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Doesn't that put it above the C1 licence though? Also means I'll have to do C1+E and I wouldn't be able to get any groundie to drive it where I could with a 3.5T+750kg chipper

No worries! I wonder why they discontinued them. Maybe I'll email Stihl and ask!

I guess so but in my experience a lot of small engines score and seize on the chain side of the exhaust port. I've had some before that looked nice through the exhaust port but had no compression. The piston was scored in the right fwd corner and you couldn't see it. That was a farmers saw though that had been used and abused where it's dragged out the truck cold and put flat out straight away. I'm just trying to offer solutions that anyone can do with no tools and give a yes or no answer to aid diagnosis

Everyone has their bad days Spud... I'm still confused with that. You would think that that following the manual and taking the idle to 2800rpm **as per spec** would be the right thing to do but it now idles at 3100 because the tech said they never idle at 2800 ?. I just went in circles with it and gave it to someone else to check my sanity ?

Or is it 107, Or maybe G (ASCII unicode) is another initial of my name. I like mysteries

Well, I usually grease it up and give it a little twist. Can't think of anything else to call it ?

can you hold the saw up by the starter? i.e. hold the starter handle and let the saw go, does it drop and turn over or hold up? Usually a pretty fool proof "rough" compression guide.

Shame that it doesn't fix the log issue eigh! ?

Here's one of the rings I spliced in, so tight it's hard to rotate and locked in by lockstitches. I have quite a short end and I whip the tail just so it looks nicer

They look good! I can't remember where I saw the instructions from tuefelberger. I know they have one for a loopie sling and they definitely have them for the Ultra or they wouldn't sell them. God knows where I found it. The instructions from Poplar mechanic were easier to follow though. For the eye tighness I have tied off one end to a rafter and then hung a bucket off the other so theres 25kg of force puling it tight before pushing a spike through the joint to lock it and then carry on the splicing pulling everything very tight. You should also lockstitch the splice as per the teufelberger manual for trex splicing to lock it all in place (which it looks like you have anyway). I've not used a safebloc but are you meant to insure that the rope enters one side of the block and exits the other so it can't ever pull out of the sling?

Same issue in Devon. I got one of these, the rooms in the house were at 70-80% humidity, down to 51% now and everything's bone dry finally! I throw about 4L of water a day down the drain from it! electriQ 20 litre Low Energy Anti-Bacterial Dehumidifier for 2 to 5 bed houses WHICH Best Buy CD20LE | Appliances Direct WWW.APPLIANCESDIRECT.CO.UK Buy electriQ 20 litre Low Energy Anti-Bacterial Dehumidifier for 2 to 5 bed houses WHICH Best Buy CD20LE from Appliances Direct - the UK's leading online appliance specialist

Oh yea 100%. I've never had a ticket of any sort in my life, all depends on attitude like you say and knowing when to just take an earful and let it go. Makes me think that I would probably have the unit plugged in or on a small switch tucked away. Get pulled over and say it's broken if needed. I have a dash cam and people have said "I don't know why on earth you would do that, it might incriminate you" but if I had a collision and I was at fault I would throw the micro SD card in the hedge. In all honesty if I was to keep running overloaded (which everyone else seems to do ?) I would still rather have one so I could shift a load round if it's unbalanced or know that I am under 20% over or whatever. I would rather have a properly balanced load that's a little over and get a slap on the wrist than an unbalanced load that's a tonne over and have a nasty crash when I lose steering.

I guess so. I feel like if I put my best effort into keeping it light I would at least be closer to 10-15% than over 30% if I overloaded by accident. Would much rather have a £100 fine than a court date.

600kg?! Definitely won't be getting a double cab. The single cab tippers I have seen spec a 1137kg payload they have a steel "highway maintenance" type bed. I am wondering about looking into an ally bed with some other type of material for the sides, not sure what yet. From what I have seen on spec sheets you can save 100-160kg on payload by getting an ally bed with ally short sides and I may look at something like ThermHex for the side panels above the normal tipper side height which is a polypropylene honeycomb board for truck bodies, caravans, ships etc. Prices aren't bad (under £200 for all the sides), it's strong and only weighs 80kg per cubic meter so all the sides would come in at maybe around 60kg

Well the clicking to me sounds like it's missing and the fact you said it cuts out under any kind of resonance sounds to me like you have a wire chafed though causing the ignition system to earth out somewhere and cut out. I'd suggest you make a start by taking off the fan cover and the top cover and get in with a small torch and just look at the wiring and check for any chafing points any loose plugs. Give everything a good tug and wiggle and make sure all the wires are in good nick. Also take the spark plug boot off and have a gander at the spark plug lead end connector as I have seen a few of these snapped. Another thing to look at is the little nipple on the end of the plug, on some models these unscrew, make sure its not come off or loose. If you have another spark plug then pop one in first and check again as the wire inside can crack or the resistor can give out and when it gets hot under full load they can cut out too, it's a similar result the engine misses/pops/clicks and then just dies. You let them cool off and fire it up and it will sit at half RPM/idle all day long as they don't get hot enough to die. Here's the 661c-m service manual if you want any info on taking stuff off or wiring harness diagrams- 661 c-m.PDF

Does it cut out instantly as in shut off like you hit the off switch or does it bog down and die?

Any chance of a video? Does it make a strange clicking noise all the time or just at high revs when it cuts out?

Good effort. What gave them away? The flat tyres or the clutch smoke from every stop ?

6 tonne in what?! A Transit?! Did the coppers stop him or the wheels fall off?! AFAIK currently its: a slap on the wrists <5% 5%-10% is £100 possibly +penalty points 10%-15% is £200 possibly +penalty points 15%-30% is £300 >30% is vehicle immobilised, court summons, points, fines, invalid insurance if it's in an accident bla bla bla

I didn't even think about blown crankcase seals/vac testing the crankcase. I suppose it would still fire over with some fuel dribbled in too....

That's what I was thinking with the hyd px reading. Realistically if I got stopped and was 20% over I would get charged £300 for it be it knowingly over or not. I feel like having the ability to know would be better. Plus having the ability to know the front/rear loading and adjusting as necessary would be good too. takes two minutes to rake some chippings flat. Especially as fines are now based on axle loading not overall vehicle rate. When they pull you into a weighbridge they do each individual axle so if you are under 3.5 tonnes but you chucked a load of logs in the back and go over the axle rating then you can be charged.

Ahh crap, wrong one... Sorry! The carburettors with it: C1M-232 C1M-206 C1M-151 C1M-289 But I can't find the tools listed for those. Personally I would pull the limit caps off and put a slot in them with a thin dremel disc

Hexagon Screwdriver - Stihl OEM No. 5910 890 2307 | L&S Engineers WWW.LSENGINEERS.CO.UK Hexagon Screwdriver 4mm Across the Flat Edges of the Hexagon Shape Genuine Stihl Part OEM No. 5910 890 2307 If it's not that one then do you know the numbers on your carb?

I can't find the tech notice but here's a post from the FCA about it https://www.facebook.com/forestrycontractingassociation/posts/husqvarna-560-xp-problems-the-usual-problem-with-560s-is-that-they-wont-re-start/682331501842512/

I'm not sure of what they mean by "refuelling" I'm not a husky tech. I just know that it was a common fault and there was a tech notice with the 560xp's. Failing to start after refuelling was the notice and they bought out a kit and ECU update to fix it