the 'todays job' thread

[Peter 1955]

10 minutes ago, AHPP said:

 

.325 or 3/8?

Fairly sure it's the standard 3/8. Its little sister, the amazing 261 is running on 3/8, as is my MSA 300. I know there's a trend to fit smaller gauge chains, usually on the smaller saws.  

[AHPP]

I for some reason had it in my head that the 400 came on 325 as standard. I appear to be wrong. Good. .325 is annoying. Always grated that my 261 was on it. Glad to see you're living life on your terms.

[AHPP]

How long have you had the 300 and how do you like it?

[Peter 1955]

8 minutes ago, AHPP said:

How long have you had the 300 and how do you like it?

Six months. I was advised on here not to buy it, and I can fully understand why. However, I got two spare batteries free under the BOGOF scheme, which means that with five, the run time can be reasonable. 

The saw? Numbest piece of kit I have ever picked up. I can understand why one chap said he had one sitting near the chipper, and nobody ever used it! It does however have two saving graces. When using it in the yard at home for firewood, I'm often on my own, and I now don't have a cable to trip over. Secondly, it has in my very humble opinion, comparable power to a petrol. It is serving my purposes well, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it to anyone. The funniest part of the handbook is where it recommends using the lowest power setting for light pruning. I'd pick up either a bow saw or my 36v Makita before I attempted to prune anything with the 300.                            

11 minutes ago, AHPP said:

I for some reason had it in my head that the 400 came on 325 as standard. I appear to be wrong. Good. .325 is annoying. Always grated that my 261 was on it. Glad to see you're living life on your terms.

Now here we may disagree. I love .325 on my 261, and think it turns the saw into an absolute animal. Others may disagree. 

[AHPP]

15 minutes ago, Peter 1955 said:

I was advised on here not to buy it

 

Probably in part by me. How are you getting on with the switching?

[tree-fancier123]

10 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Mate just sent me a pic of his willow we repollarded back to bare bones on June 11th.

 

 

doing well, considering its been so dry

[Peter 1955]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

 

Probably in part by me. How are you getting on with the switching?

And you may well have been right. 😉 I'm coping. It may have helped that I came to it from a Makita battery saw, which instilled a Pavlovian reaction every time I picked it up, ie press the button to wake it up. My son is unimpressed with the system too. 

There was a cunning plan behind the MSA300 purchase, and if a couple of ducks had been in the right row a while back I'd have had a  short hedgetrimmer on the AP system now, instead of petrol. The next step in the cunning plan was the KMA200 Kombi, and the switching on that is excellent. The machine itself is marvellous, love it to bits.  

[Mark Bolam]

2 hours ago, tree-fancier123 said:

doing well, considering its been so dry

That’s what I thought.

No rain since I did it before the last two weeks.