husqycutter

This could easily have killed him !! [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6oZnXjefAQ[/ame]

OUCH !! Forgot how to insert the video feel free to do it for me, or tell me how and I will edit it.

Just been down there today for new boots, their new spacious showroom is definitely the business, great service as usual.

Brilliant!! so much funnier:biggrin:

Would love to watch it in normal speed and hear the banter Wondering if the rest of it is still hanging on up there ! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hyVU1E-1I]Ax Men: Brian the Barbarian - YouTube[/ame]

Not around much on here but always happy to participate:thumbup:

I got one of these off Ebay a while back, exactly the same (but a lot cheaper:001_smile:), metal case, problem I found with it you had to be careful where you stored it as it leaked chain oil all over the damn place. They must have had a few complaints about this but "rectified" it in their eyes by including a slip of paper in the manual with a warning that a "small" amount of oil would leak after use and this was quite normal.................rubbish in my opinion!!.

I have the husqy top handle saw and it beats me as to why it is so much more expensive than one of their smaller saws, the production costs can not be that much greater, if anything.

Here, http://preview.tinyurl.com/55xgkz

Health and safety regs.?

So is it illegal for the retailer/hire depot to supply a top handle to someone without a ticket or is it just a guideline?.

I never knew they had stopped hiring them to the public, was that some time ago?. I recall you had to hire a limited safety kit when they were available for hire.

I consider myself a competent operator of a chainsaw and can handle my husqy 372 with no problems despite having no formal training. I have gained my competence over the years on my smallholding using common sense with safety uppermost in my mind, I always wear a full safety kit no matter how small the job is. I see that you have to be a fully trained and qualified operator to use a top handle for obvious reasons. However I have always thought there is more danger and probably more accidents to the untrained layman hiring a saw over the counter than to the likes of myself using a top handle saw. Do you think that chainsaws should be banned from general sale and hire to the public without some sort of training, perhaps, apart from supplying the trained professional they could limit sales to say farmers. I really do think they are a dangerous tool in untrained hands, I know of one mate who lost a thumb using a hire saw and witnessed a neighbour come very close to slicing his neck due to a kickback. Thoughts please.

Do they like to dry them out themselves, I was told this by a woodturner at a craft fair a few years back.

Yes I do appreciate that Steve I was not wanting to know any "hands on chainsaw advice" just wondered if there was any simple safe ways to get it to land where I want it too apart from winching it to one side. I one had someone fell a line of dead elm which did not have to fall on my neighbours land, he used his tractor to pull them on to my land but I don't think that method is suitable where this tree is.