Rough Hewn
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Learn the art of sharpening your saw!!! It depends on where the pressure is applied with all filing. Get a stump vice from China for £5. The handle has feck all to do with sharpening well. (See micks comment). It's what you do with the file which counts. Magnetic file angle attachments are good for beginners until you learn the 30 degree tooth. A depth gauge measure device is essential. Learn about the cutting tooth and how it works. Best thing is to find someone local who knows what they are doing and get them to teach you. It's not simple. I've tried many different jigs over the years. All crap. I use a fixed workshop chain grinder or handfile freehand. A file lasts about 100-200 teeth licked. As soon as it doesn't bite, bin it. Good luck [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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sorted thanks OSMan ?
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They are being gentle on you Jack. Forestry is as harsh as it gets in arb work. Cutting to spec is an art form. Takes a lot of practice. Takes 3-6 months of taking shit and making mistakes before you really are able to earn at hand cutting. Takes a few months for your body to adapt too. Good luck [emoji106]
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Experienced groundie available Based in Huddersfield, Yorkshire Willing to travel nation wide for the right work Self employed 42 years old Cs30/31/32 CSCS CIS registered CITB HSE DBS Clean licence and 4x4 Over ten years professional chainsaw experience. All own ppe, All modern sharp saws Ms261,461,661 Km130 pole saw All run on Aspen and bio-oil. 1.6ton tirfor winch and ropes etc. Experienced in most areas of arb. Some recent work: [/url] Also available for milling with Alaskan mills and ms880 Call or text anytime. 07376803384 Thanks Saul
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I'm available tomorrow, Have cscs and CIS registered. No chipper ticket but over ten years arb experience. -
Just an idea... If you could drill a 4" hole through the wood ,below the mud in solid wood, could you then attach a big bar/rod and winch out?
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What's 6 feet tall White all over Weighs 200+lbs And if it fell on you from a tree would kill you? A fridge! (I'll get my coat now) [emoji12]
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What's green and brown, has six legs, 12 feet long, And if it fell on you out of a tree it would kill you? A snooker table!
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[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] That's a goodun [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Check the power they put out. Last big one I used would cut through Tarmac. Small karcher with a hot feed might do it. [emoji106]
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I've seen a lot of really nasty fungus growing out of arb chip. Vaguely remember something about sterile/heat treated woodchip for playgrounds. Minefield. [emoji51]
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For 30" milling get 90-120cc A small saw will die sooner with milling as you have already discovered. There is quite a difference between a 661/660 and an 088/880. The bigger machine has considerably stronger parts which make it more suitable for milling. If you're toying with the idea of cutting 30"+ oak the only way is 120cc. But if you only have one saw, a 661 will cross cut and mill. Whereas you don't really want to try cross cutting small wood with an 880. I never used makita/Sachs but a lot of guys on here rate them. Got any photos of what you've milled already? [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Went to mill the other oak log today. Turkey oak again. 22" base, 18" top, 8' length [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Great video, nice one wonky. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Just looked at frjones, 661 is about a grand with 36"bar but will only cut 30". 880 is £1323 with 48" bar, will cut 42". The other advantage with the 880 is you can put ridiculous bars 70"+ and mill. I ran old dinosaws until I got deeply addicted to milling. What size wood do you plan on milling?
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[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji108] My very first coppice job with a drunken Breton farmer, he would pull an overloaded trailer up steep green lanes with only the back two wheels of the tractor(held together with barbed wire) on the ground and me on the stacked trailer bricking it. Everyday for three months. [emoji51][emoji51][emoji51]
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What are you driving and what's on the back? Does it work well, what kind of work? This is my latest setup: Freelander 1.8 petrol and unbraked 8x4 trailer. Got a small winch to pull small logs on, greedy boards and a grilled ramp. It'll hold all my saw, mills and gear, ladders and logs/slabs in the trailer. Hopefully I'll be adding a 4" chipper in the next few months. Cost £690 for the freelander and £400 for the trailer. Very cheap and versatile for subbing or milling. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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In case anyone is unsure, its irony. [emoji106]
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Psssst got any black market logs.....? [emoji848][emoji12][emoji23][emoji106]
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Nooooo! Avoid crap makes at all costs. Plenty of old Dino-saws still about. Stihl 051,056super,070,075,076,084,088,090 Wouldn't recommend milling with less than 90cc. 120cc is better. Get a big saw off an arbtalker for £2-300. [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Bit of pre xmas stuff and early Jan [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]
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Yeah all stihl helmets are now crap. They stopped making the decent one about ten years ago.
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Avoid cutting as highly carcinogenic sawdust. Winch or crane jobby.
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It depends on the tree. Leaning or twisted tree is firewood. Dead vertical, no branches, Over 20" maybe worth it as euc is stunning timber. Used a lot in plywood. [emoji106]
