Rob D

Yep and I remember being the same when arbing - if the saw cuts it's sharp and if it doesn't then I best sharpen it. Once I sharpen and it still doesn't cut get a new chain... but it does just come back to the basics. I know I can't get a milling chain on a long bar right by eye - not got the technique or the patience. But I can do it with a guide and I know what it should be like. That saw should cut and feel wonderful What's needed with milling is a better guide as taking a long bar and chain off - cleaning and putting a new chain on - re tension - is a longish job in itself. Because big trees = more foreign bodies and debris... and you can't get away with much with milling it all has to be right to work well.

I'd love to come up with a better on the bar solution than the Granberg Grinder - something that could do the depth gauges quickly and easily as well. But the Granberg precision ginder is still the best thing I've come across with the diamond stones you know then that your sharpening is consistent: https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product/g1012xt-granberg-precision-grinder-expected-8th-june-available-to-backorder/

I had a good example of this the other day on a log with flint in it. On the second cut the flint dulled one side of the chain - I have it a quick sharpen with a freehand grinder and started cutting. The mill entered the cut fine but then the front started lifting... I didn't want to re sharpen as likely more debris in the tree but even with someone standing on the mill it kept rising. Now if you keep doing this the chain will be pushing hard on one side of the bar.... that side of the bar will wear and the chain will roll even further to that side causing an issue with the bar long term. With milling = issues - 95% it will be the chain - the other 5% will be the bar wear [caused by the chain]. We have a tough time explaining this to folks that have used a saw for 10 years plus, they have just sharpened and yet same issues occur so it must be the mill - it is always down to that there chain...

...no one knows so far within the bounds of this thread

Yep that's what I have gathered is there will be a sea of 5g aerials everywhere - but again whether it poses a risk or not no one knows!

Last chance to get the 40% pre order offer - will be changing this to 30% when I have time today!

Above made me chuckle! I was wondering if anyone knows about all these rays and frequencies that could actually shed a little scientific light on things? I'm getting some more crystals in regardless...

Good work Steve

Yeh but I don't know how true any of it is! We need someone who knows about this stuff... but it's probably something to be aware about.

Seems 5G will be here soon - and similar to smart meters there seems a lot of people saying that it will be harmful for health. Just read through this article and it seems well though out and referenced. Anyone got any thoughts on the subject? As with most things seems hard to pin down facts from conspiracy... certainly technology and waves of all different kinds seem to be getting more intrusive. But when you look at the old cigarette ads... it's hard to know what to believe! https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/5g_risk_to_health Emma Gomez left an annotation (13 October 2018) I would like this request to be sent also to Duncan Selbie and all others within public health England who made the decision to go ahead with 5G and a list of their names for the public to be able to recognise those who are to be responsible for the decision. IF you would please also share the research you have used about the safety levels for humans. How did those who conducted the research come to the conclusion about what is a safe and an unsafe level of radio waves over long term continuous use. How do I opt out from being bombarded by these dangerous frequencies? The following is taken from this website. https://eluxemagazine.com/magazine/dange... The idea behind 5G is to use untapped bandwidth of the extremely high-frequency millimeter wave (MMW), between 30GHz and 300GHz, in addition to some lower and mid-range frequencies. High-frequency MMWs travel a short distance. Furthermore, they don’t travel well through buildings and tend to be absorbed by rain and plants, leading to signal interference. Thus, the necessary infrastructure would require many smaller, barely noticable cell towers situated closer together, with more input and output ports than there are on the much larger, easier to see 4G towers. This would likely result in wireless antennas every few feet, on every lamp post and utility pole in your neighbourhood. Here are some numbers to put things into perspective: as of 2015, there were 308,000 wireless antennas on cell towers and buildings. That’s double the 2002 number. Yet 5G would require exponentially more, smaller ones, placed much closer together, with each emitting bursts of radiofrequency radiation (RFR)–granted, at levels much lower than that of today’s 4G cell towers–that will be much harder to avoid because these towers will be ubiquitous. If we could see the RFR, it would look like a smog that’s everywhere, all the time. First, it’s important to know that in 2011, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified RFR as a potential 2B carcinogen and specified that the use of mobile phones could lead to specific forms of brain tumors. Many studies have associated low-level RFR exposure with a litany of health effects, including: DNA single and double-strand breaks (which leads to cancer) oxidative damage (which leads to tissue deterioration and premature ageing) disruption of cell metabolism increased blood-brain barrier permeability melatonin reduction (leading to insomnia and increasing cancer risks) disruption of brain glucose metabolism generation of stress proteins (leading to myriad diseases) As mentioned, the new 5G technology utilizes higher-frequency MMW bands, which give off the same dose of radiation as airport scanners. The effects of this radiation on public health have yet to undergo the rigours of long-term testing. Adoption of 5G will mean more signals carrying more energy through the high-frequency spectrum, with more transmitters located closer to people’s homes and workplaces–basically a lot more (and more potent) RFR flying around us. It’s no wonder that apprehension exists over potential risks, to both human and environmental health. Perhaps the strongest concern involves adverse effects of MMWs on human skin. This letter https://ehtrust.org/letter-fcc-dr-yael-s... to the Federal Communications Commission, from Dr Yael Stein of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, outlines the main points. Over ninety percent of microwave radiation is absorbed by the epidermis and dermis layers, so human skin basically acts as an absorbing sponge for microwave radiation. Disquieting as this may sound, it’s generally considered acceptable so long as the violating wavelengths are greater than the skin layer’s dimensions. But MMW’s violate this condition. Furthermore, the sweat ducts in the skin’s upper layer act like helical antennas, which are specialized antennas constructed specifically to respond to electromagnetic fields. With millions of sweat ducts, and 5G’s increased RFR needs, it stands to reason that our bodies will become far more conductive to this radiation. The full ramifications of this fact are presently unclear, especially for more vulnerable members of the public (e.g., babies, pregnant women, the elderly), but this technology Furthermore, MMWs may cause our pain receptors to flare up in recognition of the waves as damaging stimuli. Consider that the US Department of Defense already uses a crowd-dispersal method called the Active Denial System, in which MMWs are directed at crowds to make their skin feel like it’s burning, and also has the ability to basically microwave populations to death from afar with this technology if they choose to do so. And the telecommunications industry wants to fill our atmosphere with MMWs? Other distressing research Unfortunately, innocent animals have already been the victims of testing to see MMW’s effects on living cells. Extrapolating the results from animal testing to humans isn’t straightforward, but the results nonetheless raise some serious red flags. Perhaps most significantly, a US National Toxicology Program study noted that male rats exposed to RFR for nine hours a day over two years developed rare forms of tumours in the brain and heart, and rats of both sexes developed DNA damage. The researchers noted that the increased risk to the rats was relatively small; but if these findings translate to humans, the widespread increase in cellphone use could have a significant impact on populations. Thus the NTP study served to renew the debate about the potential harmful effects of cellphones on human health. Not only that, it caused a significant shift in the American Cancer Society’s understanding of radiation and cancer, and sparked them to state that our ignorance of RFR’s impact on human health could be compared to our previous obliviousness to the connection between smoking and lung cancer. Other animal research worldwide illustrates how microwave radiation in general and MMW’s in particular can damage the eyes and immune system, cell growth rate, even bacterial resistance. An experiment at the Medical Research Institute of Kanazawa Medical University showed that 60GHz millimeter-wave antennas produce thermal injuries in rabbit eyes, with thermal effects reaching below the eye’s surface. This study, meanwhile, suggests low-level MMW’s caused lens opacity–a precursor to cataracts–in rats’ eyes. A Chinese study demonstrated that eight hours’ of microwave radiation damaged rabbits’ lens epithelial cells. A Pakistani study concluded that exposure to mobile phone EMF prevented chicken embryo retinal cells from properly differentiating. This Russian study revealed that exposing healthy mice to low-intensity, extremely high-frequency electromagnetic radiation severely compromised their immune systems. And a 2016 Armenian study concluded that low-intensity MMW’s not only depressed the growth of E. coli and other bacteria, but also changed certain properties and activity levels of the cells. The same Armenian study noted that MMW interaction with bacteria could lead to antibiotic resistance–distressing news, considering immunity to bacteria is already compromised due to the overuse of antibiotics. Again, if these findings translate to humans, our rampant cellphone use would likely cause profound, adverse health effects; an increase in MMW’s as more bandwidth is introduced could further complicate the matter. But what’s also important to note here is that 5G technologies will not only have a profound impact on human health, but on the health of all living organisms it touches, including plants, as we shall see. 5G harms the planet, too Equally disturbing, 5G technology puts environmental health at risk in a number of ways. First, MMWs may pose a serious threat to plant health. This 2010 study showed that the leaves of aspen seedlings exposed to RFR exhibited symptoms of necrosis, while another Armenian study suggested low-intensity MMW’s cause “peroxidase isoenzyme spectrum changes”–basically a stress response that damages cells–in wheat shoots. Plant irradiation is bad news for the planet’s flora, but it’s bad news for us, too: it could contaminate our food supply. Second, the 5G infrastructure would pose a threat to our planet’s atmosphere. Network implementation will require the deployment of many, short-lifespan satellites via suborbital rockets propelled by hydrocarbon rocket engines. According to this 2010 California study, launching too many of these babies will vomit enough black carbon into the atmosphere to pollute global atmospheric conditions, affecting distribution of ozone and temperature. Worse, solid-state rocket exhaust contains chlorine, an ozone-destroying chemical. How can any government seriously concerned about climate change allow for this? Third, 5G will potentially threaten natural ecosystems. According to several reports over the last two decades–some of which are summarized here–low-level, non-ionizing microwave radiation affects bird and bee health. It drives birds from their nests and causes plume deterioration, locomotion problems, reduced survivorship and death. And bee populations suffer from reduced egg-laying abilities of queen bees and smaller colony sizes. More evidence of ecosystem disruption comes from this 2012 meta-study, which indicates that 593 of 919 research studies suggest that RFR adversely affects plants, animals and humans. It bears repeating: 5G is bad news for all living creatures and the planet we share. Beware the propaganda deluge Despite being fully aware of all these unsettling results, threats and concerns, the US corporatocracy continues to maintain a gung-ho attitude about 5G. The Mobile Now Act was passed in 2016, and many US states have since gone ahead with 5G plans. The telecom industry’s biggest players have basically co-opted government powers to enforce their 5G agenda, with companies like AT&T and Qualcomm having begun live testing. And despite research showing serious threats to humans and the planet, the FCC Chairman announced intentions to open low-, mid- and high-frequency spectrums, without even mentioning a single word about the dangers. They’re going to sell this to us as ‘faster browsing speeds’ – but the truth is, you’ll barely even notice the difference. They’re going to call anyone who protests against 5G a ‘Luddite’ or ‘technophobe’. But why such a willingness to embrace another new technology – even though it carries serious risks and brings spurious benefits? Why not heed the lessons learned from killer products like asbestos, tobacco and leaded gasoline? Because a tiny percentage of people will gain an awful lot of money, is one reason. And because companies and governments will be given unprecedented amounts of power over civilians is the other. All isn’t doom and gloom, though. At least one US politician is maintaining some level-headedness: in October, California Governor Jerry Brown stopped legislation that would have allowed the telecom industry to inundate the state with mini-towers. Brown’s bold actions have permitted localities a say in where and how many cell towers are placed. The state of Hawaii has stopped 5G and smart meters by collectively threatening to charge every person who installed such meters with liability for any health problems residents may suffer. Moreover, 180 scientists have started a petition to warn of 5G potential health effects. Maybe these actions will afford more time for additional studies and data collection. Just as importantly, maybe they’ll cause other politicians and figureheads to reflect on what they’ve been pushing for. Take action In the meantime, we as individuals must do everything we can to protect ourselves. Here’s what you can do: Understand EMFs and their behaviours Use EMF metres to measure, mark and avoid hotspots Whenever possible, limit your exposure: use an anti-radiation headset or speaker mode while talking on a cellphone. Refuse to use 5G phones and devices. Full stop. And discourage those you know from doing so. Refuse to buy anything ‘smart’ – ‘smart’ appliances, ‘smart’ heaters, etc. Carry shungite crystals to protect from radiation Buy an EMF protective shield for all your electronic devices No matter what, do NOT get a smart meter – these put high levels of 5G radiation right in your home Join the growing numbers of dissenters. Get active with them here. Do as the Hawaiians have done and threaten smart meter and 5G tech installers with liability. You can learn how to do that here. Spread the word! Please share this article with everyone you know Even if the policy drivers and governments aren’t doing their due diligence, at least we can say we’re doing ours.

Yep I would - it'll be in time for sawing season

We have put our first [of I expect many] hefty order in for Tsumura Bars. Also [which will be on another thread] we have put in a large order fro Cannon bars too! Tsumura bars will not be here until 1st October. You can find them in the selectors on the home page www.chainsawbars.co.uk. Or in the special offers area click here. Finally because I am sorting my act out and starting to add into the description what saws that bar fits - you can search in the search box [see screen shot below]. Mainly these are for Husky saws but we have the Stihl 3/8 .063 as well. Nothing for the smaller saws as they only make laminated bars for these. Sooner you buy, and the longer you wait the larger the discount - starting at a whopping 40% off for the rest of May. Once these are in they will go out to our dealers and then no more offers like this again. Tsumura Bars Pre-Order DECREASING DISCOUNT OFFER To celebrate the new range of TSUMURA bars we will be stocking, we are offering you a ONE TIME ONLY deal. Pre-order your TSUMURA bar today and receive 40% off the RRP! But Hurry - the discount reduces the nearer we get to the expected delivery date! These offers are never repeated because it would then undermine our dealers so to be sure of the best EVER price, reserve and purchase yours today! Choose your bars NOW! 40% Off ends 31 May 2019. DISCOUNT TIERS Order between 17th May and 31st May – 40% off Order between 1st June and 30th June – 30% off Order between 1st July and 31st July – 25% off Order between 1st August and 31st August – 20% off Order between 1st September and 30th September – 10% off Buy Pre-Order Bars Now Copyright © 2019 Always Greener Ltd, All rights reserved. You joined this list as you are a customer of Chainsawbars or Sugihara Bars. Our mailing address is: Always Greener Ltd Brookside Farm Agars Lane, Silver Street Hordle, Hampshire SO41 0FL United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

We've been looking at how best to do an aux oiler for the end of the bar for a while - we have them at the moment but they are crude gravity fed tanks... I think the likely route we'll go down is to offer a double ended bar with a chainsaw on the end [likely a brand we will import that will be cheaper = Chinese! But from a well known established company]. As no point in spending another £600-£700+ An oiler and helper handle with roller will set you back £130+vat - we would have a saw with adapter for £195+vat. This will then give you oil being pumped into the bar as the chain runs + a helper handle without the vibration + extra power if you need it + weight at the end of the bar to help counteract bar sag. The only I disadvantage I can see is the weight... You could still operate with one person - you'd just allow the chain from the main powerhead to action the oil pump. Although I expect we'd work a way out to engage the throttle on the far saw through a linkage to it [being that it will be one make we could do something clever that directly pulls the throttle on as only dealing with one type of saw].

Sorry Andy missed your post - we can't repeat most of the offers - most offers we do our inital promo ones. Here's what we have now lined up for 1st cut systems - https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product-category/panther-first-cut-systems/ They are a little cheaper than they were.

Yep sorry the Zone 4 postcodes were still being charged.

Yep the weather is hot and the sky is blue! But we have a nie little offer for you! Not sure if the links work by pasting this into a thread - but we are doing free delivery where ever you are in the world and 10% off if you spend more than £200 ex vat. Strictly ends midnight Monday. Rob On 18/04/2019 18:04, Rob Dyer wrote: We Are Now Stocking Husqvarna X Force Bars Husqvarna bars offer high durability, easy maintenance and increased productivity. They have a bar nose profile designed for reduced wear, plus a corrosion resistant coating. The bearing system has support shields for increased productivity and easier maintenance. No grease hole prevents dirt from getting into the bearings, while eliminating the need to replenish grease. Available in 12"-20" bar lengths, standard and quick cut versions. Shop Now! Well, it wouldn't be Easter without a little treat! For the Easter weekend only, there is FREE delivery on ALL orders WORLDWIDE. Not only that, if you spend over £200 in a single order, you'll also get 10% off your shopping basket! Hurry! Offer ends midnight Monday 22 April 2019! Shop Now! Easter Delivery Times The office will be closed from 5pm Thursday 18 April until 9am Tuesday 23 April. Orders placed after 3pm today will be processed and dispatched on Tuesday 23 April for delivery on 24 April. Emails only will be answered during this period. Email any queries to [email protected] New Improved Search Bar! Often it's hard work trying to wade through menus and other info on websites to find what you are looking for. We have now re-jigged the search bar so that chainsawbars functions more like Amazon and Ebay. You can now search for products by typing them rather than trying to find them! Give it a go next time you visit us! Copyright © 2019 Always Greener Ltd, All rights reserved. You joined this list as you are a customer of Chainsawbars or Sugihara Bars. Our mailing address is: Always Greener Ltd Brookside Farm Agars Lane, Silver Street Hordle, Hampshire SO41 0FL United Kingdom Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. -

Often it's hard work coming to a new website to try and wade through menus and other info to find what you are looking for. We have now re jigged the search bar so that CSB functions more like Amazon and Ebay and you can search for products by typing them rather than trying to find them. Ie - vallorbe file It will then list all the vallorbe files. Longterm I need to add the saws into the description for each bar - the saws that each bar fits. Seeing we now have around x600 different bars this is a big job - but it will get done! To see these changes you may need to refresh the page

Ok good to know... thanks for feedback.

Sorry [very] late reply yes they'd fit the Husky 445 as well.

Ok thanks for the feedback on here shame you didn't have them vids but thanks all the same.

Yep it's pretty new Bill - I think you get a prompt 2 or 3 weeks down the line but each order you should be offered this. Yes I like those diamond stones they are superb.

They've been here for a while now we need to somehow get all the same reviews for the same group of products which is more complex than it sounds. I think you get e-mailed a few days after buying to leave a review and if you do so you get £5 off your next order. We've also now got our contact details on every page as we'd rather not be one of those sites that buries these. We've been using whatsapp now as well for a long time and that has also been very useful in helping us give the best service. We are stretched every day now so the only downfall we are not as fast to get back to people as we'd like and we do have the odd message slip through the net.

We have lots of these packages going mainly because we want to chew through the excess of Husky 13" chains we have. These will fit the following running .325 chain. 39, 40, 42, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 55 57, 133, 134, 142, 154, 234, 235 238, 240, 242, 246, 254, 257 261, 262, 339, 340, 345XP, 346XP 350, 351, 353, 355, 357, 359 360, 362XP, 455, 460 545, 550XP, 555XP, 560XP https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product-category/special-offers/ 2nd page here: https://www.chainsawbars.co.uk/product-category/special-offers/page/2/

Granberg got too busy and were focusing on satisfying their order book - and that has not really changed for the last 4 years or so. The idea was great - but it's easy to have an idea and build a prototype.

This never went into production. But we'll be doing something like this in a year or two with the Panther mills.