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MattyF

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  1. That would be mint too...
  2. @Steve Bullman can you not just ban this clown mate? He really does not do your forum any favours.
  3. The white sap wood and it’s not uncommon to have a bit of rot in the middle is the give away! It is really a pungent smell , well chipping it anyway! Felled one yesterday and had forgot how ringing wet they are coming on this time of year but not sticky which is a change for a conifer coming on sap . Shame the client wanted it all ringed up for firewood.
  4. I would not waste any more time eggs ... don’t feed the trolls.
  5. Looks like it in every way, proper fruity smell to it as well.
  6. So you did it for a cup of tea and a chat ? If so you are indeed a mug.
  7. He wasn’t in the line up of walkers approaching winterfell hope he does !
  8. Looked like some decent trees to me supposedly that where planted...... also looks like the contractor was well equipped and should of known better.
  9. Good idea up to this point.... I’m not listing any of my gear on an open forum .. you would have to be very stupid to provide shopping lists for criminals all over the internet , you have no idea who’s watching this forum.
  10. What is your point mull ?? I see some one bashing monbiot what’s new?? I think the biggest worry now is if we leave the EU and the single farm payment stops whole upland areas will be drained and ploughed for the most profitable way to make money off the land possible killing off the last of our natural eco system ... don’t suppose you give a shit though as you think salmon farming is great ... polluting some of the most pristine parts of the British lands with the equivalent of 10’000 people a day from a single farm ejecting raw sewage in to the ocean not only that the the complete annihilation of the natural population of sea trout and salmon. It’s not progressive it’s just pure greed and that is what the majority of agriculture is.
  11. Depends on the forest though , keilder makes a profit but always has done ,they would have to be doing something very wrong for it not too but then nearly all the harvesting is subbed out , I don’t think they have any hand cutters just crafts men who do the odd bits but won’t be on the main harvesting sites.
  12. You have watched hundreds of vids but never done it sums it up..
  13. As Ross said ... directly for the fc tendering for contracts its cut throat and from personal experience it’s not worth the hassle with the paper work unless you have other ideas !!
  14. Probably more than you put the job in for ... it’s a racket ! You
  15. MattyF

    Husky 266se

    I had an older 266 which was ok apart from the effort required to start it.. the final one we owned was a complete dog and was never right from the start had at least two pots on it... either way it like many saws I have used in the past I am glad they have been replaced, apart from nostalgia they have nothing that makes them appealing to use for a days cutting now.
  16. MattyF

    An easy one

    Quality as always ,How many branches will you prep up for the speed line reg before you start cutting looks like you had the whole tree slung ! and how many battery’s will a tree that size use on the husky ? Cheers
  17. Aye I think the foam has dissolved and jammed up the cable as I could never get that to work. Cheers Andrew ! I think I may order a new assembly as well as fly wheel, then I know the whole lot is good.
  18. Never done one and believe it’s similar to the old 61 266 set ups ,any way it a very different set up to what I’m used too, looks like the crank case oil seal is part of the oil pump? Are they easy to fit or are special tools needed, would you fit the oil pump then press the seal in ? Also there is some sort of sealant used which I have no idea what it is around the oil pump. Lastly there is this which looks like some thing has gone wrong as it bears no resemblance to what it should be in the parts diagram! What should it be ?
  19. MattyF

    Husky 266se

    True that , I would not use one professionally cutting, can’t stand them to be honest but last time I used one I would of been when I was 16-17 and probably not man enough to use it! Heavy , old school vibes and hard to start... stick in my mind oh and temperamental in the heat.. when I got my hands on a 262 I never wanted to pick up another 266 !
  20. One of mine has a rattle it’s the exit hole has come off the exhaust and fallen back in, you can’t get it out as it’s the same size as the outlet and the baffles won’t let it go back the other way. So just living with it.
  21. I would like to feel it on 1/4 pitch, both of us using it thought it would feel better, to be honest we only used it on a laurel hedge and thought it was not a bad chain for pruning.
  22. Got one off Stevan from Hexham on demo with the standard bar though , thought it seemed a lot quicker than on the 1/4 pitch in your vid though bill ... definitely quicker than the 160 although battery life is down on the stihl obviously the saw was a lot lighter, I think one of the best features is the saw switches off after a few seconds and is easy to switch back on unlike the stihl160 ,which is live until you put the chain brake on... which I don’t use on any saw really so lots of potential for a nasty situation there.
  23. I would buy the pretzel though ...
  24. Off the back of ripping off Kevin Bingham who I don’t know but have a load of respect for after making my life easier and revolutionising climbing across the board with the wrench,he has obviously put a lot of time in to be ripped off ..petzl won’t see another penny of my money on any of there products.
  25. Yeah , all of mine have had at least one nose sprocket replacement.. I don’t think the LW bars are that light either, to me they feel noticeably more cumbersome when I had two 560’s one with an Oregon pro lite and one with the sugi you could notice that by the afternoon. They are strong bars though , just the nose sprockets are maybe to hard in my opinion and prone to shatter.

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