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yeah man i saw it, that would of sucked. I love watching ax men there extraction methods are awesome, but not many of them can actually fall timber well? i know he was a "green horn" but the little felling the programe shows, their cuts are never anything to special...

i've got some freedoms up for sale, but im not sure of the size... i'll try and work out what they are, after £90 for them, only worn them like 3 times

Yes Im thinking about the timberland chain saw gloves as they sound good.

i had a pair of these about 2 years ago, and i found them to be very poor didnt last very long.

Propper chainsaw gloves may be required for cs units, but when working i dont think they are nessisary (unless deemed by the risk assesment) so in my opinion i would get a cheapo pair for the courses, then shop around for some good work gloves that suit you, everyone has differnt preferances. Personally i have been using these GUIDE 525-21 Synthetic - Personal Protection for the past week or so and they seem to be good for the price

I'm still working at the moment but just trying to cover all bases as to useful stuff il need for my course and stuff that I will keep using. Was meaning to buy a box of files good reminder. Do you guys use a jig for sharpening your chains or are they hopeless?

Down to personal preferance man, i was taught at college with the silly little guides, but free hand is so much easier imo, plus you can just ram the file down the side of a husky fuel can or in your logging belt.

Get the big felling bar cos the other mickey mouse one is no good unless its always small stuff your cutting. At least 1 high lift wedge and a selection of others and dont forget something to hit them with.

mehhh high lifts are too expensive and they dont last too long

Meh hilifts pielifts

 

x1 10" Oregon wedge (big yella)

x1 6" Oregon wedge

x1 BIG felling bar

Files

Husky file guide

First aid

Tongs. Bacho ones, Stihls broke on me.

Pulp hooks not worth using, I can use one end of tongs if necessary but they are handy on softwoods.

 

 

Dent, what sort of cutting do you do?

plastic wedges suck too, get some big old steel ones and you'll be away

Yeah sorry ace was with the inlaws although took them for a walk down the lane and walked passed your house to which they thought i was weird and stalking you, i see you doing some fencing along the main leomster-eardisland road. the sweet chestnut are croft castle hama and fallen lime.

its alright man, next time your down give us a message!

ah really? aha how did you know it was our place? If you had kept going like half a mile you would have come top our wood yard

Ah really? Yeah it was for a mate whos got a posh portaloo company, and he was towing one of the loos when the tow bar on the disco snapped and it went through the hedge, fair size hole it made too! i had to put a 30ft post and rail fence!

ben you should of let me know you were in eardisland, would have given you a tour of our yard ahah

there's not much you need really, they're very good as they are. No need for snorkels, bullbars and "one life live it" stickers!

 

Make sure you always have on board a good selection of hammers, pliers, WD40, spare oils, etc etc... you will need them!

bullbars are very helpful for this type of work, same with rear light guards (need to get some for mine)

spot lights, front and back are very handy!

winch is a good idea, did a job last week with mine, that paid for it twice over, would of needed to move one of the tractors about 20 miles, a lot handier on the landy. My winch is a cheapo one (12v 12000lbs pull) but its still brillent, used it last week for winch a lot of 80ft norways over that were by a garage.

that is bloody horrible, having been around horses my whole life, and still got some now, loving them! that article did bring a tear to my eye...

Well annoyed, me and grandad had a timber grab and rotator nicked between saturday night and this morning, from out yard in Eardisland Herefordshire.

It was a rough old grab and a 270 rotator, not a 360, no idea of the make of either of them.

This isnt the first time theives have had a bash at it, we have found it off the machine dragged up the yard before... after this happened every night after use the grab would have a bundle of logs in its grasp and put over the back off the timberstack, we bashed the thread in on the bolt holding it on, but they still managed to get it off...

It took a lot of effort stealing this, having to drag it all the way up the yard and drag through the hedge by the gate, so we are sure they stole it to sell on... it sucks.

do the four d's (dead, diseased, dying, dangerous) overcome conservation area regulations, or is should the local authority still be notified?

Necessary to stress they aren't genuine imports rather counterfeit ones. The only use of a clone I would have thought would be to have some cheap cosmetic spares as I would use any of the "main" parts.

 

A fake 070 in action, anyone who has ever run a real one will know...

 

hell thats shocking!

if some of you are wondering how a genuine 070 performs, heres a video our ours

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYhh_i5wc2o]YouTube - ‪Big Stihl‬‏[/ame]

Check out some of the other points I raised. Does it say "Made in Germany" or "Made in Brazil" on the recoil starter? A picture of your saw to compare would be nice.

never really looked at ours that closely, we have the av version so it is slightly different

A lot more convincing than the ms44 so called copies ! NO worries why any one would 3

Want to run one unless a collector is beyond me??

because its a bloody brillant saw! great for ripping through big hardwoods, these saws have wayyy more torque than the the modern higher revving ones, they are also built a lot stronger than modern saws

Didn't think of Kelsa. Well i did but i've never seen or used one so i couldn't comment on one.

i have never used one of their harvester heads, but we do have 2 patu cranes and a stroke delimber on the 3 point linkage and for the money their equipment is very good!

quick search came up with some specs on these

Patu RH Series Harvesting Heads

Patu SH Series Harvester Heads

some of the older patu (now kelsa) heads would be realtivilt cheaper, think that there are some that weigh around the 500kg mark, which worked well on tractors with roof mounts

That catalogue is out of date. The MS720 replaced it in the line up in 2009 so the 070 would have probably become NLA some time after that. I suppose it is possible it is still around but I don't see why it would be as the MS 720 is virtually identical.

 

But those who quoted the catalogue, are you saying you think the saw pictured in this thread is real?

no, just saying that it is still produced... or still produced in very recent years.

the saw pictured does look very similar to ours, the only differance that i can see is the stihl logo on the top cover

The 070 is no longer produced anywhere by Stihl AFAIK. It has been replaced by the MS 720 as of the end of 2008/start 2009. I would be interested to know why you think the saw is real or not, regardess of what it actually is.

umm i think your wrong there, still produced in some places - e-Catalogo STIHL (go to page 28-29)

man that is a lovely machine, would love to have it!

as soon as im out of the tree i put a husky ground helmet on, i really cant get on with climbing helments!

awesome find man! he goes real in depth when explaining!

never seen one of those plastic things before, seen the metal ones never used them though, starter cord is the easisest as its always with the saw

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWzk31p3lk]YouTube - ‪Chainsaw on a rope (MOST DANGEROUS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE)‬‏[/ame]

nice one man! looks like a good job and some awesome photos!

mate thats awesome!