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yep had one of those rocket launchers, way overkill. The big rocket would drift off course with the slightest breeze, whilst the solid metal one would literally kill someone! Very loud too, you'd definetly want your ear defenders on or you'd get ringing ears. There was the option of adjusting the power by using one of 3 different sized pellets....but also you could reduce the distance you fire by how far you push the rocket down on the launcher. Never used it enough to really get a good feel of it. it was a £200 gimicky impulse buy.

Have you looked at the plugs after the machine stops? Wet or oily plug on one cylinder may lead to a fault one cylinder. Blue smoke is usually oil and white is excessive fuel. It could be one cylinder not firing after a minutes running so dodgy coil....does it have two coils, is the coil to magneto gap nice and close as a large gap may make the coil only work when stone cold....seen this before on chainsaws.

What are you goung to be using it for? DIY around your garden and allotment or clear felling Old Growth?

If you don't know too much about saws and the things some less scrupulous sellers may do to sell them then purchase new. The sort of things I am talking about is using cheap non OEM parts such as carbs, coils and cylinders so they can turn a profit. If you are purchasing from a known contact you trust, perhaps a larger arb company that replace kit every two years then you may get yourself a decent deal. Assuming you are after a single ground saw that can cut the mustard then the 550xp MK2 or MS261 mtronic are both decent saws and have both been around a long time.

Let's see a photo of the Chiappa then? I quite fancy one. Have you looked at the Zulus 2-12x? Looks like a lot of scope for the money

I brought the above when i was young then up graded, thats my personal experiance, If someone wants an easy lightweight, basic , stands upto abuse ,would pass basic training then go for it, Bloke/woman/person 1st saw thats all. Things like certain small stihls have never been "quick" husqvarna yes but not stihl . Husqvarna are ok echo are ok. But nothing to write home about . If times precious why bother cutting your own wood? I find echo neither quick nor slow , husqvarna scream and stihl are just grunt.

I guess you can. https://makerworld.com/en/makerlab/makeMyStatue/

Apta launcher was good , probably the best out of most the alternatives, as long as you had a good pump. my throwing was not great , just practice for 15 mins once a week and it will improve massively over a month or so. big shots are ok , with out sounding like a wet wipe the forces of what you need to propel 12-14oz bags up a tree are potentially lethal , didn’t some one die a year or so back when a pole collapsed or elastic broke ??? , I would just buy the stine one and save yourself the time and have some piece of mind.

Poor little fellers.

hardwood only, such as: Oak Ash Beech Sycamore Birch Apple Cherry What I can take: Rounds up to 10 inches long (25 cm) Unsplit logs / rings 10 inches long (25 cm) Branches at least 3–4 inches thick, 10 inches long (25 cm) Green/unseasoned wood (ideal) Mixed sizes welcome

My aim is great, power great, timing shite, and you need all three for throw bags. I could likely get better if I spent days practising and was using it often, but once a month with an often difficult throw, no chance. I'm thinking I will make up a big shot or air cannon instead.

My mate offered to take them. The bloke declined. Then released them fifty feet from my mate’s chicken run. Distinctly un-neighbourly.

I think I still have my FiL's empty coke can launcher which is probably much the same.

I’ve been watching Outdoor Boys videos recently. Particularly enjoy his cooking. Doing a little homage meal now. Bread balls with cheese in the middle and bacon, served with honey butter (which is what attracted me to him in the first place). Done on the fire inside because it’s raining outside and I don’t have any children whose characters need building with that sort of suffering.

Larger trees are seeming to retain better vigour and react positively to pruning, but only in the early stages. at best I am buying a relatively short reprieve for any ash I am working on and am very wary of customers feeling like they have wasted money retaining them for only a couple or so years

"if ya gonna be a bear,,, be a grizzly"

Yes, it’s pretty quick, quicker than mine certainly.

Have you had a drive ?

Apparently.

That’s a shame. I’m so spoiled by shooting silenced subsonics. Can’t stand noise.

I guess there is little to no pollution tax with that new hybrid?

They are loud , I had to have permission and notices in the natural trust car park that was on that job warning people what the noise was.. will make your ears ring anyway. Basically it’s a dog dummy trainer , you just need to modify the dummy with some weight other wise they ricochet all around the tree and you have zero chance of getting the line back on the ground.

How loud are they? Compared to a 22 rimfire shooting subs, silenced and not. I’ve been fancying one for ages. What I really want is a little mortar, ideally smaller than a 51mm. Maybe 40mm to share ammo with a grenade launcher. With a stand and lovely little screws for adjusting. But alas, I live in an uncivilised country that forbids them unless you kill arabs with them and I don’t especially want to kill any arabs.

Recently moved the battery platform in the truck to 18v Makita, lots of goodies about for the older version of this battery platform. A surprise is the small compressor, way quicker than my twin cylinder Tmax and I don’t have to go rummaging for a battery connection. Bob. pumped up both of these dumper tyres from flat in minutes and still showed a full charge on the battery.

That is a very lackluster saw, the next size up is a better bet, even then I had to remove the cat from it to wake it up, it does not rev high either so not fast cutter. Am also looking to upgrade to something bigger to cut fireweed as that Echo CS352 is still too slow for that, it will get things done but will consume your time to no end, am old and do not wish to spend all day doing what could be done in a lot less time.