Moose McAlpine
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Everything posted by Moose McAlpine
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There's no gasket at the top of the piston. 😕
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What's your budget? That's generally the most deciding factor.
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Speak for yourself, i want to see it do a vertical take-off.
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Because shouting "TIMBERRRRRR" isn't the same when there's only 10' of stem left.
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Yup, makes sense. 🥴
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Good to see it'll get used. Bet you'll get some lovely timber out of it. I thought you'd taken it down to the stump, that remaining section must be huge if it's 5' across. How big are the bits and how much do you want for some?
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That's a beautiful piece! Do you have a photo of the finished table?
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First one, i like the helical form as you said. Wood looks good. Will it get milled?
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What kind of tree is that, Lux?
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It wasn't great to be honest. I've only felled 3 or 4 trees before, and they weren't anything like this big. This was 40"+ at the stump, so needed to be cut from both sides. Gob cuts needed some tidying up, back cut wasn't perfect. It landed where we wanted it though, more practice in time.
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Maybe it's sheared the flywheel woodruff key and the flywheel is spinning on the crank? You can remove the starter housing to check this easily, or remove the clutch cover and see if the clutch turns when you pull it over.
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Day 3 taking down this big beech. A lot had to be lowered as it was overhanging 2 houses and the road. "You know how to operate the Hiab, don't you?" "Errr no, not really." "Ok, well grab it with the bucket, then boom in to snap it off and drop it in the back!"
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Not stuck though are they? 😛
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Bad enough getting your bar pinched and one saw stuck, but 6 of them? 😕
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Fiat Ducato 2.3 litre multi jet advice - any good?!
Moose McAlpine replied to HectorM's topic in Arb-Trucks
The engine is fitted differently in the Ivecos, they're much easier to work on. -
My girlfriend accused me of being a transvestite, so i packed her things and left.
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That's a great photo, looks like an official promo shot.
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Everyone wants more. More power, more torque, less weight, better consumption, lower emissions, less vibration, essier starting, lower maintenance, etc. All these demands drive the evolution. What's a real testament to design and engineering done well is saws like the 395 and 3120, largely unchanged for 30 years.
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I find it easier to open the gullet a bit first, then work the actual "hook" cut with the lift and twist. (Also if you slip while opening the gullet you don't damage the edge you've just cut.) Keep getting chains at work with no gullet and no hook where our lemons have "sharpened" them.
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They seem to have forgot it on a lot of their saws. Our 661's filter looks like a block of MDF every time i go to clean it. Truly. And why the 500i is practically the same price as a 661 for 10cc less displacement and worse fuel consumption.
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Go for a 562. More power more better. (Also, 562 can be fitted with a full wrap handle if you like them.)
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It's a surprisingly cheap way of getting a very nice solid, secure*, useable workshop. When i find some space or buy a house in the sticks i'd like to do that with two 40s or 45s. Bang a roof over the middle, solid wall one end, barn door or roller shutter the other. Two secure storage rooms and a workspace. Even weld-in doors to go in the sides are only about 300 quid for something well built. *obviously the middle bit's security is dependant on how you do it, containers themselves are easy to make quite secure.
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(Ignore me, i posted in the wrong thread.)
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Very cool. I'd love to be doing jobs like that
