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bet you have double set dogs on your 28"?! your avatar pic is a good'un.

ironjack, i rate having the double set of spikes. when cutting ugly hardwood stumps low the single set has a habit of grabbing thin air. with a dog on the side cover you improve your chances of getting a bite and reduce your chances of getting strained! the only limitation i've noticed (re. tommer9 "might slow you down?") is that if you're snedding off small branches or slashing the brash, a small branch can rattle around violently between the bottom tooth set and the chain. this was when i tried a MS660's standard dogs on a MS260. also, the inner and outer dog didn't line up well when put on the 260. megatron's part no. for the kit to suit the ms361 looks like it will grab sufficiently without being a pain in small branches. whether it lines up well on a ms240...? i've seen them on a 361 and they look like a good size set of knashers for a 50-60cc saw. let us know if they fit your 240, i'll try a set on the 260! all the best.

been using stihl bioplus since just after they brought it out. put in saws from new. bit dear and not sure how "green" the source of oil is, could be from palm oil plantations on old rain forest sites; would like to know this. slight build up occurs on bar, but nothing on saw itself, unlike some cheaper oils we tried. be interested to hear if the guys using straight veg oil get oil baked all over saw?

good question. i assumed david's refering to timber market, sawlogs. we were offered £4 per hoppus ft for 20 hoppus ft sawlogs delivered. good grade firewood oak in cords, 25t load = ~£50-60/m3 or so delivered, alledgedly. apologies, don't know any current standing prices for oak saw logs.

hi stereo. good idea to get advice. shame it's usually conflicting! have you asked your area forestry commission officer? if you are registered or get yourself registered with the RPA and the land is on the RLR you could apply for a woodland management grant, then someone full of info can come confuse you. old trees kinda make a wood. we left 50 standards per ha on some plots, landowners request; FC and land manager told me off for leaving too many. big areas of shade= crappy density of regrowth. 8-12 per ha the manager wanted. for seed trees. the owners we contract to would have not been pleased if we'd left 12. so, good luck!

hi david, our local saw mill offered £4 per hoppus ft for our oak butts. that's if we delivered them to his yard. we didn't take the offer. all the best.

hamadryad, a few weeks ago it was august! we switch ours to "on" about november!

yo dean, you got much spare time now?! 's gonna need splitting some time hey. can't see it being amazing dry by xmas, but you never know. we've still got some to split, but then we'll probably keep that bit drying until spring or later. unless things get very desperate! all the best.

quite right! start out where you mean to carry on. coz we've been cheap before, it's harder to get to where it should be. eggs, you should buy all ours and sell it on! that'd show 'em! it is definately hard graft.

sounds like you have 30 pickup truck loads of logs? and you're gonna pay 35quid per truck load, then you're gonna saw and split them and sell em on at 70. so if you manage to drive there in morn, saw split and load one truck and go deliver it, then go back arvo and do another, you'll have 70 less your truck and saw fuel, and less some tooth wear on yer chain etc etc. don't sound bad i guess. so long as you don't have to add any extra handling, like logs back to yard and unload, then saw split and throw in shed, then throw on truck next tuesday... but 30 x 1m3 pickup truck loads is a loose measure, is 30m3 loose. 30m3 solid measure (dry) ends up more like 60m3 loose when split. so it makes a big difference which way it's been measured! anyway, who does it for the money!?

hi tom, after years of believing only green and yellow were any good, i've been pleased with the valtra 6550 with 570 roof crane we got. i crawled under and over it when we went and looked. a lot of electrics, sometimes a sticky switch can confuse the system. check see if it pulls up straight at speed with pedals locked together, as ours was set up wrong. not sure the paint is as good as JD's, seem to corrode quicker? probably all more to do with what servicing and maintenance it's received. gotta be lucky! cosworth is right about roof mounts. need sea legs.

hello spud looks like a good fix. when you pressure test do you gently pull up to tdc and see what holds, or do you pull over and try and read the max blip achieved? and what range would you find acceptable? cheers.

hello doobin we bought one recommended by FC it's a protimeter and it cost 182 plus vat but seems consistant. i could dig out the bill to get info if you interested. all the best.

yes. a standard steel wedge seems worth the time on a nice billet. but it didn't seem economical (!) to keep bashing at a hard ring. rip it in half lengthways with the saw if it didn't give in after 4 shots. you just know some of them will take ages whaling away with maul, wedge or big mallet. saw in half, save your body for next year! wise words if i listened to 'em...

hello jim, as Dave says, depnds your local prices. round here mixed hardwood finished firewood average price ~£65-70 per 1m3 loose load delivered. some guys say £100/m3, guess it depends. so is that £35 per m3 of solid wood? i wonder what the measure is and how straight grained it is? if it's straightish wood 8-12" diameter, and for a solid measure m3, that's a fair price and gives you room to work. prices for better grade cordwood seem to be nearer £50 per green tonne(m3). all the best.

what size rings you got to bust there in dorset? if you only gonna have one with ya, better get a maul. like 2.5- 3 kg. you can do all with a maul. and round here, tractor dealers with a goodies shop sell them for about 23 quid. wooden handle, i'd say a big maul is all you need. smaller axes are fine if you got spare cash, grunsfors fine if you got even more spare cash, but a standard splitting maul will handle it all.

QUOTE=philg Anyone tried horse chestnut for firewood??? I've got the chance of 500t+ we were pleasantly surprised by H Chestnut in that it didn't spit. what a blessing. bit light, quick to go moldy, can shatter in splitting when moldy. but looked like sycamore when dried clean.

yes mr mendip, i agree. small logs take more time to cut, lose more sawdust and pack into the loose load tighter= more wood in that m3. 11" or 14" logs are real good to cut from 1.1m split billets. 9" is nasty. 7" nastier.

tommer, do you mean grunsfors splitting maul, or large splitting axe? coz we got the "axe", shorter handle, quite light. but their "maul" was quite a bit heavier and long handle. and about 90 quid! the large axe was 65? yve, the Ochsenkopf - is that what stihl paints their logo on? sure we got one looks like that, think it had spaltfix and Ochsenkopf both scribed on the head. good ax for easy rounds, though. we got the lighter one. s'good.

we've camped there couple of times. first time we just parked trucks in carpark and slept in back 2 nights, great spot in the morning. last time though, 2 years ago, we did same but got asked to park up in a little camp site through the gate where the tanks and army stuff is. there were a few of us in there, had water there, toilets too. seems legit but not advertised... security let us through so we could go sat night party. good fun.

hello dorset logger what kind of ax you after? heavy maul? look google for "large splitting maul" you'll see good one from oregon, bahco, stihl (spaltfix). go local fencing shop your area or tractor dealer or chainy saw shop, they're tons of axes around. we have a grunsfors large spitting ax. it's good looking, and good for easy splitting logs, even one handed once the bloods woken up in the system. but pricy, and you'll want something bigger for sure. you can get two stihl etc axes for price of one grunsfors.... we couldn't handle the price of grunsfors splitting maul, but maybe it's better than the others???

chris, if you do figure it out could you post complete instructions with helpful tips, colour photos and full size diagrams so as we can fix ours too. thanks. spencers are good tapes but none last very long do they. my only advice here is to use a sterile room with a white floor and zero gravity so you can find that little bit that flew out...

if you got a meter you could check from the base of the switch to wherever the wire ends up on the main engine block etc. see if you got 0.00 ohms continuity. or from base to cover if no wire. might find where your fault is. g'luck!

hi lee the 341 is the lightest 3/8" saw you'll get, shame can't get a 361 isn't it. but a friend has a 341 and rates it pretty highly. 261 has some good reviews. .325. we still on 260's. nice and light but bit too light sometimes. 341 stronger build?