Charlieh

must admit i prefer the older choke style, although at least the off switch works in the right direction on a husky

i have a 346 and occasionally use a 260, but only when my saw isnt about. I prefer how the 346 feels when holding it, i cant get on with any of the smaller stihls, much prefering the huskys. Also i find the 346 a much more aggressive saw, it seems to pick up quicker and seems much quicker in the wood, but the 260 is nice for logging with as it is very smooth on the anti vibe. I think it depends very much on what feels comfortable, as if your using it for several hours a day you dont want something that isnt right to you personally.

well i have given in to 18months of wanting one, just ordered the xbox super elite modern warfare console good bye evenings and weekends, had a go on a mates on saturday that convinced me, got the HD cable coming for it as well, cant wait.

i wouldnt bother, they are shipped over by the container load, also if i was after a new saw for my alaskan i would seriously consider one, feedback from the some users in the states hasnt been to bad, in untrained hands its no more dangerous than a ms180

10% to comic relief as well

you can still by these as a stihl in many countries including the US, its just there is a factory building them under license i seem to remember in China,

chink built 070

going to need a bigger engine on the iron horse!

i have used bracken bales for blocking moorland gullies do a very good job, but the size of some of that timber going is quiet substantial, a mate from new holland sent it to me

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLNN47U9Jk&feature=player_embedded]YouTube - BIOBALER WB-55 ANDERSON[/ame] have a look at this for a bit of kit, never seen this before, looks handy

love that yew man, thats a great peice of work

might give it a watch, saw one of the 1st series and got so wound up with it, didnt watch the rest!

me fit of rage, never, i think any rhodies i encounter will be burnt, not chipped anyway, and anything more than 2" diameter its a log

i was going to ask the same? wasnt it just to cover people who didnt have PA tickets for stump treatment?

sorry lads this has probably been covered in the previous 48pages somewhere but are both your chippers gravity feeds? i cant be bothered to find the specs on your machines, if they are how easy do you find it feeding them? cheers and sorry for being lazy

nice find! i could do with a job like that

what sort of compression are you getting? thats very odd if you have compression and and a spark but it wont fire, im at a bit of a loss without seeing the saw, sorry i cant be more help

yes thats what im working on the woodland mgmt plan to allow for woodland improvement grant funding, thats why im worried about the potential issues with overlapping on HLS activities in woods included in FC schemes

i was planning to herbicide the stumps on the day of cutting then inject any regrowth as per FC best practice guidelines, unless someone knows of another way?

the re rootign was one of my concearns im guessing bonfires will be the order of the day for most the brash,

Im not preparing a HLS application else i would be taking all the money for doing it, but on this site NE are doing that in house (which is a new one on me) Im just preparing the woodland mgmt plan which if your doing it well and spending the time on it, the funding doesnt really cover it that well, especially when the site is very diverse, the beer money comment was supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek. I have just finished getting the site maps into the GIS which has taken about 3hrs, i have had a day on site and i recon i need another day and a half out doing surveys, and then 1/2day with the landowner, then another day on site with someone from FC, my only concearn now is if FC and NE start getting awkward about the projects overlapping in area not costs, as they are getting pretty tight on this kind of thing which can be a right pita, im looking forward to doing it as it certainly has a huge range of potential if we put everything into the scheme for woodland management and then an improvement grant as well, this will be the first ful one i have done where as in the past i have just given advice on the wildlife side of things

The mgmt plan is for FC WIGs grant as there is an area of PAWS thats going to be cleared and also there will be about 10 acres of planting do in the next year or two, i am getting the money for preparing the mgmt plan (beer money! ) and i will be picking up quite a bit of the other work as well, including hopefully the rhodie clearance, as its only about 3/4s mile from where i live, so it would be handy to fill in odd days on,

Nope basically the site was going to be bought by woodland trust and their funding fell through so the farmer who owns it has asked me to get as much sorted on the site as possible, so if you know anyone that whats to buy 100 acres to plant broadleaves on get in touch, as he only wants it going into woodland NE have no interest in the site, and FC have funded stuff in the past, but the landowner has let things laps and hasnt made any claims since it was FWPS so i dont know if he will be able to claim the last 5yrs worth of funding he has missed out on, I am putting an all whistles and bells management plan together currently, and he is putting some of the areas of archeological interest into HLS which is more or less NEs envolvment stops, but the advisor had picked up on the rhodies in the ASNW areas, they are pretty sever and it will be hand clearing i suspect due to access and not wanting to scrub up the ground to much with a mulcher, if it was a NNR i would be laughing, rolling round in the money

cheers, i wasnt sure as the HLS for some management options is rubbish, The HLS advisor was keen to put it in to get the points up on the scheme anyway so she will be pleased,

that lack of a vent wont stop it running, it will just stop it leaking fuel everywhere have a look through this http://www.airtimeproducts.com.au/assets/docs/Husqvarna%20service%20Manual.pdf