MattyF

Get a pro stihl or husky without auto tune .. Unless you have loads of experience snedding and felling I would go with a basic stihl or non auto tune husky, untill you get your confidence up and can go ripping it up with a fire snorting 550 or 560 as they need to be ran hard and will not run right unless reved flat out and with a good chain.

I would love A pop at it with an Alaskan ...I recon it would kill a band saw blade though.

One handing,splitting or driving wedges , silky pruning and Slim ropes..one handing especially inflames mine lucky it only just started getting bad before Christmas break with the last two climbs of the year , always keeping a sports support in the van helps as well I have found.

The scabbards are good for when sugoi ones brake ... That's about the only positive I can give on them I'm afraid.

Bah I recon it was all in the advancing the timing! Things mental now though

Auto tune ,I love it !! But to get the best from your saw do not leave the saw on idle ticking over for long periods , one dealer told me they had one that had problems and when they read the auto tune diagnostic the saw had spent more time ticking over than running. I would also say they are a one person saw as mine seams to run crap if I give it to a newly cs passed groundy for half hour , maybe I should buy him a stihl... These saws like and need to be ran properly not gingerly cutting at half revs.

I'm disappointed I always wanted a pink day glow rope.

I did the 540 by not letting off the throttle for five minutes burying it in a 20" stick , did the same with the 560 , neither have been any bother at all good strong saws .

Sorry to hijack the thread but what is the max size forwarding trailer you would run on one of these tractors?

Read a bit mate I would like to find out more I know my second cousin is doing a lot of research in to it but I very rarely see him.

Agree mate I used to enjoy taking my dog out in the morning and unblocking the a few holes only to drive past a few hours later to see the terrier boys sweating there nuts off digging up a den. If they can catch them before they get to ground then it's probably a lot better than shooting and also takes out the knackered ones that will get so desperate they will eat your chickens and be no good at eating the farmers rabbits.

My great grandfather died a few years back , I was always told he was a conscientious objector and was in the merchant navy in the Atlantic. He lived on the edge of Salisbury plain so at Christmas or holidays I would go out and pick up bullets and ect from the exercises and bring them back and he would go berserk! I always thought not to kindly to him for doing this but after he died they found his journals and he had pretty much been blackmailed as he was an orphan and a head school teacher who could speak a few languages in to joining SOE and had fought along side and trained partisans in the Balkans and other places, in his journal there was an unreal experience that the other operative he was with had been badly injured and they missed the submarine picking them up so they had to spend a month in hiding waiting for the next sub, and he described never being so relieved in all his life finally getting on it. His whole life story is pretty amazing but that part of his life he never told any of his friends or family when the war had finished and preferred to be labeled a conchy than ever talk about what he did.

Pic 4 out of those I thought was pretty good!

Yeah jensons are really well built! I know three guys who work with them and they hate them with a passion and would take a wolf any day of the week out over the jenson. The wolfs sub 750kg is a plus, there are plenty of dogs out there though of both machines, what ever you buy make sure you replace the bearings anvils and blades and belts and it should be tight .. It should be tight on a machine with less hours any way.

I didn't do mine until recently and to be honest it didn't need it , once the hole was drilled it felt like it didn't need tuning ! How is yours oiling gerbutt? Mines still playing up every other week or two and have had a snapped handle by the carb like another fella posted earlier. Stihl in house testing is certainly not what it was!

Mine always goes to his cage in the kitchen when I go to bed , he won't go on my bed or the sofa.

One from earlier this year

8-10" is not enough I would double that and maybe add more.. Can you not go higher on the anchor stem and lower on the secondary to get more length in the system?

Agree Ben ... People have the wrong idea of tree dynamics and what bracing is about .., let alone installing it is what I have read so far on this thread

I guess not ... They are talking the piss at £3 per tonne though !!

Didn't you have years of forestry experience in Nz as well!

Thanks ... Tensioning bracing especially when off leaf is wrong.

Why is slack bad ?

There is supposed to be slack in bracing!! The limb is supposed to move! The bracing just stops it moving to the extreme or acts as a storm Anchor incase of failure.

My thoughts too.