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First time for me at the show and I must say I enjoyed my day there, loads to see and a good atmosphere.
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Handy for skirting round hills
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Looking to venture down from sunny Scotland and visit on the Friday.
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He wasn’t 100% happy with one part of the resin to wood unions, probably about 25mm long bit that annoyed him. Ideal for me though😀
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In fact just finished my mid morning coffee which was sitting on one of his side tables, this was a reject one that he gave away to me.
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My mate uses the white melamine coated chip board from stripped out old kitchen units, he can reuse them a couple of times.
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As always continuing my constant battle but this week I got some professional assistance from man and machine courtesy of @AHPP who stayed for 2 or 3 days and achieved more in that time than I had in 2 or 3 years. Great work done just ripping the rhododendron out by the roots and piling it up. From these burn piles I chainsawed out the main stems which were in the 3 to 5 inch diameter range and put straight into the trailer and then up to my firewood store, quick and easy cube and a half of timber for the log burner next year. Going to let the new 3 big rhoddy piles dry out for a couple of months then burn them. Thanks again for help and a pleasure meeting you AHPP.
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Brass is usually ok to thread, bit flakey compared to steel but usually cuts a good thread. Chamfer a lead in like you said, the die that you are using makes a huge difference, a cheap die is only ever good enough for dressing up a damaged thread in my experience, a good quality die it should cut without much problem. Where area are you in Scotland?
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Awesome loader with charming operator for hire Norfolk/Suffolk
roys replied to Tom Mabbutt's topic in Employment
Cheers Doug, I will have a wee chat with him -
Awesome loader with charming operator for hire Norfolk/Suffolk
roys replied to Tom Mabbutt's topic in Employment
If you were in South Scotland I would give you a days or two or three pulling out rhoddy with that wee beastie.😀 -
I have 22 acres of rough ground and woodland which has a lot of 12 foot tall rhododendron, for the most part I use a quad bike and flail mower on the rough ground. However the rhoddy I cut with a chainsaw and get some mates helping clear my feet and pile up to dry before burning. If you go down the quad bike route I find round about a 500cc with 4wd and difflock suits me best. As I’m getting older i was thinking that a multione, or Avant or Norcar might give me some mechanical advantage. Access is tight and awkward so this is why I was considering one of these as they appear to be manoeuvrable and versatile. Not sure which one of them is best? But a feel a thread coming on to ask that very question.
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Last year I managed to get out about 6 conifer stumps out, they were proud of the ground about 200mm, I did do a shallow dig round the each stump, put a nylon sling round the stump and pulled them out with a Tirfor. On some of them there was a couple of roots that needed a couple of wacks with an axe. You do need a decent tree or stump to act as an anchor for the Tirfor. Had all 6 out In a couple of hours.
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Split on a block, split about 7 cube a year with a maul. Found splitting on the ground didn’t work for me, I put it down to the ground absorbing too much energy.
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Mine as done the wiggly tin as well, the 2 things that actually stalled it though were an old electric fence wire and a builders merchant bag both of which wrapped round the flail shaft.
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I use a Wessex 1.2 meter 4 wheel tow behind my quad mower, obviously not a pto job, has about 60 almost L shaped flails on a pivot. Does the job I ask it to do perfectly, which is cut about an acre of rough grass once a month. Just had all the flails off a couple of weeks ago and sharpened them and put them back on with new pivot bolts. Its about time to give it a try but I’m trying to hold off for no mow may.
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Was hoping a good dose of Danish oil wood protect it. Mmmmm
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Split my time between Central Scotland and SW Scotland
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I’m in the opposite situation, I have seat ends that need shot blasted and powder coated but I have loads of Iroko slats. If only you were closer we could swop.
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She is certainly game, I did cringe at a couple of bits, for example when she let the motor rotor smack down onto the stator laminates and then dragged the rotor out instead of lifting it out.
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I have a shed very similar. I built mine of the ground by postcreting in a load of 4x4 posts linked with timber to act as bearers and then built the shed from that. As above I put down a sarking floor first then a membrane then battens with insulation in between then fitted their supplied floor. Outside I didn’t add a gutter but I dug a trench round it put in a perforated drainage pipe and backfilled with pea gravel. Been up best part of 10 years now the only problem I can see is the t&g roofing boards are a bit wavy.
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Yip as feared it is the stud to crankcase that is at fault. Good shout, will need to look them up either that or rattle a couple up on the lathe.
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Saw this bench table last year and thought it looked a fairly simple but effective design so took a pic of it as I might have been asked to make one, turns out I didn’t get asked.
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Cheers Ratman, as soon as it lands on my bench I will post up a pic or two.
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Ta for the reply but not sure what you mean Dan. He says the saw runs sweet, just can’t tighten the bar down.
