Daniël Bos

The equivalent-ish to ancient people's allowances (I have trouble calling them rights...) is C1. That allows you to drive a vehicle up to 7500kg plus a trailer up to 750kgs. I would (and did) Get C instead: same test, same cost, same training but allows you to drive vehicles without weight restrictions, so as big as a rigid can be (28t ???)

Blackthorn has flowers before leaves, Apple (really?) and Hawthorn don't.

Another plus vote for Tesgol and the Highway products. I put a Highgway BB kit on my 660, and the finish on the cylinder esp was better than the oem one. When it did explode (through my incompetence) both Tesgol and the Highgway company were the most helpfull I've ever known any company to be over a warranty question. They paid for the whole saw (now scrap) to be collected from me and sent to the manufacturers in Thailand where they examined it. Even though I'd fitted a slightly modded exhaust, smoothed the inlet, slightly re-shaped and bevelled the exhaust and slightly enlarged the transfers they made no issue of these things, as they had not caused the problem. When it turned out to be my fault (after the seventh or eighth assembly I must have omitted the base gasket I'd made:blushing:) they still paid me for keeping my scrap saw (£150-£200, can't quite remember) and would have paid me double that towards a replacement saw had they found a manufacturing fault. Best service ever!

I'd have thought there was a clue in "as soon as you pick it up it stalls"? I'm by no means an expert but I'd say that there is a mechanical issue (air leak, pinched/cracked fuel line, that sort of thing) that becomes worse when you move the saw in on particular way, ie when you pick it up?

The first pic confused me a little, A tracked chipper with tree shears, awesome!... oh no it isn't:blushing:

Fantastic piece! And to rectify a common misconception: The Vikings were not exceptionally tall. They were just taller than the other people around at the time. By today's standards they would be quite short. The ancient Danes would be around 4"/10cm shorter than is currently average in Britain...

Would any of these suggestions work on a telegraph pole? I have one in my garden that used to have the power on. That got put underground this summer but they left the pole as BT has tacked a phoneline to it. I can move the phoneline and have some good use for the pole. But how to get it out?

A question: If there was no nose weight to consider, and no weight transfer between the trailer and towing vehicle (it's a turntable trailer) what would be the ideal hitch height for traction? If we presume the vehicle is a defender 90: High up, so the trailer pulls the car onto it's rear axle more?, but then pushes the back up on braking. Low down, does that have a slight lifting effect on the back axle? Chassis height? I've given this some thought but there's probably someone out there who's armed with facts and such... Cheers, Daniel

Buurman and Buurman (which translates to "neighbour and Neighbour") featured heavil in my childhood, Superb stuff. I think it's Czech. Didn't know they'd done a tree-vid!

Stihl Motomix is very similar to Aspen 2T and has similar storing properties. It'll probably be around the same price as well. Aspen is still petrol as well....

I have some big oaks to mill (in situ, alaskan+ms880) in Bedfordshire (near Thurleigh). But... I can only be there on weekdays.

My memory seems to say something about that bit being a separate part, but it's only whispering.

If I were in your situation, I'd use aspen:biggrin:. Since you choose not to, I'd find a more enlightened person:sneaky2: near you to give you all his empty 5L cans. Then, rather than filling up one 25l container, just fill up 5 5L ones. The Aspen cans are sturdy and can be re-used many times. When I did still use petrol+oil, I used a large syringe to measure out the oil. Very accurate, very easy and because of the small opening no bits ever get in and all the oil you measured gets to go into the fuel without rinsing etc.

I reckon it's firewood?

again, from the TFL site:

From TFL:

What? People answer the phone when you call and don't speak back to you? For a shy person it can be hard sometimes to phone people you don't know (I really struggle with this myself and after 10 years of running my own business I'm only just getting used to it, still makes me nervous though...) But... when you phone people rather than email they can't leave you till later, they won't occidentally put you in the junk folder. You're in the head, leaving an impression from the time they pick up the phone.

Did you fell it like that Adam? (engine down I mean)

Ignore the email route, phone them!

I bought one fairly recently with both the 48" duromatic (which is actually 47"...) and a 46" Sugi from Messrs Jones. The Added money the saw cost with the Stihl bar as opposed to the bare saw+Sugi was quite a bit less than the value of the Duro bar. So, I bought the saw with two bars, flogged the Duro on EvilBay and ended up with the shiney bar + two chains for less than the saw+Duro:001_smile: Not had it for long enough to give you a proper review but it's a big step up from the 660 in weight to lug around...

That's a big loss indeed! But, seems like a huge amount of tools left out in one vehicle overnight?

Mine's for sale.... Husqvarna 346XP-G ArbTrader Arborists Classifieds or Ebay, schmeebay!

Strange thing is Hazel, the colour of the bark seems to be somehow indicative to how useful it is. I've seen brown, dark brown, silvery, white and flaky, purpleish etc. And all seem to have different bending characteristics. The purple stuff for example seems to snap earlier, even if it was grown in the same wood and is the same size. I've seen identical sized in both girth and length, stools right beside eachother but different tinge to the bark behave consistently quite differently. Never seen green other than algeal though...

Mine (dungaree style, unfashionable grey to fade in with the masses) are still good-ish.... I've had them for over two years, but they're about past it now. There's just a couple of little tears in them (which is fairly amazing considering they've spent at least half the time crawling trough hedges). A couple of seems went on the arse end quite a while ago, but not in an area that's under tension so I don't know why? Never went any further though so I left it. The Sqrench pocket thing has nearly torn off as it gets hooked on stuff at times, soon sorted with a pair of scissors but I do like the pocket so am keeping it. Overall I'd say they've been exceptionally good value for money.

From what I gathered this saw's parts are not easy to come by, and coil failure is supposedly quite high?