Deafhead
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Dithering over which little old tractor
Deafhead replied to Mr. Ed's topic in Forestry and Woodland management
A good counterweight on the threepoint takes a lot of effort out of the steering. -
I remember old Robertson nearly in tears as his dairy herd went at Loampits, remember the palaver dragging his mobile milking parlour around the countryside.
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Model aircraft and tree climbing sort of go together don't they. Manx Nortons were £ 465 back then and the same again for Francis Beart to tune it. My Morgan Late 1950,at the bottom of Star Hill.
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Thanks for the comeback guys, Khriss, you could be right as I do use steel jerrycans to collect my fuel (40 litres a time) but then decant it into 5 litre plastic as needed, so it can sit in the steel container for a while. Openspaceman, a thousand years ago I raced a Cooper JAP and used to collect the fuel (Cooper No.1 racing fuel) in sealed 2 gallon cans, this fuel was methanol with about 21/2 % Nitro methane additive and if you did not use it fairly soon after purchase it would very soon turn milky white through moisture absorption.
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Just had a non start prob with a Husky and on about the third strip down I noticed some small water globules on the pump diaphragm, so changed the carb (Lots of spares, long time chainsaw user) thoroughly cleaned the tank and off she went. By the way I could not find any water present in the fuel in the tank.
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Might still have diesel in the spark plug shorting it out.
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I cut my old tracks in half and buried them under my farm tracks potholes, made good over the top, no more pothole. Its suprising how heavy a rubber track is to lug about.
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One of my grasscutters requires that the battery is disconnected when not in use,I gave up looking for the cause of the drain.
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The wheel looks too small for the wheel arch.
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I think some Wadkin planer/thicknessers were fitted with a means of locking the table once adjusted to the correct height. Just a thought.
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On the Wadkin machine that I used back in the last century, the thicknesser bed moved up and down on an inclined slide and I'm pretty sure that was either dovetail slides with gib strips or rectangular slides with an adjustable clamp bar. The wheel for the bed movement was low down on the feed end.( May have been the other end, it was a long time ago).
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How about slacking off the gib strips on the slide.
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You could check the generator voltage when the saw is running under load.
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Found these, they look similar. Old Plumber's Bobbins in TREEN.html
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A form of greeting in my youth used to be "wocher mush," so from the same root I suppose.
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They look like lead bobbins, they vary from 1" to about4.5" diameter and are used with a metal weight or follower for bending lead pipes.
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I am pretty sure they are used for working lead pipe.(Bossing).
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If you carefully support the track everywhere it tries to sag, then you will easily prise it off the idler. Logs cut to length are ideal. Even if you managed to remove the sprocket you would never get it back in with the chain on. Its not like you are dealing with a new chain, that ones going to have a fair bit of side play. Give the joining pin your best shot, if it shifts then split the track, if not then track off. You might be able to leave it on the support roller and still give yourself some working space. Whatever watch your knuckles and your toes and good luck.
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I have been scratching my head and remember rechaining an M/F 450s at Loampits, I seem to recall splitting that track and as billhook says there was a dimple in the pin end. The other occasion you might have been present was at Stoney Yarrows when I retracked an M/F 200, but that one was cut off as it was to have new chains, plates and sprockets.
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Hi, yes I have replaced quite a few track chains, but the accent is on replaced. The old chains were just cut off with a torch and the new ones ( usually Berco) came with a drive in joining pin and that was a two sledgehammer job. As Aspenarb says, you can usually roll the track on or off with the adjusters fully released. Or go on a job miles from anywhere and they will come off on their own. Looking at the problem you might have to get inventive with a decent bottle jack to get the grease out of the adjusters and then use some decent crowbars to prise the track off. Keep the swear box handy.
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That would be a job for a qualified professional I feel.
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If you lubricate a fastener that had a torque setting calculated for a dry thread, then you will end up with much more tension than the designer intended. Possibly to a dangerous level. The principal behind lubricated fasteners is that they are more consistently tensioned, as in cylinder head studs etc. The torque setting being adjusted for a lubricated thread.
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And with a taper seat it must be like driving a splitting wedge in there.
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Dry grinding of highly stressed heat treated steel can produce stress cracks caused by local grind burns. Even a Queens flight helicopter was brought down by such a fault in the main rotor shaft.
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Characters like this don't help. He treads the cover down at the edge to get some water on top, then treats himself to a bath.
