MattyF
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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 !
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I would buy the pretzel though ...
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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.
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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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Good bags I have the old one and it’s still got intact after three years of being over loaded ... can’t say that for many kit bags I’ve had over the years.
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Can’t imagine they have changed the clutch drum ...
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Yes but climbing and ground helmets have different impact ratings... designed for different tasks , I’m not 100% on the protos though.
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There is two different specs of protos though ,forestry and Arb.
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Kox won’t trade with pounds ..... and we are still supposed to be in Europe but it’s like a lot of the other European climbing and saw shops they won’t trade with us..not really an advantage being in is it.
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Looks like asking for trouble !
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Ian I have had Chipper’s stolen and reported to tracker company’s within an hour ,they where never found again.. maybe the police and there unwillingness to visit a certain gipsy site without helicopters , armed response and full on riot squad had something to do with it.
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Ha ha the look on his face is priceless!
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Who are you insured with mark ? On my last claim 27k they added an investigation as they said it was suspicious that so much gear was take which added to the stress not only was the chipper bolted to the floor with two wheel clamps and a head lock it had a pto winch lowered on a tractor with the battery take out in front of it and two security bollards, locked doors and cctv ... all saws where in metal security boxes with double locks but they came with a gas torch , I only got what I paid for the chipper ... saws climbing and rigging kit was replaced new for old but there was a lot off stuff unlisted or I didn’t have receipts for they would not pay out on... felt double fucked over.
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Who are you insured with mark ? On my last claim 27k they added an investigation as they said it was suspicious that so much gear was take which added to the stress not only was the chipper bolted to the floor with two wheel clamps and a head lock it had a pto winch lowered on a tractor with the battery take out in front of it and two security bollards, locked doors and cctv ... all saws where in metal security boxes with double locks but they came with a gas torch , I only got what I paid for the chipper ... saws climbing and rigging kit was replaced new for old but there was a lot off stuff unlisted or I didn’t have receipts for they would not pay out on... felt double fucked over.
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Sadly yes , I have the husky tech for forestry and then my usual climbing lid for any thing else.
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Aye too soft and easily marked.
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Definitely lime ! It’s just discolouration through spalting.
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Last refreshers I did it was fine ... as long as it was not on the arial rescue... I can imagine if you had a decent instructor who knew what was what it would not be an issue.
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That’s my thinking tommy, nor would they develop all the injuries associated with it... I can climb quicker on a double rope but keeping that pace all day you run out of steam.. and you don’t wreck your elbows , hands and wrists any where near as bad SRT.
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A Versatile set up would be a rope and a couple of karabiners and Prussiks and a side strop.. you could climb any tree with that. I solely pretty much climb SRT these days, there is a barely any one in this country teaching it so it would be difficult getting instruction and training for it.. treekit do have training days so keep an eye on there website. Personally if I took on a newbie apprentice who showed great prospects as a tree climber I would move them straight on to SRT skipping double rope . A good double rope set up though would be your hitch hiker with a VT and pulley saver... the hitch hiker is a useful bit of kit and I use it in my SRT set up.. but the pulley saver would be useless SRT ..basically there is loads of different techniques and as you said every one will be different in to what they use.
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I think from my experiences of running large processors it’s all about the belts ,Power is good but if you can’t put it down , looking at the designs of ours there are usually three drive belts in tandom for the circular saw, they all need to be spot on and tight and the saw is very quick those logs would be 0.5 seconds. Looks an awesome project , wish I had those fabrication skills.
