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28-07-2023, 01:52 PM | #2491 | ||
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29-07-2023, 06:11 PM | #2493 | ||
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This is why you don't cheap out on a Chinese-copy chainsaw.
Chainsaws are just too dangerous to mess around with like this. You can't have a sometimes works kill switch, not to mention the whole thing being so cheaply made that it compromises overall safety.
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30-07-2023, 07:55 AM | #2494 | ||
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Chinese anything, when there is an alternate product available.
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30-07-2023, 10:41 AM | #2495 | ||
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Doesn’t she (Chickanic) get sawdust all down her top from dressing like that?
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30-07-2023, 11:37 AM | #2496 | ||
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Electric chainsaws, game changers
I rate this chainsaw, perfect for leaving in the back of the car for chopping firewood when camping. You can't hear it and it chops surprisingly big logs. 5 year warranty, so when breaks i'll just grab another one. https://www.bunnings.com.au/ozito-px...E&gclsrc=aw.ds I used this one at a mates, it is a weapon, can cut a decent tree down and battery life is significant. When getting firewood I dropped 1 decent tree around 300 trunk size and cut it all up on just the two batteries. https://www.makita.com.au/power-gard...w-400mm-16-kit
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30-07-2023, 11:55 AM | #2497 | |||
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30-07-2023, 03:14 PM | #2498 | ||
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Pointless job 1397...........
The muffler on the Combat was pretty pitted and carbon stained when I got it........... A scrub with some Brake Buster and a hit with a wire brush removed the layer of oxidation and carbon but left a scuffed appearance. Soooo................ A hit with some wet and dry paper, then a foam power cone and good old Mother's Mag and Aluminum Polish delivered what I was aiming for........... As I said, a pointless task but worth it in my eyes. You will note the grass clippings on the unit, meaning this machine has been getting some use. I love this mower, its super light and easy to maneuver, and it just seems to grunt through taller grass without sweat. "They don't make them like this anymore"...................
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30-07-2023, 03:29 PM | #2499 | |||
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I dropped most of this dead Pear tree using my tiny Stihl MSA 140C, its limit was reached once I had started doing larger cuts where stamina is needed. This is most likely limited to this particular machine though, for general garden pruning, I love it. The thing that makes it brilliant, the quietness, also makes it not brilliant. As in, it doesn't scream its head off..............there's nothing like the sound of angry 2-stroke chainsaw!
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30-07-2023, 08:18 PM | #2500 | ||
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There’s no whiz-bang transformation on this job, but it’s starting to show a little more order and tidiness towards the fenceline. I’m stockpiling salvaged bush rock from a rockery being demolished out the back - it’s stacked on plastic membrane after weeding an area of undeveloped garden border.
The triangular beds are getting closer to their moment of reckoning (prune, weed, edge). |
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30-07-2023, 10:40 PM | #2501 | ||
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen her wear hearing protection either, none of the yank YouTubers seem to. The land of the free and hearing impaired.
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31-07-2023, 03:07 PM | #2502 | ||
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Why on earth a company would produce a horizontal shaft lawn mower logic.............
More Chinese junk.........
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01-08-2023, 11:37 AM | #2503 | |||
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05-08-2023, 02:33 PM | #2504 | ||
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With the onset of winter work certainly hasn't slowed down. The course has gone from strength to strength with the implementation of correct mowing, renovation and nutrition plans. So much so, over summer, we hosted a large charity event, an open and a pro-am tournaments.
Last winter was all about servicing current machines and recommissioning machinery from the graveyard of "too hard" that the previous crew had given up on. This winter has been spent on the course. We've been building a couple of new tee's, re shaping and installing new bunkers, revegetating and tree lopping. I was out this week tidying, hard, dry, stumps from trees lost long ago ready for stump grinding. I've been using, what I think is the most versatile saw on the market, the Stihl MS271. From light pruning to cutting stumps its more saw most of us will ever need. I've also been giving one of our tractors a bit of love in my spare time, I'm half way through this old JD giving it a cut and polish. We were caught in the rain the other day and it did make me smile when it started beading, I better get onto the other half next week
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05-08-2023, 02:48 PM | #2505 | |||
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05-08-2023, 05:57 PM | #2506 | ||
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They sure do. We were a red (Toro) shed but its nice to see some green in there, with the addition of a secondhand tractor, the one I'm playing with, a brand new loader, in the stump pic and a zero turn slasher. We'll be picking up more JD stuff in the future as things come up for replacement.
Pretty excited about getting a couple of bee hives on the course too. We're talking to an Apiarist at the moment. Looking forward to learning from him and getting some fresh, local, honey to boot.
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05-08-2023, 06:10 PM | #2507 | |||
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06-08-2023, 01:54 PM | #2508 | ||
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I've got nothing against the machines really, the ergonomics are usually good and they're easy to use.
The thing thats done it for us is the after sales service. They don't carry much stock in Australia so its ordered ex US and sent on the slow boat, even after we've offered to pay for express postage, thats the way they work. We can't afford to be down a machine for weeks sometimes a month waiting for what should be off the shelf, consumable parts. Our experience with JD has been the opposite, we ordered a hydraulic kit for a third implement and it arrived in 3 days with a full schematic and fitting instructions, something else Toro are reluctant to supply.
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06-08-2023, 02:11 PM | #2509 | ||
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we ordered a hydraulic kit for a third implement and it arrived in 3 days with a full schematic and fitting instructions,
hell they dont do that with farming equipment
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06-08-2023, 04:11 PM | #2510 | |||
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The quality of the hydraulics on the cheaper stuff is debatable sometimes, giving that jerky movement on the rams which can sometimes be uncontrollable working close quarters. Only other smaller tractor I quite like is the Kubota range, they seem to have got their hydraulics right unlike some larger New Hollands fitted with front end loader attachments.
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09-08-2023, 08:13 AM | #2511 | ||
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Recycling centre finds....
Good timing yesterday, just happened to be in the right place at the right time when a pair of honda mowers turned up, a HUR196 and a HRU21SP, as well as a gx35 powered straight shaft whipper snipper, Stihl HT45 hedgetrimmer & a BG56 blower, all with attached information tags stating "engine siezed" HT45, recoil spring is broken and jammed the pull start BG56 is locked up solid but I havent pulled any covers yet.... The others? apart from a cracked cover on the GX35, I'm pretty sure they're all runners!
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09-08-2023, 05:39 PM | #2512 | |||
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I'm willing to bet the BG56 will be the crank case bolts that have come loose and jammed the flywheel. The engines themselves go for ever and take a lot of abuse, so its unlikely to be seized.
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09-08-2023, 08:59 PM | #2513 | |||
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Whats got me is how much baked on grease and gunk was in the air duct/engine side of the flywheel.... like, levels that I'd expect from a 4 stroke with a crank seal leak. On another note, both Honda mowers have a secondary handle with a yellow push button.... is it a blade brake?
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09-08-2023, 09:12 PM | #2514 | ||
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I have not used one but I'm fairly sure it is.
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09-08-2023, 11:34 PM | #2515 | ||
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On another note, both Honda mowers have a secondary handle with a yellow push button.... is it a blade brake?[/QUOTE] Yep, sure is, good pick up!
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09-08-2023, 11:41 PM | #2516 | ||
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Spring has started in Adelaide, the phone has started ringing, jobs being scheduled, now need to dust off the old sense of urgency!
Game on biatches!
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09-08-2023, 11:52 PM | #2517 | ||
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Interestingly, neither of the recent arrivals blade brakes seem to be much chop compared to my 2 year old HRU19
I guess I'm gonna find out soon enough when I get stuck into them!
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10-08-2023, 10:59 AM | #2518 | ||
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Right..... So I've had a productive morning, this is what I've achieved
1: HRU196 badly needs a service, but a fresh fill of fuel & a squirt of ether and it ran, so it got tested on half my back yard 2: HRU216 is the same, but theres a ratcheting noise coming from the gearbox area when you engage drive, hopefully its nothing major but I might have a suitable drive unit somewhere in my pile'o'parts, but it runs just fine and did the other half of my back yard 3: HS45 hedge trimmer only needed a recoil spring and fresh fuel to run 4: BG45 blower needed a good bath, 1 screw retightened and it runs just fine 5: Handle with the yellow button is actually a disconnect for the blades, motor will start & run with the handle released, but push the handle, blades disconnect from the crank and stop spinning. next project is to resurrect a GX270 thats had a hard life as a pump motor, does anyone have a wiring diagram, and does anyone know if they ran a ifnition module like the smaller motors?
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10-08-2023, 04:47 PM | #2519 | ||
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Finishing off a rough-as-guts yard cleanup with a flourish… Canariensis needle jammed in my calf muscle, about 30mm deep and snapped off. Currently in A&E at my local hospital, who - rather than fish with tweezers and local anaesthetic - want to X-ray my leg first.
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11-08-2023, 04:45 PM | #2520 | ||
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Palm spike removed, under full anaesthesia. Surgeon reckons it’s a common injury. 22+ millimetres long, had speared into the muscle. Looking forward to full recovery through the coming fortnight.
I’d go to the vet next time - it would be faster and more to-the-point (pun noted). Maybe not so ideal in terms of having one’s temperature taken. |
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