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    Better than a kick in the teeth.
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    Zuidberg make the linkage and the other is creepy lobster doctor from the year 3000. Easy mistake to make. They are very good come and fit it and everything. Pricy but very useful, priced one up for an n series Valtra and it was about 4k tapped off a spool valve. That was a good few years back.
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    A mark of a quality chainsaw shop is being able to get replacement guide bar noses on a Saturday morning. The mark of an outstanding chainsaw shop is being able to get a an 064 clutch on a Saturday morning and some wooden wedge inserts and some extra rings for them too.
  4. Brushcutter
    Chainsaw strops.
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    The 020T. It was so good the number got rearranged to make it a different new saw.
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    Zoidburg make one for baby tractors. Just be careful about overloading the front axel.
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    Arb pays better than hand cutting for the most part because it's a service industry rather than primary production. Good money can be made if you are good and on production. Ticket wise depending on where you are and what your doing your 30 31 will see you fine cutting coppice. If you go hand cutting edge trees and oversized you need your medium/large/assisted depending on who you are working for and the land owner. FC love tickets. Then you you things you don't use often in Arb but use a lot felling. Wedges bars turning strops winch. Jacks and if you fell a lot mechanical wedge. I love felling but the drive to and from site can really kill any money to be made. I've done 2 hours to and from site and then a day's work. Makes it a minimum wage day.
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    Swiftie 50 Plus with telescopic pole (1.33m) - Seaswift Products WWW.SEASWIFTPRODUCTS.COM The innovative Swiftie 50 mooring aid is also available with an aluminium telescopic pole giving you over 2 metres of reach when... MIght not work for your application but work well on a hardwood. Put it on some aus poles and your away. Also works well for climbing lines. I've pulled some big stuff over with pull lines set from ladders as long as it is over 2.2m and no higher than 2/3 total hight and the cut is backed up with wedges.
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    Never used a set of felling tongs but I have seen them out in Finland. If you want to get a rope up in a tree for pulling you can use a swifty (not the Taylor fan type). It's designed for docking boats and you attach the rope to it and push the thing into a branch and pull down and it drops the rope over. Then base tie it. Most skidding/mini digger tongs will be too heavy for making a set. Minimum pull height for assisting felling is 2.2m so you don't have to go too high. Although pulling power and back lean really determine pull height.
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    The good old days. You can go to an unattended supermarket one and crack on if you can find one. However or local Tesco Sainsbury's and she'll are on it. A little man will be either wandering out or coming to look at your can. Then saying it needs to be green because it's petrol.....
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    When did you try it. It use to give me a headache and it did to a few people. Must of been around 2015 it got reformulated and I've not had a problem since. Motomix smells different as it has hp Ulta as the oil and there own blend of fuel. Then Husky one is their xp oil in some sort of fuel. Don't know if it is aspen or their own blend of fuel
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    You would think. Our local petrol station have to come out and check your containers to make sure they are approved. Then you can have no more than 10 litres in plastic or 20 in metal. Had a arguement about combi cans with them once.
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    100% Another plus point of Aspen is you can get in in a pallet of 54 cans or a 20l drum or 205l drum. This means you don't have to deal with the nonsense of having to fill fuel cans up at the petrol station.
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    Another vote for just using Aspen or motomix. Couldn't go back now just on the.non smelly fumes alone. No faffing with fuel. If your a part time user it really is the way forward.
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    I will swap my 540mk3 and 542i bar around and see how it goes. I love my 540mk3 use it more than my 550 now, unless it's cold.
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    My 540mk3 has the 3/8 lopro on it. I really like it. Not tried it on the battery yet. Im going to swap my 540mk3 to .325 1.1mm see how that works.
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    I've also got a 542. Rear handled not top. It's my go to ground saw and chipper saw. I've got the new 330bli batteries which seem to run it better than the regular bli300. My gripe with it was after about 10 hours of trigger time mine died. Luckily Husqvarna replaced the clutch, motor and trigger group as they couldn't work out why it died the way it did. My first issue with a battery tool. I've got Speedcut nano on it rather than the husky sp21g which I don't like. Sp33g that came on it is a bit hard on the battery but I do like the wider kerf cuts. Much more life on the battery with the mini .325. I really like it, I think the bare unit was 630 quid and I've got the battery's for the hedgecutters and polesaw. Its a bit more ergonomic than the msa300 but I'm not sure it would win in a timed cut test.
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    Is your trigger ok. My 520 has a trigger that doesn't work very well.
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    Is that the 535 brushcutters. I've used mine with the clearing saw on which is good. I've only used grass blades and the tribade on bramble. Does it run the mulcher blade well.
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    Have you tried treevolution or H W training. A 4 hour trek from you but they might know of someone local to you or be able to send you someone to you. I can do the NPTC refresher units but your 500 plus miles from me which would make it a little cost prohibitive for you.
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    What units are you looking to refresh?
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    I use cherry blossom I think it's called. You can pick it up in the supermarket for a couple of quid. Not as good as guardsman gloss from kiwi. I've got home haix active polish for my new boots but not used it yet
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    Total Harvesting in Australia. Have international blokes from time to time. The locations can be remote but they do have sites all over. Many years ago I was offered a job forwarding there. UMP have operatives from time to time. Instagram is a good way to make contact with American and Canadian loggers to look for work contacts. In most of the world you would be looking for logging jobs if you want to be on the tools and a forestry job if you want to get into timber crusing. If you want to be a BC faller then the certification is very expensive and a long process
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    I had a pixel 6 and recently upgraded to a pixel 8 pro. My next phone will be another pixel. I love the pure android experience. No complaints. Love the camera in it.
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    I have a 542ixp that did 10 hours work before it just died. Husky wanted the bar amd chain to look at. Wanted know what batteries it was run on. After two weeks In yhe shop I got it back. It had a new trigger group new clutch and a new motor. All apparently can case the problem of the motor running but not enough to push the chain. Lovely saw but I'm not happy it broke but Husky did fix it. Wouldn't by any second hand battery stuff as I don't think the warranty transfers

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