Rob D

Yes pretty much - we no longer hold the physical stock [apart from Chainsaw milling parts] - it's all at a warehouse in Glasgow. We still own the stock - but they now scan it in and send it out for us [by auto syncing orders with our website]. The company is this one here UK Based Eco Friendly Order Fulfilment Company — Green Fulfilment WWW.GREENFULFILMENT.CO.UK 01.Being GreenGreen by name, Green by nature. Everything we do, we do with the planet as they are still owned by the original founders and not run by a 'board'.

Yep I share your pain there - in fact I likely more than share it! You think couriers are bad - but they are far worse than bad. And even though we are say a customer of someone like FedEx for 16 years - we don't have a relationship with them - we are not able to commiunicate effectively if things go wrong - it has got worse and worse. I think it's fine for a customer to liase direct with a courier if it's say DPD who are well ahead of the rest and the systems that are in place are effective for a customer to sort issues out direct with them. Also to note on the other side of this [and not saying this is you] customers generally have been 'groomed' not to pay for postage by Amazon and ebay. We don't do free postage for any other reason than if we don't do it it causes so many issues and admin. It would be far better if all customers paid for postage and said service was then good and consistent with good backup if problems occured. When we charged more for shipping - no matter what we charged we had backlash - 'Mate I only wanted a sprocket and you charged £5.95+vat postage but on the label it says £2.95 so you're making money on the postage'. Or 'I ordered more than £1k worth of gear off you - why did you still charge £5.95+vat postage - it seems petty to me'. You can't win so I decided to opt out of those arguements! Ref couriers - FedEx are lower than low - their drivers are good, their service is good - but they do not care about me or you or anyone. They are chasing me for invoices in March which we paid in May - keep sending them bank statements and 10 days later 'Dear Sir we have several unpaid invoices on your account - please reply with proof of payment'. Their website doesn't work - their chat service is based abroad - my account manager doesn't generally reply [and my request to change account manager e-mails are ignored]. UPS - another corporate shallow mean spirited company - they will return stuff back to us from export [charging both ways] after making little effort to contact the customer. Will over charge massively [and incorrectly] if given hald the chance... DHL - bit better - but not much better - anyway it goes on. There are no alternatives and I could write pages of the underhand stuff about these courier companies. But who is the alternative? DPD cannot do longer than 1m for us.

Sounds good

Yep we have Sean in our place who seems to basically is the best and most consistent chain maker. I wouldn't trust myself to do it 😂well not for 30 or 40 I'd be ok with a few then I lose concentration.

Yep it's all a bit like that. I don't think he was instrumental in the downfall of FTX now that you see how it was run - but prob is worth taking the crypto off exchanges in the short medium term if you can. I have stuff staked which am not moving - but most the rest I have taken off third party exchanges and apps. Where do you reckon the bottom will be put in? I'm thinking 12k with wicks below!

Thanks Will - yep I don't think the packing will be as consistent as we got - but the scanning in of items should mean less picking errors. Hopefully longer term it should be better.

We have now pretty much moved to a fulfilment website to do the actual picking and packing of orders. Why have we done this: Should be less errors as everything is scanned in We never had an accurate stock check at our place [particularly difficult to manage for chains made up from reels] We never answer the phones as everyone too busy packing or checking the packing as orders are very complex Did not want to employ and train more people We had run out of space at our existing site Chain making was becoming hectic - most chains are made to order in the morning - it's a very tough job to get right with all the different sizes. Much easier to make say x20 chains all the same length than the mixture we do each day There are still plenty of teething issues to sort out - the fulfiment warehouse system is still not synching stock levels to our website - not sure why... so website stock is so so on accuracy. We're working on that. The main downside of this is the chain making - the fulfilment place cannot make them - so we are creating the largest library of chains the world has ever seen - which will take some time. For orders rather than split them we will likely move to simply putting a 3 day wait time - so when you go to order them it will tell you 'this will take 3 working days'. You'll have the chance to remove from the order if that's too long. It is a difficult one as mainly everyone wants to have an Amazon type service where it is all delivered next day - we have 50% of the chain library done so it should become a rarity as time goes on. Anyone got any helpful comments or suggestions on this as to what they would like to see/be told if there was a 3 day wait? And it would be working days so if you ordered Monday prob you would get on Thurs. If you ordered Thurs prob the following Tuesday.

No as the chain is also thinner - the actual very small gap between drive link and side of the bar is the same for all sizes ie, .050, .058 and .063. There is no difference to how the bar functions, how it oils, how it cuts from my knowledge [the top of the chain is the same in all cases]. If you then ask 'well why have different sizes in the first place then' the answer is why indeed! I don't know but likely it was a way for manufacturers to differenciate their products and force you to use their own bars and chains - and in that they were successful!

I've taken pretty much all crypto off crypto.com I've lost a fair bit of crypto keeping them on exchanges - I would be very wary of buying the dip on any crypto other than bitcoin. Got very burnt on the collapse of LUNA coin. It may have gone down 90% - it can still go down another 90% or more. Not saying crypto.com will go under but there was a slightly dodgy thing the other day - they sent $300 million of ETH to KuCoin by accident? Even if a mistake - it's a pretty big one to make. Crypto.com Sends $400 Million Worth of Ethereum to Wrong Address, Binance CEO Warns Users to Stay Away CRYPTONEWS.COM Binance CEO has advised users to stay away from Crypto.com after it mistakenly sent 320,000 ETH to a wallet address... It's a great app but I still wonder how they funded the millions upon millions they did on advertising at the height of the boom. Personally I would only be looking to buy Bitcoin in this time in the market cycle but what do I know 😅

Also I don't think we've seen enough pain yet - need to have more stories of 'Bitcoin is a Ponzi' , all going to zero, more fear basically - when you start really double thinking yourself of buying the dip!

I'm trying to accumulate Bitcoin mainly - the other stuff is great in a bull market but so risky. And most have done sod all in terms of actually being used in a day to day. Bitty is the one!

Nope but may use that as part of the advertising campaign!

No they won't need new anything! Standard 3/8 sprocket will run the 3/8 .050 [it's not 3/8 Lo Pro .050 which yes would need a new sprocket]. But this is 3/8 .050. We don't really have it over here but it is used a lot more in the USA on the longer bars.

All .050 hence FIVE O This is a tricky one - the 3/8 .050 are no narrower or different than the .058 or .063 - the drive link is .050 - but the bar is the same thickness - the 'top part' of the chain is identical to .058, .063 but people think that it is a narrow bar - but it isn't.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder - that's the finished design and it won't be changed. Some people will like it, some won't, some won't care either way and some will think they look a bit homemade 😏

That would make sense wouldn't it? But on some they are and some they aren't - it's not consistent. Yep I was almost thinking of a clothing brand that was in Hawaii colours - as you'd be easier to see under the tree and you'd stand out from the crowd.

No relation - if it looks similar it's a coincidence.

This is a 24" bar - part number will be S4-H4A-24 Fits S4 saws and H4 saws [you would have a sticker on your saw to remind you what group the saw is] - the H4A means it fits the H4 saws with an adapter. 4x Claw marks to show it is a Group 4

This is not available yet as it's a [big] work in progress. It's an idea I've had for a couple of years. The idea is to make it easier to match bars and chains across the range of main manufacturers and put a line under a lot of the nonsense that they create either knowingly or unknowingly. Called the FIVE-O range - because every thing is in .050 guage [or 1.3mm] this is for everything from the small bars to the large bars. It's .050 whether it's Stihl or Husky or Makita regardless of bar size. And if it's .050 in all things then you don't have to think about the gauge of the chain anymore. A 12" bar for Stihl at the moment takes 44 drive links, a 12" bar for Husky takes 45 drive link, a 12" bar for Echo takes 45 drive links - in the FIVE-O range ALL 12" bars will be 44 drive links - so dealers and customers ponly need to have 1 size chain Each bar will be of a size that takes an equal number of left and right cutters - this is not crucial - but it makes sense to do it. There will only be drive link counts that give the same number of cutters for standard full comp chains Right now a Stihl 25" bar and a Husky 24" bar takes the same size chains ie. 84 drive links - but it's confusing that one is called 24" and one is called 25". On the FIVE-O range you will get a bar that has an adapter - so one bar will fit your Stihl straight off - or fit your Husky with the adapter - it can go on both saws Chainsaws will slot into groups - these groups share the same bar mount - so if you have say a Stihl MS462 that would be a Group 4 Stihl saw - you can even put a sticker on it! All the bars will be labelled with that sticker so your saw will have S4 and on the bar sleeve will have S4/H4/E4 so you know that bar fits your saw. On the Chains will be S4-20-L so a 20" chain to go on your S4 [MS462] 20" bar in Chisel [semi chisel would be S4-20-SC] We get all the time 'I want a couple of reels of chain to run on all my saws - how do I do it?' - it's hard work to do it - so when this set up comes out we'll offer a bundle custom deal for folks that want to switch over so that everything is consistent [and you'll need much less 'stuff' as everything is interchangeable - or is as interchangable as much as it possibly can be What about the smaller bars why not have a universal bar thayt goes on everything? Ans - it doesn't work - or it's under research. You could do this - but due to mount differences you may have differing drive link counts for different saws - that said there may be a 'magical' length where the bar will multi fit all small saws without throwing the drive link count out in which case game on! Still something we are working on. For Husky you would have to include a cover to stop the excess oil leaking out [same as what Cannon do] Will the bars be as good as Sugihara or Cannon? Prob not - more like Oregon bars - but they will be priced accordingly and as importantly the supply will be there to hand. Sugihara are not going to want to make them for us and Cannon would but would be mega bucks [but we still might add a Cannon variation in later]. Feel free to comment - am posting this up here mainly so I can direct people to this and save my pinkies endlessly typing the same information!

From what I've read and watched it looks the most likely - what makes you think it was not the US? They have incentive to do it and they have said directly they would do it. What are your arguements against?

I tried all - a Peterson Mill and a band saw and a chainsaw mill - all were a nightmare really - I would likely chiainsaw mill with lots of chains to hand then use a static circular workshop saw to re saw it.

What a bunch of losers - and a waste of beans and lentils 😅

Yep none of what they are doing - actually makes a lot of sense - as in practical sense for saving the future. It seems more about how you can make life harder for who are on the whole hard working people. And a lot of fossil fuel burning we farm out to China - and then buy in their cheaper goods which burn more fossil fuels in transport [and this is my company doing this as well]. Can't we burn our own fossil fuel from the UK and start making stuff again? We'd buy more from within the UK if we could.

For some reason these people that are sitting down in front of roads trigger major anger in me 🤨 I heard a load of them last year at a rally shouting 'No Oil No Gas Keep your Carbon in the Ground'. Which sounds good in principle - but the reality is we have built our society around fossil fuels and it's going to take some time coming off them. And have all these protestors given up on their cars and their central heating or are they expecting everyone else to do this? Prob they all drove to the protest in fossil fuel fed cars. Everyday people trying to drop kids to school, or get to work and do everything else that needs doing to keep some form of economy going then go through unnecessary stress of getting held up by this lot who clearly have time on their hands. By holding up traffic all those vehicles are using MORE fuel as they are stopped with engines running. And it doesn't even seem clear as to what they are actually after - yes we all know fossil fuels are bad - so your solution is? If you want to make a nuisance of yourselves why not pick some better targets - billionaires/private jets/super yachts - where at least you could point to some form of obvious excess rather than blocking a bus full of mums and pensioners on the high street. Right - I feel better after that 😅

Yep I mean it's making assumptions not backed up with facts - but the organisation seems distanced from those that are on the ground working or the equipment suppliers. Does anyone know anyone at CONFOR as to what they are actually like as people?