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bit hard to call this one Rob as every now and again you will buy a chain packaged as stihl BUT its a oregon chain in the package, old stock may be but stihl did pack oregon chains a few years back lad who works with me bought 5 chains packed as stihl but 3 of them where oregon chains,????,

same as above another 20-25 years yet at the moment looks like a few sawlogs and the rest fencing posts and strainers ,

well at least if its running on brash it will be co2 neutral , i heard the owner has pattent pending and going on Dragons den with it ?

worked in woods and picked up with my dogs on shoots for 30 yrs now and never had a tick on me but i have removed proberbly in to th 100s of dogs but as in last post on this subject i said its quite easy to spot a tick on a lab as compared to a goldie , cocker an springer and yes vet may be right on this one but when i see one its removed right away. and please see other post i have put up about ticks on us humans and please take the time to listen to the interview on radio lancs,

sorry to here about your dog and as for the ticks i think your vet is pulling your chain i have had working labs for 30 yrs or more and taken a lot of ticks of dogs and never had any health or ill tempered problems, when we had that fantastic summer in 2012 when it never stopped pissing down from mid july onwards i was out 2 or 3 days aweek picking up and was taking 2 or 3 ticks and some times more of 2 dogs every time we went out but a tick on a black lab is much easier to spot than it would be on a goldie ,

he was in his last year of 3 at myerscough collage and he came to me to learn a little bit faster than he was doing at collage and he openly admitted that he was board and pissed off with the speed things happened at collage, like in a mini bus at 10am 1 hour drive get kit out then dinner then talk for 1/2 an hour then 2 hrs split between 8 of them and then set off back to collage at 3pm, so he was not getting much hands on, he worked on site 2 days a wk for 6 mths with me, had him felling trees snedding off and cutting to length and he came on in leaps n bounds first month or so i would not of thought of employing him but at the end i would of, but i dont employ any body only subbies , i did,nt pay him much as he had to come up to speed and he wanted to learn but since have had him do a couple of climbing jobs and he has done well and got on with it swiftly and safely and he is good to get on with as well, next one that comes from collage will either be US or a right clever prick, lets see what happens,

been looking at this myself so found time and courage to ring dvla and it may be easier for you than me as the truck i was looking at is 4 WD and was looking at changing taxation class as well for me theres a lot to do with forms and photos so hence why my head is up my arse at the moment,

they would proberbly more interested in getting home and getting out for a beer or two and a odd spliff, the lad with me went and got him self a book after i pointed out to him that if some one asked him to go and price a job, asking him to quote for removing a birch, ash and a elm and reducing a beech and a maple but customer wont be there, i asked him how he was going to price it if he did not know what he was looking at ? answer i don,t know, so then asked him if he priced it and got the job then went to do and again customer was not there and he removed the birch ash and maple and reduced the beech and elm and thats not what the customer asked for and when customer returns from holiday and finds his prize maple that his late wife planted has gone he more than likely wont be very happy, so i pointed out that as a professional tree surgeon and he did some thing like the above, he would proberbly not get paid and all so he would look a right prick, so knowing your trees is quite an important part of the job and lets face it in this day and age bad news travels faster than good news ,

so from reading the above posts both myself and many hundreds of other people are towing trailers every day and braking the law, me old shape L200 and 10 x 5.5 ft ifor tipping trailer plated at 3.5 tonne L200 rated to tow about 2.8 tonne , and the cattle auction just down the road on monday mornings there is a que of landrovers and pick ups all with either twin or tri axel cattle trailers behind them , landrovers ok for weight towing but not many of the pick ups will be if what has been said above is correct about the towing viechale and the plate on the trailer ?,

one thing i would look at is second hand value in years to come ,from my own observations a stihl seems to be between £60&£100 more for a second hand machine as compared to the husky equivalant but husky is the more expensiver saw when new ?, and i find stihls are easier to work on

i know where you are coming from the youth of today are more interested in going home rather than getting the job done, and as for what they learn at collage? , well i cant answer that one but a lad i had for 2 days a week from myerscouh collage said to me that he had lernt more from me over 6 mths than he had at collage in 3 yrs, and the thing that got me was tree ID he new nothing at the start and told me that they had done a couple of hrs on tree ID at the beginning of course, so in a woodland and asked him to fell the lodgepole and birch , which are them , thats where i realised what the f==k do they teach them and who is teaching them,?????,

eh yeh,, for 35 years thanks,

when you was making money out of the firewood i was not making much out of the timber, but today same amount of work and believe it or not i am starting to see a more healthier reward from the timber side and yes the hauliers do do well out of it if they are buying the timber then selling on, i now sell direct to mills and get them to arrange haulage, and the firewood we now sell to private punters in small loads 2,3,4, tonne as nearlly every man and his dog who have a stove has now got a really powerfull chainsaw from either B&Q or Aldi etc and one of them clarke elec log splitters that make is a bit easier than a axe but not as fast as a axe.

j cut is bassically a step cut that looks like its gone sadly wrong but as slack say its for over guide bar stuff and if done correctly you shoud be able to see the j on the stump its a slow release cut and works well on big trees, the others are your normall step cut and a cut called a v cut again a slow release cut that works well on smaller trees, guide bar under tree cut up 20-30mm then guide bar up one side of tree on a 45 degree angle repeat this process on other side of tree then with guide bar level from the top alline 45 degree cuts and start cutting downwards keeping an eye on the cut for opening up when cut starts opening ease of on power and finish off gently and when this is done correct you will see a v on the end of both sections of timber, and as shillo says get ready to jump, a guy i know got popelled 38 mtrs through the air and how far he would of gone is anyones gusse but he was stopped by a tree and when he hit the tree his feet where 8ft from the ground, his injurys broken pelvis 2 broken thighs and from the tree that stopped him broken collar bone, arm and 5 broken ribbs in this back , so be carefull,

Sorry but i cant see why you think £70 a tonne is mental when you look at what work goes in to it , processor sized ash 4 trees per tonne fell, sned and cut in to 2.5 mtr lengths then stack, timber has been purchased standing say £20 per tonne cutter wants paying £20 per hour then £10 per tonne to get it to roadside dont leave much at £20 per tonne proffit , then compare the same said 4 trees in some ones back garden and they would be priced at what 6 7 8 £900 or may be more for dismantle and removal , about 4 months ago i was helping out a arb team for a few days when customer asked about the removal of a apple tree while they where there they quoted her £120 for what looked like about 10 mins work to me for 3 guys, so why not £70 per tonne ?,

Ok who has been spying on me ??????????????

Does,nt matter what saw it is as you can cut a fairly big tree down with a small saw if you know what you are doing, looking at the cut it aint a big issue is it ? gob cut a bit big and if back cut had been level from where he started it would of been ok, if no one was hurt its fine and if that would of been on a NPTC accessment it would of been talked about then candidate given another go to correct his faults, we cant get them all right, when i look at some i have done, some have been right dogs dinners and a 5 year old could of done better but if you are felling 40,50,60,70, trees a day i think 1 or 2 f,,k ups are acceptable, looking at the cut i would say 12" bar on saw so should not be a problem and why cant he log the stem up with a 12" bar ?,

i find it pretty amazing that a piston the size of a egg cup can go up & down so many times per minuet at such an amazing speed, 121,572,000 revolutions is quite eye opening really for such a small bit of kit, but after picking up another lads 241 the other day i did notice a difference in power between mine and his, his is about 12 months newer same bar & chain but pick up is quicker and had more power and sounded a lot crisper but saw will have not done any where near what mine has done. i had,nt noticed the drop in power untill the other day but i would,nt as it would be so gradual so time for a new one then ,

Hi all what is a lot of working hours for a fully working pro saw ? reason i am asking is that i have just had a stihl ms241 in at the dealers with a starting issue that i did not have time to sort out, how ever the issue was something i would of still been looking for as it was a fuel solinoid valve , when i went to collect the saw i was given a diagnostics report all printed out and on one page it said working hours 368.4 would you say this is a lot, average or low. the way i look at this is if it was a car sat on the motorway at 60mph for 368.4 hrs it would of covered 22,104 miles, now there is a massive difference between a 1ltr car and a 42cc chainsaw and when i looked at it this way i was fairly impressed that it was still running at all, it has been a good saw for me and had very little problems with it apart from a couple of plugs needle bearing change regular and a good clean on a regular basis and the air filter cleaned weekly, so made my decision it will have to be replaced as it wont last forever, 368.4 hrs i think is not a lot for a engine but a 42cc single cylinder engine revving its nuts out on a daily basis i suppose its a fairly large amount,

Don't know what it weighed but don't reckon it was anywhere near 2 ton! 26'' x 8' 6'' larch felled 3 years ago, anyone care to guess? fresh felled would be in the region of 1030kgs and if its been down 3 years and its lost 20% moisture it would weigh approx 824kgs,

stuart best place for pumps pipe fittings etc is whitehouse products at port glasgow on the clyde so not that far for you, they will send you a catalouge thats like a phone book with pictures of components (in colour) and they offer a fantastic delivery service order before 3pm here for 9am next day hope this helps,

decent hardwood arb waste whats decent and whats not ? will pay dependant on quality and what would you pay.?, as got some ash beech and alder on a job your way in about 10 days or so.

came back other day from chatburn but went west bradford waddington bashall eaves slightly over loaded so stuck to back roads,

its not close enough to where they where tapping in to the mains water, sewer and elec on chatburn road outside old hospital about 3-4 weeks ago, just that they had a lot of problems with water main,

some beech ash and oak mixed and its some big (600-900mm) rough stuff just got sold near us at £60 tonne road side,