normandylumberjack

We all had to start somewhere, He asked for help, and came to the right place. Go for a silky and wd40 as said before, be careful with it- they bite! Take your time, enjoy it, keep using arbtalk and ask as many questions as you like. Read Silky's thread, its a testament to hard work.

Check the drive links are not damaged or burred, do they slide through the bar groove freely? this can cause a chain to jump off.

Just for you:321:

I use plastic and find them to be good even in big timber, especially if you clip it with the saw! You can use 2 together if you need extra height. The bottle jack method is good for a real leaner.

Dirty buggers, one thing doing what they are doing, but leaving all their filth behind is disgusting.

I would talk to Steve at southwest optics, Truro. He has a huge stock and is really knowledgeable on the subject. http://www.swoptics.co.uk/ Tell him Adam from Truro photographic, now in France sent you. He will look after you.

It was a gift from the late lord Falmouth, It was being used as a poker in a workers cottage, I was working in the buildings team and was tasked with throwing out a load of old junk, this was among it, along with lots of other treasures horded away, he asked if i would like to keep one item from the treasures so i chose the poker, cleaned it up with a wire brush on a dremel, and found all the old stamps on it, I doubt its worth much but its a piece of history too good to bin imo.

I had similar with my site, kept using the word "Tree" and had to fluff a bit. What is a fancy term for tree? Bioarberectusleafymijigga?

Attach it to the slingshot, if they get past the pine cone volleys then i give em the old cold steel! Musket has a silky on it in place of bayonet!

Here is my harness, normal stuff ce lanyard, friction cord, slingshot, brown bess bayonet for squirell encounters, normal kit really.

Nice video, not gung ho at all, enjoyed that.

as above old son!

Thats forums for you, a few dicks on arbtalk too, I have been told to ignore them and not rise to the bait. Perhaps if these screwfix forum users read one or two threads on here they would see that the yobs only represent a small proportion of tree surgeons.

agreed, just going for sympathy!

I really enjoy it when I see Micky or Le Sangliers posts, always gonna ruffle some feathers! Couple of tossers as far as i can see, posts deleted, warnings from mods, no real input. I would love to see you both off this site, but if its not happened by now then i doubt anyone will ever do it. Arsey comments are one thing but taking the piss out of someone for how they look just shows why you hide behind avatars of a dead pig and a little dog.

Thats a bit personal, you have really upset me know. Nothing better to do?

I have given up for 7 years and find the smell sickening now, especially when a smoker walks into my house and the stench on their clothes makes me realize what I smelt like when smoking. I just stopped after taking a mate to hospital who was having a heart attack, while in the heart and lung ward I seen all these guys with stitching on their chests, black and blue, awfull sight. that made my mind up their and then. Good luck to you, the longer you go without the easier it will be.

Have someones child cough and sneeze at you for 8 hours a day, get ill, not be able to go to work because you are ill, you then give it to your handsome husband who can't go to work cutting the trees of Normandy because despite being a son of the soil and never ill due to bad weather etc. you cannot fight off super bugs propagated in schools. Being married to a Teacher you wish that more parents would keep their kids of school if flu-ish. Hats off to all the good parents that put their kids first!

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I have had the gun discussion with my friend and neighbour who is a Gendarme, he until a couple of years ago was a serving member of their armed response unit, and was for the later part a marksman/sniper. He said that the worst thing in a hostage situation, armed robbery etc. was armed civilians. In the eyes of law enforcers arriving at the scene of a gun crime, everyone is treated as a potential threat, and someone brandishing a firearm will be dealt with in certain cases with lethal force. If that person is a have a go hero, that cant hear a command to drop their weapon, or is firing their weapon, then the order will come to "stop" them. He also remarked how easy to disarm an armed "citizen" it could be for a criminal that was not previously armed. Even police officers have their own weapons turned on them by a previously unarmed criminal. He was a gun user, and had twice used his firearm in the line of service. He is the most anti gun person i know, but he still has to carry, and now train others in their use. Leave guns to the pros was his feeling. I agree.

Trust your gut, if he gets funny over this on your first meeting then chances are when something else crops up he will get funny again. It may of been a flippant remark and you took it the wrong way, but if he leaves you feeling in any doubt then best to pay up and avoid, not worth the agro and having him bad mouth you, or your paths cross on another job and there is tension. Sounds like he is milking it, I wish i got paid to have my waste taken away on top of payment for the job!

Was in the building trade for a while, DeWalt was king at that time, but sadly they are not what they were. Makita have the edge now, very well made and balance is good for lots of screw-driving. I would ignore the hammer function on cordless and use sds where possible. Used Bosh and they are nice but no end of battery problems. I have used a pair of Erbaur 18 volt nicd combi's for the last 5/6 years on the renovation of my house, every screw has been driven in with these and there has been many thousands! I think they were £70 each with 2 batteries and 1 hr charger. These are not the same as a Makita with LI-ION etc. but are still very good and well made. The combi has a metal chuck which is a very nice touch. Got from screwfix btw.

I tried fitting the peltor set from my stihl ground lid and the visor didn't work properly it was too close to my face. It works best with the slide back and forth types like on balance/husky lids.

Is that 8-10k second hand or new?