Old WoodChip

it's a bit like an old landrover, you have to love them and keep saying to yourself "this is great fun" then one day she will look back and say "I am glad we moved on and got something better" beside all the negative points, they are petrol! enough said.

Call me old fashion too too old to change now & happy with what I got, although it isnt used much these days:thumbup1:

Husqvarna for years with good results but got some Stihl red at a good price so tried that, cant part them they both work great. Never tried the Stihl green but may do if it was a good price but until then I will be using what I got and happy with that. I always used chain oil from a local Husky/Stihl dealer and found it good with good chain & bar life, then found out when he had a delivery while I was there one day that it was plain old SAE30 oil in a 45L drum, he been selling the same stuff for 20 years so it must be working.

Husky for me too, I used a mid range one for years which would take care off 90% of work, had the biggest husky for a while which would fly through thick stuff but was only used on the odd occasion. Stihl & husky are on par with reliability and hard to seperate both, fine saws and down to your own personal prefs in the end, Husky seem to rev more so cut that bit faster, I would stick with Husky number one & Stihl a very close second, but I do like red :-)

Thanks very much Stuart much appriciated

What did you get in the end?

oh, and it comes in a neat rubber protective case. Very pleased

Can anyone please help, I am looking for a manuel either a pdf file or word doc sort of thing or a hard copy if anyone can help Thanks

YES, with you 100% good post. it should be in the same class as red diesel is, not as if anyone is going to go running their car on it is there? deff not at £13 a gal as it stands right now. As a "green fuel" the gov should step in and encourage it's use but Aspen could help more by having more stockiest, my nearest one is 50 miles away thats 100 mile round trip. Bit of a joke and the carbon foot print for me using it ...... well just say f..ing big feet!! If the gov had their sticky little paws in the company we would have Aspen shoved down our throats

Got one, what a piece of kit this is. They posted same day as ordered and came next day, first class service from I.T.C.O. and highly recomended, if your looking for a machine to last you years this is the one. email them on [email protected] Tiny-Tach: Diesel Tachometers from ITCO

Good place to spread the word but can we walk away with a can full? Still very hard to get hold of without spending upwards of £40, all I want is 5L to give it a go & see. Also I have not read anything regarding what oil is in with it, I always run at 50/1 and no probs (except choking on fumes)

TPO, yes we got that sorted. ask the locals to kindly move the cars, yes we got that sorted. where shall I drop it, sorted Cut a nice wedge..........eh!! yes sorted Sure he was the bloke I seen taking a new saw out of B&Q with a big smile on his face, often wonder how long he lasted after the saw got fuelled up and started lolololol

the advantage is they see you a long way off but when they get closer do they take any notice. Like hell they do they drive so close even when your all nice and reflective, one day I will push a pole saw through their window just to wake them up. in a tree, personally a waste of time but thats just my own opinion and would do away with H&S (well 90% of it) and get back to a normal world where they dont want a tree cut down in case a conker drops on someone's head! Where will the crazy idiots draw the line

The Moral of Auntie Sharon A teacher gave her class of 11 year olds an assignment: To get their parent to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and one by one began to tell their stories. Ashley said, 'My father's a farmer and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were taking our eggs to market in a basket on the front seat of the car when we hit a big bump in the road and all the eggs got broken.' 'What's the morale of that story?' asked the teacher. 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket!' 'Very good,' said the teacher. Next little Sarah raised her hand and said, 'Our family are farmers too. But we raise chickens for the meat market. One day we had a dozen eggs, but when they hatched we only got ten live chicks, and the moral to this story is, 'Don't count your chickens before they're hatched'.' 'That was a fine story, Sarah.' 'Michael, do you have a story to share?' 'Yes. My daddy told me this story about my Aunty Sharon. Aunty Sharon was a flight engineer on a plane in the Gulf War and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory and all she had was a bottle of whisky, a machine gun and a machete. She drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't break and then she landed right in the middle of 100 enemy troops. She killed seventy of them with the machine gun until she ran out of bullets. Then she killed twenty more with the machete until the blade broke. And then she killed the last ten with her bare hands.' 'Good heavens,' said the horrified teacher, 'what kind of moral did your daddy tell you from that horrible story?' "Stay the f%*k away from Aunty Sharon when she's been drinking!"

where did you read that, not the TT-20K that's for sure. I looked into this long and hard and finaly sent for one, if it only went to 14k I wouldnt have bothered, read again my friend I think you had it wrong:thumbup1:

Thanks, all my saws are as old as me:biggrin: spent the last 2 days searching as much as I could & think I have made the right choice:sneaky2: will see when I get it how it performs & let you know

will there be trade stands etc etc? I may eventually get a gallon of Aspen to try!

Call them what you will but they been around a while and I know some use them and some dont. I have been looking for one and found what I think is a good one but would like to know what you guys use before I commit to getting one and spending £69 I like the "TECH-TACH TT-20K" which used a 9v battery as opposed to the smaller "FAST-TACH" which uses a small round whatsit battery. The unit is smaller so a plus but I think the bigger TT-20K will last longer (a personal thing and both the same price) Here is the web site Design Technologies. Hand-Held economical tachometers. Wireless tachometers. Any help advice would be more than welcome:confused1:

Oh yes, most deff

yes I seen that too, shame on that man I been looking for a rev counter and reading all your comments, seen some cheap ones on ebay from china but they are all lazer & I want impulse Huge price difference though and wondering is it worth spending £50+ when I have always tunes by ear for the last 30 years and never had a saw go bang

paypal take too much commission/fees ALL the money donated this guy should get and not part go to paypay, they get enough money from folk buying cheap saws on ebay as it is

No not yet but I will do, on the case so watch this space

the first picture looks like the burr on the bar has just broken off, dress it when needed will stop that but the second pic you have bits that look ripped out? has it been dropped onto hard wood while going to cut? I always use Oregon bars on my Husky's for years no problems as I have mineral oil. Never tried the "new" water based stuff I am too old fashion and like to run with the oil feed on or near max. I know a little oil goes a long way but them chains are going around at a fair old rate of knots and would prefer to use a little more than a little less. Call me old fashion & set in my ways :-) Personaly I would get a new bar & chain and dress the old bar and keep that and the chain (which has plenty of life left) as a spare for when your stuck. It maybe stuck in the box for years but at least you will have one to fall back on. Good luck

I was thinking the same, but mindless morons with too much time on their hands get up to all sorts I suppose.

Amazing, had one when they came out and worse thing I done was sell it, knock spots off a Stihl but some guys love Stihl so nothing wrong with them just I like my Husky's They used a wraparound handle a lot over there, it seems more practicle but a H&S nightmare :-)