Dan Maynard
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The boring answer is sell the 200T on eBay and buy a new MS181 for doing firewood, probably have change left over.
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201 mtronic with opened exhaust, wakes it up a bit. Could say boringly reliable, still idles like it did new, never been any trouble at all, although to be fair mine is not heavily used due to battery saws taking a lot of the strain and then just pull the 400 up.
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Can't see any reason to heat the files to red and even risk ruining the tempering. The best tip for files is never hold the handle and bang the tip of the file down on the vice, always flip it so you're holding the file and tap the back of the handle on the vice. If you hold the handle sooner or later the file will fall out mid bang and you bring your hand down onto the tang. Not done it myself but know others who learnt the hard way.
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Chain Bar "Dressing" tool. Is this necessary and used by professionals?
Dan Maynard replied to cjdg's topic in Chainsaws
Im fastidious about getting the depth gauge for each cutter right, for me this gives a chain which cuts straight and bars don't wear unevenly, so just need a bit of cleaning up the wear ridge now and then. Just hold the flat file across the bar with fingertip in the centre to show any lean, drawfile to clean up. -
I wouldn't want to use openable rings for that because it's not perfectly smooth for the rope depending on orientation, which you can't see at the time. Personally I'd buy a 2m multisaver and when you've used it so much its worn out you have no qualms replacing it.
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12' is a big tree to transplant, there is only a certain success rate.
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I crashed on the M1 working in Leicester which is about an hour and a half away, just fatigue on top of long days. Work for myself so changed company policy instantly.
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Finish to preserve natural colour of light timber.
Dan Maynard replied to Squaredy's topic in Woodcraft Forum
People use it for floors though, 50m2 isn't that big if you've a couple of rooms. Mind the flooring would have been thousands for that so worth getting good oil. -
To be fair my rake is lasting ok, changed the handle a couple of times and just need to change the head again now.
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I'm with you, we have to let computers make us stupid and this is how it starts. To me this doesn't read well, not honest sounding.
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The vast majority of the chainsaws from Argos don't get used much though, it's hard to get real figures on the relative risk.
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Honeybros will do it. Can't remember how much it was, nearly got one done but the rope was a bit old and I'm doing more srt so haven't got round to it. You have to balance the cost vs rope lifetime, and cost of a new rope. Think it was £30 or so, plus two postages.
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I forgot to say, I made a new rake handle from a single hazel stem as the broom handles from Screwfix kept breaking. It's lasted years. Just peeled the bark, it's not super straight but that doesn't matter.
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Bought a husqvarna 525BX recently, I think it's better than the Stihl BG85 I used before. Blower only, vac seems a waste of time to me.
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I've worked in factories where they tried to mandate side handle, two hands and leather gloves whenever angle grinding. The contract fabricators with us thought that was stupid, gloves just make it hard to hold the grinder and they lost the side handle as soon as they got the grinder anyway. My brother is a blacksmith, he'll use a grinder one handed for all sorts even sharpen a pencil. No h&s department in his forge though.
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Weight with barn doors and driver ...... Better stop eating those pies then.
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Did a green woodworking day a couple of weeks ago. I think traditionally you would split and carve green (as softer), let it dry (and shrink), then final fit head. Complete ash tools like a rake you'd obviously make the whole thing green.
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I can say yes to first part, although haven't bought that loader yet. Srt, ascenders, ladders, efficient movement and planning. But I never do extra training. I do however go to a sports physio every 6 or 8 weeks, that's helped the aches and soreness a lot as the old tweaks and tears leave marks as scar tissue in the muscles. And if you're even thinking that lump could be cut in half before lifting, get the saw and do it.
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AI generated blurb?
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Stand further back, hey presto they disappear!
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You need a nice Stihl flip top. I'm just joking, only husqvarna I have is 365 and never had a cross threading problem.
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@AHPP gov is onto him too! Can't really think what's going on here, they're public websites as far as I know. Any idea web guru @Steve Bullman ?
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That sounds too thick and nobody's buying it. I'd steer clear myself, you need the oil to go in the pivots of the chain too.
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Have you found this? Probably worth a look. https://sawmillers.co.uk/
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Be a nightmare working with the smell of kebab, you'd be hungry all day.
