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Interestingly, you can get a "winter" spout for the oil: Husqvarna Winter Oil Spout For Combi Can WWW.TOOLSTODAY.CO.UK For Use With Combi Can Presumably because the oil is too cold to flow properly in the winter with the stop. Never much liked having the stop for the oil anyway, so I think I'll get one of these for the oil side (cheaper as well), give the oil one a good clean and put it on the fuel side

well it's a couple of quid cheaper than the fuel one for some reason, so I'll go for that. Just have to be careful not to put chain oil in the fuel tank 😬

Would be appreciated please. Although if stihl are anything like husky ones it won't be much cheaper buying just the spout than buying the whole can with spouts 🙁

I knew I would find an exciting thread like this when I started looking for a replacement fuel cap for my husky combi can 😀 Problem with mine is that as well as not closing (that's not such an issue for me, I just push it closed before taking it out of the tank) it has also cracked where it screws on to the can. Mine is like the one pictured by the OP. My question is whether the stihl cap will fit the Husky can, as they appear to be marginally better. Anybody tried this?

I'm not an expert, but I can't see how that would work with the hydraulics. With my WP36, it's not really enough of an issue for me to feel I'd need to make any mods. Doesn't happen too often (especially once the engine is warmed up) and if I'm concentrating I can usually see it coming.

That's interesting. I don't think I've ever stalled mine with the chainsaw!

Stalls the engine unless I'm quick enough to let go of the lever, in which case it returns. Sometimes you can get through awkward logs by pulsing the knife through, but sometimes that just gets the splitting knife completely jammed in the log. Then it's out with the sledge hammer, or failing that the chainsaw..

Thanks, I'll give that a try!

Could also be bent infeed plate. Mine squeaked a lot when it was bent. Look down the length of the machine ad see if the gap between the plates is the same all the way along.

I finally decided to go for the Stihl ms 180 so went online to look for one. Turns out that they will only hand them over in person from a dealer or from a delivery driver from the retailer who can give me a safety lecture first. That rules Stihl machines out for me, living in the Highlands of Scotland. I actually have a local dealer, but they want silly money. Nice one Stihl.

Plenty of advice as I thought - thank you. Not so much aerial pruning as higher up pruning from the ground / cutting the tops off fence posts / smaller bits of firewood. My bigger Husqy starts to get a bit heavy after doing that sort of thing for a while. I think a 12" bar would probably be best. Tempted by the MS170 or MS180. Not at all convinced that cordless electric would be up to the job. Would have to have a go with one first...

Looking to buy a 12/14" saw for the smaller jobs. Probably won't get a huge amount of work so don't want to spend a fortune (£200 max) but don't want to buy a pup either. I'm sure that there's plenty of advice out there ...it will all be appreciated

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Could be that you've bent the infeed plate. When you look along the plates that the logs go on, are they parallel? If not (bigger gap at the end away from the splitting knife) the moving one is likely to be bent from dropping a heavy log on it. If it's not that, you may need to adjust the black plastic blocks underneath the moving plate. Mine had a bent plate. Took it apart, bent it back and re-inforced it with angle iron. All working now. Go back to the start of this thread and you'll see a lot of discussion about the issue.

Thanks for the pics John - very clear. From what I can work out my setup is fine. I may just have some duff tube (the guy who sold me the machine gave it to me). Will try replacing that with OEM stuff. Looks like your tube has been quite well squashed, but is still going strong...