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Morning all, 

 

Currently rather frustrated with my tape situation. Bought a 15m Stihl one a few months ago as it was all the local dealers had in stock and I needed one. Never really liked it, felt flimsy and forever coming unstuck. Anyhow, that got leant to my subbies and firstly the metal that held the pin to the tape broke, then the pin disappeared. So I decided to treat myself to a nice Husqvarna one. Like a fool I just bought one from my local place again and paid far too much. Got a 20m one and it was £49 Inc vat, just checked on Jones and its £28.89 less the vat! ?

 

Annoyingly, that one snapped yesterday and its only about 2 weeks old. Can't find pin end anywhere as was going to bodge the shitty Stihl one back to life. So I'm looking for recommendations for a good decent quality tape. I predominantly do first thinnings so 15m is probably fine, I only got the 20m Husky one as it was a few quid more and I thought why not. I know my choices are limited in reality, but is the fancy Bahco one worth the cash? Or is the Spencer one just as good for half the price? 

 

Apologies if this has been covered a thousand times, but using the Arbtalk search function is like quantum science to me! ? 

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2 hours ago, IronMike said:

Morning all, 

 

Currently rather frustrated with my tape situation. Bought a 15m Stihl one a few months ago as it was all the local dealers had in stock and I needed one. Never really liked it, felt flimsy and forever coming unstuck. Anyhow, that got leant to my subbies and firstly the metal that held the pin to the tape broke, then the pin disappeared. So I decided to treat myself to a nice Husqvarna one. Like a fool I just bought one from my local place again and paid far too much. Got a 20m one and it was £49 Inc vat, just checked on Jones and its £28.89 less the vat! ?

 

Annoyingly, that one snapped yesterday and its only about 2 weeks old. Can't find pin end anywhere as was going to bodge the shitty Stihl one back to life. So I'm looking for recommendations for a good decent quality tape. I predominantly do first thinnings so 15m is probably fine, I only got the 20m Husky one as it was a few quid more and I thought why not. I know my choices are limited in reality, but is the fancy Bahco one worth the cash? Or is the Spencer one just as good for half the price? 

 

Apologies if this has been covered a thousand times, but using the Arbtalk search function is like quantum science to me! ? 

Spencer tapes are all I have used . Better than most I recon but it is a consumable .

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allways found stihl tapes ok i think its just down to how rough you are with them i dont think many tapes will stand alot of abuse i only know of 2 tapes that have gone tits up first one was a lad who cut the tape with the saw and second was a subby i lent a tape to and when he got to the end he kept walking !

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