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well he cant of been the brightest spark in the world to think he could get away with burning that many using one to get a brash fire going is fineeeeeeeeeeee ahahahaa joking

well you could, just depends whos snooping about aha

bought some oregon button on ones a while back, thought i would finnally try them on yesturday day, as soon as i put them on they popped the buttons off my hi-flex's so meh not gunna be bothering with them for a while aha the oregon braces themself seem good qualilty although they are the only ones i have had, would like to hear more

ahaha i wish man great pics by the way! love em!!!!!

very nice!!! whos matador is that john?

i would never buy a 441, imo there is to much on it to go wrong get me a 044 or a 440 and i'll be happy

440 is a bloody brilliant saw!!!!!!!!!! amazing power to weight ratio and we run two of them either with 20" or somtimes a 25" felling hardwoods, 460's are great used them with 18" and 25" bars and they have amazing power, they both have their place as for the 240 and the 650 they are just other saws with slightly less power than the above models and to be honest with stihls prices how they are now i bet they sell a fair few as they are slightly cheaper

agreed get a ms361

Oregon Chain Oil, buy it in 25ltr Stihl 2 Stroke (Red) Granddad uses Waste Oil as Chain Oil Cheap 2 Stroke in 10ltr contrainers from the petrol station Before all the hate comments come along, i know its considered back for your health using waste oil thats why i dont use it day in day out, not gunna lie i have used it when i've run out while working, but hes been using it for pretty much all his life, not sure what he used when he first started felling, i'll find out but if so hes used it for probably for 40 years + and hes fine, using chain oils now and again but not if he can help it, and as for the cheap 2 stroke he thinks it works fine, never had any trouble with any saws.

so its just like a hedge trimmer on a tractor? lights and arrow sounds like a bloody brilliant idea if you ask me!

yeah just keep the sheet on the top, so you not having to dig your cords out if theres heavy snow, but the air still needs to get through the lot

bit late posting i know but i thought i might as well point out thats not stricly true....

great find!!! heres another one i found somewhere i remember reading that some of them when doing this totally remove the rakers to cut faster, bloody dangerous.

Heres some stuff that i think are very handy "toys" in the wood. Felling lever(s), meh people think they are gay but i have found them very helpfull in some oak and cherry first thinnings we were doing, also handy as a cant hook in the wood to save taking a fancy mill yard one in Logging belt, handy if your doing small stuff that needs to be stacked for extraction, i have one but havent used it that much really, only on some first thinnings, most of the stuff we fell is to big to use some little tongs on aha, so i just hook the logging tape onto my trousers saves carrying around a lot of stuff you dont need. Wedges!!! Need loads of these little gems!!! I have both plastic and big old metal ones and i must admit the only times the plastic ones get used are when using the bandsaw or alaskan to open up the saw cut, when felling you cant beat a big old metal wedge, and the sound they make when banging them is the sound of real logging ahaha Ear Defenders with a radio I want a set of these too, they are amazing!!! ahaha Now for the BIG TOY! You dont need to spend 35 grand on a valtra with a winch and loader, all ya need is a fordson with a cookes winch on the back

yeahhh we used them at college to, love using those axes so much fun!!! Gunna have to get one of my own one soon

ahhh right fair enough! i can see why you want a 360 in there! By the sounds of that then a grab and rotator would make life a bit easier if its such a mess.

tom if the sites big, would this mean timber needs to be moved much? is this timber being extracted or are you literally just clearing it up? would a tractor and forwarding trailer combination?

see in this pic you can see the log holder type thing has fallen off but logs dont fall off while splitting yeah thats what ours has, an interchangable cross and straight, it works well

yeah load of rubbish 3 chains or whatever it is, granddad told me, a bars worn out when the chain wont go round anymore ahahaa

im gunna say the price you got it for lol seen similar osa's going for around 5 or 6k on ebay

nah not off most of them, if you see this one of ours has "sides", but having said that the "side" nearest the log lift has fallen off now aha, but it still works fine and logs seem to stay where there put

tbh i prefer horizontal ones to vertical ones, easier for doing long stuff, less fannying around getting the log into postion well thats what i think

These are some great books i have High Climbers and Timber Fallers by G F Beranek This Was Logging by R A Andrews Timber: Toil and Trouble in the Big Woods by R A Andrews Collins Tree Guide Collins Complete Guide to British Trees The Tree Climbers Companion by Jeff Jepson The BTCV handbooks are good too, got the fencing and hedgelaying ones but you can read them online for free though Would like some info on these books, are they good or not? Fundamentals of General Tree Work by G F Beranek The Art and Science of Practical Rigging by Peter Donzelli and Sharon Lilly Oh and these DVD's by G F Beranek Jerry Beranek's Working Climber - Series One "Access and Movement Through the Tree" Jerry Beranek's Working Climber - Series Two "Cutting and Rigging in the Tree"

ah thats a good idea, maybe that would be a cheaper way of me having a "grapple skidder" aha, when i get some money i'll have to pop down the farm auction and get myself an old one and fix it up ahaha got some pics to postttt or not? i like stuff like that