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.

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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.

Just filled in my profile, based in Alnwick Northumberland.

I have a huge ash tree which, although the main trunk leans to one side, no matter which way I look at it can not work out where to start at the 30ins base as it looks pretty well balanced. I have thought of climbing up and cutting one of the limbs off to persuade it to fall in the direction I would like it to which is on the burn bank not in the burn. All I have at the moment is a standard safety harness and lanyard which I have used on a few occasions when I have pruned a few trees in the past for mates. Probably not the way the pro's would do it but nevertheless they were done to a satisfactory standard and I felt quite safe with the harness on. I have thought of winching it from another tree. Any advice? might post a pic of it. It will have be felled this year when the leaves drop as it is ugly, in the wrong place and diseased, not dead but all the limbs are disfigured.and split open.

Hi, as a few of you will have read I am not a pro, but have been using a chainsaw for some 30 years now felling trees and collecting firewood on my smallholding. I have been watching the videos of the tree climbing work with interest trying to work out the different stages, are there any good url links out there that explain how it is done. From what I understand, you climb to the very top of the tree and hang from that point, and how does the rope not get in the bl***y way. Hope you guys do not object to a spare time non pro taking up residence here, trust me I can use a saw(I was actually invited by Steve from the proclimber site) but I take a real interest in what you do.

I don't need one of those, anything 1ins and above keeps me warm in the winter!

Many years ago when the dutch elm disease appeared I was felling the trees in my woodland as fast as they were dying. As I got older and the bramble started taking over parts of the wood I was forced to leave the most inaccessible trees. As these trees started to rot I was pleased to witness previously unseen woodpeckers moving in and nesting in the rotten parts of the trees. Many of these trees have eventually fell to the ground depriving them of choice so I now have to conserve nature by leaving some dead trees to provide nesting sites rather that fell them for firewood. That makes me feel good:)

Don't know about you guys that do this day in day out, but speaking for myself I get a real adrenalin boost when I hear the crashing impact of the tree hitting the ground.

I must confess, over 30 years ago when we first moved into our smallholding and I bought the Dolmar 114 one of the first jobs I gave it to do was to cut some ancient briar down............it was 2ins thick at the base!!. Anyway, as I was cutting this thick stem, covered in huge thorns, it started to come towards me, not wanting to get stabbed by the darn thing I stepped back and suddenly felt the chain slicing through the my denim jeans:eek:. I was expecting to see blood begin to ooze out my leg but to my amazement it had only cut the material. The next day I visited my local supplier (the saw was bought at discount through a friend of a friend) and bought the full safety kit which IIRC cost nearly as much as the saw, and it was because of that incident I have worn them ever since!.

At £759 RRP I certainly did!.

Hi, apart from my introduction in the welcome thread here goes for my first posting. As I said in my introduction I am not a professional,and I wear all my safety clothing at all times no matter how small the job is. I have at times witnessed professionals not wearing items of protective gear such as leggings and even a hard hat. It horrifies me to see some of the native workers in the likes of the Amazon and Brazillian rain forests wearing nothing but a pair of shorts and a tee shirt wielding a 36ins monster:eek::eek::eek:. The question I would like to ask you guys in this country is do most of you wear protective gear at all times or is it some kind of "macho" thing not to wear the gear.

Forgot to mention, I am in Northumberland.