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Hello All,

Where can i buy aspen fuel in Birmingham? preferably south of the city or even Worcester area.

 

Cheers

Ollie

Dream on... and on... and on...

I'm in Evesham. Been asking for a local stockist for several years. Zero progress on it - the guys in Pershore aren't interested, ditto Honeybourne.

Best option is to get it online. It's what I do.

Gransfors bruks large splitting maul. You will never have to buy another.

 

I do a bit of blacksmithing / tool making and have to say that whilst the fiskars initially splits well the steel is poor grade and the edge chips and rolls very easily meaning it needs a lot of looking after and wears quickly with sharpening.

Well, I've cut several hundred tons using my Fiskars X27 and it's needed zero care! Still splitting superbly, however. It certainly doesn't need sharpening ever - a chipped, blunted edge works just fine

You should call Spudulike first, before you buy another saw.

I just had the same, and sent it to Spud. It's back to it good old ways And the bill was somewhat less than a new saw - so yes, you don't get all those spare parts, but nor do you pay as much!

Painfully well! The ones in the polytunnel have benefited enormously, and last night I popped into the field with the axe and chopped the rings I'd cut on Sunday - they were already getting to the "hard work to chop" stage. Never seen anything like it...

They're Amara aren't they? like most sailing gloves.

You've got me on that one! But they do feel similar.

I found a pair of Cutter gloves in a kit bag, the plain white/grey type, must have bought them ages ago and they are a good fit for me, the fingers are long enough.

 

To be honest reading through previous threads I'm surprised that so few wear actual 'chainsaw' gloves although I'm not sure why I'm surprised as I knew that they weren't a legal requirement, I guess I just wore them because I had them and wasn't influenced by anyone else who had decided against them. I don't wear them when climbing although I still wear gloves.

 

I'm so used to them now that I generally don't need to remove them but handling timber or working with winches and associated kit shreds them especially if they're wet (which they usually are in the UK)

 

I might just start wearing regular gloves that are either cheaper/more durable/better fitting.

 

I found the Wells Lamont leather work gloves to be fairly durable and they're reasonable at around £8

The Cutter Pro ones are synthetic rather than leather, and hence last much, much longer in the wet...

Cutter gloves also worth looking at for next time. I use the Pros and they're excellent.

PS Changing the line was a doddle. It went through the various walls and fittings no problem - Husky provided the new one with chamfered ends which made it all so easy.

Sorted, and thank you both once again. This was the problem:

It's horses for courses. For me softwood has two significant drawbacks:

1) many of my customers lack storage space in their terraced house plots, so hardwood allows them to store more overall heat capability at one go

2) it reduces the delivered value from a full trailer, and my market is generally further from my base than for most folks - which makes this a factor that doesn't affect them but hurts me badly

But it's good wood. Just not good for me/my customers!

Have you tried IE? Working fine for me!

PS That's in both Edge and IE...

It seems this problem has resumed. Fine yesterday but today same problem as before.

MS Smartscreen kicking in. I'm running Windows 10 with Edge browser.

Have you tried IE? Working fine for me!

Brilliant - thanks, guys. I'll give it a go. Relieved I don't have to take the sodding thing apart to do the job

Cheers,

Jeremy

Quick one, chaps... Anyone out there with experience changing the fuel line on a 576XP? How hard is it to do for a reasonably-competent person? Mine has spring a leak where it emerges from the tank and takes a sharp turn

I'm just keen to make sure it's not a killer job before I order a replacement part. If it is, I guess it'll have to go to the local dealer's workshop

Don't wait....Aspenate!

I wish I could. There's STILL no-one in the Evesham area stocking it And my usual internet supplier was out of stock the other week, so I ended up mixing up 5 litres of pump fuel.

God it was awful stuff. The saws hated it in the heat, with the fuel vapour locking after a couple of hours of solid use crosscutting. I stank. I got those headaches and vile taste in my mouth again.

New Aspen has just arrived...

Quick check: is anyone still getting the message? I'm not, and it should now be resolved. But you know what "should" did...! ;-)

By the way, worth noting that the issue MAY be being triggered by one of the adverts - if an embedded advert is coming off another site which IS compromised, Arbtalk suffers, too

Steve, I've not heard back so, and I hope you don't mind, I've submitted the filter fix request on your behalf.

In the meantime for folks suffering this, the warning is coming from your browser, not the site. Someone (why would they do this?!) has flagged up Arbtalk as a dodgy site. The request is in to resolve that but in the meantime you can disable the filter if you want:

In Windows Internet Explorer 7, click the Tools menu, point to Phishing Filter, then click Turn off Automatic Website Checking. In the dialogue box that appears, select Turn off automatic Phishing Filter and click OK.

In Windows Internet Explorer 8, click the Safety menu, point to SmartScreen Filter, then click Turn off SmartScreen Filter. In the dialogue box that appears, select Turn off SmartScreen Filter and click OK.

In Windows Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11, click the Tools button, point to Safety, then click Turn off SmartScreen Filter. In the dialogue box that appears, select Turn off SmartScreen Filter and click OK.

Any joy with this mate?

 

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Yeh, need you to do a few things as site owner that I can't do for you. Will send you a PM.

Guys, time to put my hand up: I work for Microsoft as my day job. It looks like a false positive, but annoying nevertheless. Apologies on behalf of the company. And I'm on the case to get it taken off the 'dodgy sites' register.

I doubt I can find out who "reported" Arbtalk as unsafe, though - no doubt privacy rules will prevent it

Cutter leather gloves for anything other than saw work. Cutter manmade material gloves for the saw work.

I chop logs for us, family and friends, and flog the surplus at work - my day job is office-based.

Very attractive young lady from Sales walks in one day and shouts across the office: "Oi, Jezza, I want some of your hard wood and I want it NOW!"

I think she knew what she was doing...

now recommending Motomix instead as it is much more pure than Aspen

How TF do they work that one out? It's alkylate fuel. You can't get "purer" alkylate fuel! Pure marketing BS, I'm afraid...

Driving steam trains. Love it. Not wood-fired, mind ;-)