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Thanks:thumbup1: I'm trying to. Most of the time its ok I start off well but I seam to degrade a bit with practice. Just wondered if there are any tips that may help, not just me but for others.

Well done on passing your CS32:thumbup1: I'm off on mine next week near Bridgenorth, but living about 80miles away decided to stay in a cottage nearby, so up with my wife and dogs and a pickup full of saws. I've been practicing on some large dead Horse chestnuts, all went down ok but not too happy with my cuts, any tips on getting cuts level:confused1: I had been using a MS 460 with a 15" bar but also taking a MS280 also with a 15" - any tips welcome:thumbup1:

Not quite the master mind at work using Aspen - limits it down to 2 guys on this site:thumbup1: wot a sort of 'Aspen cocktail' used by 'enviro friendly urban terrorists with a recycled beer bottle' Sorry my imagination just took over:001_rolleyes:

Looks like they got one with me:sneaky2: Ok I keep my kit on and do it it daylight

It's good to be able to relate to peole around you - as it was yrs ago. I help out with the village churchyard with the bigger jobs, doing it this Saturday but have one problem - my wife just informed me there is a 10min pray session before we start work. How can I get out of that one:confused1:

Not to sound a bit over, to make it totally safe for kids stay in a fenced inclosure - being outside = some risk, for me it's plants like Giant Hogweed, and maybe with younger children check out the fungi and risks that could put them off being in a wood but after that it's training. Starting off with 'how to walk through a wood' (without falling over). Sticks in eyes must be the bigger risk. Holly is part of the woodland ecosystem - so are biting insects. I'm a bit old but I played in woods as a kid, learnt about plants from older kids with no probs and took my son onto a large estate since he was 5 to build camps with a small axe now he's got his CS39 and doing his level 4, so he has come up all the way. But I can see the problem, when about 8 yrs old we took one of my sons friends to the woods, he ran about like an animal released and when we went home he asked about 'paying the man'? he had only ever been to 'pay to get in' controlled places, so had no natrual developed skills - I guess most are like that

I can't say this would work in this case but I use this technique alot now, an electric heat gun no flame and seals can be screened, works really well with some added controlled violence:sneaky2:

Too true mate - I even have to strip off to get all the wood out of my pants and wash in the 'tin bath' before being allowed indoors. joking aside Aspen has 20% lower CO fumes but it's still omitting a deadly gas

Bet all the folks in the other houses love the sound of your 2T motors:sneaky2: I have an old 266XP and run it on 50:1 no probs, like the last guy said it the oil quality thats improved. I read up on early snowmobiles and if run at recommended mix they had problems but the locals ran them a bit lean on oil mix and they worked well.

I'm up with Spud on this one but maybe it's being an engineer (it's hard for me not to get the spanners out) plus running bikes for years, that I get satisfaction for a well running saw or bike. in general I blow the air filter/clean bar/sharpen etc every few fill ups but give the saws a 'birthday' after a big session say a few days of hard work, it comes natural to me, but my son is not into engineering so can't relate to maintenance in the same way, I guess may tree guys are the same.

I'm glad I wear glasses, saved me no end of times, plus wearing a peaked cap in woods , but still I have had sticks come up underneath my specs. If your eye is still painful go to the nearest A+E or if worried directly to the county eye hospital, worth the wait

I tried yrs ago to get some info from the HSE on CO fumes from hand held petrol tools but hit a blank - still not aware of any permitted working levels of CO fumes. Just for info our red blood cells perfer CO (carbon monoxide) to oxygen but when full of CO these cells can no longer carry oxygen hence the effect of drowning, it takes about 6 months for the damaged red blood cells to be replaced. Just for interest CO2 (carbon dioxide) is used by the body to trigger the need for another breath, hence the danger of 'hyperventing' it reduces the CO2 level so no breathing trigger - we just blackout instead.

Spot on about health Geoff, what most guys don't get is 'you can't man it out with CO fumes'. There is no way of using petrol hand tools without inhaling CO fumes, as a test once my wife who is a practice nurse tested me out with a CO meter and it showed a CO level of a smoker (and I use a resp mask most of the time). the Aspen fuels have a lower CO level so it helps. I'm not talking about save the planet from global warming (that's mainly CO2)but later heath issues.

Andy if the exhaust fumes were the reason for your health prob - buy a 3M resp mask. I find fumes give me a headache and feel yuck so I have used these masks since I have used saws and no probs - Ok I sound like an extra from Dr Who, and picked up the nick name of 'the masked chainsawer' - could have been worse:laugh1:. If you want more details on CO fumes and resp maskes let me know:thumbup1:

My father in law had a leg blown off on D-day and drove a VW, my uncle fought the Japs in Burma and drove a Mazda. My dad fought the Itialians and rode a bike (not really he was British to the end). Hi Hodge, lookup on You tube, richard boffin, there is a video by his sister laura boffin- it's a bit shaky to start but get alot better. I'm of the wrong generation to load it up for you. He's an agri engineer with a the most moded landy I have ever seen, He made the chassis and frame, it runs on an auto g/box, hence the way it climbs. He had it on the road once but insurance got too much. Not how it's at an off road event but found the course too easy so he just drove up steep banks and through trees - the voice over is my son. He can be contacted on 'facebook' richard boffin - banbury, where he has more pictures of its building. Well worth a look

Hi Stubby - Yep brill dogs, mine are large for cockers in fact larger than many Springers both shiny black intact males - who get on fine. The younger one is a comic and as soft as any but the older one has lets say complex emotions, he is the king and you treat him with respect - don't touch unless he wants to be touched, but often at 3:00am he starts crying so off downstairs to find him with a teddy , which he brings up to bed:sneaky2: Both ride on my quad dogging in pheasants and will pickup, the older one has squirrel radar - just follow him with a gun. better turn this back to saw security, I recently made a couple of brackets on the back of my IW top with a small padlock in the latches so the tailgate of the L200 can't be lowered (everything is locked inside anyway) not the most secure but at least it needs tools to open. At home all kit is locked with cables, not that is has been tested. I just make my place a bit tatty locking against other houses along with the dog gates - sort of works.

She was only the fishmongers daughter but she had crabs all over her plaice

After being an engineer officer on BP oil tankers I can only guess what happened - poor guy. There was one product tanker which had a gas explosion in the forward tanks and it blow the deck up over the bridge like a sardine tin.

Ok time for a really good video on Youtube (sorry I can't do the entry bit, maybe somebody could do it for me) but look up Youtube and enter 'richard boffin' it should show a list - the top one by Laura Boffin (his sister) is brill. Voice over about the tree by my son:blushing: The first bit is very shaky but stay with it, this landy is really 'extra special' He's had it since he was 17 yrs and kept modifying it, in it's present form he made the chassis him self , he's a quiet spoken Agri engineer, find out more by contacting him on Facebook, use the contact of it works of 'Iain's dad' (me). He has more plans for it with bigger wheels, and recenttly fitted twin motors to the front winch. Highly recomended:thumbup:

Yep dogs are the answer - or even the image of having a dog works. When my son started to walk say 18 yrs ago I made some gates for the drive and put wire mesh on to stop him climbing up - but people assumed we had a dog, all the 'door to door types' stopped calling, So to complete the image I put up a 'beware of dog sign' - that stopped anybody we didn't know. Over heard some 'Trick or treaters' saying "don't go there, gates equal dogs":thumbup1: Now we have two working cockers one softy barks when anybody comes, the other sleeps in the pickup if in the drive, lets say I wouldn't put my hand in there. We had to put up a second gate because the postie could get by them. Nothing gets by them night or day without them letting us know. I wouldn't want a 'big bad scrap yard dog' near a family, but smaller dogs that raise the alarm are the answer:thumbup1:

Sorry to hear this Robarb, hope he's soon out of ICU - always a good sign. My son has recently got his CS39 loves the job but can't help worry a bit.

Brill firewood as mentioned but if there is some good sections why not make some chairs etc, I made a complete dining set, table and all from cherry wood. One tip - keep the bark back and store separatly, it's like tar paper and will light a fire from a match.

I engraved the postcode onto my daughters bike yrs ago - got nicked told police, no interest:confused1: So now I use a large bike lock through all the handles + locked in as well. Had an interesting incident a while ago, back of truck locked but with two dogs left in windows part open in front. Came back 15 mins later driver door wide open but nothing touched, bigger dog looking a bit sheepish as if he had done something wrong. Can only conclude some naughty boy openned the door and put his hand in:thumbup1:

yep and twin 20mm cannons as in Libya comes with a straight 6 cyl 4.2 diesel, maybe the 20mm cannons are a bit difficut to get on your FAC.

Sorry to be a bit thick but what's an O/P:confused1: From my original post I didn't see shooting woods with a talley on every tree, and Horse Chestnuts felled in case the beaters play conkers between drives (schools) most throw maize at each other going through cover crops:lol: But this one is really dangerous, I had a walk around today and in one area there are at least 10 hangup & boughs about to come down, it's not on a footpath but people walk there. like alot of none tree guys, the keeper + estate see it as 'don't touch' or don't know how to manage it to improve the shoot and maintain a level of safety. All the safety work can be done from a pickup or tools/winches brought in by Quad, I have cleared full sized oaks that had dropped across pens using a quad and trailer to save ground compression. I put in over 50 vol days per year plus dogging in. Some areas it would be a pity to touch, it's the best nature area for over 10 miles, but where is the balance between untouched nature and safety. I assume in Victorian times there was still a level of woodland work being carried out along with a keeper being expected to know where every wild game bird nest was on the estate - it's that balance I want to find out:thumbup1: The comments so far are most interesting - thanks