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Husqvarna King

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  1. Jones were good, especially at the time when Justin was a visitor here, he was helpful and if you mentioned your arbtalk user name you got a discount when ordering over the phone. I wouldn't order from them again now though.  I would worry that they'd have my money for months and then go bust. Honeys seem much more on it and with promoting their business, apparently they even splice ropes for jones. That's crazy 🤣

  2. 13 minutes ago, Relkin said:

    I need support on finding axe handles in the uk. Everything I find is crap. I’ve thought about carving my own but would prefer a easy option.

    TIA

    Not sure which part of the UK you are in, but Ernest Doe sell a selection of ash handles to fit different size heads. I have fitted a few from there now. 

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  3. I agree with others here, you definitely need to try first, have a bit of a climb before investing in your tickets. And see if you can do a few days for a company.

    A lot of the social media side of arb shows climbers knocking out big tops and swinging around a big open oaks etc, all the nice stuff when in reality a lot of it will/could be trimming rows of conifers, not being able to see out of an ivy covered tree in the pissing rain, dragging branches up wet muddy slopes and down narrow access ways....I love the graft, but on some days I'd definitely want to be in your office job. Good Luck though, you definitely need to follow your heart 👍

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  4. 1 minute ago, Excels1or said:

     

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    Fibreglass would work, or if you still have the broken piece you could try using a decent soldering iron and melting it back together. Melting thin rods to tie the two together and black cable ties as a filler. Have done similar with good results. Will your mate be happy with a repair though. I new fairing would be better if the rest is in good nick.

  5. I lined the caged sides of my ifor tipper with stokbord, I was very impressed with the stuff, 6mm thick. I was surprised when she sheets I ordered 10ft by 5ft came rolled up 🤣 very flexible and hard-wearing stuff. Definitely suitable for track mats for smaller machines, guarding a fragile roof or rendered wall, probably better in a standard 8x4 size though.

     

    To the OP, I definitely wouldn't use a pressure washer on the render, even if it doesn't take the render off the paint will probably go. Just a brush and soapy water will get the green streaks off 👍

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  6. I had one of those ama top handles as a back up for my 200t, about 12 years ago, it was pretty poorly made but very cheap, I only ever climbed with it once and really only used it for odd bits here and there on shrubs etc. I thought they were an Italian company but obviously a Chinese chainsaw

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  7. 1 minute ago, pleasant said:

    Just sold my own personal 2011 ms261 pre mtronic. 4 hours use since new. I bought it off the wife of an old boy who passed on a week after buying it. I used it for an afternoon taking out some laurel at my new house when we moved in. Been a shelf queen ever since. Would have done the op just fine. Never mind...i got a decent price for it locally, but there might be another out there for

    I seized my 357xp and replaced with 560, it's a good saw but i wished I'd kept the older one too and got it going

  8. Although probably getting difficult to find, have you thought about seeing if there is a half decent 357 or 346 used husky around. Harry the cat on eBay was always the go to guy. 

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  9. 13 hours ago, Bocca said:

     

    Climbing a Lebanese Cedar today. Get to the top, get a cambium saver set up and then come back down for lunch. I’ve just bought a MultiSaver from Teufelberger. So I take that back up the tree with me to install it. Fiddle about with it for abit, and end up repositioning it a couple times. Then start getting some branches on the deck. 

     

    Every so often I get a whiff of dogshit. The garden was a minefield but we had cleared it all up in the morning so my first thought is maybe we’ve missed abit and I’ve got some on my boots. Quick look and can’t see anything so I carry on working. 15 mins later get another whiff. Can’t for the life of me figure out where it’s coming from. 

     

    Until it’s time to get out the tree and I get back to my anchor. Somehow, some way, a turd has hitched a ride up my climbing line and settled on one of the rings on the cambium saver. It’s then been glossing a very fine coat of dog shit on my rope ever since. Not enough to smear or squash itself. But enough to hit my nostrils every 15mins. 

     

    Answers on a postcard please. 

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    You've got to upload that to the throw line blues Instagram page with the 'throwline poos' heading. There's loads of throw line and retrieval fails on there but I don't think any as bad as this. Even after a wash it always seems like you can always smell a shitty rope. 

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  10. 1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

    You have 5 grease points on a Forst, 2 of them are for the flywheel bearings which require higher temperature grease.
    It’s usually written on the cartridge what it’s used for.

    More importantly make sure the grease lines aren’t split so the grease reaches its destination.

    I put the grease nipples directly into the bearings so I knew it was getting there.

    That's good advice, I've never been a fan of the central grease points, blockages, splits etc. Direct is much better and doesn't take much more time 👍

  11. Agree with drilling a hole in muffler, but have you thought of advancing the timing slightly. Just take the flywheel off and either adjust the keyway or key very slightly so the magnet passes the ignition slightly earlier (make sure you do the correct side of the keyway). Alongside the muffler hole this should make a difference for very little work. 

    Currently covering my ears waiting to be slapped by spud 😬🤣

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  12. All for retaining trees but with the speed that will grow and how close that is to the building, I would want that out. Or at a bare minimum reduced and then regularly trimmed in to a nice shape. Thuja will tolerate heavier pruning, unlike leylandii. Not that I would suggest making it into a toilet roll. 

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  13. 1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

    Tried a dremel once for a really mullered chain. Found the file attachment wore down way too quick to be of any real use 

    I don't think I did much with mine, remember cutting some pop afterward using it and was unimpressed with the speed of cut

  14. I had a Dremel attachment for sharpening, used a couple of times on really damaged chains, also used a couple of grinding machines but as stubby says you can't beat a new file and a file will give the best edge (with practice). My grandfather taught me how to sharpen before I left school and about the only person I have seen with decent videos of this (with the same things he showed me) is Buckin Billy Ray

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