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Are they cracks in the drum?!….

What does the cutting/grinding? What material can you put through it? Stumps etc or just clean timber?

The video stopped at the good bit!

9 minutes ago, Sawbones said:

Was kind of hoping for a recommendation of a possible saw . will need to look at the tree again, but the next one will probably be  different size, so so hoping there would be someone on here that would have experience of my dilemma. 

Ideally to mill something approaching 4 feet across you want an MS880 or MS881.

They are massive cumbersome things and unnecessary for practically all UK tree work though, so you need to be realistic as to how much future large milling you are going to do.

An MS661 will happily pull a 36 inch bar all day and is adequate for just about any tree you’ll need to deal with in this country, and is a much more manageable saw than the 880/881. I’m not sure how well it would fair milling 40’’ logs every day but there will be others on here with experience of whether it is possible for the odd big log now and again.

‘Pit boss’ trees was another localised name for them apparently, as they were seen as a symbol of wealth when first introduced.

Good ones look amazing, but ones with poor form can look terrible IMO. We’ve got a cracker that was grown from a 6 inch potted sapling picked up at a school fete - as a stand alone feature tree they are superb.

Get an electric Winchmax - really good, great value for money. Keep your engine running when using and for a while afterwards as they will quickly drain a battery.