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Thats just poor of Bandit tbh:thumbdown: Sending you the parts should be the least they can do. The best would be to send someone up to you with a free hire machine while they repair then redeliver your one. Its obviously a known problem so why they cant do the above is a joke!

I dont know if its been mentioned in this thread but I think you need to be careful what rope you buy if you intend to use it for natural crotch rigging. Apparently some of the more expensive/exotic ropes require a pulley. I think its to do with double braids BUT dont take my word for it its just something I remember someone saying quite a while back. I just use a yale bull rope which is fine for NC rigging. Although the last time I checked it it isnt in the best of conditions:laugh1: but I dont usually rig mahoosive bits. Just find out first before you buy.

Its all in here:laugh1: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/19132-why-200t-chain-brake-rubbish.html

Good to see you got it sorted, although I was banking on banking the £300, musta posted the 'wrong' instructions.

I think this type of question came up awhile ago and iirc one of the manufacturers or someone who had close ties, said the blocking material was a mixture of different fabrics and was a bit of a closely guarded secret. Hopefully they will notice this thread and provide the info. Plus it varies quite a lot from manufacturer to manufacturer.

Tbh I didn't start this thread to poke fun at anyone or start a kick off, I was genuinely surprised or should I say shocked to find it quite common and from a lot if the comments fairly acceptable practice. Its just something I dont do and very rarely see. Oh and topping/heavily reducing trees us in no way pointless as long as someone pays and is happy with the work.

Actually no, that was the very first excuse I heard for using spikes. And it didn't wash then. Btw I was only having a laugh putting that pic up, I found it the other day an was dying to use it. I knew you wouldn't take offence. Some good comments from all, keep voting and posting. I'll have to post my thoughts and comments later.

That's the one, quite a good film.

Do you think it has succumb to the bad old phytophthora? Especially with the wet summer, or well have you had that there?

Is there any compression? Will the saw 'hang' from the starter cord at all? Can you feel a good bit of resistance if you pull the saw over slowly? Although even a saw with low compression will still fire, sort of. The carb may be fecked and is just pumping fuel into the cylinder therefore no chance of it starting. When a 2 stroke floods, and they can from the very first pull it is very difficult to start them.

I'm 5'7" and was 12 stone. The lack of work and excess of beer has pushed that up to nearly 13:blushing:

Yes you are. Best not to beat around the bush fat boy:laugh1:

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I've worked for Jeremy Beadle on many an occasion, he was always in the disguise of the contractor who was paying me.

The apple scene from the John Travolta film Phenomenon would be quite fitting.

See you know loads of edible stuff. I reckon if I start an edible fungi thread there is no WAY you wouldnt contribute. The only wild mushroom I have picked and eaten was a puffball, tbh was years ago and cant remember what it tasted like!

Would be interesting to see what they spend 2K on every 3 months! The costs of running a mog would drive me to tears, even if it was making a snot load of money it would still kill me:crying: Thats probably because I'm a right tight Scouse git though:thumbup1:

I totally understand I always think it great when you can do a bit of foraging, and this year seems to plentiful of fruit, berries and fungi! Maybe a pic of a fungi you have eaten 2 days previously would be ok.

Not an indepth or very techy way but one that works. I also take no responsibility for you doing something stupid and getting injured, I'm not even going to mention that this should be done with a non running saw! The quick emergency way. Remove side casing bar chain etc. Remove the clutch. A 13mm socket that is left handed nut so undone clockwise. Fast way is with an impact driver(dont blame me if you break your crank, I never have but its a warning) otherwise you need to lock the crank/piston so usually remove spark plug and insert piston locking tool(should of got one with saw black plastic thing) Remove drive sprocket and needle bearing. Remove white plastic oil pump drive sprocket, note it has the shape of drive sprocket to locate into when rebuilding. Its a good idea if you have an airline to give everything a bit of a blow, the screws are usually hidden behind oily sawdust and can be hard to locate. You then need to remove the 2 white plastic covers, they are held in with 3 star drive bolts.(stihl bolts from now on) The pic below, the bolts are numbered 1 and the covers numbered 2. [ATTACH]45649[/ATTACH] The pump can now be seen, its the bit encasing the crank shaft and is held in by 2 stihl bolts(probably caked in more crap so give a good blast with the airline or get a small stiff brush in there). Ok, remove the 2 bolts but notice on one side of the pump there is a pipe which is the pick up from the tank, on the other it pushes into a rubber bung that moves the oil up to the bar. Disconnect the pickup pipe and maneuver the pump from the bung, or just half remove the pump then remove the pipe. Now have a look at the pump where the pipe and bung where attached. If the saw hasn't been throwing any oil at all you will probably find that there is a little plug of oiled up fine sawdust particles blocking the the pump, you remove this by turning the worm screw by hand. I cant remember which way you move it but you can figure it out as either the plug will come out or oil which allows you to see the pump bit inside turning as you move the worm screw. Once that s cleared remove the pick up pipe by gently pulling and wiggling it, you can pry it out but be careful not to puncture it, pulling usually works fine. Once the bung bit has pulled out you usually have to wiggle and jerk the pipe a bit:blushing: to get the filter out! It can come first time or take ages. Once out blow the crap out from the pump end back to the filter. then replace. As per the haynes manual, assembly is the reversal of removal, or some garbage like that. When reassembling remember to but a bit of oil on the needle bearing(dunno what your supposed to use but I just use chain oil) and make sure the drive sprocket locates onto the white plastic oil pump drive before you tighten down the clutch, which can be done handish tight as long as you only start it up with the bar chain on and whack the chain brake on quick. The better way is to do the above but clean out the oil tank firs tby flushing it with parrafin/kerosene or just chain oil but the warmer/thinner the oil the better it gets the debris out. TBH I have flushed the tanks out then stripped the saw down and there is still loads of bits in the tank, there are plenty of hiding places! A good time to flush the tank out is when the saw is warm as the oil will be warm and flows a bit better. Hope this helps and since I am doing this off the top of my head my I apologuise if Ive missed anything. If I find I have missed something I will amend it or add to the post and please feel free to add if you have any better suggestions. I have a disclaimer for these things so if you want to see it PM me and I'll show you where its kept!

Did you swap it over? Going through all the old 020 parts today found another 020 handle in perfect order:w00t: So its going on the MS200T next year some time when I remember to do it.

Did it help then?

Death cap then! I was going to start a thread with pics of edible fungi but since I wouldnt being contributing since I aint that clued up would you two? I only ask because I know they can be fatal if wrongly identified and maybe you wouldnt want to post pics. Hopefully I'm wrong though. Actually if you think its a good/feasible idea maybe you could start a thread?

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Ill put a post up in the chainsaw section on how to do it, well my way anyway:001_smile:

Just thought I would bump this as there seems to be a lot of fungi out and about atm!