MattyF

kill switch is very intermittent on my 150 so will check that. I do try and send you clean saws ! Although usually broken.

What's the cost new??

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.

Most boots are pretty good these days but would never buy a pair of foot torturing to narrow meindles again.

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.

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.

Really was hoping him and Jamie where gonna be incinerated by Dannis dragon ... you know they won't drown!

The bits of wood placed between boards for air flow when drying mate.

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.

Aye you would be lost now with out a cafe!

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!

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

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.

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 !

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.

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.

Bedding in ... tie one end to a gate and walk it out and tie the other to a large stick and hang on it with your weight for a few mins, also you could try keeping it under tension and run it over a clean log/wooden gate also gets kinks out, I do both when using stuff off the reel and it's definitely worth spending half hour doing this. Also keeping the bags secure in transit will prevent tangles, I know some folk who take them off and tie the ends down to the bag.. tbh I just try not throw the cube around once folded kind of treat it like a iced cake in a box ! Others have said fold in to a square and not the full triangle helps .. in not convinced again I think throwing it around especially with loose bags will cause the mother of all tangles! Also I know folk who religiously whilst feeding line back in to the cube will play it in to each corner clockwise say it helps, I just hoy the stuff in the cube myself! One thing I try and do if I do use a big shot is pull the line out the cube and play it back in checking for tangles before firing to prevent knots if there are any getting tighter under the power of the big shot and also it is bloody painful if you have the line in your left hand ready to grab the bag to stop it reaching the moon once over the target and your fingers get caught in a knot as I'm sure you have found out!

Have had it forwarding timber out, very tempting to pick it up with the grab and hoy it out the way.. ended up leaving cones and tape every where.. still a pita having to move it all every load in and out though.

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No it's not , Muhammad was a warrior who married underage girls he layed siege to city's and then cut off the heads and fingers of his enemies then enslaved there children and wife's.. so he looted and raped and murdered all unbelievers .... I don't recall Jesus doing the same. What do you think this teaches his followers now ?

Glad you got the bar back ! Good vid that Mike.

Aye in a big sweaty flailing mess , going no where fast !

I've seen cuts split up 3-5ft when I've my self and others ballsed a ground level cut up and repositioned it much higher,most times it will go alright like you say stubby but it's an unnecessary risk... just like felling a leaning tree with out boring in and the risk of barbers chair.

What I meant by that is start another felling cut below or above.. by all means finish your back cut above or below but with that amount of tension with the lean already on the stem starting any new felling cut will more than likely develop in to the cuts splitting up and meeting like a giant step cut.