MattyF

Looking at the picture again it does look like the die back is coming from the ash tree behind but the photo quality’s making it hard to see what actually is going on!

I’d be more concerned about the one on the left as it looks like die back in the crown unless it’s a dead ash tree behind ! The die back from chestnut is usually caused by bleeding canker and when it gets to the stage of visible dieback it’s usually because the branches have large areas of non functioning cambium that makes them prone to branch failure. The tree on the right just has severe leaf minor which most chestnuts do … it usually starts to get very noticeable by the end of August.. best way of dealing with that is take all the leaves as soon as they drop and remove from site as the larvae will over winter in the ground once crawled from them .. it won’t stop it but trees I see that have this done look noticeably better.

Hopefully makes the difference.. I got about 8miles from home and had to ring for a fire extinguisher as I thought it was going to burst in to flames !! Local Valtra mechanic said straight off it’s the brake servo.

I’ve had brakes and every thing heat up on 6400 when the brake servo has started to fail.

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I don’t think the 80’s are comparable to now by a long shot after seeing this comparison in quite a few places today , the 80’s was full of people who hated you because of your skin colour, no other reason , as a child growing up in the 80’s one of my mothers best friends who we used to go on summer holidays with around various shit hole camp sites and hotels in the UK was from the West Indies, i can remember her son who was my age having to hide or run to chants of Monkeys noises and bananas , getting rocks thrown at us and beaten up continually made holidays really good fun, by the early 90’s I don’t remember this happening at all and we a actually had a good time ! … that march is about stopping sharia law and the rise of Islam or so tommy says. after listening to a few of his current interviews he actually left the EDL because of racists.. I think he actually has point… I know pro Palestine supporters who have hitlers paintings in there house , have met partners on storm front and had children with people because there grand fathers where the highest decorated Dutch soldier in the Dutch SS … every bloody post I see is about free Palestine on there feed , it just so happens they hate Jews more than brown people although by this current trend your a nazi if you think sharia courts have no place in the UK law system.

Any decent dealer should be able to make you the chain with the extra links.. chainsaw bars.com did sell them specifically… personally what I would do is take the echo bar that comes with the saw and lay it over the top of the stihl , mark the bar mount holes on the stihl after butting the ends square and drill new mount holes on. Makes life easier to pick up chains off the shelf for it.

2511 for pretty much every thing on 1/4 and 10” bar. Just swap out to a bigger saw when it’s not coping anymore. . barely ever pick up the 540 or 201 now..probably 4 times in 5 years since using the 2511. the bigger echo is pretty numb , nothing really appealing about it and the stihl and husky equivalents are better in my opinion.

Throw hook for large upright limbs with nothing on.

Think they are right , babes going round without insurance and lying about skill sets should be out of business , might level the playing field for the rest of us who are trying to do it right.

I would go diesel over petrol any day of the week, they just chip better, petrol seems to lack torque. as said you can’t go wrong with the kubota v1505 in most chippers and pretty bomb proof.. only problem I’ve ever had with one and I’ve had 8 machines with them in is once had to do the crank seals on one machine.

That would be my choice for a small tow behind , would not go back to Timberwolf… I dragged out our old tw 150 the other week that we kept as a back up , we have owned since new in 2002… would let it go for £2800 very tough paint wise but had a new chassis in 2016, no stress works but clocks stopped , it had 1200 hours on before I leant it to an ex employer to get on his feet for a year with his new business … clock came back broken but I doubt he put more than 400hrs on it and it had just had a full rebuild before it went by one of the best TW mechanics in the north east .. saying that I would say 150’s need new bearings every 400-600 hrs.

Aye your right mate … you can make £200 a day a Tesco … I’m starting to question why I’m doing this , if there was a way out of the industry for me I’d probably take it.

There is that Mike but also most 22 year olds haven’t got a days graft in them or think they are some super star climber wanting more money than you have on the job for wages. I think if your the hard working farm type you will probably be sought after by any employer wanting stable reliable staff.

Modern drill will be fine,you can’t push them any harder than a petrol driven stihl drill I’ve found anyway…it’s all about using decent augers