Mesterh
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Looks excellent. Is it a wax or oil finish? I have no advice to give just wondering thats all.
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I also noticed that all the 020/200T run at 15K at standard carb settings,and most other saws also over by about 1K. Thats also using a tiny tach, so a possibility they arent that accurate maybe?
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Tbh I usually hate wearing gloves especially when climbing but these ones were fairly good. They got hammered as we were doing a lot of scrub clearance with plenty of thorny stuff plus wire,glass and other nasty stuff. So about 2 weeks which considering the abuse they got was quite good.
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I can understand the complaints reading that article. Wouldnt be too nice living next door to one of those burning all day, would constantly stink the house out!
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I thought that it would be better than equal ie carbon will be locked up in the root system that would eventually become coal? Or well some of it will. So in effect burning trees helps lower emitted co2. Is that right? I see their point about used timber going to landfill though, although wont that also help by being looked away underground! Maybe it is just best to burn and extract the energy from everything that we would normally landfill as suggested.
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They only thing I have had come close to killing me (from a hit on the head)was a concrete post collapsing on my head while clearing around a stump. Scared the excrement out of me, but my trusty old husky helmet saved the day.:thumbup1:It still protects me to this day. Had the odd thing whizzing past but thats always been my own doing. I guess the lack of straight felling means its less of a hazard to most of us arbs.
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Vaseline for me too. The guy who 'found' it lived to nearly a hundred and ate a teaspoon every day. Besdides every good woodsman has a tub of it for all occasions.
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I think the main thing to do with a new engine is to not over heat it. Dont let it tick over but give it some stick but not for long periods so it doesnt get too hot.
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Have a try of these ones. Cutter Work Gloves - Home They are very tough but do have a decent level of dexterity.(I say decent but you cant compare leather gloves with the thin climbing ones) I suggest you get a tight fitting pair especially if climbing in them. Just dont hit them with a chainsaw!
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You miserable sod! I have kicked the odd bit of kit about, sure makes you feel better. Dont worry it has all been mine.Although I would never try to kick my own helmet, I have man handled it on the odd occasion though! TBH Im fairly sure that as long as the helmet is within its working life span a sticker wont do any harm, I have had many plastered on after inductions and they have all been carried out by very thorough HSE type guys!
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The thing I hate about being VAT registered is that the customer(domestic) is paying more money for no good reason whatsoever. Theres no way I add any value to my customers trees.
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I heard it will be available on a Monday.
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Looks bigger than a 20" bar!
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Sounds like a very dodgy guy. I would make sure the police know every detail you can give them about the bloke. Getting 12/13 year old girls drunk!
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Cheers for all the info everyone I think its unfair that Stihl and Husky are trying to push 'blame' onto the dealers though. They dont expire but we are supposed to do refreshers every 5 years(2 or 3 years for non professionals) I have never done a refresher so im not sure if it will update your NPTC card(i pressume it will)
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I have never greased any bars but have had a few oregon ones seize up so I only buy Stihl when I can. I think the problem with grease is it attracts crap so unless you purge it regularly you will have bearings surrounded by crap impregnated grease. Which isnt very good. I assume the stihl bearings are designed to be cleaned and lubricated with bar oil.
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Thats the job of the PM;s, tut, tut, tut, tut, tut. I would be too busy getting chaffered about in my Maybach drinking only the best Innis and Gunn had to offer to even care about that hassle.
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I dont think it changed, it just sort of got watered down so you had to do more tickets to make you more competent. I think! Ill guess between 1995 and 2000 or there abouts.
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Right then. On the Stihl UK web site its says in regards to arborist chainsaws. " For sale only to accredited, professional tree surgeons." So it seems they ask us to provide some form of accreditation ie certificate of competence but I cant find out what types of certs they deem as acceptable. I am bringing this up for no other reason than I am interested and nosy. I dont agree with the policy and I would hazard at a guess that a 'good' lawyer could have a field day with Stihl over this. ie you cant buy this saw if you arent in this club.
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Excellent! I knew drinking more beer makes me a better person.
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If the only requirement is "only to be sold to proffessional users" then the definition of a professional is.. "A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee" Which covers almost anyone who would buy a saw to carry out paid work. So if you ask your customer " Do you get paid for carrying out tree work?" and they reply "yes" its ok sell a top handle to them. So a bit of a strange policy really Stihl and Husky have really.
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Sorry to hear, hope your mate doesnt feel to bad about it all.
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Yeah and dont faff about for the cameras, get the job done. Interesting vid.
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They put them there because the tree man is coming next week and I want to see what it looks like. Anyone else had that when turn up to do the job? The best was a conservatory that suddenly appeared!
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I should have except Scotland from my above post as you guys do seem to know how to charge. No seriously though I do think it is quite different from England. A good mate of mine who has worked on decent sized contracts in England moved over to a Scottish power sub company. He was telling me that contracts worked very differently up north, he said to me "You know how they say all Scottish people are tight, well thats bollox, they used to pay all their jobs up front when the contract was signed not like it is down here where you argue the toss and have a big bun fight at the end of the job". They tried to implement it down here but it didnt go down to well even with the bad economic crisis when no one wanted to be shafted at the end of a few millions quids worth of work.
