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Depends entirely upon your local dealer... My 3 local dealers are useless, each in their own special way.

Hailo all the way, tough as old boots. The biggest one is MASSIVE! It's a long way down when you're at the top of that A-frame, let alone the extended bit.

Hold your horses. You can get them a lot cheaper than that. The 48w ones at £17 are a lot of light for your money. I've got about a dozen and no problems over the last year or so. 27W/48W LED Work Light 12V 24V Jeep Boat Offroad Truck Vehicle Headlight Lamp | eBay

Beat me to it. They also stop the moisture getting to your hands.

But can't sharpen a saw? When you do that sharpening practice, the number one rule in my book is to do it in a vice under a strong, preferably daylight temperature light. The theory of cutting angles etc is all very well, but it's not till they can actually see the damaged edge, and the result of the correct application of a file, that it actually starts to come together. It's amazing the amount of tree workers I see using chains which are sub par. It's even more amazing how many bosses seem to tolerate it.

A swinglift crane is lighter and much cheaper than a hiab.

Got to be the log grab I reckon. Are the 420 and 520 attachment systems the same? Might just fit on but they 'don't recommend it'? Better than that, don't pay the over inflated Avant prices and have a skidsteer attachment firm make you one to fit.

I use my shredder knife with guard all the time. The potential for a lot of pain via flying debris when using a mulching blade to mulch top down with just a normal guard is quite high. Worth the money IMHO, and pretty much compulsory if employees will be using it.

Can't remember quite how to do it, but the above will be your problem. I got round it if I remember right by flipping the plate thingy that covers the head over. Might have been a spacer washer involved. Hope this helps. An FS130 runs it OK but as said can bog down quickly.

Cheap 10/40w, every 4000 miles. Winner for any older engine. Every 100 hours on small 2 and 3 cylinder plant like mini diggers.

It's addictive when you start learning to sharpen and tune rakers properly

They'll have right angles in 'em next week Damn stuff has a mind of it's own.

I've got a top loading stove, it burns neat sawdust from local joinery shops I have been known to mist the top vent with diesel/oil mix for instant heat and draw.

I just don't care about logs any more, it's much easier

No, it's genuine. I always buy my ticket for the Nigerian lottery from the same guys

Proper job mate, it's everything a bike should be. Carry lots, go anywhere, park anywhere.

Caught this on the TV last night. Scroll through to the 27 minute mark. Episode 2: Alaska | Ben Fogle: New Lives In The Wild | Channel 5 What a waste of a Lewis Winch and Stihl chainsaw. I don't know a lot about the way he did other things, but going by his chainsaw skills I'm willing to bet neither does he. Hence the thread title. Can't see the automatic fish thing working. As for composting the fish to fertilize the garden- why not do as man has done for millennia, and eat the damn things? Spread the guts and your crap on the garden- after extracting maximum nutritional value for your body from the fish. What a moron.

Your only real option to make any money is a Transit or LDV tipper. Trying to offer a 6" chipping service and chipping into a wheelie bin is a fools errand- are you guys really that hard up 'oop North'? (everywhere is 'oop north) from Sussex... No wonder you're struggling to make it pay. A single cab tipper with a lockbox on it (or even beter, under the tipper) for saws and hedgecutters would be the best best. If you fit greedy boards then mowers etc would be out of sight in the summer, and you can secure them with an alarmed cable lock. God luck mate.

I dropped a large bay with my MS250 a few days ago. The other guy on site was Husky through and through- his eyes were on stalks when he saw how quick it was, especially snedding. They handle so well with a short bar on, it's easy to snap the brake on and then hold it in your right hand like you would with a topper. I'm still waiting for this MS250 to die so I can join you pro boys with your MS241s

Ah. Not sure if I've mentioned this but the FS-70 outer tube has a small cutout at the clutch end. If fitting a different shaft (say a solid FS-85), then you would need to replicate this or just cut the shaft down by 5mm ish. Otherwise the inner shaft will not be totally engaged with the clutch or head. This usually causes disengagement of drive as you elevate the machine, accompanied by a graunching noise. It can lead to rounding off if left unchecked, but usually of the actual driveshaft. Is your clutch drum female square bit rounded off just at the entrance to it, with good square beneath it? If so then check the tolerances on the tube, cut it down a bit as described above and you should be fine. I've had the same on mine, but twigged as soon as it disengaged and cut the tube down a smidge, it's been fine since. On an aside, I bought an FS94 the other day. I love it, it's so well balanced with the hedgecutter on, it's solid shaft out of the box (and a good reach on it too), and most importantly, the vibration levels are VERY impressive. Despite what I said about the 'ecospeed' function being useless for strimming (which I stand by) it's sort of handy as a top end limiter when hedgecutting, normally 3/4 revs is plenty to give a good cut unless it's really fine stuff. The throttle has a nicer feel than an FS-70 too. My recommendation would now be an FS-94 to replace a 4-mix combi tool. The FS-70 is good, but the FS94 is much better than the £20 or so price difference would suggest.

It'll not be worth the effort. It will burn so-so in a wood burner, but is a bitch to split and takes up a lot of space for little calorific value. Goes light as willow when dry.

Have had no problems whatsoever with M-tronic FS460's in 3 years. Is that the same thing?

Yeah, but it's pretty hopeless as the tractor is 2ft wider than the cut. A 100HP 4wd tractor with loader will do all you ask well except the mulching. I'd start there and then decide if you really want to do mulching later. For a yard tractor to run the splitter and move chip, plus do a bit of flail mowing in dry conditions, a 70-90HP International or David Brown will give you the best bang for your buck. Purchase price under £3k, wouldn't be without mine. Makes the same money as an expensive 4WD one working around the yard and on local topping jobs, just got to know it's limits.

Guess it depends what combi attachments you already have! I just mount the attachment direct to the end of the FS-70 or FS94 with the T27 driver. Sometimes I use a short shaft (the type that make up half of a proper 'kombi' shaft) on things like the scrub cutter. I'm kind of stuck with Stihl as I have a fair few £ worth of attachments already. I borrowed a mates Husky loop handle strimmer the other day and liked it a lot.

The 1.1mm (.43) Oregon chain is hopeless, I had three and they all lost their teeth in quick succession. Stihl 1.1mm chain on the other hand is fine even up to MS250 power levels. Then the bar tends to be the weak point.