Donnie
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I'm guessing a lot of chain grinders are air cooled rather than slitter a load of coolant and oil everywhere. I know when I used to be an engineer using a lathe or a mill used to have coolant all over the place. Be worse with something like that... how much was that machine? @gdh
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I'm sure a fella near me has an automatic one and he is around 5 a chain vat included... 2.50 seems very cheap!
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Aye am well aware of overheating things drilling holes etc. Can always go around it twice if its bad taking half at a time. Does anyone do this for other people, how much are you charging per chain?
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I'm guessing you own a harvester, do you not add the cost of a cutter and a little more on to the job? Also what would you expect out of a cutter on 250 a day in Sitka/outside edge trees? I.E how many per shift etc. I got you and @Pete Mctree mixed up I think.
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Be a man buy a Husky
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I'm a year in, got a thread on here showing what I do and I'm on around 200 (hopefully going up) for local work and up to an extra 50 per day for further afield. Only do clearfells and felling to harvesters on steep ground/high leading. I'd be wary of asking 250 a day doing big trees if you are from an arb background. I work with two great cutters from arb backgrounds and they say it is completely different. Need to produce a fair bit to justify 250 I'd say. Quite easily run out of fuel on big trees before 8 hours is up but I work for a bigger company and can get away with doing 5-6 litres in a day and calling it good. (Still plenty cutting at that)
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Aye I'm giving it really light dabs. Going to go back in the garage shortly and give it another go. Only did a few cutters last night taking my time
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One of the guys I cut oversize firewood for has recently bought a processor and I've bought the Oregon chain grinder with hydraulic clamping. Got it bolted up, and tried one of his .404 chains with the 5mm disc (mid sized one that you are given with the grinder). For angles, he is 99 percent hardwood and I've heard 35 degrees (which is max on the grinder) is the best way to sharpen up. 35/35/10 degrees. Is this true? Also, the chain I'm working on I'm trying not take off loads of material, but it is looking like it will need a fair bit taken off as the corner of the cutter is a bit chipped. Am I fine to set my grinder away to the finished length but take it very gradual cutting in to the top plate? Probably a bad explanation of what I'm trying to get across. Here's a few photos which are a bit shite as it won't focus.
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Takes more than a hose to get the mud off of my van unfortunately.
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Normally my Huskys blow up once every six months. How do I preventative maintenance that? 😂
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Another quick one, fuel filter/air filter. How often are you getting new ones of them? I'm yet to change either.
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Going to hijack this thread a wee bit but how often are you guys changing your plugs on your saws? I've put a hoor of an amount through all 3 of mine and never changed one since I started a year ago...
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That's exactly the one I was looking at. 75 quid or so is perfect. It's only gonna be used a couple times a week let's be serious and as for air guns. I wouldn't buy one Cheers for the info.
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Thanks a lot cheers
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I'm on the hunt for a new compressor for the garage it'll be used for blowing out saws and tires if I'm ever a bit low. Don't want to spend a hell of a lot of money on this but wondering if any of you have used the little Stanley 24L compressor? As for pressure washers I don't mind spending all right money on one. Heard those Karchers are good? Be used for the car and van that's all.
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How so? Isn't it the vapor that is bad for you? Ponsse stuff is just gear oil with an additive apparently.
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Gear oil 🙏🙏🙏
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Me again... Does anybody have any info if you can put the likes of a standard RAV4/Vitara through the books as 100 percent tax deductible? I've spoken to people who say they have and some say they can't as it's not legal.
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Get a pair of these badboys. Hurt your feet a bit and they'll cut you/your trousers if you aren't careful when getting used to them but you can walk up some wind blow/snedding at some mad angles. It's the coming back down that's the hard bit. Well worth it.
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Some firewood from last week. About a days worth maybe a bit less. 585 is the perfect saw for it.
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All that said unless I'm felling a banking/crop trees I'll only be walking 2 metres to the next tree. If doing bigger trees, my saw is turned off on the walk up the hill to the next one.
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Never get anything up to where we walk. And it wouldnt earn me anymore money 😂
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Tbf I used to use it a lot but nowadays I never use it. Especially walking up the hill in the morning, at least if you fall on your chain with the brake off (not running) it doesn't seem to cut you as bad 😂
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What the hell is a chain brake
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Aye that's what my current small log store is made of. Don't mind making stuff out of live edge n metal brackets for shelves. Quite fancy making it look quite well.
