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  1. Future Firewood Demand Optimism?

    in Firewood forum

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    5 minutes ago, renewablejohn said:

    Gone but not dead.  It all got very nasty but this seems to have risen from the ashes. Camelot-Forum.co.uk  Its a shame the history was lost but at least there is still a discussion forum with a lot of familiar faces.

    must have look ive seen your name on a few sites i frequent

  2. Future Firewood Demand Optimism?

    in Firewood forum

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    2 hours ago, Woodworks said:

    Navitron came under new management. They closed the forum and deleted everything.

    A great resource gone

    explains a lot! great site rarely posted but got an email out the blue that i was booted off the forum. for wait for it attitude and tendency to disrupt! had not posted on the site for months.as you say great mine of info from members on there.

  5. 550 XP on the spot buy..

    in Chainsaws

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    5 hours ago, Gimlet said:

    Well it's packed up already. Cutting up some wind blown limbs today. Hadn't exactly been working it hard. Set it down for a moment (still running, brake on) to clear some brash, picked it up again, let the brake off and it wouldn't spin up. Chain drive was seized up somewhere.

    Stopped it and unscrew the chain drive cover and I couldn't get it off, like the brake wouldn't let go. Got the cover free in the end and I can't see what's wrong, but the cover won't go back on, it won't turn with the chain connected and the sprocket in the bar end was seized. I think the chain oiler wasn't working. The bar was very dry (chain oil tank was full).

     

    Barely six weeks old so I won't be fiddling with it myself. Into a Husky dealer on warranty.

     

    Went back home and got out my old 365. Even though it's a touch down on compression, it's ten times the saw that 550 is. Wish I hadn't bought it.

     

    oh s*it i bought one last month! Second hand.

  6. Looking for my first vehicle

    in Arb-Trucks

    Posted · Edited by GWYNFIL
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    2 hours ago, JDon said:

    How do you get on with the older model?

    starting to act its age. its 2.0 lt 40+ per gallon cheap parts and tyres. Its been ok for family and working with. not that i do much. easy comfy drive. old mans car but i am lol I had a l200 pick up before that nothing but bother and fuel dont go there! since heard unless new dont touch a pick up. But i do love em.

  7. Looking for my first vehicle

    in Arb-Trucks

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    4 hours ago, Big J said:

    I had the worksite pack on mine, which included grip control (clever traction control modes for offroad), 30mm raised ride height, bigger (mud and snow) tyres and underbody guarding. 

     

    That made a big difference.

    mines the older shape 53 reg. time for a change me thinks. dont get me wrong i love it fantastic load space if i take the seat stays out and trim i can get an ibc  in it.

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  8. Looking for my first vehicle

    in Arb-Trucks

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    i have a berlingo  too low to the ground even more so when loaded. i cannot get up my track wet and it is stone. I am thinking dacia duster diesel as well. 50 gallon i believe. the berlingo is the multi space but the back seats rarely down. I will have to look a space in the duster maybe strip as pointed out.

  12. How big a mill to get?

    in Milling Forum

    Posted · Edited by GWYNFIL

    Monkey biz .if i remember right the end caps came loose in ur bits you knock em on and remove after pushing the uprights through.. ( might be black been a while) i struggled with them fitted so can imagine getting them through without would be hard work without damaging the bushings.

     

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  13. How big a mill to get?

    in Milling Forum

    Posted · Edited by GWYNFIL

    7 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

    I’ve seen my arse with it tonight - everything out of the box is as-per the instructions until now.
    A steel section has to pass through the mill head and will ultimately be what carries the entire mill, controlling the thickness of cut, so obviously needs to be a tight interference fit.
    The instructions are very clear on there being a disposable plastic guide that is to be removed following assembly. 
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    There is no guide in either upright, and the fit required is incredibly tight (which is good). 
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    I’m on my own, in my happy beer-shed-Saturday-night-do-shit place. There is not a hope I can get this steel through the nylon bushes without any cutting (which I’m definitely not going to do) - those guides are definitely a necessity and are missing.

    Bastardo!!! 
    (I’ve twatted the shit out of it with a 3x2 - it will go in with someone else lining it all up but that’s not the point!). 

     

  14. Get splitting

    in Firewood forum

    Posted

    4 hours ago, Billhook said:

    Nobody on the forum listens to me, my wife never listens to me, my bank manager never listens to me  (mainly because there does not seem to be one), none so deaf as those who won't hear!

    Next weeks lottery numbers please.

     

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  20. Purchasing of woodland

    in General chat

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    Mine was clear felled and in the first year of growth planted with natives ( grant last owner prob made a mint!) 4/5 years on its completlly different the somme battlefield we bought. 10 to 15 ft A lot more fecking brambles anyway and still picking up logs and rings for the fire lol

  23. Elm

    in Milling Forum

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    Cracking timber elm colours are great. used to use a lot in a past life in cabinetmaking. Scored one my self last month. And only my third log on the mill.

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