Rob D

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?

I made some elderflower wine early in the year - it seems pretty good but I don't like elderflower that much 😅

Out of interest is their anyone high up the ranks in CONFOR who is on this forum?

The whole 'CONFOR' thing seems something of a closed shop to me - do they ever ask for advice or comments from common tree folk and dealers? Each sunsequent show is always a 'massive success building on the last one!'. I don't know any of the personalities or people that are involved - it doesn't feel very unified. If the entry could be reduced to £10 would be good... we had a street food set up on a field near me this year - massive choice and good eating for around £10-00 a go. But if running it all has large costs then maybe you have to pass that on - I looked through their company filings but I am shit at accounting and what it all means! And it's easy to moan about stuff without bothering to find out the facts behind it. CONFOR I think owns the APF Ltd Company - chair of that is Ian Duncan - who it's hard not to type cast reading the below. Is it all just a case of 'jobs for the boys'? Watching vids on youtube the 'honourable lord' comes out with the usual practiced political rhetoric. When are we going to have some folk with some honest dirt under their nails making policys! Ian Duncan Lord Duncan of Springbank PhD FGS Appointed a working peer by UK Prime Minister in 2017, Ian is currently Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. Previously Ian was a UK Government Minister, serving in each of the territorial departments (Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland) and laterly as Minister for Climate Change with responsibility for international negotiations. Before joining the Government, he spent over a dozen years in Brussels, finally as an MEP. During his time in the European Parliament, Ian sat on the committees responsible for Environment and for Energy (ITRE). He was the Parliament’s chief negotiator on the reform of EU carbon markets and was his group’s chief negotiator on nine pieces of environmental legislation. APF INTERNATIONAL FOREST MACHINERY EXHIBITION LTD. filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK FIND-AND-UPDATE.COMPANY-INFORMATION.SERVICE.GOV.UK APF INTERNATIONAL FOREST MACHINERY EXHIBITION LTD. - Free company information from Companies House...

The feedback I mostly saw on social media was that the food was pretty poor quality and silly prices and people missed the woodland demo area [I may be wrong this is just the impression I got from social media]. But I suppose better to have some sort of show than no show at all. It's hard to drum up the enthuiasm to do it these days but maybe I'm getting older!

Haha not at the rate it's going up! If I hear of anyone looking to get into charcoal making I'll send them your way. Do you have any literature info or video links for it?

Great to see something like this - I hope it works out and people can make a business from it 👌

Can you post the picture up on here seeing it's on his website anyway?

Another slight issue with sawing oversize is that you can get more tension in the plank - depending on how it is cut and species - so a nice flat looking 4" piece after cut into x2 1 3/4 pieces - after cut they can move and warp as they no longer have the same support that was present in the 4" piece. But I have a some horse chestnut I am cutting at the moment into 4" slabs - to dry in situ - then re saw in 2 years as 2" or just under. Will see how that goes.