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I got my lad as a kid to always were a glove on his left hand, as I've had only minor cuts from hand saws - easily done. hope it all heals up ok

pity you don't live nearer to me, I would give it a go FOC. I was thinking earlier and why not try some local Motor - cross riders who know a good 2T bike mechanic, nothing against garden mechanics but many are not into tuning two storkes for max power. I'm sure most would love the challange of tuning a big chainsaw for a couple of pints:thumbup1: I don't like the idea of poring petrol in = fire hazard. Again I don't see the need for a new carb as I'm sure it's a blocked jet or something minor if it ran well recently and I assume the compression is still good? Not wishing to take advantage of your misfortune but if you give up and want to sell PM me.

Reminds me of working in south america learning spanish, a slight mistake on how you say a work can make a big difference:blushing: like how old are you? in spanish it comes out as ' I have 35 years' but with a slight difference years 'anos' becomes - 'anus' so now you are saying you have 35 'anus'. Moral of the story,' learn all the dirty words first - then you can avoid making mistakes in polite company - like your new girlfriends family.

If it did run ok - then started playing up. I assume it's ok but with a minor fault. Start by fitting a new plug & fuel filter as ign & carbs faults have a crossover of symptoms. Then I assume with a carb it must only be a blocked jet. I have a MS280 that played up on running,(ok I used to work on bikes) but I stripped down the carb putting the bits in an old Pyrex lid and making notes of where each bit went. and cleaned it all out with a solvent and using an 'air duster' can blew out all the ports etc and re-assembled it. I set the hi + lo setting to one turn out or whatever they are for a 880, and gave it a run - let it warm up for 5 mins. Then set up the LO setting to run at it's best, then run it at full power and adjusted the HI setting to give max power an best running. It now runs a treat - I also have a MS 390 that run lumpy at full power so did the same again, by opening the HI air screw (to weaken the mix) it suddenly ran better than ever. To check it's not too weak run the saw at work under full power for a while and check the plug colour. If you can't do it yourself find a local guy who is into bikes ideally two strokes. Good luck - it won't cost much in spares or that that long. I often hear Stihl disc cutters running at full power running as rough as hell and I'm sure its because they only open the HI air screw to the initial setting and not tune it.

Many thanks Megatron for your information. I didn't have you down as a dealer, more a technical engineer from your writing, knowledge and user name. years ago with medical equipment many products were supported for longer after end of production, 7 yrs typical. To keep user loyality to a product and so many hospitals were loyal to one manufacturer. Now most have a shorter product cut off date with lists going out to give 1 years notice as a fixed cut off date. Non genuine spares against imported spares is difficult, eg I brought some Husky spares for an old saw and they were marked 'made in Brasil', at first I thought non genuine but realized they were possibly genuine husky made in Brazil (as we spell it).

Latin names - why bother. According to my wife there are two types of trees; those with conkers and those without conkers. But she is far brighter than me learning Latin at school and into gardening so can remember most plant names in latin and being a Nurse can remember the name of most drugs and there usage - and unlike me she can spell.:confused1 I only use the latin names to cross reference:001_huh:

Megatron - what's the Stihl product support time limit for say the 260/460 range of saws? also are the older range of saws still supported? My day job is medical engineering and we have product notices from manufactures on end of support for products and from that date that's it, no spares (must all get binned).

not many butterflies in general this year - as a kid small tortoiseshell were as common as cabbage whites.

Ok that leaves the Welsh:sneaky2: One trick is to see any interview as not that important to you (even if it is) - so you can relax and be more natural and you must believe in yourself. If you go in really tense it will show. A manager told me once how she coped with stress in her job - she replied," I down grade everything, so if it's not important, then I don't get stressed". With alot of interviews the boss has decided if he likes you by the time you have sat down. I know one guy at an interview who was worried about all the other guys waiting with them all talking about their degrees etc but he got the job? He asked his new boss why? he replied," they were all UTA and I can relate to you. Good luck:thumbup:

Had a few thorns in joints, I use surgical forcepts that I keep in my truck so I can often get them out before they hurt too much when trying to dig them out. I had one large Yew splinter go through a finger using a bilhook and broke off, couldn't get it out without risk to tendons - so left it in. It didn't cause infection or hurt after a while, i could move it side to side - it came out a year later. I don't worry about the forcepts being sterile as the thorn wasn't sterile? if a wound/thorn site gets hot after say 24 hrs, thats infection building up but in the Nelson era the wooden ships were filthy and with no sterile instruments but many survived major surgery Many thorns seam to leave a tip inside that causes infection and can't be extracted, often they come out with puss when ready.

To me trees grow and later on fall down and are not too predictable in between, the whole image of a TPO takes a bit of understanding, with the balance of risk to people or the tree often biased towards the tree. I over heard our local council tree twit spouting on in the pub on how they are being more 'enviro friendly' stopping more tree work than a few years ago. Between my wife and myself we have had say 10 incidents in the last few years of trees and boughs falling down near us when out walking, often on summer no wind days. about 10 yrs ago a large popular (with a tree tag on) fell across the Hospital playgroup smashing the front doorway but again it happened at night. We also had a large Beech again with tree tag with rotten roots fall across the school road into the entrance again at night. Also at my son's preschool (yrs ago)they had a large Beech with fungus sprouting, I asked the owners to get it down, when the tree guys checked it, they said it was too dangerous to climb and pulled it over into a field away from the house. That's x3 kiddy incidents within a mile of each other, each one could have killed say +10 kids at peak time - how many more are there right now at risk.

I work on a large estate with plenty of mature cedars mostly on parkland. Most have dropped boughs mainly in the summer and all are still standing as healthy trees. This tree is on a dry bank so it could drop more boughs, higher boughs will often crash through damaging the whole of one side.

It seems to be a pattern of very keen young guys putting on posts for advise wanting to come into arb work, that don't know how to cross the threshold from years of school/college culture into the world of real work.

Would it be an idea to do some trial days with local contractors, or is it not so simple with on site insurance etc?

need a hedgetrimmer for around pheasant pens etc, was looking at the Stihl chainsaw attachment the HS246 to fit a MS260 - anybody used one:confused1:

Has anybody used a Stihl 260 with a hedgetrimmer attachment HS246?

I know one guy who flys hawks and has fitted a 'hawk tracker' to his trailer:sneaky2:

Yes but you are taking 'Yorkshire lassies' TKF My daughter moved up to Hebden Bridge - she needed a tougher place to do her 'Iron-man' training. She got a job on a building site where the men listened to Radio 1 and drank coffee - as a challenge she got them to listen to the afternoon play on Radio 4 whilst drinking Earl Grey tea - she did it:thumbup:

Chatting to a local tree guy about kit getting nicked, he told me that a few yrs ago a tree climber was feeding brash into a chipper in London when he realized it was moving forward:confused1: so he climbed onto the chipper and over the draw bar and over the truck, Indiana Jones style as it drove down the road, hammer in hand attacking the thief from above - got him. Has anybody else heard the story and has a bit more detail to add:thumbup1:

Saw a nice composition of poppies near a graveyard so planned to come back when the sun had moved around - but the farmer came out with his tractor:sneaky2:

Yellow helmets get lost in the snow around here:001_tt2:

brought an old 266XP that didn't supply much oil to the bar, suspected the oil pickup non-return valve cleaned all the bits, including pump piston and spring etc in solvent and reassembled - now works fine, on max will empty oil and fuel at the same time.

Green was always considered unlucky for motorcyclists in the days when you could paint your helmet so it was rare to see a green helmet. So you could imagine the suprise when we formed a new biker gang and got one guy to spray paint all of our helmets - metalic green. So we reluctantly became the 'green demons' For some reason the Germans like green, as see in their range of cabbage green medical equipment that doesn't sell over here because of the sickly colour.