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I'd love to post the streetview but I respect my client's privacy.

So there is. Nice one, Norway. I've drawn the ellipse a bit small but you'll get it.

What sort of courses do you run?

Cheers, Rich. Our approaches coincide. Not remotely looking forward to it but good opportunity to do a nice job on a very visible tree. Hugs and kisses. Dissolve the state.

Oh shut up.

I saw an absolutely delicious meme yesterday, riffing on the 10% of blacks commit 66% of violent crimes thing in America. Alas. Lost, like tears in rain.

I was at the shop last night, looked at the black pudding and thought, "FCK YES. HERE WE GO." Evidently got distracted and walked off without it. I'll feel this pain for a while because I very, very much fancy some now.

Yeah. I like the look of the Milwaukee one but Stihl do an angled head which the most artful gypsy sticker I know swears by.

Website says to log in to see price. Crying out loud. It's a tyre machine, not a coach built car.

Probably pissardii because the book says that's a common British Isles variant. There's a nigra and probably some others but if you hear hooves, it's probably horses. And yes, doesn't it look perfectly horrible to work on. Client wants it more shapely and it's getting towards the house, casting shadow and stuff on driveway. The stuff I read made me think it would take an amenity style drop crotch prune (as opposed to any weirder, fruit-specific strategy) without going off its tits with end regrowth and the guy isn't demanding strong butchery. I can see me spending a whole day dicing with death on sketchy ladder setups to do it nicely though. No tie in point, whole inside of the tree like the chokey from Matilda. I also wasn't desperately polite to his neighbour, whose driveway I'll need to be in for some of it. That was a shrewd move. I'd like to picker or crane dangle for it but too much faff (steep driveways and blocking pavement and/or driveways seems excessive). Freelance climbers in the North East with big tripod/A-frame ladders, leather welding sleeves and a desire to have cherry branches up your arse, get in touch please.

Just in case but don’t think so

I think it’s Prunus cerasifera but doesn’t 100% fit. Any better ideas?

No. Just bracketing in. Wanted one for tiddly stuff anyway. I'm also quite possibly confusing this thread with another saw thread running atm.

I've got two 300S batteries for my Stihl 220 backhandle and don't run out on big dismantles. You can always charge. Have that and the smaller battery breadknife too (Stihl 120). Actually used that outside of the house for the first time the other day. Is a sweet little thing.

Now that's helpful. Thanks. Except yet another battery system to buy. Bastard.

Is it as nicely balanced as a 2511? Not like the Stihl 160 where the battery weight at the back ruined it.

Kram dear. I was more asking Josh and fancy since they have one but I appreciate the effort anyway. Bear in mind it’s not just size and weight though. It’s balance and feel. My particular need is for small-medium takedowns with a mix of cut and chuck and rigging. Almost all of my work for the last decade has been big and rigged and I’ve used a backhandle because my wrists are too gay for 201 sized top handles and I’ve not needed to cut and hold. I don’t even really want a 2511 sized top handle, hence hoping things like the pruning saws would do instead. I need to handle the M18 Milwaukee one really. I’m aware that if I had to stop dilly dallying and just buy one and move on, it would be a 2511 topper. @bigtreedon How did you get on with the Echo 2500 battery tophandle?

Is the 2500 really comparable to the 2511, like the waffle says? Usable for medium removals?

I'm in the same position as you, Muddy. Take the plunge and report back please. £52 for the one you posted would be nice. Only difference is I would be happy to spend £200 if it gets me something of better quality, even if still manual.

Muddy and Mick (and indeed several other people now I re-read) are onto something I think. Have an expert do the precision work and buy a backhoe for the rest of it? Or do it all with the backhoe if you have the patience. Forget bog work obviously.

What sort of proportions of time was he using the back actor to dig, lift etc compared to using the front bucket (and forks?) to move stuff

I asked my extremely straight laced guitarist (emphasis on the straight) whether he would like some cucumbers from the garden. He would. Sent him this asking how big he could take. Nothing back yet. The poor love is probably feeling some deep-seated, deep-rooted instinctual bumming fear. Now I find assertive, bordering on predatory homosexuality extremely funny. He doesn't, which I in turn find extremely funny.