Dan Maynard

Never quote off a photograph. Say 1.8 long x 1.1 wide x 0.5 high, would be 1 cubic metre pretty spot on. It's softwood but you've sawn it all up, seems fair enough to me.

Fair enough, down to the design of the engine I guess.

Sounds a bit weird, I probably wouldn't go back there anyway.

I can think of Oxdale, AMR, Posch, Thor who make electric splitters in Europe, don't know latest prices but somewhere around 2k. They do single and three phase versions. Maybe the definition of domestic equipment is made in China, which is a bit sad. To me it's the equivalent of buying a pro Stihl for cutting the firewood rather than a B&Q McCulloch , decent machine is where I spent my money. But then I work in UK manufacturing and always find it ironic that people will moan jobs have gone to china one minute, and buy the crap made there the next.

If you measure the bed I can tell you, otherwise tricky as I don't have a pickup to measure myself.

Good job, I've now sold a few loads of hardwood rings for 60 a cube, not really worth delivering if less money than that.

I'd get the head off and see, that age should be old school cast iron head I would have thought - not that likely to distort on overheat. In the old days we'd just clean up, new head gasket, bolt it back on and see how it goes. Unless it proper overheated and melted the pistons of course....

I don't think I've seen enough ginko to judge really, but if it was a whitebeam you wouldn't be worried about that - take out every whitebeam with narrow forks there'd be none left.

How long has it been split like that though? Surely a long time? Seems like one of those that isn't ideal, but is doing fine making it's own arrangements.

Prices in general for firewood have gone up a fair bit, reckon over 50% since this thread started. Also people are more willing to pay for green wood rather than having to give it away.

Buy some spare fuses, keep them in the van else it's sure to go again in the middle of a job.

My chipper wouldn't move last week, but I found a broken belt hanging out underneath. Much easier to diagnose.

I'd say yes, but that looks well worn so maybe it should have a new piston/cylinder set rather than just piston.

Not TW owner but I have a GX670, on mine the oil switch shorts the ignition so you get no sparks, I think it would still spin on starter. The fuse blowing sounds like it would kill everything, question then is what causes the fuse to blow? They do sometimes just go from age and corrosion, so change it once and if it goes again you probably have a chafed wire to the chassis somewhere causing a short to ground. The other way is to start with a multimeter and see where the battery power is making it to, trace step by step as there must be somewhere that should have power which doesn't.

If it's MK1 probably done some work, maybe worth taking exhaust off to check piston. Also carb rebuild, could be clogged somewhere. Other thing spud says is sometimes people tell him the air filter is clean but actually there's oil and crud in the pores, so brake cleaner and airline to clean. Or fit new filter. Probably a limit on how much worth spending though, isn't there? Whack it on eBay and buy a MK3.