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bilke_user

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    Spaniels, deer, fishing and photography
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    Estate Manager

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  1. Burns well, a bit like larch, but doesn't tar up the chimney as much. Easy to split
  2. Something different for a Sunday. Customer asked if he could bring a couple of old logs he'd like milled to 75x500 to make a couple of large dining tables. Don't worry if the boards aren't perfect he said, we're going to resin them anyway. Made for an interesting couple of hours!
  3. Go try one and tell me the difference between it and the 572, except price and not as revvy. Certainly no difference in cutting performance.........but that might be down to me being closer to 60 than 50.
  4. If you get a chance, try out the 565..........detuned version of the 572, but as of yet I've not noticed any real world difference between the two. I'm running both with 20" bars and only bought the 565 as it was available at about £120 cheaper than the 572 and most importantly.....available!
  5. Clearview Stoves have taken the sensible approach and still sell stoves with back boilers. They use a loophole in the law that allows them to keep producing the stoves with the back boilers.
  6. Got fed up sending blades away for sharpening and being charged almost as much for the postage as for the sharpening. Bought the Woodmizer sharpener and a setter and just don't need to think about how many blades I've got for whatever orders are on the books. Normally it's 3 sharpens to one set, unless the blades been blunted with a deep embedded stone.........then it's sharpened and set IMG_1908.MOV
  7. Be carefull with tele handlers. Anything around 10K is usually needing the same again spent on them. I'm full time on the mill now and there's not one bit of machinery that does it all. I'd like a tractor with timber trailer and crane but alone it's not worth as much to me as what the skid steer with grapple and forks can do........also it can be towed behind the jeep to take to offsite milling jobs. The one I've bought lifts big 6m Douglas weighing in at just over 1.2 ton..........anything bigger will need to sit and wait until a friendly timber lorry is passing
  8. I've just invested in a skid steer loader for the mill, should take the pain out of carrying!
  9. Lidl's finest! W5 apple scented washing up liquid at £49p/bottle. 1/4 bottle in 20litres water. Keeps the blades and rollers clear of resin.
  10. Decent day for milling, apart from the strong wind blowing dust into the eyes Larch cladding order halfway finished
  11. I used to use a 162SE and a Jonsered 630 and they were much the same except the 630 was dearer to buy but cheaper for spares, then went onto the 266's when they came out. All the side cases and tops fitted as did the carbs, and sprockets.
  12. It's a 630. Good saw back then, most of us bought husky parts for them as they all fitted but were a bit cheaper.

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