Rob D

Oh dear indeed -I'd have liked to have seen that vid as well!

Don't worry too much if people don't add to a thread you've started... when you have more pics just add to it yourself... people will soon start posting. Owl looks good

It's with the Peterson mill - so cut mainly at 8" by 2.5"... those pieces have gone a nice dark colour now... Should be good when they are dry.

Last on site type job I did.... Some ash, had shake and soft pockets but also some nice colour and rippling patterns.

That's what I've found - was selling at £100-00 a cube for hardwood, £85-00 for mixed.... a lot of people pretty much put the phone down when they hear the price. In hindsight I'd have bought the .65 cubic meter bags and sold at £70-00.

Cheers for that - I will have another go

Double ditto - the above. Where does that start and where does it end? If you show someone how to light a cigarette and they burn their house down? If you show someone how to use a lawnmower and they run over their foot? How to drill a hole and a fragment flies back into their eye? Does anyone actually know where the lines are drawn as to what you can and can't do without accepting liability? I don't... If you asked a customer to see you back when reversing out of their drive and you hit someone or something are you liable because you've asked an untrained person to see you back? Sorry - rant over

If you want to try multi cut I have it - more expensive than other chain but not by much. You can buy it here Custom chain loops if you know the chain spec or here if you have a stihl or husky, Chains You also get a 10% arbtalk disc - sign up then then tell me you've signed up. Info on multi cut on page 13 and 14 here http://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/media/documents/chain-info.pdf but yes I know takes an age to download... morten showed me another way of doing this with a dropbox but have not figured it out yet

I think your plan sounds like a good one. I milled one I'd had in the yard (for 2 years ) the other day - some nice timber but also a lot of shake...

It's hard to know - could be entirely legit... I suppose the only way you could know is to request serial numbers? Do police have a database on those for nicked gear?

But sometimes an emoticon says all you want to say - so in that case why write anything?

You're certainly packing in the milling at the moment there Martin - good sequence of pics.

Thanks You have x2 choices of type of bar - laminated or solid. Laminated are lighter, cheaper and more fragile. Solid are heavier, more expensive, tougher and have less flex. Solid bars will last longer than laminated. Prob best to get your bar locally if you can as sending stuff from UK is expensive... but you do get 10% off the below prices as an arbtalk member. But to see your options: Go here Guide bars put in your saw and it will churn out the options and prices...

Mulberry is quite hard to come by - stick some pics up and sizes and you may get some takers.

Hi Sam - unfortunately they have just found that because the 550 and 560 don't have the plates that go up against the bar, there can be bar oil leaking back and down by the mounting bolts. Not a lot - but it's not ideal. The 13" and 15" bars have the BM mount to go on Echo saws as well and on all other Huskys other than the 550 and 560 this is fine... The 18" solid Sugi is a dedicated Husky mount and will go on your 560 but is is .325 .058 72 drive links.

Ha ha! Jared was pretty pleased with himself on that one anyways... until you pointed out it was close, he did well, but not quite bang on!

It stays very white but when dry is light if a bit brittle feeling. Seems a nice bit of spaulting in the middle of that log.

Excellent clear pics gents Looked like a good days milling was had.

Copy of e-mail. Hi Brian, that is a bit of a tester... there’s really only x2 things that could cause this. Or actually maybe x3 things. First the bar is .058 and not .063 – but if this is written on there then very unlikely. Second – as Alec had pointed out there are pinch points on the bar. Third – similar to above – is it an older bar that someone has tried to pinch the rails up? I.e. on older bars you can extend their life by pinch the rails together so that there is less chain slop... overdoing this would cause this problem. Have you got the old 3/8 chain to hand? If so just ID this using the numbers here to make sure this was a .063 guage Chain ID table Rob

Brilliant

Good fun to watch - nice to see a bit of original filming and seeing a bit more behind the scenes.

Well said Rob although now I'm confused.... who am I contacting again?

Sorry to hear about your loss Big J... As already said maybe another pet like a budgie, goldfish or similar that takes minimal care but does give some company.

Sorry long post in the end! As said books and books on the subject! Used to work with people with anxiety (as an occupational therapist) and also have suffered myself. My experience is that anxiety takes a while to get the stage to the point u think 'I can't cope with this any more ' - but just in posting this thread up you've accepted there is a problem which means you can now deal with it. Anxiety is something that everyone can suffer from given the right (or rather wrong) circumstances... but sometimes it becomes a 'rut' that you feel you can't escape from. As human beings we tend to condition ourselves all the time with internal thoughts. These are far more powerful than you give them credit for and also they don't necessarily have an instant effect. With anxiety you tend to start programming yourself without realising it to be on edge and worried. Picturing worst case scenarios and how you would feel if they happened. I think this is a sort of protection for yourself gone wrong - you think that by worrying about something and picturing it you can then figure out what you would do if that happened. That's fine and good but there are infinite bad things that can happen out there so by replaying numerous bad situations in your head your sub conscious is going to start thinking they are happening - that's when you get the 'flight or fight' response (quite a good vid here if a bit cheesy from 2.40 [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g25d7_Afmc]Adrenaline: Fight or Flight Response - YouTube[/ame]). So you get the symptoms of heart racing, sweats, heightened awareness, - a good reaction if you're running from a fire - not good if you're trying to sleep . So some coping strategies: (bear in mind - it takes a while to get to the stage when anxiety is a problem in your life, it's going to take a while to get back again. There is no instant pill IMO). Practical ways - try to cut down on tea, coffee and alcohol. Note - cut down not cut out altogether! Eat healthily. Stay hydrated. You tend to grab at quick foods when stressed and anxious. Meditation/relaxation - plenty of info out there. This helps stop the flight/fight response from flaring up at the wrong times. Often it's when you have time off, holiday or similar you can get a surge of 'symptoms' - which is more worrying because you think "I've had a lovely day and I'm feeling like this!!!" Stress and anxiety do not work like light switches... they can pop up at the strangest of times. When you worry try not to invent fictitious situations. Save your worrying for things are are actually happening not that might happen. My stats would be 30% of the time I worry about things that deserve to be worried about, 70% of my time I worry about 'what if' scenarios. Try and use that 70% wasted energy to then problem solve your real worrys so that then you know there's plan in place so you don't have to worry about them! Challenge negative thoughts - whenever you drift into negative thoughts challenge them with facts i.e. "I'm going to have a bad year this year because the phone has been dead, I only have enough work for 2 weeks, how will I pay the mortgage?" with "the phone is always quiet this time of year, I have a couple of quotes to do that may come off, I've been in this situation many times before and always paid the mortgage so chances are things will work out this time". Be kinder to yourself - a lot of stress is self generated. Goals are good but not if they are un realistic. Take some pressure off yourself - we all make mistakes, we often don't perform as well as we'd like. Don't batter yourself with things that have already happened or things you have no control over. Feel the fear and do it anyway - a good book to read! Bad things can happen to us all at any time and often do but don't let that stop you living life. Have the confidence in yourself to say 'ok this may happen but if it does I'll deal with it'. Decision making - try and make decisions that put you and family first rather than work and other responsibilities. Stress is the mainstay of anxiety and so you need positive things in your week that you enjoy to combat it. Putting work first sometimes has to happen... but keep doing that and you run into problems. Work smarter not harder. You may think that there is nothing you can change to make things run smoother - but usually taking a step back, getting advice, changing the way you look at things can free up time and money. The old Abraham Lincoln quote is always a good one "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Serenity prayer - there are a lot of things in life that are outside our control - so by trying to figure out a way to control or predict these things we often cause ourselves a lot of stress. There is a good message in this prayer. 'Give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,Courage to change the things which should be changed,and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Living one day at a time,Enjoying one moment at a time,Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,Taking this sinful world as it is.'