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if the bore can be re honed and a Meteor or Hyway piston kit fitted that's close to good as new but a fraction of the cost of a genuine piston and barrel.

Looking a little advice here, have a Makita dpc6400 which refuses to run, very poor compression so stripped it down and replaced the piston as the old one was a bit scored, bore is still good, new plug and good spark, sent off the carb to have it overhauled and sonic bathed, put it all back together and still won't run and still no compression, I don't have a compression tester but did measure the piston and bore with a vernier, bore is 46.87mm and piston is 46.83. decompression button looks fine, so that's me all out of ideas:confused1:

I doubt my dads insurance firm would want to deal with it as they were not notified immediately after the event. Its just a bit of a shock as this happened in what is considered one of the most respected areas of the local town, you need to be very well off to live in this area, you don't need to fleece retired widows crippled with arthritis, it makes me sick!

Hey folks last week my dad didn't pull on his handbrake enough and the car rolled down a hill and damaged a garden wall. He immediately spoke to the house owner and offered to cover the cost of the repair. They agreed to get some quotes from stone masons and go from there, however the house owner did mention that he had a "mate" who could do it. Next thing my dad knows the wall is fixed and the home owner has a receipt for £940 quid from "his mate". I do a fair bit of stonework and had a look at the damaged wall the day after the accident, I reckon it was a one day £200 job, though I was going to do it for free obviously. My dad got a few quotes from qualified stonemasons who came in at around £250 on average. Anyway hell will freeze over before I let some chancer and his mate stroke my dad for a grand so I have written a polite letter offering £350 for the repair which includes £100 compensation for the inconvenience, and including copies of the stonemasons quotes. I imagine this will be rejected and we'll end up in the small claims court. can anyone offer some advice on the matter, like can the home owner legally get the work done without consulting with my dad regarding the cost, then bill him for it? Also his mate apparently turned up with three men and took two days, in a painter and decorators van? Obviously not qualified stonemasons so does that effect things? My dads pretty stressed about it so any advice would be greatly appreciated This is the wall, the damaged area was about 2 metres long by about 2 feet, only faced on one side, back is just roughly rendered, all the stone was still there, just needed cleaned up and a few barrows of mortar at most. The brick work at the bottom was untouched.

I'm sad, I look at cute little animals and think barbeque, I see this and think how many cube of firewood would you get out of it?

strange looking side step, must be a Landy thing!

when I annoyed my grandfather as a kid he used to shout "away on before I hit you a kick with my fist!" he was mad as a bag o spanners.

that's one fake looking husky:thumbup:

wouldn't mind seeing a few pics of your setup?

Would it be possible to run a hydraulic ram off something like a JCB beaver power pack? I currently have an electric 240v kango hammer which is fine for small jobs but a more powerful hydraulic one would be better for bigger stuff. If there was some way of using it to power a log splitter that would save me a lot of money and hassle.

hey case mx270, often wondered why the 039 wasn't a popular saw, I work for a local estate who have one, one day it stopped so I took it into the tool room thinking the starter recoil had jammed, nowt wrong with the starter, took the plug out and it was all bent and smashed, looked into the barrel and there was a stamp sized piece of alloy wedged between the piston and head, stripped the barrel and removed the rogue chunk of metal, to this day neither me or any of the guys know where it came from, but I put the saw back together and have been using it without fault ever since. I've been using it mainly for hobby milling beams and mantles on a home made mini mill.

guy had quite a set!

I just bought a unimog.... it broke.

i'm in the same boat but different end of the country, primarily landscaping (the bread and butter) and some tree work (which I enjoy more). Problem round here is too many small operators like myself, a lot of part time firemen doing tree work, gardeners, guys who worked in various government departments and estates, all with basic tree surgery skills, using them to bring in the extra cash. That's the basic problem which I admit i'm part of. Then there are the established firms who are booked up for months in advance. There tends to be one big firm per region round here and many people go straight to the big firm with the big reputation. Not sure how best to carve out a sustainable chunk of the action, I have settled on keeping the landscaping as the bulk of the operation and getting my tree fix taking on the awkward tree work that nobody else wants. I do think that having a separate company name, website, facebook page etc. for your tree business might help, as often think people rightly assume a full time tree firm will do a better job than a firm that only do it part time. Just my opinion

when the capacitor in mine went it was quite obvious, but the guy I got the new one off said they don't always show visible signs, no idea how to test it but some of the more knowledgeable members might. he advised I use a heavy duty lead and fully unroll it.

that's a nice collection or vintage gear:thumbup:

Was considering the penny 500kg lift but my vivaro's roof is too low, does or has anyone used an all terrain pallet truck for delivering logs?

Does anyone deliver their logs in crates or wheeled cages? whats the volume reduction in transit like in a solid sided container compared to the 30% from bags? and is it worth the extra time needed to load and unload?

wouldn't fancy trying to explain to a customer the whole volume thing, new bags/stretched bags, different sized bags, loose filled/ neatly filled blah blah blah.

I can't decide which way to go, vented bags or crates? Bags stretch so you end up giving away logs for free, but less work than making up crates:confused1: But crates don't stretch so you don't need to bounce them and top them up, round here bags are about £5.30 plus vat, whereas old pallets and a bit of scrap timber makes a reusable crate. But then I was looking on this web site... Premium Kiln Dried Ash Firewood Logs Suppliers - Premium Kiln Dried Ash Firewood Logs Supplied and Delivered Nationwide .....and they say a neatly stacked 1m3 crate actually holds 1.75m3! whereas a bounced and topped up 1m3 bag holds 1.3m3 of logs. Does a 0.7m3 dumpy/builders bag hold close enough to 1m3 of logs once bumped and stretched to advertise as a cube of wood?

have noticed that processors produce a fair bit of debris, loose bark, small bits of timber, etc. What's better, filling straight into the bag/box which means more debris which is bad from the customers point of view (if they're fussy), using some sort of grill or screed which removes debris but causes down time through blockages, or into a pile and then filling bags/box by hand or some other means which takes longer again but produces the least debris?

is that the Bann?

seems round here some people are mostly selling 0.7 ton bags of logs, i'm gathering up and processing timber in the hope of getting into the log business next year, and wondering what is the best size of bags to purchase. Can't help thinking joe public doesn't understand value for money and can't see past the lowest price which would mean going for 0.7 ton bags like everyone else. What is your best selling bag size?

Hey folks, need to fabricate a log bagger for standard net bags, can anyone tell me what size to make the shute? also how long do net bags last in the sun? and who sells UV proof bags? thanks

not the best threads personally, but the 'unimogs rock' thread and 'landrover appreciation group', who knew there were that many mechanical masochists on one forum:thumbup: