john p

The new 151 looks good, much as I love my 2511, I’m sick of replacing the various plastic components that keep breaking, if stihl did an 8” bar for it I’d buy one tomorrow

Been quoted a grand for parts and fitting or just parts?
 

Where are you located? 

Haha! The old "Special Jensen Bearings" I fell for that one 10 years ago.
 
Why not pull the Rotor out and match the bearings then? They are common as fook bearings,the motor side are SNR and the infeed side SKF. If you pull them off you will likely bugger the bearing house so factor that in too.
 
Did mine in January,remember to set your blade to anvil gap with a new never sharpened set of blades...

Hi, does anyone know the serial numbers/make for the rotor/flywheel and bottom roller bearings please? Been quoted about a grand from a dealer... cheers

Different strokes and all that.
 
It feels like pulling a breeze block around when I drag the 201 around these days.
All about the echo 2511 for me these days.

Elm..

Climate change is with us for sure pictures of thin starving polar bears don’t lie never saw pictures like that in my 20,s but our governments refuse to install legislation to even try and do anything about it UN agenda 21 ,geo engineering the use of depleted uranium shells ,what the FUCK are people thinking,the planet will survive but not so sure about society as we know it ,Poverty starvation and homelessness all exist in Britain today the government seems unwilling or unable to do anything about it so therefore we demand the abolition of the dogmatic archaic institutions that try and govern over us Their law has not created order our Anarchy will not create chaos.
Thats something I wrote when weighting for an Anarchist news paper many yrs ago seems more relevant now than when I first wrote it ,hope some of you appreciate it 
   Cheers Mark

Monster week of leylandii topping...

We use these almost daily. no 171 “open notice” can lead to a lot of problems they then start asking for streetworks ! supervisor and operative and you can’t be both. The fines keep the local authority in business. From talking to my local area supervisor in Essex they see tree works as a revenue stream to be exploited. just having to park your truck in the road requires notice and compliant signing and guarding if not another fine. All the utility companies are conversant with them. Some opt to pay the fine if they get caught and hope they don’t.

A s.171 license isn't quite correct, as Big J says, it is usually for excavations on the highway, bit in the case of Somerset Highways it might be the most appropriate license they have decided on for Arb work/tree felling. We would use a building materials in the highway license where I was. The s.171 license will require the applicant to prove they have insurance and the traffic management qualifications to allow them to be on the road and the permit will allow the occupation of the road to be recorded properly so there won't be clashes with other roadworks or diversion routes.

That's cheap for a road closure, I paid £1,500 to close a road around here on Sunday. That's before I paid the TM company to put up the closure, signs and diversion.
 
sticking up traffic lights is free but you need a permit still, 
we loose a lot of work as we don't do bodge TM and usually the next week we will see the local landscaper with a transit blocking the path and raining branches in the road. 

We recently ‘got busted’ by Somerset Highways while felling some dead elms on a very quiet country lane. We had appropriate TM/signs in place, using a mewp because of adjacent phone lines.

Highways matey drives up asking if we’ve got a 171 and we need a road closure because there wasn’t enough room to have cones 1.2 meters from the mewp.

Just looked on highways website and they want £232 for the license for a £280 pound job!

I’m a bit concerned that not many customers are going to want to stump up that cost on a job. And now my card is marked! Curious to know if everyone applies for these licenses as a matter of course, and are your customers happy to pay?

I use Bark from time to time, had some really good jobs off it

Where abouts are you?

Dicking about with dead Ash is a mugs game, get it gone pronto!

It dropped off a few weeks back, but just got really busy again now, reckon all the clients just want to see the ms500 in action....

Ace saw but mine isn’t oiling at all already - only bought it in the Black Friday last year. Anyone else had issues with there’s not oiling properly?

Yeah, I’ve done 2 exhaust on mine, but they’re only £8ish so no biggie

I’ve drilled an 8 mm hole in my exhaust, has really opened it up, 8 months on no issues

Lift pump might be on way out,(mine was similar when it went). Get a compressor and blow back through the fuel lines to the tank as well.

Oh, and an echo pole saw. That never leaves the shed....

2511, 201, 241, 362, 461, 661.

Gustharts have all the parts, ordered a trapeze for mine it arrived next day. Great service

Don, quality fence avoidance there mate!