skyhuck

I take it your joking?????????? I'd have gone bust this year if I followed that advice

IMO, you cannot legislate a better world, and qualifications don't stop bad practice. Harold Shipman was very well qualified!!

With you now!

I must have missed something here?? If the tree was a leaner, why the pulling rope???

Just remembered, they changed the exhaust as the the old ones used to crack.

Come on! It has a different pot and piston, giving more power! Quick opening fuel caps, which are ace no messing about with combie spanners! They have in proved the chain brake mechanism! And the carb problems are down to trying to reduce emissions, and mine have always been sorted on warranty in the first week from new. I love my 200!!

:congrats::congrats:

You skinflint!! I change mine every 12 months, they just start to loose their grunt and irritate me! That still works out at less than £2 per day, hardly a fortune!

With time you will learn to love it!! I am always amassed at how bendy they are once you strip them back to pole you can make the top sway sooooo far its ace!!!!!!!!

That is truly unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!

I think NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reading threads like this really worries me. Excuse my ignorance, but am I right in thinking that the collages take people who have never used chainsaws and try to teach them in a year how to use a saw and then how to use a saw up a tree? I have had no formal training at all, I have taken and passed my NPTC assessments. I started to use a chainsaw at age 21 when I was newly married and skint. The estate I live on had many dead Elms which I began felling for fire wood, my father had been felling and cutting his own firewood for years and he assisted me with the first tree and I took it from there, tree felling is basically applied mathematics and geometry. At 24 I got a job as a groundie with a firm doing line clearance, I saw the climbers and thought WOW that looks great I'd love to do that! and when I realised they were on twice as much money as me I was even keener. I bought some second hand climbing gear of one of the guys (had to sell my push bike as I was still skint) They allowed me to have a go when there was time. At weekends I would dismantle my dead Elms instead of felling them. I have rambled on a bit, but the point I am trying to make is that when I first went up a tree with a chainsaw using the saw was second nature to me and the "new" thing was were I was using it! To be "new" to chainsaws and "new" climbing is, IMO, madness and may well be one of the reasons we keep reading about accidents.

"credit crunch" I asumed.

BUGGER!!!!!!!!!

The rot should be seen when the gob is put in, or observed in the saw chips whilst making the back cut and mitigating measures taken, IE, install pulling rope. If proper techniques are used there should be no reason for a tree to fall back wards

That is bang out of order!! If its any consolation the people he speaks to will probable find his methods very off putting, if a trades man I asked to quote for me spent his time slagging off his competition, I would think he lacked confidence in his own work and I would look else were.

Its OK, but I HATE slug's!!! and they are allover trees at night, you get that slim on your hands and you can't get it off

The main thing is confidence in your gear, once you realize that your rope and crabs are pretty much bomb prof, then any fear would be fairly irrational, IMO.

Well said!! Needed saying!!

Me to Dean! The only records I keep is who hasn't paid me

Don't do that!!

I read that to Ed, now I do all my work with handsaws.

Big gob's rock!!!!!!!

You will struggle to properly season timber in 2M lengths.

Sadly true