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Gasless mig is hit and miss. OP doesn't want gas. Especially if you will be welding less than clean metal, an inverter arc welder is the way to go. These are good: http://www.inverterfusion.co.uk/

Is the 201t really that bad???

Hell yeah! Nice one, that sounds like a good buy. Club cab? What engine?

Seriously, put a 12" 1.1mm gauge bar on it. I did a head to head last month with that, and another 181 running 14" 1.3mm. Both freshly sharpened. Cutting 10" timber, the smaller, thinner bar was easily half as quick again than the 14". It makes a hell of a difference. Both saws were almost new. I agree they seem a bit more cheaply made, but I'd sooner use a 181 than an 009. Technology moves on. I bet they cost a lot less in equivalent terms than the 009 did when new also. It's a profitable saw. Fencing, odd jobs, small trees, garden jobs, chipper work. Ideal.

So .325 is faster than 3/8? That's what I thought Openspaceman- thanks for the figure of 14%, that's interesting. If we could all flick a switch and give our saws 14% more power tomorrow I'm sure most folk would not hesitate. Also, the smaller the kerf the quicker it is to sharpen. I notice this particularly on a 12" 1.1mm guage bar.

In absolute terms, surely at the same bar length and the same chain speed (change the sprocket to achieve this), the thinner kerf on .325 will win out over 3/8? For the record, on an 034 I run 3/8x8 for my 15" & 16" bars and .325x9 on a 13" bar. I was considering purchasing my next 15" bar in .325?

I'm sure he means for use as a chipper saw- to sever unions and the like. It's ideal for that, especially at the price and residual value. Nice and light too, for as Horatio will tell you, they need to conserve all the energy they can for the mad dash to the chipper and back! Plus being in that role it's the most likely to be nicked. I'm with Eagle- I love mine for the profit it makes.

How come 3/8 is faster than .325? I would have assumed the opposite due to a slightly thinner kerf.

Whereabouts on the estate was it? Bit close to home that.

Use a 12" 1.1mm gauge bar to maximise the power from the engine. Choke parts as mentioned will wear out. Flog it on eBay after a year's abuse for £140 and buy a new one for £210.

It's a bit of a mongrel, that's for sure...

This is the one you need if you want Makita and are going to do gateposts etc. Makita BHP451RFE Combi Drill 18v x 3Ah Li-ion Batteries 0088381076067 Metal gearbox and three speeds. If you let go of that boring into some heavy oak, the damn thing will knock you out! Serious torque. I've abused mine for getting on 6 years, and although I'm on the second set of batteries this would be the same with any Li-ion drill over that timescale. The drill body itself is going strong. Chucks are the weak point on many of these drills, Makita included. I've replaced mine with a keyed chuck.

Makita 18v LXT. I wouldn't consider anything else. If you buy from PowerToolsUK you can get a 3 speed combi drill (get that, not a 2-speed, if you intend upon hanging gates) plus the impact driver and two 3AH batteries for about £340 with VAT and delivery. Screwfix are usually a rip off for most things, and in particular power tools.

Ask local farmers, and keep asking around till you find somewhere.

Hardly moving here- sold maybe 20-30 cube so far? I always have cord in stock, if you run out then you will probably loose the customer.

Old school Isuzu gets my vote. You might be lucky and get a club cab with the 3.1 TD for sub 2k. They look old, however...

Fully agree. However, perhaps you're missing the point slightly. 'Average' should at least be able to do as 'Average' did a generation ago, and purchase a starter house- that has been referenced several time in the thread. As it stands, the average of this generation are being held to ransom. Put it this way- many 'average' of the previous generation (bus drivers, checkout workers etc) own property. Can you imagine a bus driver or checkout worker these days being able to pay the rent without tax credits, let alone get a mortgage??

Round here we call that pick-a-stix, but the principle is the same!

Sounds like a nightmare. I hope you're not paying anything for it. I'd be really tempted to buy a track barrow at the right money- it won't loose value. Then take your tools to the timber to create the items that you have orders for, and bring firewood out when you have an order. To be blunt, it doesn't sound like you'll make enough money from firewood sales to cover pulling the timber out. It would most likely be cheaper to buy it in on a lorry.

Just had an email back from the police asking why I suspected them to be stolen, as he had been selling them for 6 months and had good feedback! Here is my reply: " He may well have been selling stolen tools for six months. Ask yourself- why are his previous items private? Also, bad feedback is no indication whatsoever of an item being previously stolen! Of course he'll get positive feedback- buyers are chuffed to bits with their cheap new saw. Those are new tools- they still have the original toolkits with them and in many cases the box. The current list on there reads exactly like the typical stock list of a small dealer- right down to the gloves and boots. They are also on short 3 day listings, and all at once. He wants them gone quick, with no public trace (private feedback) once sold. There is no way he is a legitimate dealer either- Stihl have a strict no mail order policy on their equipment. As regards blunt chains showing a previous saw to be secondhand- that may well be the case. However, you would be sorely mistaken if you think only new items would be stolen in a dealer robbery- anything looking complete and ready for the customer to pick up will be taken as they are much easier to shift on and still command high prices. "

I thought chestnut stakes and posts were in hight demand down your way?

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/general-chat/61971-kind-rock-7-ton-electric-log-splitter.html HTH

Fixed it for ya! Appreciate what you guys are saying re open forum and all that, if a mod wants to edit this thread or the title to say 'potentially stolen' then please do.

If they were dealers the photos wouldn't be taken inside a house...

Thinking about it, it looks like the entire stock of a small dealer. They even took the gloves and boots FFS! And a mantis tiller. Why are all his selling feedbacks listed as 'Private'? Because he doesn't want to leave a trace. From reading them you can tell they are chainsaw related. It's not rocket science....