MattyF
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Have had a couple of breathdrys and they are good .. would probs get a third. Have had the pfanner , Harkie , sips and cut n climb. Harkie was hot as hell ... I did like the cut n climb the most out of them all as it was the most durable but next to the breathdry in terms of cost and it’s a little clammy I would still take the breathdry. Any of the others where ok and water proof as long as you only wore them solely for bad weather other wise you will get about 6 months out of them before the leak and start falling apart and for a £100+ jacket that is a bit shit!
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Why any one would want a 25” bar on a 560 ! Problem is this all I want is a saw that has very low anti vibes and enough torque to keep with a 560 which also revs and picks up like one too. Think I’ll be sticking to the 562’s after 3 560’s I have enough spares hanging around ! On paper the 362 cm is a match the bog standard 362 was not when I looked years back. The most important part now is the anti vibes the rear handle on a 560 is high ! That is my worse hand at the minute and explains a lot.
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What an utter c)&@.. buy a decent leaf blower or move... to a desert or some shit hole concrete jungle where there are no trees.. People like him are why I can’t do street trees any more I just loose my shit by the time the 15th miserable Victor meldrew retiree comes up to you in the morning who wants to wage war on a tree because of leaves when it’s probably more likely they are more upset the tree is going to out live them and there miserable lives.
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Running a 462 already but it is a bit erganomicly challenged and uses a lot of fuel , I get what your saying pete but I would want something a little more nimble in softwood. I’m happy with the 560’s I just noticed the 462 vibration was a lot less and I’m suffering in my hands quite badly now , it’s a struggle to type this ! Can’t believe there are no 362 fans out there though [emoji23]
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Wanted. Monkey winch or sandwich powered winch wanted.
MattyF replied to RideTheNight's topic in General chat
Three quarter tonne pull for £70 ... you would be better off learning to tie the truckers hitch to pull over trees and bits from ponds. Monkey winches are beasts , designed to pull out trucks in ww2 I believe, you need two or three men to pick one up though. The large tirfors are not too bad and a hell of a lot more usable. The small rip off Chinese versions are good but have there limits... I’ve found them ! -
Cheers joe, Can’t find any info on the vibration levels on the echo 620 .. specs so far don’t look great in comparison.
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No mate , 60cc class is spot on for most of the stands I work in 50cc too slow and not enough torque for felling and 70 uses to much fuel and too cumbersome shedding although that 462 is good it’s thirsty ! 560’s have been spot on I just noticed mine rattle a lot in comparison Yo the stihl 462!
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No mate I’ll get around to sending you some more saws to make mental once I take a few out of the front line service ... I can’t be using modded saws on a lot of sites .. I’m also not sure about modded saws flat out all day in big timber that last 560 didn’t last too long although you said you where lucky to salvage the cylinder..
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Have you used the cm 362 ?
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I don’t feel the anti vibes are up too much on the older saws joe.. might sound a pussy but ported worksaws to me are a bit much in the woods all day... I had a ported 560 and fun as it was watching it drop through wood on the odd tree it wasn’t a saw you could get sloppy with after a hard day.
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From what I’ve heard the auto tune CM style stihls seem to be better than the originals ie the 201,261,362 I have not brought one as I’ve used the originals and own 201,s and 261’s and hated each unit but, the new 462 I’ve been using I think maybe one of the best saws I’ve used so had me thinking.... That’s it stubby , but the 362 it has the same power, fraction lighter and lower over all anti vibes so it says on paper , the back and front are 3.5 on the stihl vs the 562 at 3.2 front and 5ms2 rear,maybe some thing is wrong with my 560 but in comparison to the stihl 462 I use the 560 I feel rattles a lot more , vibration is a big point for me in saw use , I’m reluctant to take it to my local dealership in town like many other Husqvarna users in my area I won’t use them for a number of reasons there is another Husqvarna dealer who are spot on but there location is out there in the middle of no where! Good call kev ,my local echo dealer is great so will check the specs out.
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Looking at replacing my 560’s which have been good productive saws in comparison though on paper the 362 is identical and has lower vibration... thoughts please ! I have used pre cm stihls and found them lacking so does the cm make a difference??
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The wages in this industry are a total joke and have not changed for over 20 years .... probably why we keep seeing these ridiculous felling vids all over social media... further more are industries governing bodies are doing nothing to combat this ... I mean what do you expect sticking idiots and inexperienced guys on jobs that if they actually paid a decent wage in the first place they might be able to keep the guys who know what they are doing.. instead the money is spent on more irrelevant training that’s forgotten in five minutes and more jobs for the boys instead of trying to look after the actual workers who are doing the graft. I’ve competed against Arb approved contractors and it left me in amazement that they could put a man out on a 200 mile round trip with all his gear out for £120 that’s what’s devaluating our industry every big firm cutting each other’s throat for the scraps.
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Aye it’s shite , I had it at the APF a few years back and had to medicate with alcohol quite early which in hindsight probably didn’t make it any better ! , you can still feel nerve endings burning at times years later... horrible !
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It will be more the rope than the ascender mark I think that effects how quickly it tends ... I can get non CE cougar blue to tend at two foot in the CT and it is about 20ft on some of my lighter ropes. I just got another new CT can’t fault em myself.
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This one I had to dismantle to a stick to fit in a gap. I remember trying to swing a limb around rigging over a wall .. the limb started folding over nicely then just crumbled up and most dropped straight down before swinging .. going through dry stone wall! And leaving a 1ft section hanging on the rigging line... rest of the tree up until that point had been as hard as nails ! Since or before I’ve never had that happen on a dead tree and I would of least expected it to happen on elm! Watch them felling too!
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Have done a few big elms , not many or in the league as my father ... can either be rock hard and solid or a pithy mess that breaks up when you fart on it, some times both and have had a few catch me out either felling or dismantling. Just go steady and read the tree.. it does work nice on the hinge as been said !
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http://www.bloomassociation.org/en/electric-fishing-doggerbank/ Give them nothing and let the navy blow them out the water.. disgraceful they allow these vessels to keep on plundering are endangered fish stocks.. As for an EU army ... this is all only going in one direction and we should of learnt the first time around.
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Spud ....
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Not sure what to be doing with this ash ... it’s stacked n stickered for now but I’ve never seen ash with grain like it! Well not on boards !
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That looks spot on ... solves the problem the eple hook and captain have of being limited to small anchors ... found the captains throat so small it was virtually useless as a climbing aid for traversing , the epple much better and one of my favourite bits of kit is still limited unless you can get lucky and snare the rope from the other side and choke.
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Found the same as rich... also I’ve never had a rope milk as bad .
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I have owned a couple of 346’s one from new and one was a cheap back up off spud....they will wear out like any saw.. for light work they are ok but lack something the 550 doesn’t.. I would go as far as saying the 346 was one of the most over rated saws produced ,didn’t like mine and sold them both feeling they where under powered and got burnt out quick and that a 357 or 560 was the better choice...the 260 was far worse I could not take that saw seriously for hard work, I remember being on site and I had two 260’s dead by the end of the job and having to ring up elm sticks with a 200t, the 261 seems to be better but the only 50cc saw I’ve ever felt was perfect was a 550... depending on your build and age though I would take a 562 if you can manage one and miss out the 50cc saws altogether.
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If your really stuck I’ve ordered there stuff from tree stuff when they have had sales and discounts on.. you have to pay a little duty but it usually arrives in 4 or so days.
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Send it to spud!
