MattyF

Not really if it saves you half a day moving timber... Arb timber arisings are fine if they are for your own use and you have the time and patience to process ,dry store and deliver .. if your in the serious market of doing firewood you want stuff that is easy to stack on the log deck and get in a processor and won’t have the seasoning time of oak...that is the last thing you want in your log heaps! Easy day for a team of three if it’s all left there and only the chips are removed.

I would not want to be any where else now ! Less tourists though, it’s wildness is its beauty ,we don’t need Northumberland’s national parks becoming the next Lake District and disturbing its recovering and rare wildlife and it’s getting more that way every year thanks to tv coverage form the likes of country file, I have met some interesting character’s on there travels in the forest though! Worked in a small wood down in this valley on the eastern edge of keilder last week and was the first job in a long while I have enjoyed despite being rained on all day. Beats working in Gateshead!

It does not all go to eggar though Khriss, Cramlington takes a lot for biomass and there are plenty of other biomass company’s taking wood out of keilder , we have them on the drive extracting brash for chipping at the moment. saw mills take a lot of wood out and thinnings go for fencing out of keilder , I do believe it’s one of the only profitable forests of the fc in England. My father has helped mill and build structures from Douglas and larch from the forest so they do utilise it for local projects if asked , the cabins and imported wood chip at leaplish are a joke though! I think they manage the border Myers and burns and rivers in it well for conservation unlike other large organisations who I won’t name who I’ve seen first hand don’t care about run off in to water courses and plant right in to them with Sitka and other softwoods.

I found mine jammed up you could not actually move it and was unusable... and that was with near new rope... it was one of the go fund me ones so maybe they have changed them a bit since.

found the akimbo great until conifer sap got in it.

If you go milling with a 90cc saw you will wear out the clutch pretty quick no matter how sharp it is and well it cuts ... 880 or 120cc saw is far better.

Pallet forks On a avant.

Second hand with low hours with these new restricted engines .... would be my choice any way.

If you can buy a machine now I would instead of hiring , you will get paid but it can be a wait

Took me 3 months, mostly because they decided to investigate as they didn’t believe that some one had gone through all that security... can’t fecking win [emoji35]

Thanks mate, will be my Christmas present holiday read for myself.

Amazon do the series

Started watching generation kill last night , some classic non pc one liners in it!

Lovely that mate.

Camo on sites where trees are being dropped or bombed ? Sips , pfanner , cut and climb all make decent gear for tree cutting..

Was it the petrol 165 version? I did watch a video of the forst st6 petrol today and it sounded under gunned with the no stress constantly engaging

I’ve looked at the gyro a good while back when looking for a new bridge swivel and liked the concept , your other post on a thread made me look at it again but it just goes back to my original thoughts when I see one , even more so in the flesh .. it looks too flimsy and the thought of trusting my life on one does not appeal to me... now I’m sure that’s not the case but how I felt about it... for that I’m kind of stuck on the dmm axis or minis as maybe they falsely give the perception of being stronger or looking stronger but even the dmm nexus I would have difficulty trusting.. just something about metal hardware even more so after the events that followed the zig zags but maybe that’s just me.

Good saw performance wise and can live with it being thirsty and the air filter needs cleaning very regularly.

I had a 335 when they first came out and I think we will all agree it was possibly one of the worse saws made ... but to be fair the final run of 338’s with the bigger cylinders where a workable saw I found. Rubber mounts like on the 200 wear a lot quicker, maybe why used saws feel shocking in comparison to a spring mounted one ? Either way I would not go back.

Steve the carbs where shite at the time ... you would be lucky to get one to last a year by which point I had enough of them after owning 20 or more of them. Switched to the last of the 338’s which had more ccs and seemed a better saw , I seem to remember reg Coates having the same thoughts and feelings at the time and I would trust his opinion. It seems the saws have a big following and I’m guessing that is people who barely use them or have used them heavily , maybe they just cut a few branches off grannies oak tree now and then and sit back and admire how mint the saw is ......if you have 3 groundies and a hungry chipper to feed all day you want a saw that won’t be unreliable or wreck your joints so for me a 540xp which has plenty of power and on spring mounts would be my go to and a 2511 for pruning although the echoes anti vibes are not great .. I don’t think battery saws are just quite there yet,I do fancy the husky as I own the stihl thing and that is to be honest just painful to use in any type of production scenario.

Exactly !! Why any one would want a 90’s designed saw anti vibration as a primary saw to use every day as the money maker is beyond me.. There is a good reason saws changed to spring mounted and not rubber like the 200.. when you can’t sleep because your hands are fecked because of years of abuse from 020’s you won’t be having fond memory’s of nostalgia.

Tractors - WWW.FORESTMACHINESERVICES.COM Jake mount with the guerra drive trailer.

The older 200’s and 020 mufflers where especially prone to braking apart or falling off though!! must of cleaned 20 or so broken ones out of the parts bin when I last tried to gather up spares to sell on eBay as every one seems to go mad for them still, by the time stihl had stopped making them I really did have a hatred for that saw and it’s bad carbs and crap anti vibration.

Would of thought the hydraulic pto easily achievable by salvaging the gear off an old cherry picker meant for transits or landy’s.

No monster tree or owt but for memory value it is this one of me and my late father both climbing and getting set on some small dismantles is priceless.