Henk
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Try Working Woodlands Trust -c/o Ted Talbot Ecclesall Saw Mill Project, Sheffield (Meersbrook Park switchboard 0114 2500500) - might have good links to interested makers.
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http://www.attacc.com/index.html Attleburgh Accesories of Norfolk supply them (two sizes). Best way to brew up. Ranger service in Sheffield would grind to a halt without one in each team.....
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Try soft copper wire - used in Bonsai tree training - less chance of damaging the bark
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Good idea, particularly if CS30/31 newly qualified and working on urban green space cruddy willow, sycamore, rotten ash etc, after qualifying on nice straight softwoods. I got some nasty shocks when I had done medium bar and was way too overconfident taking big stuff down and snedding out crowns - no substitute for experience, I wish I had had someone to keep me straight in the beginning. Going to suggest it to our Ranger service manager. We are too on and off with our felling, newbies should buddy up with experienced guys.
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Yep I have, started to go over to deep beds on part of it as an experiment. Been fairly traditional in the past. Like the look of your system, productive I bet
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Talk to your local woodlands officer (Leeds council). I help manage a number of woodlands for same in my neck of the woods so to speak (mostly urban yet ancient woodland). I do a lot of coppice work and spend time explaining to users why I am doing it, involving them in it (volunteers) and listening to the local WWT and city ecologist. Yep I even fell by hand using an old Elwell 6lb bearded axe, as the husky 357 upsets the locals. Go for sustainable/biodiversity and see if you can involve a deranged green woodworker who might like to: make charcoal, use coppice products for hurdles, weaving etc, demonstrate wood turning and similar. There are more grants available if you involve the community (e.g. forest schools), but then the number of opinions you will have to listen to will increase exponentially. Think labour of love, not 'nice little earner'
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This is a box of frogs. Birch clearance on commons in South Yorkshire have attracted massive public opprobrium. Despite consultation and efforts to remove felled timber and recycle in biomass/wood chip fuel burners commoners do not see the long term benefits to maintaining heathland for biodiversity. Heathland is an artificial habitat - grazing stock is the best way to maintain it. Don't touch it with a barge pole.
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MS 260 easier to clean than outboard clutched Husky 357. Best advice given is to try both types. 240 is a great little saw, especially if tuned properly. The arrangement of the magneto in the two saw manufacturer types makes for a different 'feel' and balance due to weight distribution around the engine chassis. STIHL looks more robust than Husky, but quicker pick up and more power on latter win it each time for me - also I think the anti-vib springs on the husky are more effective than the rubber jobs on the Stihl saws. At the end of the day its your bread. Lots of dealers are doing very good discounts on Stihl at the mo (Turner Tool Hire in Sheffield will sell you an MS 260 for the low £300's if you haggle)
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Saw interesting STIHL demo recently with an ergometer attached to an MS260. Suggested that ten different users experienced ten different levels of vibration when cross cutting with the same saw, the STIHL boffin's explanation was that different candidates may have gripped the saw with different force. What I noticed was that the really BIG users (more inertial mass) experienced way less vibration... suggesting that the chunkier you are the better. Kind of counter productive if you are having to snake up a tree every day, but reassuring for us lard arsed ground based troglodites. Seriously though, Heated grips help me, and I use occupational health to monitor my exposure, I have no wish to compromise my manual dexterity now or in the future, I live to make and make to live.
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Do it by the book if you value your hands (HAV) unless you are very experienced - thought Bob's idea for using the angle of the scabbard under the chain worth a try.
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Agreed on Husky 345 - nice saw. I have since fitted mine with a 13" Carlton Bar and full chisel chain - tweaked the engine with a tacho - speedy little snedder it is. 357 XPG if you are serious - get the heated grips - bonzer saw. Took advice from very experienced arb people. Can't be bothered with the works Stihl MS 260 now unless I have sleepers to cross cut.....
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Why not talk to a friendly woodland officer at your local City Council? They are usually very helpful Failing that don't forget a method statement with the other bits you mentioned and awareness-sensitivity to TPO's, SSSI, footpath issues and access/the law in general relating to the countryside and photo examples of your work?
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I like trees but I fell out with them
