Charlieh

thats interesting as i know our implements are only insured when they are attached to one of the insured tractors, who is your insurance with?

Nope not yet as its only had three tanks of fuel through it, but it will be gone when i feel its broken in. I will search for the thread on treehouse, i will post some pics when i have done the muffler mods

im guessing you use something like a dremmel for polishing? they are handy bits of kit i dont really want to do anything to my 020t at the moment but the 192T might be a potential project, my main focus will be my 372xp

ah right thats good to know as i hadnt had the muffler off yet to look at it, so i need to take the internals out then?

thats a US spec muffler to start with though isnt it? as the pipe is where mine is as standard, but i dont have the spark arrestor set up on top

one for each hand is that being done in the UK, i suppose the only people who could do that are mx bike and cart tuners? i am interested to see how much a muffler mod will up the power,

when you say ported, is that just the exhuast opened up, or have you actually moddified the intake and outlet ports on the saw?

at least we dont have to put up with the exhausts they get on the US saws! ours are more open to start with, having read that link its a bit different to other stuff i have read which recommends no more than 80% of the port area, unless your doing other funky stuff like altering the exhaust and intake ports

apparently not as the saw should be able to run cooler (unless you dont alter your carb settings after modifying the exhuast)

Just wondering if anyone in the UK has played about with their saws? im considering opening up the exhuast a bit on my 372 as well as uping the sprocket size, to an 8 or 9 tooth. my 084 has a moddified muffler (on it when i bought it) its bloody loud and hasnt been done quite how i would do it, but its a beast of a saw, this is running a 8tooth .404 sprocket and i am after a 9 although im concearned that at this speed it wont clear the cut quick enough (the 084 i keep limited to 11,000rpm as i use it for milling also) so anyone else played about? and what have you done? (please add pics if applicable) not that im bored this afternoon or anything

Matt, have you been for a walk round wimpole hall near the arrington end, they have done a row of limes, some in a fairly poor state similar to your last pic, they seem to have recovered ok after pollarding. Not a great deal of help but worth a look, they have hazel sticks stored in the rotten trunks. Also there are some pretty good examples of coronet cuts around the parkland.

i can appreciate not wanting willow now! i think alder would probably be best, it sounds like the alder could be suffering from this alder root disease but they should be ok (there is a train of thought that if you coppice/pollard them they will survive better), beech may be ok in this case as you dont need to stabilise the soil to a large extent and the shallower roots may help to hold the surface together and stop the bank slumping anymore.

hmmm i am working on a project to stop very rapid bank erosion, after much deliberation we are thinking about using mature willows to be replanted purely to stabilise the bank structure long enough to establish other trees behind the willows and give the soil some structure and stability, the logical choise for you situation would be alder as it will throw down roots well and help stabilise the bank better than the other speices (please please please dont plant sycamores on a river bank) what is the vegetation type on the bank? over grazed grassland by chance? if so replanting trees may not be the long term answer, also if the bank slips are being caused by erosion, you can use some of the felled timber to install in the river channel to help deflect flow and reduce power. just out of interest what size of water course are we talking about? the methods the same but the costs/scale varies Charlie PS why is willow not and option?

was that one of the vintage sales at cheffins in cambridgeshire Mark? if so i have seem some real scrappers go for thousands, also watched a doe triple D go for £68,000 when i was there last time, that price for your 35 seems pretty realistic given its condition, I think your not that far from me anyway are you? im near uttoxeter

i only wear a helly hansen lifa+ base layer under it so it wicks moisture away really well, i wore mine in finland last year with just my base layer and a thin lowe alpine fleece under it and that was -38 most the time, i was comfortably warm!

i have a buffalo issued to me by work, its great but definatly not waterproof and whilst warm i still wear a base layer under mine (which is called the belay jacket) i havent heard of issues with getting them, we use "Hitch n Hike" in the peak district and they normally have a pretty good stock of kit in

every two chains is recommended i think

Helmet arrived today its really really light, many thanks to Steve and all the sponsers,

i have to say i think boring into the timber with a timber auger of about one to one and a half inches would be better as it will allow rot faster surely and also allow to beetles that require internal timber easier access eg greater and lesser stag beetles it will also allow for a more constant temperature for bats (which cant tolerate temp fluctuations) to roost I would be interested to see some scientific papers done on these different methods of conservation cuts and how they compare, eg is one technique better for one group of animals maybe if someone needs a good dissy for uni (or PhD! )

can tell from that comment that you live within commuter range of london :wave: not rural farming derbyshire

? what orange?

looks like the pictures are pinned to the tree....cant be healthy that reminds me i need to email the local council rights of way people and b@llock them for nailing footpath signs to mature trees in cambs, wouldnt be so bad but there are two finger posts not 10mtrs away from the worst example

one: surely that is just a cut that went wrong and ripped the side out the tree? and secondly who is he planning to play table tennis with?

yep we have two of them for our fruit orchard at home really usefull for getting in to the branch tips easily, as long as the ground is level! not much fun on slopes think thats the benefit of the ladders in the first pic, you can set them on split level terrain a bit easier eg up steps

looks like the kind of thing pecontools could do some damage with only joking!