Dan Maynard

Doesn't sound good. Being a 4 stroke I think the crankcase will be vented to the air intake somewhere so it's possible the oil has made its way up to the filter during transit. You'll know if it cuts out as soon as warms up and smokes like mad but I would have thought the supplier should send a new air filter really.

That'll be the brake tested then. Tick.

Just meant you can't put through with brash if you chipped it already, I don't like the noise of them banging around or the odd one that jumps back out. One of the things I did before painting was to weld up the bottom corners of the chute where the sides had split, so the other reason is after about 15 years it can damage the chute.

In the UK the dry spell has been about 3 years so far. Are you soaking the ground with many litres? If it's dry then it could be good to sink a pipe and run hosepipe slowly into it for half an hour.

I chuck those short bits in with another branch, keeps it straighter and carries it through. Can do this up to about 3" diameter on mine. Just need to make sure you don't leave all the lumps to the end like you might with a roller machine.

Can't see their financial wizards getting prompted after that deal....

I thought of starting a "pimp my chipper" thread, but thought maybe it would just be me. Made this bonnet for my M500 as a lockdown project, and finally got round to repainting the rest of it during the current lull in work. Bonnet makes the chipper far better, stops all the dust and chip going on the engine and being sucked in to the cooling ducts. Also keeps the rain out of the electrics.

That's 3.63 cubic metres for $700, which at $190 a cubic metre doesn't look as bad but still not cheap.

As a subbie I bring my own saws because then I know they're sharp and running well. The firm's saws tend to be like the old adage - everyone thinks someone should sharpen them, and anyone could have, but in the main nobody does it.

Found picture of me trying to get organized.

Yeah I get it, finding someone to actually buy the planks does seem to be the hardest bit, I see people on FB marketplace with loads of stuff up but I just don't have the energy or enthusiasm to do it. OP seems to have found someone to buy for £200, good luck to him. I've pretty much settled on the idea now that I only mill stuff when I want the planks myself. That way I am avoiding giving real money to someone else so there is a definite benefit to me in doing it. Otherwise it's too much time, I'm better off doing more trees than milling so ring up and firewood or get people to collect. I reckon if people can pick up the pieces of wood then it goes so worth cutting down. I chogged down a 25ft tall, 3ft dia beech stem earlier this year which was some decayed and some spalted, was next to a road but to mill I'd have had to hire in some kind of HIAB because of fences power lines etc. Anyway, I cut each ring into 8 chunks and told passers by it was free, people were loading it into their cars, one bloke had a couple on the passenger seat. But almost all the timber was out of the way by the time we left site, instead of 3 or 4 ton to get rid of just had a couple of rings for firewood myself on top of the trailer of sawdust, site done and dusted in one load, happy days. Could have sold it in theory, in practice happy to see it gone and on to the next job.

That's it, I was just thinking rather than a row of pegs along the top put a rail so you slide the anchor along. There's got to be a better way though.

Not necessarily, no work, space in the yard back, and £200 in his pocket he's better off. All depends what the replacement cost of a load of rings of arb waste would be, that might be £0 - it would be to me because I never buy wood.

Quote from Andy on thread about live edge boards yesterday "Fully seasoned Id expect to pay a minimum of £100 a cubic foot." Biggest logs are 2' across so a 3" plank would be 3 cubic feet. Point is though they aren't worth anything at all unless you can find someone to buy them. Likewise the logs, put them on FB and see if you get any interest. If you get £200 for somebody who picks them up then good luck you're having, no work and £200 in your pocket. It's never going to be economic to transport them to a sawmill, there's not enough wood to make transport viable, they are too short, and beech isn't desirable, but that's where I started.

Hmm, they've sloshed around even more money than our government, if it's just the money printing then they should be clearly ahead on inflation. Brexit is different, so is their energy situation. Value of the dollar has stayed higher, they probably don't import much grain from the Ukraine. Etc etc All this stuff that keeps the economists in work.

If you find someone local who wants some beech though, then maybe a couple of hundred quid there. It's always a problem of finding that person though. Same as the boards will be worth 150 a piece when cut and dried, if you can find someone to sell them to.

Seems to me one problem with the mover is steering it, another is holding the weight back. I haven't tried this but I was thinking maybe get a scaffold pole along the top of the slope, then have one rope with a prussic to take the weight. Stand a little bit to the side with a second rope to the mower and you can pull it in an arc, then lower prussic 2 foot, cut another arc etc. You could cut a swathe on the way down, then pull it back up and slide along the scaffold pole to next swathe. Maybe a hassle but you wouldn't be holding the weight of the mower all the time, and you can't drop the running mower down the slope which would seem to be a safety improvement.

I think it's worth saying that printing money is widely accepted as an inflationary pressure, but if it were that simple there would be no professors of economics left as they'd have all got bored by Monday lunchtime and gone down the pub. Different economists focus on different things, the idea that government spending causes inflation and therefore erodes wealth was pretty much a mantra in the 80s and drove politics in the UK and US. Nowadays there are some counter examples too, say after the 2008 crash an awful lot of money was printed in many countries and fears of inflation did not materialise. There are other economists who challenge the 'rational' behaviour assumption that says you can look at what is happening and predict what people will do, rather you have to take into account what people believe and accept. These would say a major cause of inflation is the expectation of inflation, because people put prices up in anticipation. It's the same school of thought that a recession is a combination of many decisions not to spend, so what people believe in aggregate, and that it is possible to talk the country in to recession.

Definitely petrol, or have you tried battery? I have a Makita trimmer, they bought out Robin years ago. It's lighter than the HS82 but much smoother vibes than the cheap Stihl HS45, but not sure if you'd get one as Makita have discontinued petrol tools.

... or gone down because of transport cost? I still get £0 and happy with that.

Selling to a mill would depend on you being close, transport cost is usually the killer on that idea. Is there anyone in the sawmillers directory with a chainsaw mill nearby? They might be interested and give you some cash.

Nightmare. Just have to wait for the hedge to grow up to match, I guess.

I think milling is about the worst possible activity for exhaust fumes, you take the biggest saw and run it flat out pointing down at the ground right by where you are kneeling. I have always set my mill so that fuel fillers are up, was just pondering a new product of "milling exhaust" where the outlet is left of centre rather than off to right like normal. Then the exhaust would all blow out over the log. Surely someone has thought of that before?

Are they "ton bags" which can be 90cm x 90cm x 90cm. This is only 0.73m3 so then your £70 per bag is right back on the money at £96 per cube.

He's in Portugal. Maybe someone who used to work there might have it? Long shot though.