Brushcutter

Will keep an eye open. Your only down the road from me. Shame we're getting a lot more of this our way now:thumbdown:

Hi I'd be interested. Little late to ring i feel but i thought I'd put in a note of interest. Do a lot of big hardwood felling. Put a few pictures up just to show. Don't have any big kit but we could source that locally? How many trees and what sort of DBH and height we talking. The pics are Sweet Chestnut and Beech but done a lot of Oak too.

Is that the battery powered Husky top handle? Any good?

A few from Finland.

I had to clean up a big Beech wind throw the other week. Had a massive wasps nest in it. I got stung so about 4 times they got so angry we had to leave it. Went back a week later and the nest was still there and they got angry and i got stung more:( Had to go and clear up an Ash that had lost its top and was blocking a BOAT and on inspecting it we found a Hornets nest in it. After the wasp incident we left the Ash for a while for the blighters to die off. Oh i once felled a Ash onto a bees nest in that was in an old rotted stump. Funny enough they weren't happy and swarmed.

My Old 2008 Strech Airs had the zip go after about 3 months. Took them to the local dry cleaners and they fitted a new heavy duty zip for 8 quid. That's not been a problem since. Got some Gladiators 2 type A at the moment despite the tighter fit never had a problem with them.

You tried Rod Wilson or Tree life?

Pop it into an engineering firm see if they can make you one up? Might be expensive might not be. I needed a pin for a topper and it was over £115+vat for it. A £10 cat 3 pin and a £20 quid to a guy to put it through the lathe.

Enjoy a good night sleep?

Supertack bio from Clarks

That is a big bit of kit. It was about 3 years ago that i found out from the saw doctors that it was illegal to use diesel as a saw lubrication. I guess a H&S thing. I can see the point having done it hair arms stank of diesel. You'd end up with a film of it all over you. I saw plant oil Plantoil - Home Page it's good.

I've never been in a new fancy JD. I'd love to do some field work in one where they're at home. Too expensive to take into the woods.

I know the 390 has massive fan club. I'll admit the 4wd one make good forestry tractors. I just don't like them. Cab is small, the seats are crap they're noisy. I spend a lot of time in tractors and i'll always take a valtra or a newer massy over a 390. Thats a 2wd version.

To add to stuck shame. I was rescue winch tractor who came and rescued crappy 390 from the dell bomb crater that it fell down bracken mowing.

That was my first thought as well. Edge of lakes soft valtra heavy. Soft lake + heavy Valtra = Sunken Valtra.

Things get worse before they get better.

I could of driven that out.

Sawmill.

Hi I'm asking for a mate of mine who is in need of some larch. He uses it for chainsaw carving, and he uses a lot. Needs to be around 25-35cm mid diameter. Anybody has any leads that i could pass along. Needs to be in the SE ideally he said he'd have a lorry load of the right stuff. Cheers Andy

I loved the 345 fxt which was a heated handle thumb throttle clearing saw. Shorter than the regular 345 rx bushcutter Unfortunately no replacement AFAIK, Still prefer the 345 to the newer husky 545. Had quite a few issues with it. Got a 460 at the moment the AV is nice not really used it much. Still go for the 345 over the 460 too, i do like the husky harness too.

First dismantle ever i cut a ring and threw it off watched it hit the ground, bounce and roll and take out an wooden arch thing:blushing: Rolled a forwading trailer. Slopes, turns and massive stumps don't mix. broke off a hydraulic fitting off a extension ram in the woods. Welded on rather than screw in fitting. £700 quid later for a new ram..... Bad bad day. Crushed an 064 under a tree. To it's credit a new handle and it was fine, carried on running under the tree for ages. Managed to catch some brash on a really old plant in a garden that was really important to the owner. Ripped it off it's roots Driving down a rack and a tree blew over landing on the cab bounced off and took the filter off trailer causing oil to go everywhere and me to have a very bad scary day. Nearly bogged a 1270B in a thawing out bog got away with that though. Today i managed to whack myself in the head putting posts in. Hit it with quite a heavy driveall.

Not a sabb 95 thats for sure. My dad has one and it's been nothing but problems. Biggest problem is a leak that means the drivers side back seat foot well is nearly always wet. Look at a Sokda Octavia.

I thought of adding onto the wee chipper thread...... "High and unergonomic feed hopper and silly discharge height. Cs100s are the better choice if you are looking for a chipper that size " I know the CS100s are ace. It's the 1200 quid s/h price tag on the TW that's tempting me. For the price are the shortfalls worth it. Won't be used a massive amount.

Hi There are a few of these around second hand at the moment. How good are they. The video on the TW website seems convincing but what are they like in the real working world. Thanks Andy

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