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  1. MattyF
    Nice vid , winch looked a beast!
  2. MattyF
    To the OP... you have no idea of the source of these logs, they could be from ancient and protected illegally logged sources and as Kevin pointed out there is the biohazard slave labour issues. Seriously if you can't use a computer as you have done to write this rant in the first place to find sustainable verified dried and accurately measured UK logs then your not looking hard enough and if you have spent the last 20 years buying cheap beer money logs that have been dragged from under a damp hedge and are frustrated then you have no sympathy from me...
  3. MattyF
    Cheers again Steve , must not be much fun spending your weekends emailing and sending out msgs !
  4. MattyF
    Have tried both on the geckos prefer the American though. Pretty sure they are standard on most spikes for a reason.
  5. MattyF
    I think " all trees looped topped and felled ask driver for details" sounds better than crowned.
  6. MattyF
    Looking good bill , it was up in north Tyne on the way to keilder .. near the holy bush
  7. MattyF
    Cheers , winter work in Spain sounds good I was in Barcelona in march a few years back and was getting sun burnt ! Just conventional cuts Darin , hum bolt may have worked better but they didn't spring back so all was good. Just spent Last 3 days on rody clearance along this stream at a Buddhist retreat... spec was to clear the ravine bottom and sides but we still needed to clear an area to get the alpine and winch to extract to along the top bank... glad it's the weekend now! Before And after Demanding on the machines but only chucked a track once.
  8. MattyF
    Nice work especially with the tools at hand , quit jealous you can do tree work in Spain I've looked in to it and it seemed almost impossible! I had one of those little oleo macs years back though and thought it was a great little saw.. I would get another to try but spares where a nightmare in the uk... I had to go back to the yard to get a 395 to flop this ashes top outs last week we where monolithing as I was too chicken to do the second stem on the 576, some thing about standing on spikes with a few tonne over you with no where to go unnerves you .
  9. MattyF
    Tried putting wader studs in but they didn't last ! Still handy though and there's cheap ones in packets of 40 on eBay.
  10. MattyF
    Bottom of the carb looks a different mount for the filter , I just put a HD on a 576 and it was very simple this looks a bit more of a challenge !
  11. MattyF
    https://www.diyspareparts.com/parts/husqvarna/diagrams/2003-119/793/ Should be all on this page.
  12. MattyF
    Don't really want to say mate.
  13. MattyF
    Guess every site will be different, but I was working on one a year or so back and it had some really well done tree reports and I could not argue with any of the recommendations for work done by an expert, it was a pleasure to work there and carry it out. Now it's being done by some one with very limited knowledge in both Arb and ecology in what I'm guessing is just a money saving exercise.
  14. MattyF
    I know of a eucy plantation near me , most are dead or dying but have grown to a fair size I would put there deaths to the cold though but if they can grow in a bottomless bog like the land around keilder then they can't mind damp roots too much... from dealing with them in urban environments they do not like the cold , those cold winters we had a few years back killed a lot of garden eucalyptus. I would stay with alder though , fast growing and appears to like being wet.. only thing that seems to have survived in the wet bits of the plantation I was thinning today.
  15. MattyF
    Do I think they should? no .... Do I think the MOD should stop cutting corners and go back to using arboricultural/ecology experts to do there tree surveys before some one gets seriously hurt or we loose precious endangered wild life in some of Britains last undisturbed environments? Yes.
  16. MattyF
    Appears you can't pre order to the uk.
  17. MattyF
    The stihl chisel is good though I tend not to use any thing else if I can help it on the toppers, Rumours say they had to bring it out for the 201 when it was first released to try and pep its cutting speed up, I like to believe that one !
  18. MattyF
    Your eyes are failing you mate Can you see now?
  19. MattyF
    Look at the first pic stubby bottom right..
  20. MattyF
    The gullet is round on the chisel and square ground on the semi chisel
  21. MattyF
    I would opt for full chisel all the time unless cross cutting skidded timber just for the performance.
  22. MattyF
    The thing is with full chisel if you blunt it you have to file the lead edge back to a point other wise it cuts like a banana but with the semi it is rounded off so usually if it's blunted you don't loose a big chunk of your cutter that you have to file back to hence it's easier to sharpen, the semi is preferred for dirty wood! Saying that I had a metal magnet of a large sycamore last week that took 2 teeth clean off a semi chisel chain on a 5ft bar on the 88 ,the full chisel I had on the 395 seems to have faired a lot better in metal ...but I think that's more Carlton verse Oregon with that issue.
  23. MattyF
    Sweet!
  24. MattyF
    What times it over wanna pint !
  25. MattyF
    Looks like they got a deal ! I would of charged them what they got payed to remove those trees over hanging all there buildings and power lines.

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