AHPP

Spot on. I had a 30" 404 on a 880 (that's what it came with). Stupid. Now have a 36" 3/8 on a 661. Way better. THE UK big saw for UK big stuff.

I've made it look a bit far-fetched in that diagram but I'm sure it gets the idea across.

A perfect storm of misery. Long bar, heavy powerhead with big spikes, crammed in a picker basket. It's all well and good if you're bigtreedon and can sling it around like a battery powered Dyson but just grim otherwise. And still pointless. I've only really wanted a bigger than 36" bar once in ten ish years climbing and that was on a tree that was 12' or so diameter at the ground. I only had to letterbox it once to make a 7 or 8' cut. Never felt lacking otherwise. The 66x is a quality machine. The inherent misery of a big saw is magnified when it doesn't start easily. I remember working for a firm in Liverpool a few times. I only took a climbing saw with me at the time. Their 660 would idle fine but die when you went on the throttle and then be a pig to start. I pointed out the problem on a few jobs spread over a few months. They'd get it fixed they promised. They never did. It died up a pine tree for the fifteenth time that day and didn't want to restart. I, already quite annoyed with it, psyched myself up for a strong pull and with all my might smashed my elbow into a stub. Angriest I've ever been by a factor of several. Literally saw red. It's not just a saying. My vision went pink with fury. I took a few minutes, rearranged my knickers, finished the day and bought two saws on the way home.

Can you describe it please.

I've long thought an artificial central leader would be useful for spready/weak trees. Like a lighting tower boom, bit of stage truss or just ladders. Strap it to the trunk and maypole around it doing the outlying branches.

My findings also. Plus slower everywhere else, not least psyching yourself up to carry and start the bastard.

Bar mount. Ah yes. Hazy memory that there might be an adapter. I was thinking to myself just earlier today how much happier I am with my 661 than I was with my 880. The actual cutting you do with big saws is such a minor part of the whole experience. Back on fire, I assume the cutting bits short to make it like rubble rather than like pick a stix is intentional?

Have you got the 881 on 404 or 3/8?

The bloody size of that! At least 10mm, buried to the hilt in his big pad.

Fried duck breasts on a bed of onion and sprouts. Caper, rosemary and garlic butter to bathe the meat. Dusting of paprika. Potatoes out of shot.

Saved me typing it.

It's an altogether better class of disparagement on here.

Bloody calm down. Eggs doesn't really want to raise a malinois. He wants to roll the pup in clay and bake it.

Can you post links when it's up for sale please.

I follow you but I don't see what you're trying to tell me.

£50 a day for 250 days is £12,500.

Beaten to it but I reinforce the point that there's no such thing as going rates. We're not the milk marketing board. Want more? Charge more.

Well done, whoever bumped this thread. I was wanting it yesterday. I'll let you know when I remember what for.

SV Delos is a youtube channel where some people gad about on a yacht. The bloke who owns the yacht did a video about the systems on board. One was ham internet, available worldwide. I was well impresssed.

Unscented Fairy liquid only. Lemon or apple confuses the bats.

Well good for you looming Salad Fingers types. We of normal stature would strain our anterior deltoids doing 200 of those.

I did gently wonder whether the OP might be a troll. Someone newly qualified hasn't just passed 30 and 31; they've passed 30.1 and 30.2 (or whatever it is now). A fairly weak one though, if it is. Trolls at least respond. What it probably is, is a bloody weak attempt a carrying through with the thread's stated aim. I got a nothing answer to my (entirely pertinent) question and then ignored after the follow up. I wasn't asking him if he can travel ten miles for fun. I was asking him because I know a guy ten miles away from him that I could probably get him a few days for. Am I bollocks going to now. I'm not putting my name alongside the bereft of gumption. If you do check back, william g, take it more seriously next time. If this thread was mine, I'd have been glued to it and chasing everything on it.

Fyck off!