MattyF

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.

It's so much more easy to buy than the old system for sure !

I would not buy a 262 unless for a keep sake ,I had 2 of them back in the day and I have a massive soft spot for them now but they both blew around 12months old. Pm spud on here and ask if he has any saws for sale.

I would still like more power on it but you have to appreciate it is what it is , no saw that weight is going to be a power house! What did get me yesterday was my tennis elbow flaring up because I'm pushing the saw in cuts to chase them .. But it's too easy to one hand.

One of the larger Gardens I work at has just purchased a new 30hp kubota and are now looking for a pto shredder that is suitable for hedge clippings any recommendations greatly appreciated . I don't think cost is an issue .thanks , mat

My mates just got his Subaru imprezza turbo engined bike cleared an registered as road legal... Now he has to strip it down re do some welds although they were good enough to pass , paint and tart it up and it proper finished... It looks proper mad max at the moment though.

Cheers mate.

There's a definite skill to using a pole silky pruner especially in a tree , being good at any skill is but a plus in a climbers arsenal of tricks IMO

All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break them for no one. Tony Montana ,Scar face.

Trackers are a waste of time , we have had a machine stolen and reported with an active tracker within 15 mins and it was never recovered. I have been told that some gangs who targets chippers and such gear will share / hire an expensive device that locates them in seconds and they can be taken off and deactivated, even if it is tracked the police will inevitably not enter a traveller site to recover it in fear of there own safety .

Amount of armour, guns,and bombs that were thrown in to the kurland pocket it's not surprising at all !