Husqvarna King

2 hours ago, Gardenscape said:

The tree had massively outgrown its space and the owner didn't really like the tree. It had previously had work in the past and had limbs with rot. To be honest, it's an ugly tree in my opinion. So what is causing the flaking bark across the whole tree? That isn't normal for a Horse Chestnut. There is red staining also.

From the photos it looks like it would have looked nice with just a 25 percent thin.

6 hours ago, Dan Maynard said:

And probably leave off the grippy gloves too.
Save those for climbing, they really help. I'd still be stood on the ground in front of my first tree if it wasn't for the gloves.

But then it feels like someone else is doing it for you ??

Grippy gloves help loads, put a pulley in with your prussik, you don't need a zig zag and can stay on 13mm rope which is easier to grip. A good camsaver and keep at it you'll find the arm pump will soon vanish ?

I see a new reg invention on the horizon, a drone that installs the climbline (obviously in a Canadian giant, not a UK sapling) ? great video, thanks for sharing

14 minutes ago, bigtreedon said:

23 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

how so?

The way it sounds it's cutting speed the way it feels in your hands

They will spray them full orange and let straight men use them next ?

10mm is best in my opinion on 13mm rope the Marlow Boa is only 9mm, that 1mm makes a difference, that's what I tell my Mrs anyhow ?

2 hours ago, aspenarb said:

Grabbed a couple of 20ltr tubs of roundup the other day from Mole country stores, seems to have had quite a substantial price hike in recent months. What else is there on the market of comparable strength without the £144 a tub price label?

 

Bob

 

 

 

Anything with 360g/l of glyphosate, I use glyphos, Gallup, and rosate

We had similar with our new 550 this spring, the decompressor was not flying out most of the time, replaced and fine now ?

4 hours ago, MattyF said:

There’s some good memes though...

Yeah, lovely saw, replaced my 12 year old 357 with a 560, has a bit more go in it and a bit lighter, although I have had to replace an oil pump and worm which was a bit disappointing as it hasn't done much work really. Nice saw to use though ?

3 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Chance would be a fine thing mate!

Luckily I operate a fairly vigorous self-checking regime.

At least with loler you would be guaranteed one more hand job a year than I get ??

3 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

Lift capacity seems a bit reduced these days mate....

Could be interesting for a loler inspector ?

2 minutes ago, Zirynx said:

I'm glad you mentioned that - I've had my concerns in the past that it might not be, but I've only ever owned this one chainsaw so don't have an alternate reference. Recently, I removed the chain and bar and ran it to bleed / check the oiling mechanism and it certainly delivered oil. Whether sufficient, I can't say from my experience, but my instinct is that although it does go through oil (I have to top up the reservoir from time to time) it's at best very frugal.

 

Sometimes if the pump is on the way out the saw will pump oil out without a bar and chain on but when back together and in the wood they aren't oiling enough

18 inch is perfect in my opinion ?

I thought that the assessment questions and answers were online for the modern NPTC qualifications

I was wrong, holding cut is the dogtooth with regard to aerial cutting.

I thought holding cut was a step cut, saw away then snap the wood off with both hands a throw clear. Dog tooth is a dogtooth, bore/release. To be honest if you can explain/show as you did on here  in your post, the examiner would be fine. You know why you make each cut, names don't really matter ?

8 minutes ago, Chessa said:

Regarding Fiskars; if you can get hold of their old stuff (second hand and barely used) it’s great, but it is indeed so sad to see what has happened to the quality now it’s basically Wilkinson Sword. ?

 

I wonder why they compromised so much?

The first one I bought had Wilkinson sword printed on it and lasted years, the head actually snapped when the groundie and I both hung on it at the end of a day ?. The new fiskars have a weakness on the thin black string near the head. Something must grate away at it as it always breaks in the middle, can be replaced, done it a few times but is a pain. There was a good foreign video on you tube a few years ago showing how to dismantle the fiskars. Also price, the Wilkinson sword was £50 back in 2006, around £90 now and crap!

I have always been taught that the all in weed and feed isn't really the answer, the ferrous sulphate that kills the moss does so, but also changes the soil pH causing more moss the next year. Selective weedkillers can help along with feed, but you can't beat scarification, aeration and topdressing in the Autumn to be honest. Proper preparation before seeding/turfing is key, small stones in the topsoil will always result in weeds growing, poor drainage will help moss thrive etc

9 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

More hot fir action!

 

Moving 2 mètre sections roadside.

Lovely set up mate, must be even more annoying for you when customers have poor access, gotta love a 24" alleyway ?

The  wolf garten duel cut rr400t is the best by far! Used the fiskars they are crap since they took over from Wilkinson sword, the gardena is ok but the wolf is so strong, yellow button on handle to double your pull on larger cuts, they are great, I found the older wolf with the cable very cumbersome. I broke one 400 (on an oversize dead Robinia branch) and got sent a replacement same week. Buy new and you won't look back ?

5 minutes ago, SbTVF said:

My two 550s both did it today. If I didn’t start them back up within a few minutes then of switching them off they would not start.
Working round an emergency water supply lagoon and felt like chucking the pair of them in!

Had to let them cool in the shade before I could get them started again.

With you on that one, last thing you want to do on a hot day is pull a starter 20 odd times ?

10 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Vapor lock  . 

That's the one! Any reason why it seems worse with the new huskies, never had this much of a problem in the past

In the hot days over the last couple of weeks my newer saws have been driving me mad, on the hottest of days the 540 MK1 doesnt want to start, floods then I can start it with full throttle, the 550 which is only a month old (although 2016 on s/n) is the worst, almost unusable. The 560 has also been at it by mid afternoon today. The 455 rancher was fine though, seems just the autotune carbed machines. All saws have clean filters, are blown out each evening. New plugs this winter. I use Stihl green oil and tried to keep the combi can in the cool. All machines were fine untill it got hot, at lunchtime, had same problem Monday week on  the really hot day.Anyone know why this is happening, is it just the fuel evaporating in the carb??

15 minutes ago, felixthelogchopper said:

Hope he didn't fell that too close to our car. We were parked in the first space while we had a walk before lunch.

He felled nearly every tree on the prom today, and what seemed like half of Hylands park yesterday morning ?