flatyre
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Did anyone else find themselves channel surfing over Christmas? we pay about £55 a month for sky and its useless, can't get virgin round here but was considering the BT tv? whats the verdict:confused1:
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that would look mighty tasty if I hadn't just consumed my weekly food intake in five hours!
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Merry Christmas everyone, been a busy day but time to relax with a beer on the sofa in front of the fire, looking forward to dozing off and waking to a deserted room smelling of sprout farts:thumbup:
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Just milled up a bit of oak from a tree that fell about ten years ago, the soft wood had literally turned to soil but he heart wood was like concrete and will take at least a year to dry out. That's Oak:confused1:
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the older the better I say especially if for occasional use:thumbup1:
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Unfortunately a used con saw is the same as any other small engine machine, unless you take the exhaust off and check the piston there is no way of knowing for sure what the internals are like. But if its got good compression, starts, revs up, holds its revs, and idles as it should then it should be decent. I have a Makita DPC6400, decent enough saw, but an old Stihl 350 would probably do just as well as a new machine, but a lot cheaper.
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used to read the Newtownards Chronicle until the local council brought in a ban on commercial dumping which was illegal and caused major problems for businesses and members of the public, the Chronicle took the councils side and printed crucifixion pieces on anyone who fought against the ban without asking anyone else for their opinion. Turns out even local papers print what the man tells them to print:thumbdown:. Don't read any papers now, they're all full of sh*t.
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Mates dad has a county, wonder if he'd let me pimp it up forestry style:thumbup: You still got this Chris?
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Hey folks I have a thread on the forum about a tricky job and how to remove the material from a steep garden. Got me thinking about using an Alpine tractor, unfortunately out of my budget, but I live in a very rural area where every other person has a vintage tractor. I know where I can get a David Brown 990 for £700, needs a ton of work but is still driving. Realistically is there a place for such old machines, Massey35's, Davy Browns, Fordsons etc. in the arb game? Certainly handy if your in the wood processing game, which I hope to get into, but for now most of my work is residential landscaping and tree work.
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Think he needs a bigger saw!
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could have cut that tree down quicker with a silky! now if your going to be a dumb ass redneck pecker do it right, use tannerite:thumbup: [ame] [/ame]
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replaced the angle iron with heavier stuff and decided to test it with the 039, longer bar so won't foul the nose sprocket. Made the rail out of some galvanised fixing rail and the mill out of old box section, bit crude I know. Not sure what type of wood this is but heavy as hell. A bit of work still needed on the mill and a lot to learn on my part, but very enjoyable, hooked:thumbup:
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advice needed for removing wood and brash from steep garden
flatyre replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
Its other gardens on all three sides, with no access accept on foot as these houses are built on the edge of a ravine. The A frame is something I thought about and will look further into it, might just need to throw bodies at it. -
yeah but that would mean sitting in the house with the wife and kids. Don't get to relax in my house. I know woodwizard, the FZR would be my priority, unfortunately the wife wants the T4 ready for the summer, and my dad wants to borrow it to go to the continent with his Moto Guzzi in tow.
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I missed that boat this year, made my first log reindeers for a few friends and the local play group, could have sold a hundred but wasn't prepared, will be ready next year though! Got a few good sized landscaping jobs starting after Christmas, some nice lengths of oak and yew to mill when I get my 070 and mill built, and starting to gather up and process wood for next year as I'm going to try and branch out into the firewood industry. Oh and if there is any spare time and money i'll be converting my T4 panel van into a day van, stripping and repainting the engine and frame on my FZR600, building my L200 arbtruck, and hydraulic tow behind log splitter.........
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I find offering two prices at the start of the job works, one for the takedown, and another to come back in the winter (when its quiet) and process the wood. So they have three options... 1: I take the wood home which can be processed then sold on thus increasing the profit from the original job. 2: They pay me to come back and process it so I get two bites at the cherry, especially if you leave the rings too long for their B&Q saw. 3: They want to process it themselves, fine by me, move onto the next job.
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great looking porch!
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Does anyone know what size and thread the bolts are that hold the two halves of an 070 crank case are and where to get them?
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thanks folks, I decided to give mine a trial run, but can't get it to grip the bar tight enough, the clamps are made from inch angle iron drilled and bolted at each end with a bit of 5mm flat bar in the middle to clamp the saw bar. the angle iron bends before it tightens enough. will need to replace them with something stronger. Do the factory made ones have a rubber pad or something similar on the clamps?
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are dolmar cc a desirable vintage saw or just an old pile of dung?
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seeing more and more of these adverts on gumtree etc. so there must be some idiot out there happy to fell trees for free, seen one on the local gumtree a few months ago that took it to a new level, someone was advertising a "free hedge" to whoever was prepared to cut it down, not a twenty foot high conifer hedge, a small privet hedge:confused1: but yeah what we need is a chainsaw wielding vigilante to answer these calls, drop the trees onto the most expensive thing they can hit, then when the owner starts screaming for public liability insurance, tell them to speak to their home insurer:thumbup:
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advice needed for removing wood and brash from steep garden
flatyre replied to flatyre's topic in General chat
thanks for the ideas folks, burning isn't an option, this is a very posh area and the police would be called immediately. I was thinking of hiring a quad and fabricating up a log dolly, the ground is a more consistent gradient at the other side of the garden so hauling them up there in one or two pieces and snedding them on the drive, next to the chipper. The property is vacant and will be for about eight or nine months, I can remove part of the fence if need be, and repair any damage to the grass before the new owners move in. The job isn't to be done for a while so another option is to get the L200 finished and fit a winch to the front of it and do it that way, that's if the L200's ready. What size of vehicle mounted winch do any of you guys have? -
sorry about that spud, i'll remove the post. is it true you can convert an 070 into an 090? I got a new piston but the barrel looks spotless, i'm concerned the previous owner tried to hone it himself, but he admitted knowing nothing about engines so Ihe might have removed too much material from the barrel, if so I might up the cc.
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thanks for the replies folks, i'll maybe have a go with different woods for the smaller axes but stick to ash for the bigger ones.
