MattyF

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..

Have you used the cm 362 ?

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.

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.

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??

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.

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 !

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.

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!

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 !

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.

Spud ....

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 !

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.

Found the same as rich... also I’ve never had a rope milk as bad .

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.

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.

Send it to spud!

When I was in my early twenty’s and bored of tree work , we used to do a lot of council work in old people’s homes , one old fella who was always out side digging over flower beds or cutting hedges , just doing his own thing away from the other old folk sitting in the tv room,I would always have a chat with , he seemed very stable and not hysterical when dealing with trees ...he had briefly mentioned some thing about the desert rats and North Africa... any ways a few months later I was back on the site clearing some ivy blown tree and I stop to have are usual chat about trees and stuff and I tell him about an interview with the tank corps as I’m thinking about joining .... he looks at me , starts crying and tells me not to do it nothing for him will ever get rid of the memories of seeing young men, his friends in Bren carriers being cut to pieces by machine guns in El Alamein pass or blown to to bits in hedge rows.. i realises then why this guy was always out side by himself and keeping himself busy as he was being constantly haunted ..it did start quite a morbid obsession for me to find out more about what the dude had seen but put me off joining the military.

No mate , seemed well tedious! ... they are good apart from the top corner when I had to mill some fresh ones and there’s some gaps now but will put a carpet in that room and sheep’s wool in the gaps!

Douglas floor I put in earlier the year.

Good point, working with trees has saved a good friends life and put him back to some normality...

Pretty valid point! I never liked it on the rope wrench , would not tend slack and was hard to pull through... wish I’d tried it on its own after seeing that test.

560 out performs the 357 by quite a bit and you will be a rack ahead at the end of the day.

You making the frame over the cab yet to order ?? You could have a good rainy day side line! I’m sure you have enough to do already though ! Picker does look good though!