MattyF
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agreed steve....its funny that i did not touch huskys for 7 years after a few bad saws and after a few bad stihls im back on huskys again............fickle yes maybe we all arebut when you have a personally bad experience with a peace of equipment you depend on to make your living we are all very opinionated about wich is best......maybe is worth trying an echo or makita if you have the dealer support! i tryed an echo once and it was a damn good saw but just could not get spares for it so sold it for £50 in the end!
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in the stihls favour chriss didnt like my saw either! each to your own i wouldnt evan buy a 361 though if it was the same price but i know you hate huskys steve probably as much as i hate stihls!
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i have no idea mate ,probably not thinking about it ....i was handed it whilst doing a thinning contract.....chris runs a 341 and me a 357....noticably to me the husky reved higher and cut through faster in its favour i would say the 341 was better balanced but did not have guts to make me wanna use it all day
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361 is regarded as the finest saw by many ....personally i am a husky ground saw fan also having used the 341 if you dont like the 357 you will hate it more... i thought it very underpowered in comparison..361 same cc but different coil ect so it revs higher and has more power,stihl does not evan sell the 341 in many countrys as there is just no contest against the 361
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my favourite is fly 11mm or elderid maderia ithink thats 12mm only 13mm line i like and use but rare now is yale xtc
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again nice jobs marc! I got a big crane job coming up hopfully as soon as the tpo permision comes that it is condemed!definietly the easyest and funnest way but gonna have to hire a timber trailer on sight as well so dont know if im gonna ,make any money out the job ...maybe in fire wood
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cool!
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do they show dutchmans? i know technicaly its a ****** up felling cut but it is one of my favourites and invaluable when you need the trunk to well clear the stump....
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why not hey???? I remember cutting through the hinge on a massive beach on a shelter belt when i just came out of college..getting the 3120 stuck and having to undo the power head before it finally spun on the stump and went over backwards bending the bar i was not to populer that day ,have never cut through a hinge since though..
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jammy git 2 in one week ! thinning or reducing beach i could do every day,great fun to climb no one could not enjoy working on them...that second tree looks a bit of a monster steve!
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depends on the wood being cut species, lean ,wind direction and all that!.
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some good pics of quality work marc...i hate reducing eucy...infact i hate doing any thing on them! some pics of yesterdays dead beaches over a security fence...I was thinking beach was one of my favouirite all time trees to work on untill one of these trees went on to infity to the first branch and was rotten as hell and full of wood peker holes then i realised maybe i just hate all trees! [/img]
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very true i no longer have a right forearm 2"s thicker now ive switched to a vt and it also builds your shoulders up better plus my elbow is not as bad as it used to be...........2 good reasons to switch alone i will try harder to get my dad to switch as he has to have them quartzone or what ever they are injections mainly in his right elbow from years of climbing on a taughtline and prussic
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yes it is ...ive heard about your crap sharpening ,jokin dude i was just playin with the first comments made . I got a 12 on my spare saw wich cuts nice but ive always used a 14... mine dont feel underpwered with out it in fact it amazes me how fast it does cut any way the matter of 2"s each to your own i spose ,i was brought up with 14" bars and thats what ill stick with saw just dont seem to balace right without ,for me that is.......
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14 for me....12 more powerfull= try sharpening properly
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once you have got used to a vt with pully you wont go back ......it does seem odd climbing arm over arm if you have been used to a pussik and you have to re invent your body thrusting but the self tending slack (mine only does this at about 15 ft as i prefere 4-2)and coming in from limb walks one handed is genius!
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well mate you know your market i dont so no disrespect ......but that looks like more than 1 hours work ...im lucky im not pricing against you!
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you can see the top strap hanging down near tom.......got him to do the bottom one a few turns every few big limbs i took off and went side to side trying to keep the weight evan when taking limbs off
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there is high scale you win the prize!gap had closed up alot from when i first looked at it when on leaf and there was as second strap near the top wich fell off after taking lower branches off!
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and you can retreat to the north island wich they dont want as its to cold for them!one of my best mates is marrying a maori chick i stayed at her house in mangri?? for a week when i travalled there strangley the maoris i met loved the brits it was awsome 24 partys! they where really cool.......one of the first thing i remember stepping of the plain is some guy showing me the rego system on cars there and the one are looking at belongs to some huge maori bloke who was prepared to smash are heads in as soon as we explained i was english he was safe.weird hey?
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do they fit the cali carbs to uk spec saws?
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yep the 338 more ccs than the 200t i think husky for a change in saw manafacturing are actually listing to what people want they have made mistakes and seem to want to change.... at only 300 who can complain?
