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Bought a new mig / stick welder from R tech last week after another Arbtalker recommended them.

Brilliant quality welder at a great price. They chucked in some freebies too.
Great advice from their staff on what welder was best for me.
Great delivery.

Can’t fault the company or product. Highly recommend to anyone needing a new welder.

Nice. Is it your lorry ?

It's really common in these parts. It self seeds with extraordinary vigour, even in places where there is no evidence of local hemlock trees.

There is a lovely mature (ie, over 100ft tall) DF stand near to us with a complete carpet of 20ft hemlock underneath if. It's very pretty.

Don’t discredit the Predator  machines. They are narrower than most others and go deeper than the bandit and up beau if I remember rightly, not sure about the others.
The service back up for us has been second to none from predator, they would have to seriously drop the ball for us to move to another brand.
 

My old ms650 needs a new cylinder and piston - I saw these. Anyone used them? Any ideas on quality?
 

HYWAY STIHL MS650 MS660 066 56 MM BIG BORE CYLINDER KIT NISIC 1YR WARRANTY

WWW.SAWBITS.CO.UK

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Gallery photo is a library shot just to show the manufacturer but the kit will be...  

So tell us more?

I have for years run a three phase generator to run my larger machinery.  I have been taking advice from a very helpful college lecturer whom I know and he thinks we can easily use two transformers to convert my mains split phase (two phase) to proper three phase  415 volts.
 
I have of course asked the power company for a price for installing the missing phase and it was £24,000, so I kept the genny!  But it seems for a matter of a few hundred pounds worth of transformers and appropriate wiring I can turn my two phases into three.  Anyone else tried this or have a view?
 
Part of the attraction of doing this is reduced maintenance, reduced fuel cost, reduced emissions, reduced noise, and the ability to replace my main petrol sawmill with an electric version.
 
Thoughts?

New hilux time! 
 
2.8 motor, 3500kg towing at last 
 
 

 

The Ford 4000 is the better machine out of the two there. Both look in very tidy nick.

There’s a good video from buckin’ billy ray. Heavily ported 2511 with a 16” bar I think. Looks ridiculous! Cuts well in softwood to be fair from what I remember. Must of had serious port work.
Not sure how long it would last ...

10” def a good size bar for them. Cracking wee saw.

Glad all sorted but to be realistic what choice did they have as you have posted all the problems that you were haveing on a social media site...don’t get me wrong that’s a great result for you but they couldn’t have paid for such advertising and endorsement of there Machine & Service with the feedback that you have just given them on here.

I wouldn't say that. Both hold up well to pro use.
Clamshell doesn't mean homeowner, it means clamshell.
Most McCullochs were clam shell designs.
 
My 7-10 was a clamshell as was my 800:
 

 

 
As was my Echo 330EVL:
 

So all good, but along time to wait for new replacement. And how will land up with you old one or maybe they will put new modified part on and a new lick of paint and you get it back. 

I had a very decent conversation with Forst regarding my machines faults.

Given the exceptionally low hours of the machine Forst are replacing the machine under warranty without reservation.
They came out and collected my machine, have provided a loan machine until my new one is built and I should get the new one around about the beginning of March.

I was delighted to see that a lot of the faults that have occurred with mine have already been redesigned and will be different on my replacement machine. ( mine was one of the first Doosan models on the market so had a few new features / designs)

The linkage to the stop bar is completely redesigned , new infeed roller blades , new exhaust which is down swept so no drilling required on the bonnet. Relays repositioned I think. They have certainly moved quickly to iron out early issues on the new Doosan TR8

I’m hugely impressed with the attitude and response from Forst. Without exception their customer service and speed at updating their machine has been second to none. Probably , no definitely , the best customer service I’ve experienced.

I’m looking forward to getting the new machine with its improvements.

Can’t see a huge impact for small producers. Those making something of their arb waste etc.
Big producers / suppliers running kilns will have no issues with Woodsure. They Will be testing logs straight out of the Kiln as their production / turnover will be so high. No chance for the logs to climb above 20% again

Small air dried production is going to be at the mercy of what month they are tested in or the conditions that winter. Very wet autumn / winters will cause problems

As @BigJ said his logs fluctuated by about 10%

Such a load of tosh, we could sell logs from a nice air dried barn store where they sit at 18% let’s say,
Deliver 1.5 cube to a customer who sticks them in a crappy damp log store and they are up to 28% in no time. Still being burnt wet.

Still, it’s here and that’s that. I think for small production poly tunnels must be one of the best options with all that solar drying effect too.

Really can’t see it being policed / invigilated thoroughly. Some might get unlucky and get a random visit but highly unlikely.

I’ll take advantage of the extension and do small production for next year. If sales are continuing to grow ( certainly a spike with lockdown ) I’ll register and have a go at conforming. If it’s a massive hassle I’ll just stop selling and just produce my own supplies. It’ll then all go for biomass ... counter productive for woodsure no doubt.

Yellow

Hello all,
 
I am not sure if this is the best place for this post, so apologies if not!
 
I have an upcoming public art commission for the Surrey Hills Inspiring Views project (Surrey Hills Inspiring Views) which is an Oak framed 'Portal' structure that will serve to frame the view and also provide a seat as a pitstop along the North Downs Way. I am looking to purchase large diameter curved oak sections for the project so if you have any, or can point me in the direction of someone who can help please get in touch. It is proving tricky to find the curved sections at the size I need.
 
The structure will consist of five sections, one bottom section 500 mm square with a deflection of around 180 mm, two side sections tapering from 500 to 400 mm with a deflection of around 200 mm and two top sections tapering from 400 to 300 mm with a deflection of 220 mm. All five sections will need to be around 2 m in length and round diameters will be 800 mm for the largest section down to 700 mm and 600 mm for the other sections.
 
The workshop is based in Petersfield, Hampshire so looking for timber as local to there as possible. 07886092010
 
Philip
Philip Walker Sculpture

Raw fish not for white man!

I do like seeing some nicely laid hedge. One done down the road from me recently. Young lad on his own. Drove past him every morning, terrible weather and clay ground so looked miserable for him. Labour of love for sure.

Always evokes images and memories of countryside days gone by to me. Good dollop of nostalgia.

I’m glad people are making a living keeping these skills going.

I’d love to learn how it’s done properly.
The hedge in that last picture looks recently planted. Still in its tubes ?
Was it planted with the intention it was always going to be laid ?

Starting up a good old Facebook campaign on someone’s livelihood is a sure fired way to get yourself involved in something nasty that you will regret.

What a stupid idea.

I’ve said that in terms of a reduction it’s not been done well. Which it hasn’t.

But, in the scheme of things. The tree is smaller. , sycamore is vigorous and will grow back from what I can see in those pictures.
Nothing got broken during the work and the site was left clear.

None of us know what he charged for this work, my guess though is that it was probably less than most of us on here would have charged.

We’ve all seen a lot worse and there’s no indication whatsoever he ripped her off etc etc.

The guys earning a crust in hard times, he might not be the best but it doesn’t look like he’s a shyster either.

Facebook smear campaign - leave it out.

Anywhere around Town has those, some good woodland got chopped down to provide space for them. Sadly many of the retained trees from the 80s are now beyond saving. K

Brutalism is a dying architecture  [emoji853]  K

So talk them out of spending the money then - it’s protected for a reason and such a tiny reduction benefits nobody, does nothing for the health of the tree and is spec’d by the TO to get it off their desk and be seen to have allowed some pruning work. 

Shouldnt have bought a house next to a tree then [emoji5]  oh..... Hang on, wrong thread [emoji849] K

Ok apologies that I completely and utterly agree with. If I can’t convince the customer on the 2m crown reduction and they want a “50% crown reduction like the others tree surgeons suggested” or a heavy reduction on a poplar then yea I’m all for fell it and replace with a more suitable specimen opposed to bothering it and felling it in 5 years time for them.