MattyF
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After you have sharpened a damaged chain some times it appears to stretch again after sharpening I've often wondered what causes this?
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It looked a swift sweet job mate , nice work.👍🏻
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Nice vid Jesse how many picks and what do you recon the time scale of the job was ?
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Definitely needs milking ... That's really strange though as my new cougar hasn't milked at all on the akimbo but my first did badly on the Bull dog bone, I think it's just the nature of these mechanical devices that they really squeeze the rope so if the rope outer sleeve needs milking it will show up straight away. I left my htp up in a tree last night to see how the akimbo would perform, unfortunately i chose the end that's still slightly milking to climb on so could not really tell if being wet made much difference.. to be honest I felt like taking the rope back to gustharts it's performance feels that frustrating with the lumps all over it but after cutting the ends off I don't think they would have it.
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Undo screw and slide it out as stubby says , may help it run cooler. Another thing I find is when you feel it's running out of fuel turn it off.. if it's sucking up vapour that can have an effect on its tuning. Then there is the three -five minute retune of holding the saw flat out not letting off in bar deep timber cutting rings this resets the auto tune and saves you a trip to the dealers. Some of those things may sound a faff but I think the auto tune performance is unreal, I've been final thinning in hard wood stands and was a rack ahead by lunch thinking I though I was just working faster than my colleague ...But we swapped saws for his was a 357 by the end of the day he had virtually caught up with the 560.
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Another thing I've found husky UK infinitely better to deal with than Stihl uk , the problem is you have to get past the main desk ! I think they obviously get lots of calls from irate users and won't put you through.. it's quite easy to get through to Stihl and be patronised to the point you will vow never to buy one of there machines again ....get chatting at the next show as they have gone out of the way to help me.
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Don't use the auto tunes blunt myself as it does mess up the tuning .. 550 is a strange one I like mine but it can be difficult saw some times but I would not want a Stihl though. Have you ditched the spark arrester and use the primer,Quite regularly I just pull it over with one hand and flat down on the trigger if it does the hot start thing.. then once it's going she behaves fine.!
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Just like the reach of the recoil , it's better on a 540 .. you can put the 150 non trigger handle straight on the carry tool but you end up sitting on the bar.i quite like chuckin it up and catching the strop its light enough and it makes you look a tree ninja.
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Saw strop with a ring works for me, the recoil with a krab in though is my 150 favourite.
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I know a few of the trickiest reductions I've done has been going over my old work ! I think it's once you drop out that anchor it leaves you in a worse position for next time as well ... but of course species dependant.... beech a nightmare , horse-chestnut a breeze ? Springs to mind.
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Dunno if I agree with that Mick , I'd rather have a blank canvas and the problem about reducing a tree to an old line is nearly all the growth points usually have been crowded out by the stuff your taking off and died from lack of light leaving you with nothing to take it to.
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Damn right you would certainly expect so wouldn't you ? Would like to see how you get on with this..
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I had a mk1 rope guide that was 8-9 years old never had an issue , it got stolen so replaced with a mk2 the replacement bits are not cheap and it seems to break a lot!.
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Nice tree and work 👍🏻
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Sure has !better dog walking weather ,got to about 11 this afternoon.Hope the little un didn't get full blown chicken pox mate.
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I didn't climb on it ffs ! Do I owe you out for the spring rich , sent you a txt this morning before I lost all signal again.?
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I think they are forced in Germany, I've also been told by a lad from the Bedfordshire amey depot they where not allowed to climb on any non CE marked gear so no making your own fishermans eye to eye Prussiks.
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Ha ha of course ! No seriously I've got to prove I'm not a total £&@@ now
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Yes you would not be able to ascend to well with the tending loop the wrong way , I had just unclipped it to get my phone for a pic and put it back on to get as much milking done as possible before helping clear up !
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It just milked again but I'm hoping that's it,I've only done about 5-6 large trees on it now and I keep thinking I've got it this time but it's definitely not as bad as what it was.
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I must be putting on a stone every evening!
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Reducing beech and crown cleaning pines on the akimbo today.
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They eradicated them as best they could hence why the Hindu Kush has no Hindus .. 20 million is a rough number also a the rest where pretty much used as slaves and such things as the males made in to eunuchs in an attempt to stop them breeding.
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it's yellow not sure of the diameter!
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The Stirling didn't milk ? Mines still milking.
