MattyF
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Everything posted by MattyF
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Watch those thumbs ! And get some plastic wedges before you tear a saw of its mounts/ carb .... I thought I was harsh on saws !
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Seal the ends and try and keep it out of the heat , I've had cherry milled in late summer warp and crack to the point it's unusable!
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182726783152
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How are folks getting on with there's ? considering ebaying mine as I've not used it in a while , basically all my ropes have conifer sap on now and although the device is great no sit back and tends well it really does not like sap! Unfortunately living in keilder forest spruce and pine are bread and butter! Shame as it's a real nice climb on reductions and felling broad leaves.
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Only noticed when I started cleaning ! That could be hard stubby especially on the next 3 up?
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What's folks views on cracked cylinder head finns, stripping down a 540 yesterday and noticed 3 have cracked is it a good idea to replace the head or should it be ok?
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You need a separate dish washer in your work shop,I bet the misses goes mad!
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Many good new features , the ignore topic button is great!
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kill switch is very intermittent on my 150 so will check that. I do try and send you clean saws ! Although usually broken.
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What's the cost new??
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Drill a hole or grove and choke and put them on a leash! Or tie a ballon to it I doubt it though plastic wedges are more a heavy nylon type plastic ........decent ones are any way.
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Most boots are pretty good these days but would never buy a pair of foot torturing to narrow meindles again.
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Wey ....shooting big arrows at the fit bird you want to protect .... plus I've waited 7 seasons to see them dragons do some proper battle damage against the Lannisters and old gerome nearly to kills it.
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Any truck loaded is gonna handle like a boat.. have heavy duty rear springs on our 200 tipper and it's a hard ride empty and would probably benifit from new shocks springs and bushes up front as it wollows loaded but reluctant to spend money on her purely because it's not used loaded much.
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Really was hoping him and Jamie where gonna be incinerated by Dannis dragon ... you know they won't drown!
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The bits of wood placed between boards for air flow when drying mate.
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Getting used to it and it's pretty good , I will still occasionally hit the app button which leads nowhere and gives the impression the forum is still down.. time to delete the app off the phone any way but I wonder how many folk have not bothered to search arb talk from the net to get on and still think the forums down because they are trying to log in through the app.
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Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
Aye you would be lost now with out a cafe! -
Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
Sod that mate !! ... id still be in a safe place if I had to go down in a coal boat in those conditions and not come out! -
Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
Beasting is tongue in cheek Wes, but lads still need to learn hard graft and not think it's about looking like a arb gear catalogue or turning up on site and saying they are a climber and they start crying when you give them something fairly difficult or want to go home after half a day in the woods ... I'm also more disagreeing with some of Stevies other comments but I'll laugh at him about that -
Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
Ha ha really, the army is a piece of piss in comparison, In the post Stevie says he spent a good few years digging holes before hand so already had built up the upper body strength needed to make a good climber. -
Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
Stevie when it comes to you we can throw out the rule book as your quite an exceptional character mate.. but I do disagree with most of that. These young boys need beasting and moulding in to tree killing machines not been told they can go to there safe place and do what ever they want when it gets tough. -
Have always ran 15" on most my saws but had to recently put an 18" on my ported 560 ..my back just can't cope no more with a 15",Locked up solid on the landing after winching up a stick to cross cut .... seriously thought that was the end of my tree work career! Any way the saw seems to handle it very well apart from de railing more !
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I quite like the 261 despite what folk say about them , don't know if I would buy one personally but I really like the way they handle dressing out sticks.. question is do you port a new saw still in warranty ??? I recon a muffler mod would wake it up enough to feel the difference then a full port job once your 12 months is up, if it goes bang it would not take a lot to swap over a muffler from a second hand one... I would trust spud enough though to give him a brand new saw ,he's fixed plenty of my old dogs up.... Using one of his ported 560's today up a tree that was falling to bits and it sure beats using a bigger heavier saw when your gaffs are kicking out in white mushy oak cambium.
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Do I become more employable by having my own climbing gear?
MattyF replied to Kyle_haynes's topic in General chat
The best climbers I've seen are the ones who have had a good stint as a groundy , personally I think it should be compulsory to do at least one year of ground work before you are let in a harness , too many tits out there who known it all and know nothing... if your working on the ground especially in big production gangs you will witness a whole range of styles of climbing good and bad and learn a lot more about basic saw maintenance , rigging and rope management making it a lot easier to join the dots after your basic climbing courses and saw tickets to really excel with out making to many costly or dangerous mistakes .., just my opinion though.
