MattyF

What are you going to be doing with it ?? The hobbs is simple and great for pretensioning lines rigging big and you can dump big loads no worries on it it will lift but nothing like the grcs winch although it will lift it takes time if you try. I can live with my Hobbs type block though.

Petzl Alvio , lightest and most vented.

I’ve already started Kevin ... the news today was pretty disturbing with Russia saying it will take out any American base missiles are launched from ... interesting the way we are being fed story’s from Syria though , which ones the truth ? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5386503/amp/More-640-Russian-mercenary-soldiers-killed-Syria.html https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.spiegel.de/international/world/american-fury-the-truth-about-the-russian-deaths-in-syria-a-1196074-amp.html Genocides in history though Hitler is 3rd after stallin and in first place Mao Zedong ... not saying he wasn’t a massive (unt but the out come of Europe would of been even more horrific if Hitler never invaded Russia and the war machine stallin was building to take the world to communism never of been exhausted fighting the Nazis with the slaughter of 11 million of its troops being left pretty impotent against further battle and giving us 50 years of Cold War stale mate.

You do realise the northern hemisphere ... no probably the world will be an apocalyptic nuclear waste land after ?

I’ve got one but unsure of the size ... think it could be the 2.5 m as I’m sure I’ve come across a few trees it’s been too small on.. either way a bowline is still does the job if not.

Battery’s go pop too dude , and that’s with out smoking tabs ... like I said earlier I’ve never seen any saw explode ... there was a time I heard of a lad who I showed a trick too that if you emptied a tiny bit of fuel out your saw tank on some dead pine needles and fanned with the exhaust it would get a bonfire going real quick with out a blower and litres of diesel.. unfortunately his saw went up when he put the exhaust up close after dumping half a tank on some scotty needles, I guess petrol vapour on a naked flame ... I’ve fuelled up daily with a tab going as break is a tab and refuel and get cracking again and never ended engulfed in a ball of flames , not saying it’s a bright thing to do ...but there it is.

Here’s an interesting one it says stihl but that’s definitely a husky 550 right ?

I’ve smoked and worked with smokers and around saws most my life and I’ve never seen any one explode! I regret the shit tattoo I had done at 18 though , think I’m gonna cover it up maybe with a full sleeve with this modern ink , it does look mint these days what they can do with a needle and the crispness in detail achieved.

My guess is uneven sharpening, I’ve seen my ripping chains do this milling if I clear more out of the gullet on one side than the other.

Thats what I’ve found with the 550’s , ok if you have your own designated saw but if they get past around they run like shit until they have adjusted after a few mins of the operators style of cutting.. they like being used hard too, so no good for the timid saw user who won’t keep revs up. Would not mind trying the echo 50cc but cant give up my 550xpg it’s a keeper.... was never a fan of the 346xp though, just found it too flat.

Very true ! That’s why I won’t go lighter than 14oz.. and double up bags if manipulating a route.

I’d be more worried what it drives like!

Sweet , sounds a better deal !

Did you get the one with the winch and bits on bill?? I got an advisory last mot over front wheels and that was without spacers and already moving the rear arches.. neither prop shafts or wheel bearings seem to like chunky tyres though.

Sharpen a saw when it’s blunt... unless it’s the last cut off the stump and it’s been a long day and it can wait until tomorrow.

High explosive ? I would like to have filled mine full of phosphorus, would of been nice to have known when they brought the gas torch to it and they I doubt they would of got away with anything ... never mind

Go and have a chat with a local firms and see if they have work for a self employed climber .. some thing I regret not doing far earlier in my own career.. and best thing I did when I finally got around to it though was being self employed but was more focusing on getting my own local work than subbing.... subbing just got me dirty great trees that no one else wanted to do in city’s going over 10 gardens and being stuck on the m25 for 3 hours every night... mind you being employed at times was not better once the bosses realised what you could bring them in so there was no rest there either.

Aye looks like it would be at the brittle white rot stage ...you can see it clearly is in most of the pics

I would give him what it’s worth to you ...I would offer £50-100 ,mostly looks shot to me but you could get some interesting planks but I’ve milled elm similar and it was a pithy powdery nightmare with about two decent planks off.

Didn’t Mick Stockbridge have a chipper the same stolen ?

Proper pike fishing weather with the rings freezing up , gave it half hour and had to chicken out for the warmth of the truck!

Where abouts in north east ?

I have been told height above sea level is another factor , they won’t thin commercial stands over a certain height as they blow.. could be talking bollocks though??

What’s that on the front of the valtra John?

What’s that on the front of the valtra John?