Today's Posts

I guess you have to pick your tree/saw combo A big TD with lots of big cuts the 201 will save you energy over a smaller saw. A repollard or similar you go smaller.

We have the 10 foot set nice to use ,not to bad for transporting I’ve never wished I had the shorter but always end up standing on the top but I think the 12 foot would be a pain to transport and store , the three adjustable feet make a massive difference,

It's quite breathtaking to consider that Iran will soon be less Islamic than Britain.

I see this fella can improve metallurgical skills but you are not allowed YouTube when you go back in time!

Finally picked it up, not used in anger yet. Does it (as claimed) match the power of a 550 petrol? Absolutely not! Seems quick in small medium wood. It’s in the bar length stuff it balks. Forgive the operator in the video giving unrealisticly high expectations of male beauty. IMG_2448.mov

And regardless, the point is moot now. bloody Milwaukee m18 polesaw just stopped working. Packed it up and waiting for courier- they’d better sort it without quibble, it’s hardly been used. then the bar bent on the m18 chainsaw. Putting it in the vice and it’s like cheese compared to a stihl or Oregon I have here- luckily a 181 bar mount is the right fitment. But regarding the polesaw- turns out that with a bit of insulating tape to shim the tube up and a sand down of the driveshaft by 0.2mm, you can fit a stihl engine onto a husky polesaw shaft! So now I have a Stihl engine that is older than the polesaw on it, which I have every confidence in the reliability of. Time to treat myself to a new combi engine.

Did my CS30 last week- £310+VAT, then £175 for NPTC assessment. CS31 is £410+VAT, then the NPTC on top, same place. That's Oxfordshire

It's for Eritreans to stand on to spear fish and stab swans. They're going to be installed everywhere, paid for by taxing the sale of remembrance day poppies. Can't say how I know.

Small woodland job. Theres a few nice oaks around it but mostly filled with poplar, some cherry and birch, and lots of coppice - possibly hazel, not sure without the leaves. My job was to fell several windblown, some birch with polypore, cut away the ivy from the big ones. Keep it woodland, keep habitat, but make it nicer, safer. After lunch the owner asked if I could show him how to use his new battery chainsaw, that he will use for firewood. Showed him the very basics of using a saw safely, got him to fell a few of the small dead birch. The ivy was odd stuff. It wasnt the normal climbing ivy seen everywhere, that grips the trunk firmly the whole way up. This ivy that looks like it has dropped down from above. Its lightly attached near the ground then dangles freely up to the canopy where it tightly wraps everything. Anyone know how it gets up there? Perhaps it grows independantly then into the canopy? Or perhaps it starts attached to the tree, then as it matures, lets go with just the canopy attached. Enjoyable day, hopefully going back in the week.

Gave I customer how makes pens a piece of Cotinus just before Christmas. This was the result.

If councils bothered looking after tree stock it wouldn't be so bad, so problem is, land is saturated with water, clay soil and a bit of wind , yippee trees blown over . Did make me smile when you had 'volunteeer' tree surgeons out- so not that great !

The contours of the next battlefield are beginning to emerge, and with them, a glimpse of how American dominance is evolving rather than fading. I have spent years inside elements of what is now… | Lew K. WWW.LINKEDIN.COM The contours of the next battlefield are beginning to emerge, and with them, a glimpse of how American... Interesting account albeit not verified. Capability wise we are so far behind the USA nowadays it’s laughable to hear Starmer talking of deploying troops here there and everywhere.

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p.s Play up Pompey Give em what for Stubby

american movies at least last decade are a laughable pathetic waste of time. you should watch some old russian or sweedish movies. a whole different amazing time

I hope the finns continue this "trend" but with short, medium and long hyper mother f..sonic mega ballistic missiles. Or the kind of missiles that just appear/teleported in Putin's bedroom/BED 😂

O.K, reporting back. So, it's been useful putting the chipper away and for positioning on hard standing and gravel. Off road on a clients lawn, slight problem. This is due to the rollers requiring more purchase when the tyres are slippery. One roller slips a little so I'm constantly having to adjust the direction but it got into a garden and back out across a damp lawn without leaving a mess. Saved us a long unhappy drag though so I still count it a success. Now to get the the rollers repositioned or perhaps a meatier set of tyres...

I bought three batteries at the start of this year and all have been replaced with the new ones that mark skyland talks about. Luckily they were all under warranty! My local dealer says that they’ve had a lot from this batch of ‘made in taiwan’ batteries that they’ve had to replace, but i don’t think there’s been a recall on them.

I used to use a chain and padlock, certainty a bit more to get through.