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Yep, being 5 years ago I'd have to guess that the 1st post of part numbers was from researching the possibility online and the 2nd post in December is what I actually bought from my local Stihl dealer, I've just checked the bar and it's 1.3 mm [ 3005 000 4809 ]. If you have one of these saws and your running the shitty wee PM chain I'd guess that you'd be blown away by the difference from swapping out everything, I think from memory about £68. I started with Stihl full chiz 3/8" which I run on most of my saws, and I know you're thinking ' that'll hurt the battery' but it doesn't as it cuts much quicker and may actually do more work per charge. Also with the bigger chain the sprocket is of a larger diameter although with fewer teeth as the bigger chain won't go round such a small radius and the knock on effect of this is a higher chain speed, or gearing up. I know from the Stihl rep who was on here a bit back that the msa 220 has a slightly more powerful motor but that doesn't stop this mod to the msa 200 being a great improvement. Currently I'm using Panther full chiz 3/8" chain from Chainsawbars and I've gotta say that it's on par with Stihl performance wise but much cheaper and from memory about 1.5mm more tooth, so after a year of using I'll give Panther chain 5 stars👍

For how long were you housed, fed and paid from taxtake in the army?

Yes but for those logs that just need a single split my old Kisa Combi would do the job, mine doesn't have a conveyor and that is not a problem if you are stacking in a shed.

Gonna get a lot more expensive too, I wonder how many taxpayers that’s gonna take to keep it going.

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Andy at A&G had his machines done about 12 mth ago, all with locking caps, they just cut the kneck off the tank and took fuel but it cost him a fair do to replace the tanks,,

Japa Saw Bench | eBay UK EBAY.US Japa saw bench only as we up grade to a hakklpilke oH27 has ascrew log splitter perfectly working machine can be seen working. If you are interested call me on... some thing like that would be ideal, would of payed for itself after two years with the cost of what some one would want to come in with a processor for the day.

Best stop paying them both to be on the safe side.

Sorry, in a rush and got spell checked!

sure - there are rich who are milking the system, but a lot of those payments go to genuine farmers - you may resent that some rich people have a nice pad that would do you and for your yard - I know I do, but the scale of subsidies vs the scale of cost of dealing with migrants mean the illegal immigrants are what is ruining this country's finances The UK government spends a significant amount on agricultural subsidies. In 2023, farmers received £2.953 billion in subsidies, and in 2022/23, spending on farm support in England was around £2.33 billion. This support includes various schemes like the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS), which provides delinked payments, and Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs). The government also provides grants for tree planting and other environmental benefits. Home Office figures cited by the Financial Times in August last year showed that the annual asylum cost reached £3.96 billion in the year up to 2023—double that of the previous year and six times higher than 2018. Yet, despite that astronomical cost, we continue to increase handouts to France to stop the boats.

It wouldn't surprise me, the thing is farmers target their use of approved pesticides in order to make a profit growing a crop, golf clubs require their workers to have grass monoculture and the men will apply an excessive amount to ensure that because they are answerable to the members. I have long felt golf courses are an an ecological disaster and have never like walking through them, which is a necessity round here as many local farms diversified into golf clubs. including one I helped out on.

The rich can be as bad dolescum as the poor. Poor people get universal credit. Rich people get land subsidies. It’s all scrounging.

1 - ok the super rich will try to avoid paying tax, but also they are not going to be scrounging benefits like illegal immigrants do 2 - Reform took more than 600 new council seats - if 6 have blown up, so what? Even a 10% attrition rate wouldn't matter

On occasion that I remember to stick the fig8 in the caritool, I do decent on it but not often tbh, been climbing a decent bit of srt a fair chunk recently and the chicane seems to do a fair job of doing what a fig 8 would do

For him and his German kids, open borders are a necessity. Hypocrisy of Brexit, all for it so long as his foreign family are OK to travel here. His Reform councillors aren't doing so well just now, about half a dozen elected last week are either suspended, defected or left Reform.

You were fortunate (if you could be in a case like this?) that they went to the trouble of pumping/ syphoning the diesel out? The damage drilling the tank would be far worse - new tank, delivery waiting time, labour fitting. I don’t lock any fillers, the bastards can have the fuel and we can only hope they die from drinking diesel after syphoning. Many years ago diesel thieves drove at my father in law when they were nicking diesel from his farm. He was in his 70s then and he just managed to jump clear otherwise they’d of run him down? Unfortunately he did not get a description?

I'll look that up, thanks. It was just an idea as despite being pretty easy to split stuff, there's quite a lot of it (at least double that pile)

I'd be more worried about what they're going to build next than the state of the tree. Developers don't just randomly leave 20ft of perfectly flat ground for nothing, guessing access road for phase 2 considering there's no garden gate and the panels are attached from the outside.

I don't want a groundie tugging me off, thanks.

Are you on acid or blind kram ? , look at the picks man , the whole entire root system looks like it can’t breath through the at least 1ft of claggy shite spread around it. the trunk looks like it’s been hit with an excavator too along with bundles of torn out roots everywhere, it maybe difficult to tell exactly what has gone on with photos but it will be the cause of the trees problems.. my advice to the OP would get a consultant off the arb association web site local to you to do a report on it if you want it to stand up in court.

It doesnt appear the soil level has greatly changed as you can see the buttress flare, But that is freshly dumped clay so perhaps the roots have been disturbed or cut. There are lots of old pruning, flush? cuts mid way up the trunk. Theres also bark damage quite low.

I already have an Echo 2511 climbing saw. I like the idea of a spare clone for any abuse work but the ones on ebay at £200 are too much. I have bought from Farmertec before, and see they have added a clone G2511, works out £92 delivered.

That's not a lot indeed, and it's all very short lengths for processor grade. Probably the best tool for the job is something with a circular saw. As this is going to be regular occurance for you (one presumes) I'd invest in something like a Hakke Pilke Eagle for the back of that tractor.

That will just ruin the rope putting twists in it and wearing it faster. You could swap to a rock climbing 8 decender or belay device but thats extra kit to carry about.

I couldnt see any existing thread, what kit/saws have you bought recently? Arb stuff or anything interesting.