Paddy1000111
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I've been climbing on a set of kleins with long and short gaffs. I find the short ones are too short and gaff out on anything but beech and the long ones bury themselves so deep into softwood that I have to give it a wiggle to get it out, even though I am gently stepping into them not stomping into the tree so I am after a set of aluminium Geckos. I've done my web searching and found the cheapest place is £294 incl. Anyone know of any other deals? I've bought stuff before then found out I could have saved £30 by asking on here first. Also, what gaffs are people running? I feel like I might try Euro but what are peoples experiences? Velcro vs leather too? I assume leather lasts longer? I feel Velcro goes soft after a few months?
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I think the biggest problem the UK faces is driving down the cost of farmed products so it's more viable to sell the land for building than it is to farm it. Taxing diesel will be an economic nightmare for the UK. Farmers are already stretched as it is financially and with Brexit we need to be looking after our own. Taxing them to the n'th degree and making it not viable to use diesel will just cause even less farming and more imported food. For commercial use there is no current alternative, batteries don't last long enough for a full days work on a tractor and petrol engines would have to be huge and consume a metric tonne of fuel (and create a metric tonne of emissions although a big engined petrol tractor would sound beautiful 👌 If the government want to make farming more economical then subsidise the purchase of newer, more economical tractors and kit, just like they did with cars and the scrappage scheme.
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If you can, buy new. You could spend £250 easily on a working second hand Stihl and then find 3 months in you need £150 of parts. The warranty is a must unless you have the mechanical knowledge to fix it yourself. I'd pay for training. Doing woodland work I would say is more dangerous than domestic work. Hangers in trees, trees getting hung up, windblown, it's easy to fell a tree but a whole different job to fell it through other trees!
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What size trees need a felling licence in woodland?d
Paddy1000111 replied to cessna's topic in Trees and the Law
Forestry commission I think. I've had it on my computer for ages but went through direct.gov and it gave me the link to that -
Personally I would replace it if it's cracked. Clutches don't form a perfect circle like you say but they symmetrical which means that they are ballanced. I would be concerned about it personally. The difference between welding and brazing is with brazing you aren't melting the base material meaning the crack will still be there. It will probably propagate.
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I'd be concerned about balance. Especially at high rpm. The crack could propagate and then you will be needing a lot of new bits
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Looks like it's been touched by a grinding wheel 😂
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If the coil has an internal fault or if wires have rubbed could the HT lead be firing through the earth lead towards the off switch? If it's wet at the time it might just be enough for the HT to arc through the stop switch into your hand
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What size trees need a felling licence in woodland?d
Paddy1000111 replied to cessna's topic in Trees and the Law
Here's a timber volume reference chart. You're only bomb proof way of doing it is to mark out an area and measure all the trees in that section and work out what you can do under the quota. TimberVolumeCalculator (1).pdf -
Which Oregon did you get? The 620?
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It's a little cheaper but I'm not sure what the warranty situation is?
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I want one 🙁
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I think you're onto something there! I can't however find a super jolly in the UK and the ones I can find are the same price as the oregon. They are just rebranded like you say but it's not a surprise!
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Not been told to do it with boots but I have with a brake disc. They told me to destroy it and take a photo so I wrote destroyed on it with a paint pen and took a photo in the bin, what was I meant to do?! The whole idea is that they don't want ruined boots back as there's no point and they don't want customers asking for replacements and keeping the old ones as you said. Makes sense to me. It's either you destroy them or they pay to mail them back to base and destroy them for you?
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I bet it would be spot on. I'm struggling to part £300 for a decent grinder let alone £866 😂
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£866 with the VAT!? Let me spend the money and see how s*** it is. I see how it works... 😂
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I didn't realise they had one with a cable? I would prefer a cable as it's less to go wrong but the only one I saw was manual? It's a £4 difference between the manual and hydraulic
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I think the 620 has the same. I'm just intrigued by the hydraulic clamp as it looks like it clamps as you lower the head so it's all a bit quicker!
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Hi, Anyone got any experience with this sharpener? Been doing a lot of domestic stuff recently and I'm getting fed up of sharpening all the chains and stuff by hand. Works well for a quick touch up but if it's clipped a nail, a stone or as the case was the other day, a concrete post hidden in around the back of an apple tree it's a long and tedious process. I also have the milling chains now for 74" bars etc and it's going to take an age to do those. Hydraulic Assisted Bench Grinder, 120V | Oregon Products WWW.OREGONPRODUCTS.COM Providing the convenience and quality you need from a workhorse, the 620-series high-volume saw chain grinder features a hydraulic assist clamping vise, eliminating the... I will obviously get the 230v version. If there's something better for the ~£300 price point then I'll take any advice!
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Chiropractors for me when I did my back. I was strongly told NOT to wear a support. It stops the back repairing and it won't gain strength again so it will be weak. It sounds like you need to look at your process and change some manual handling factors though.
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When I installed my caritool on my new evo I stuck it through the webbing "just in case"
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Out of interest is yours mounted on the nylon webbing or the pleather?
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Out of interest what is the guage like on the bars when you check it with a guage. How are you sharpening the chains? Only time I've ever toasted a bar was due to it not being sharp enough or bad sharpening pushing the teeth over and making the channel inside wear at an angle which would show as a bannana cut in a long cut but if you're just doing rounds your may not notice. If you put a straight edge up against the bar and a tooth is there a gap or does the straight edge sit flat against the bar? I'd definitely go back to the oem sprocket, try a new bar and chain. Run it in by covering it in wd40 and running the engine for a bit to let all the paint and tolerances open up before cutting and run synthplus or another good fully synthetic oil and see what happens. If you're that worried environmentally then stick a big tarp down to catch the chips.
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That's so sad Ken! You were so keen for the evo too! Out of interest, how are you attaching the tool carabiner? I've got the petzl carritool on mine and that hoops into the nylon webbing as I don't trust the leather carrier pads. Obviously the rock exotica is better by far but I'm surprised it won't fit on webbing?
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I think it's standard in every industry really. I'd be curious to know how much most transport vans weigh or even tipper vans that are used for building. With a near 750kg payload that's not even a dumpy bag of sand.
