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Morning all. Good fettle this morning. Decent sleep makes a difference, and another long awaited delivery arrived yesterday which pleased me greatly! Been using Tom's spikes since our kit was stolen but my replacement ones have arrived, my dream spikes. Horribly expensive but started a dismantle with them straight out the box and already they feel like 'mine'. Think Mick will approve. In other news, I'm close to bringing our new product to the arb market. It'll increase safety and productivity, as well as being available at a competitive price. You just attach it to the rear of harness and if the worst happens you've a soft landing and are instantly returned to your work position. With great pride I bring to you, the Arbouncer. Have a good one folks.

I’d be interested if full time foresters/fallers grease their nose sprockets. Never greased a clutch bearing in my life either

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Thanks to everyone for all your input- very much appreciated, and thank you to those that messaged privately, either to offer leads or contacts. Cheers!

Good morning Stubby and all and happy Saturday 😊

Its a wind up , godda be !

Happy Saturday troops .

Been saying that for years . Acts like a lapping paste .

Good morning, does anyone have any experience with Milwaukee hatchet or similar from other brands please. We are thinking about getting one as it looks like it might be handy tool for clearing out small stuff in awkward spaces prior to hedgelaying and for taking tops off stakes (we will have about 5000 to do this season). We do have a couple of bigger husky battery saws so maybe we should just stick with these?

I know, and they seemed surprised when I told I didn't want to go ahead. Funnily enough a friend took a still in and they did a great job by all accounts!!

I’m sure you know this, and you’re just being facetious with the resident drunken anarchist. But for the benefit of those more easily led astray… These don’t have a proper seal, just a loose bit of plastic against the end where the blades protrude from. It’s not like a round shaft where a rotary lipped seal can easily form a total seal against the oil. I laughed at his post because although he have have filled it with chain oil, he hasn’t yet realised that there’s none left inside it unless he’s stored it standing up for the last 15 years and not used it. Your workshop is full of trimmers for the reason that people assume once it’s ’filled with grease’ then it’s good. What actually happens is that they get hot with use, the grease gets liquid, and escapes from the blade end. And then it’s not replaced. What’s left inside emulsifies with the loss of the oil component of the grease through heat and ends up in the familiar waxy looking crap everywhere in the head except where it’s needed- on the gears and in particular the con rod bearings. stick a grease nipple into the fitting and grease it every other time it’s used and they will not fail.

its down to the humidity.

I thought the felling cut on the sycamore looked good was it on rate my hinge?

Stating the obvious the inlet needle is leaking, so either the metering lever is too high, or the metering diaphragm is too stiff, the rubber tipped needle is worn, orn the seat itself is worn, which is pretty normal on an old power cutter due the abrasive dust passing through the carb, when you changed the carb, was it a Chinese copy carb? at best they are not very good.

A bit of both - always have toast and marmalade/jam for breakfast but give lots away to neighbours, friends and some of my favourite customers. Seems to be well received and get swaps with some veg, fruit etc Fig chutney goes down well at my local pub on cheese night. The Bramley apples are numerous this year if not as big as usual due to the lack of rain. Apple pies and crumble will be going in the freezer soon as well.

Gifts swaps ? Or do you eat a lot of jam?

The annual damson jam making has started for me this evening - reckon I’ll have four or five batches this year, perhaps 60-70 jars. Many years ago I’d have been down the pub/club on a Friday night - now look at me - making jam 🤣

I fycking hate the thing anyway. Heavy, loud bastard. Fcxk off. I want a 40 foot birch I can do with a zingy little 2511 and a packet of sweets.

Yep. That. I've probably just signed my 661's death warrant by putting the caged bearing in with some chain oil just now. I shit you not, the rollers were spinning freely before I lubed it and then bound up with the oil.

The Microbull grab with the hydraulic capstan on it still sounds like the bollocks to me. A shame they didn't catch on more. The controls are gash and the showroom is far less easy to get to than Chesterfield. Both surmountable problems. Someone must want a small machine on tracks.

My theory is that grease attracts and holds dirt, which causes bar nose failure.

It's as disjointed as telling the public to not hire groundwork contractors who also use JCBs to steal cashpoints out of walls.

Basically it can't comply to the European Normative Standard that splices are tested in accordance with. It might be a different story in other parts of the world. I'm not saying it's unsafe to climb on, it's just difficult to prove that it IS safe. Reach out to the supplier and ask if their splicer has been trained by Courant.

It's mainly a con I think. I worked with a bloke who leaned hard into compliance, the book, the manual etc. I remember watching him twat away a morning revving and idling a new saw. He greased the nose of Husky/Oregon bars. I'm convinced that's the beginning of the end of them because all he talked about was nose sprockets shitting themselves. Meanwhile plenty of bars (i.e. Stihl ones) that never see grease, still work.

I done a few checks in regards to what people have posted and it's not a sheared flywheel key as posted previously. I ordered a new ignition coil and aftermarket carburettor. This was simply for trial and error. I previously didn't mention that there was fuel leaking from the air filter housing (the air filters have been removed). I fitted the new coil and new carburettor. I changed the fuel pipe which leads to the the fuel filter in the tank as well as the fuel filter. Filled up with fresh fuel and it started for about a few seconds. There was still fuel coming out of the air filter. I looked at a few yo*t@be videos and seen a few comments about the metering valve and needle valve. Most of the comments mentioned that the new valves may not be as good as the original valves (bit baffled by this) so I decided to have a look at the original carburettor and I changed the new valves with the original ones. I couldn't see any difference. I refitted the old carburettor and now the saw starts but only with throttle applied. Still leaks fuel from the air filter. Could anyone advise on what to do next please?.