Chris Sheppard

Reckon 550 wise it's probably mine - 2011 saw and never been back to dealers with it, yet. It's not come out as often as I thought it might have done though.

Isn't it a rebadged other make too? Zenoah seems to come to mind?

That's all well and good if you happen to be going and buying/collecting the new vehicle when the post office is open, or for those more rural, have easy access to a post office at all.

No, I've never really been a fan either.

In reply to the OP's question, my answer would be the biggest CC saw you can afford with the shortest bar that you need. Cutting firewood is tedious at the best of times, why prolong it?

Even if the site's not the nicest, you'd be doing very well not to be paying anything for it, especially if the timber is of a good size. Think of it like farming; you'd not likely find a farmer who'd let you go harvest his crop and pay you for the privilege.

The description on the other thread sounded amazing, but the photo just isn't selling it to me yet

Whether it's true or not I don't know, but I've heard more than once that if you were to accidentally run over a dog and not report it, you would have committed an offence, but if you were to do the same with a cat, then no offence would be committed.

LR Series at Market weighton re god to deal with and can supply pretty much any part whether genuine or not.

It's a bike I'd like to own one day. If my previous ride out's anything to go by though it sounds like I'd be doing just as much fellign with it My little XR got the better of me Pussy cat's a term I've heard used to describe another bike recently too - 89 KTM 600 GS. I've never ridden owt like it. Hopefully the member who's just bought it will be along with pics before too long.

So it wasn't you bought tha enduroised one off ebay a few weeks ago then Geoff I think deep down, everyone wants a CR 500, they just don't always know it

Posts like that need a health warning That looks ace

Agreed.

I've not had any experience of the new Rangers, but spent a couple of days recently with a fairly new (63 plate) D max, lightly loaded but a mixture of on and off road. Really nice on the road, plenty of power and fairly quiet on the motorway. In 6th it was doing 60mph at around 1500rpm and while I never worked it out, it used very little fuel while we had it. With little weight in it though it was a fairly harsh ride. Off road though, it wasn't right clever, and not even on particularly testing terrain (leeds festival site once everyone had left). Admittedly it wasn't on the greatest of tyres (bridgstone duellers), but it just seemed to light the tyres up very easily whether 4h or 4l. One hill defeated it after several attempts which I'm sure my 90 would have walked it's way up with no drama. Like some of the others, I'm not a fan of pickups for heavy towing as they always seem a bit light on the back end. Unless you needed a pickup, I'd be looking at something like a patrol/landcruiser, though it would proably mean looking a little older. Either than or something like a D3/4.

I'd rechassis it too - being a hi-cap it would be a doddle to do. I went with Marslands for one of mine and everything lined up well, plus it has more of a factory look than the others.

Schutz is good stuff, though the fine mist that comes off it a you're spraying it sticks to skin (and teeth, eyeballs, hair etc) really really well, or so I'm told

Natwest Halifax (Bank of Scotland) Santander

I really quite like that

I'd agree with the others but also the few times I've milled ash (fr race couse hurdles and top rails mainly) it's always had a lot of tension in it and produced plenty of bannana'd bits. I'm more intrigued than anything, but do you really feel that it safer to climb and section fell every Ash tree than it is to club it off at the bottom?

The MOD stuff's OK, if a bit cumbersome, but mostly it's cheap so doesn't matter so much when it rips. Find the best thing to do is have a few jackets and jumpers in the truck and there's always something dry to put back on after break or to drive home in. Or, look out the window in the morning and if it's propper wet, light the fire and drink tea til it stops

Mrs keeps threating to light ours but it it's not been on yet, though it's definitely been cooling off up here recently.

If you can find a good secondhand one, a 242xp takes some beating for any sort of scrub clearing - very light but a proper screamer of a saw and fairly economical. The nearest modern equivalent would be something like a 550 but, with mine anyway, you'd be filling it up every 20 minutes or so if you were going for it.

Not sure which of the pistons you'd want but as far as I've seen, the 42's were open ported cylinders and the 242's were closed if that helps with which style of piston it should have?

it's not so much that it's heavy, more that it doesn't handle like a 372 for snedding - I thought it felt numb in comparison.

For general out in the woods it's usually one of: 550 (13-15") 357 (15-18") Spudded 372 (15-18" with 8 tooth rim) Occaisionally a big saw (or big bar) might get dragged out for felling if need be but on the whole it's one of the above. For a one saw fits all then probably have to be 560 with 15 or 18" on 3/8ths I reckon. FWIW: I'd give the 576 idea a miss - only briefly had go but I felt it handled like a barge. Make an OK saw for crosscutting though.