Daniël Bos

Thank you, thank you. It was indeed the way the conical peg moves as it's tightened, I've not had a saw with an "outboard" tensioner before.

I have a slightly puzzelling issue with my 550xp. Started work this morning and within a second of starting to cut it threw the chain off, it did not break, just came off. It was tight when I started and when I put it back on it still was tight? How on earth did it come off? The 550 has the adjuster built into the clutch cover, so taking off the cover slackens the chain. Don't know if that could have ought to do with it? The when I got home I wanted to cut up some off the wood I took home, put a new chain on the saw, the first since I've had the saw. I flipped the bar, put it on, nice and smooth. Then put the cover back, all smooth until I fired it up and the chain was nearly solid! Took it off, had a look, the chain moves freely through the bar, the drum and sprocket seem fine, no obvious obstructions.The chain-brake moves as it should, and releases fully. Put it back on, same thing! All is smooth until I tighten the bar nuts. Put it back on with the bar the other way up and all was as it should be. The bar was new with the saw and has not seen it's first chain out yet. Any clues?

They are that good. It seems quite difficult though to convince someone (or even yourself) to fork out £25 for a pair of glove when you can get ten pairs of welders gloves that everyone wears for the same money. For the OP only! Get a pair, size large. Try them for a week, if you're not convinced I'll buy them off you for the same price you paid for them.

Welding gloves/gauntlets are pants! They last me about two or three days when hedge-laying, then the seems start to give and thorns always come through the back of the glove to get wedged in between the bones on your knuckles. I lay hedges for a living, do nought else all winter and there is only one glove, it's these Ripeur 2 :: Safety Hut : World class personal protective equipment for industry Now I hear you say what? £25 for a pair of gloves?! Try them, what's £25 nowadays, not enough to get you drunk on a good night out, not enough to get you laid on a bad night either. I bought a pair before last winter, and I still use them. I have used them hard. They do get slippery when wet, but that is just unavoidable with leather gloves. When you get them they'll seem too small (they were very tight on me anyway) but they break in in a day or two. Easily the best gloves I've ever taken to a hedge and I've tried many different kinds. I tried a comparison once with a fencing contractor who was bragging a bit, we both grabbed hold of one end of a piece of barbed wire and had a tug of war. He won, he winced and grunted, huffed and puffed and pulled harder than I did. Then he took his "special barb-wire" gloves off to reveal his bleeding fingers, mine are as soft as a baby's bottom.

What I was trying to say is that what your asking is essentially a contradiction in terms.

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Don't you think you're contradicting yourself a little? Surely if you respect another person's beliefs, it is folly to ask how they know? They believe it is so, end off. Love can never be proved (or is it proven? the more I look at the 2 words, the more I doubt myself), I believe my wife loves me, she tells me she does, and her actions seem to back up her statements, but neither her nor I can prove it ultimately. Yes she does things one may only do for love, but then she may have an entirely separate agenda? And yet I still believe she loves me:thumbup1:

Looks rustic allright:thumbup1:, could look really nice if you have a few stacks like that lined up, and all the ends of the horizontals are cut to the same length. Question is, how do you get the wood out again, do you have to dismantle it as you use?

I was brought in a strongly religious family, but broke my ties with that particular branch of Christianity when I could at about 16. My father still mourns for my loss, but also respects my own choices in life and it's never been an issue. I'm not a Christian, but strongly admire those that have a deep and true faith in whatever religion they adhere to. Religion gives people strength in times of need, comfort in times of sadness and joy in times of jubilation. I understand one may choose not to believe in any god or religion at all as indeed I have chosen. But I admire those that do and find it somewhat distasteful to answer a simple question "are there any..." with such loathing and disrespect. And yes Matt, I'm sure there are but with such a strong anti-Christianity voiced so strongly I doubt many will declare themselves as such.

Even the dumbest of livestock know that yew is poisonous and will not touch it. Sheep are often used to graze churchyards, yew present or not.

I don't have a bus-pass yet, so no experience with a 242:biggrin: but the 550 so far is outperforming the 346 on every level, by a fair bit.

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I speak the mother language on account of being Dutch!

Where in Belgium are you Sideleaner? Would you even get a "kapvergunning" if the only reason to remove the tree is the view? Does your "gemeente" have a minimum size for trees that need a license to be felled? (often anything over 1m circumferance or landmark trees etc (which this should be))

I got mine last tuesday from FR Jones.

Seems to be a Husky thing, apparently adding pretty colour to plastic mix is not their forte... Mine is only very slightly different, more noticeable when I have my (yellow) specs on. On my 346 it's almost embarrassing:confused1: A mate has a few 346's and they all vary, his 560 seems almost the same colour...

I can see him work from the pub:thumbup1: So when does he become a sub then? Surely if I told him what needs doing, he agrees to do it for amount X (his day-rate) and invoices me when the job is done we have a (verbal) contract?

So when does he become a sub? If I tell him what to do and go to the pub myself (it happens:biggrin:)

I'm worried about the electrickery in my 550xp now, does it count hours, or cuts or starts...

He has his own business, pimping himself out for specialist lorry stuff (wide, heavy, blonde loads etc) I hire him, he turns up, gives me an invoice, goes home. How is he not a sub-contractor?

Same here, I'm blonde as well. I use a bloke sometimes who has none of his own kit at all. He's a lorry driver but enjoys playing with wood when he can, thus... sub-contractor without kit. He gets paid peanuts, just like me:001_smile:

I've just made a new handle for my axe.

Search ebay for a silicone 1 3/4" to 2" reducer bend and a 2 1/4" to 2" reducer bend, bit of 2" pipe in between and you're sorted. If there's not quite enough space between the two contact this lot, they'll be able to make you one for £40-ish...

I make a point of trying to never buy any products from people that can't spell, so no hi-flex, ez-cut or kashflow for me... Not very constructive I know, sorry. I use "the mrs", a very attractive bit of software but not always intuitive or easy to use:sneaky2: