull out a hedge row, which worked very well, except for just about at the end of the day managed to imbed a Hawthorn thorn right through my glove and into my knuckle while moving the Tirfor handle back and forth. I am sure I could feel the dam thing scraping against my knuckle bone, pulled it out, and 24 hours later still sore and now swollen. Going to give it another 24 hours to see if it gets worse, if it does guess I'll drop into A&E tomorrow to get some antibiotics.
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Retirement plans, perhaps to include planting a "forest"
roys replied to difflock's topic in General chat
I have a small woods which were part of my retirement plan, mostly birch, willow,sycamore and some ash, often thought about getting some sheep but dismissed the idea due to how tying livestock are. We are in the fortunate position that if we want to go away for 2 or 3 days or even weeks, it is easy just turn the key and away we go. Wouldn't be able to do that as easy if we had livestock. Good luck in retirement. -
Fantastic, love seeing happy dogs, well done chaps
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Think he would have been ok if he had stuck to the trunk roads
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Well done, good work on website, content is ace too, think you are going to have one very lucky and well trained apprentice.
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Silenced Diesel Generator Wanted - advice please...
roys replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
What about a Badnam ex MOD generator, super silent and reliable, unfortunately they are only about 1kVA and petrol, ah well. -
I am very impressed, cracking job. Gives an element of comedy value to the mud kitchen unit I made 3 weeks ago for the local kids nursery out of 4 pallets. Yours is in the Premier league mine is in the Sunday pub league. I will try and find a pic for a laugh. Found it
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Washing machine drums make good braziers, they are made of stainless steel 3 or legs bolted onto it, jobs a good in. Can be a little bit of a pain extracting them from the rest of the machine.
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Get yourself a motorbike front tyre for keeping the wire rope in, much easier than the tirfor rope cages. Give the rope a wipe with an oily rag when you are storeing it in the tyre, jobs a good un. Also buy yourself a wee selection of different size nylon slings and a couple of shackles.
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I would go for the the 1.6t, not too heavy but still nice and versatile, I use mine a fair bit, (last week it was used for pulling out a bogged down Nissan Navara them Nissans are heavy) you will certainaly give yourself a good work out pulling out 80 of the bleeders out.
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No probs, interesting side line, is there much off grid stuff down your way?
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If you want, send me the damaged bits of wire with the crimps on it and I will make you some nice new ones FOC. If interested I will PM you my address.
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The reason for that damage may be and likely to be due to poor crimping. Re crimping the insulation should be inside the crimp and ratchet crimpers used to ensure full compression of the crimp on the bare copper and insulation, which the one in the pic isn't. If using the cheap non ratchet type crimpers then you have to ensure the handles are fully squeezed together fully twice, once on the copper once on the insulation. Sorry if I'm teaching my granny to crimp
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Steve is it just my rubbish fat fingered computing skills, but I have listed some of my kit but I can't upload any pics, it just goes to a blank screen on Arbsafe when I press the upload button?
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Now got the mower stripped down to its component parts, there appears to be a bit missing as one of the Bowden cables attaches to nothing but fresh air. Casing going away to get shot blasted and painted, I will now get a new set of belts and some Bowden cables. Anyone got one of these mowers? as I need a pic of under the cover to see what is missing, the exploded diagram on line is not very helpful. Cheers The mower is an : Alko Farmer BM5001R Finger Bar Mower.
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Cheers that's it ordered.
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That looks nippy, it does go well with your user name as well.
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What is the best blade to get, when I looked there was 2 or 3 pointed and one said 3x300mm and the other said 4 X 300mm I would be using it on a Stihl FS350 and currently use a flat 3 pointed blade but would give one these blades a try to see how it compares.
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Arbtalk Christmas Raffle 2016
roys replied to Steve Bullman's topic in Arbtalk Christmas Charity Raffle 2016
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Old joke alert !!!! I cover my hedge in cheap whisky so that it comes up half cut.
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Looks fine now, a lot better.
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The trees store it up, because it is the trees that cause the wind, as in when the trees move its windy:001_smile:
