peter_t

iv used a silky natanoko for a couple of years and its been great but have just tried a ARS turbo cut saw and it is honistly as good as a silky and a bit cheeper too:001_smile: i have also tried one of stein's hand saws and would advise to avoid them like the plague. don't be fooled by the fancy scabbards, the blades are absolute sh1te! so agressive and rough cutting to the point that they are unusable:thumbdown:

sounds like a badly tuned carb to me. slow return to idle probably meens the low jet is too lean.

could be the fuel filter, fuel line or the tank breather that is bunged up. these would all restrict the flow of fuel to the carb making a lean fuel mixture. i don't meen to state the obvious but i take it you have tuned the carb?

there is always one pipe coming from the crank case to the carb, this produces pulses to operate the carbs diaframs. so your saying there is a seccond pipe coming from the crank case? my only guess is that it is actually a breather from the oil tank. pete

is the 4WD system selectable? like you can either drive in 2WD or 4WD. if so you should NEVER drive in 4wd while on the road!!! unlike a land rover defender there is no differential in the middle so there is no give in the system. while going round corners the front wheels will go faster than the rear ones and with no differential something has else has got to give, usually breaking something. 4wd is only for when you are likely to loose traction which you don't get on tarmac. pete

doesn't look like it to me. its usually a thin black brown line that follows the annual rings, not blobs. if it had it you would definitely see external signs.

the japs have been making chainsaws for years, im sure echo have been about from the 70s and probably earlier pete

get the cheapest chainsaw gloves you can as long as they have an EN standard because as soon as you get your tickets you will never use them again. pete

iv got a berlingo, 97 with a 1.9 n/a diesel - well proven engine its my first car and only cost me £600 and has done 217000 miles. iv done about 6000 miles so far and it hasn't missed a beat and starts instantly every time! it does about 50mpg i havn't got a tow bar so can't comment on towing but it seems to have plenty of low down grunt and have filled the back with oak a couple of times with no problems. how about a citroen C15? look a bit retro but iv heard they are pretty bombproof and have the same 1.9 deisel. pete

i have done lots of dutch elm control work and the Council really have ballsed it right up. one bloke i work for who was one of the first contractors for elm work said over the last 5 years they have really let it go. we go out to a job now where we fell and burn 3 trees but have to leave half a dozen other infected trees because we are not allowed to fell them. we used to just fell them and add an extra £20 per tree but now they have to go and inspect and fill out paperwork for each tree so you will be lucky if it gets done 3 weeks later when by that time its too late. EDF are also to blame by not bothering to sheath power lines and preventing us from felling the infected trees. the new rule that says that the land owner has to pay half is a complete joke. it has cost them far more because the land owner doesn't care and doesn't want to pay so it costs 20 more trees for the price of one. also with one land owner who had an elm that had aerial infections. she didn't want to pay for the infected branches to be removed because they would just keep on becoming infected and asked us to fell the tree instead. this work is supposed to be saving trees not trying to get rid of them! pete

i use it but only for lanyards. i first made a 5m lanyard from nylon when i was at college because i was short of cash, cost me about £2.50 for the rope and i spliced both ends:biggrin: it worked great and i still use it now. i wouldn't want to climb on nylon any longer than 10m because of the stretch. pete

very handy website for old saws:001_smile: Model Profile: 240SE/SG pete

what was wrong with normal screw on caps? stihl have tried to solve a problem that never existed:thumbdown: pete

get a husky 346xp, cracking saw. its 50cc but a 45cc saw won't handle an 18" bar well anyway. i would rate it over a 260 pete

yeah i guess you shouldn't rely on it but it can make life so much easier pete

forget the throw line and get yourself a pole! the one i use at work has a h shaped hook on it. clip a karabiner on the end of your rope to give it a bit of weight, then with a bit of slack poke it over the crotch then pull it back in with the hook. SIMPLE:thumbup1: Pete

are they any good? they seem a bit cheeper than oregon cheers

aparently some of the older suzuki/rascal/hijets had 4WD and diff locks! why:confused1: pete

their long reach loppers are very good. i know someone who still has a pair of anvil loppers after 10 years of abuse and they still work fine. when are you stocking them? pete

quick question, does the 2000 blade fit the old natanoko 60? many thanks pete

i use an echo top handle every day at work and apart from being a little plasticy i can't say a bad word about it:001_smile: i seccond what TimberCutterDartmoor said about balance, far better than the 200t and much lighter too. pete

thats my point, to keep your boots in good nick you still need to wax them anyway. i wax my boots and it keeps them plenty waterproof which makes goretex a bit of a waste of time. it works great for jackets and trousers but in boots it is pointless imo pete

imo boots with gortex is a bad thing. in my experience it makes you feet sweat more and doesn't make your boots breathable as it sometimes claims (your feet still have to breath through a layer of leather). my biggest problem is that if your boots do get soaked they will take forever to dry and usually within a year the gortex lining wears away so your boots are no longer waterproof anyway:sneaky2: its worth spending money on boots but spend it on something that will last not something you don't want or need. Pete

i just finished two years at college and the real problem is that at best only two thirds of the class want to learn. the other third just want to piss about and disrupt which stops any learning going on. the main reason they even bothered to go to college was because if they didn’t they would be hassled at home by their parents. but not only were we missing out in lessons but because there was too much dicking about we were never trusted so we missed out on many outing and some climbing competitions because the tutors where too embarrassed to take us! this could have been easily solved by throwing the unwanted guys out but the college wouldn’t because they would miss out on the £10000 which we where apparently each worth:thumbdown: btw, did the courses the 'clueless' students go on include work experience? because if mine didn’t have one day a weeks experience i would be totally clueless when it comes to the real world pete

thanks for the replies i am almost always a big ladder man when working but i sometimes go climbing with mates from college so hardly want to drag a big ladder out to the woods! lol i will have a look for one of those bait buckets but i think £25 for a cube is just taking the piss pete