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What make are they? You'll probably be able to find a helmet they will fit on.

Whilst we're on the subject, Bilsom are distributed in the UK by Sperian. They also distribute very good safety specs- really snug fit but comfy- wear just like sunglasses Pulsafe Sperian Amber Lens Safety Specs - Screwfix.com, Where the Trade Buys No commercial link with Sperian or Bilsom, but you'll struggle to find better PPE. Like many of you I believe in the best tools for the job, and that should go for PPE too, both for yourself and your employees.

I feel qualified to comment upon this as I have tried almost every brand on the UK market. Run six pairs, so everyone who works for me gets music. Well worth the cost in terms of increased productivity from happy workers. Husquvarna are rebadged Sonseren. Auto tune is rubbish, constant fading and switching and hard to tune in to the more far flung stations that you'd have no trouble getting with a manual tune. When the battery gets low, you have a 'beep beep' every fifteen seconds. Five minutes of this and you'll want to throw them in the river. Hellberg TuneUp are ok, not brilliant reception though but do have a 3.5mm line in for ipod/walky talky etc. Peltor are as previously mentioned, crap reception. By far the best are a brand by the name of Bilsom. Come from Australia. Amazingly comfortable, replacement pads easily available and SUPERB tuning and sound quality. First found them as Screwfix: Bilsom Radio Ear Defenders - Screwfix.com, Where the Trade Buys Then I found a yellow pair with line in: SBA - Bilsom Radio HV Ear Defenders. Although cheaper than the black ones, audio quality is the same! Currently have four yellow and two black. Bilsom are the Stihl of the radio ear defender world- everything else is B&Q special in comparison. It really is that different. Trust me on this- I should know as I spent four years trying different brands. Only 'problem' is they won't fit normal helmets- however I'm ordering a pair of non radio Bilsoms with a helmet fitting for about £8 this week and will try and swap them over. Should work fine, does anyone want to know if it does?

If your're running .325 pitch, then your 261 will benefit from quicker cutting and a narrower kerf if you switch to 3/8 Picco sprocket, bar and chain. Would recommend a 12" 3/8 Picco bar in either 1.1 or 1.3mm gauge. 1.1mm is noticeably faster on green birch, but may not be up to the job on seasoned timber. Regarding loss of firewood, well, are you of Scottish descent?

Will follow that advice to the letter :lol:

I can categorically confirm that a Bosh pump is the only way to go- I blew a Lucas pump on a TUD5 up after just a tank and a half of veg oil...

A tonne is the metric measurement- ie. 1000kgs. One Imperial ton (also known as a 'Long Ton') is 2240 lbs or 1016.3kgs And to confuse you more, one short ton is 2000 lbs or 907.4kgs!

Does anyone else switch to a 4.8mm file towards the end of the life of a standard 3/8 chain? I find it allows me to keep the right amount of hook without wasting effort and files boring into the tie straps.

Are Trust any good for things like digger work and fencing also?

Of course the issue of blame is under discussion! Both those scenarios involve someone driving like a loon and causing damage to someone elses property. As I understand it, your wife caused damage to her own property by driving a touch too fast for conditions. If it's cold enough to freeze water into ice, then you need to take extra care. How was it the water companies fault? Pipes burst, especially in the cold. These things happen, same as trees blow down in the wind. Congrats on the ambulance chasing stance though

I suppose you'd also have sued God if the accident was due to snow? No fault? She lost control of the car by the sound of it- if it was cold enough for it to freeze, then there was the possibility of ice everywhere. More care needed- it's just one of those things. Why don't you sue the council also for failing to grit the road properly?

Forget Digbits or Evans and Reid. One of them (I forgot which) messed me around, didn't start the build when they said they would so I went elsewhere. Vemac Engineering. vemacengineering Far cheaper than the main two and will build it to suit your machine perfectly.

Wanna miners lamp up there?

AFAIK, second jobs are taxed at 20% unless you go over the higher rate threshold. Would assumed self-employment on top of a main job was the same. You're better off on benefits in this sh!thole of a country... Good luck to you mate. Tax only goes to spongers who can't be arsed to do a proper days work. Makes me mad.

Not having a ticket doesn't make you an idiot who shouldn't be cutting a bit of firewood for yourself. Likewise, possessing a ticket does not make you automatically supremely capable. I have noticed an affliction amongst tree surgeons (though not on here, I hasten to add) by which many seem to think that running around in trousers emblazoned with STIHL and HUSQUVARNA makes them God's gift. A ticket might be worth considering for the OP as a quick, condensed way of learning what might otherwise take many weeks of hard graft, trial and error etc as regards use and maintenance of the saw. On the other hand, if you've used it for 25 years and you know how to sharpen it, it's probably a waste of time. How many on here installed their own wood burners? What do you reckon the stove installers forum think of you?

Thank you! WJ Green and Co really need to speak to a web designer about Google optimization! Was searching for an hour last night.

Get that tractor and processor over to a mates shed pronto.

Would love a Lewis winch. Can you get one in the UK though?

Right, I need a chainsaw winch. Question is, which one? Which ones can you get in the UK? Can you get one with a drum AND a capstan? Where to buy in the UK? Are they all about a ton pull? (a ton is plenty for this contract) Any pointers appreciated!

Will be hedgelaying next week Pat, but it'll be with the help of the digger. Fifteen foot high hazel, I'm not pulling that about by hand! Plenty of old school techniques and tricks of the trade...not!

I worked every hour God sent since age 15. Lads these days are far too soft- it's taken me eleven lads to find a good one. Even he wants 'me' time at the weekend. As he makes me lot of money during the week I oblige. Have three more starting next week- we're going to be very busy and I'm pretty sure only one of them will turn out any good. I'm not a harsh employer- we have a laugh, they get bought top quality workwear, radio ear defenders the lot. And a beer after work on Fridays. Yet kids these days think they can just ring in 'sick' twenty minutes before you're supposed to pick them up. The trouble is Andy, we're self employed. We have a completely different mindset from everyone else. My solution would be to get one of your friends to offer him work- I never wanted to work for my old man, but I worked my socks of for everyone else for some reason. Up at five to feed the pheasants. Finishing bale stacking at nine. The works. Kids these days eh? Don't know they were born. Yours A 22 year old

Thanks mate, that sounds pukka.

I was thinking of moving to Aus... then I realised that only half the Stihl catalogue is available over there! No chance!

I'd have said your best bet is to get the clutch done pronto. A weeks 4x4 hire from somewhere like SHB and you may as well have had the clutch done for the same money. If you were nearer to me you could have borrowed a quad

First things first, have you plugged it into another tractor to check it's not the tractors hydraulics that are at fault?