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I might have been being a little deliberately controversial previously..... Obviously Barrie has explained it perfectly In my experience some dealers abide by this, some don't, and I'm not talking shady characters either, I have bought [with no aerial tickets or evidence of any CS tickets, although I do have a few] a top handled Stihl from an authorised Stihl dealer. The important thing is that it's NOT ILLEGAL to buy / sell a top handled saw. If it was there would have been a bill through parliament and the police would do spot checks at saw dealers..... It's a dealer code of conduct insisted on by the 2 big names, and understandably so. And ref the overseas thing, I know Eurpoean dealers are good at sticking to their territories, but I think I have seen some US based dealers with a 'more flexible' approach to territory boundaries...

On this basis you might be better off 'retailing' it... Must be plenty of weekend warriors down your way who would like the idea of cutting their own firewood, 4' lengths are handy for homeowners. FWIW I cut my own cord into 4' or 6' lengths for ease of handling and transporting on the trailers we have available, so you're not alone, but then I don't produce cord for wholesale either.

No restrictions on any saws these days..... you can buy top handles most places if you want to....

Nice harness, getting on for twice the price though.... Are there any alternatives to New Tribe.... rec climbing trees seems to be quite a niche market outside of arb circles...!

I would imagine that if he was following a Range Rover, this could be the scenario... A bloke is driving his pride and joy along behind a Range Rover. The 430 is very low and the Range Rover is very tall, the 430 driver can't see anything in front of the Range Rover, particularly in the rain. Today was a bad day to go out in the 430, better get it home quick and tucked up in the garage.... The RR drives into a flood... the 430 driver can't see the flood but he does see the road is a bit wet in the wake of the RR. It's only a couple of inches deep behind the RR though so he follows through at a normal distance... A short while later the RR rises up out the end of the flood.... for the 430 behind this is bad news, as all the water previously pushed along in front of the RR and out to the sides suddenly rushes back where it can from.... right into the poor sod in his 430. The next thing he knows, the RR driver is a shrinking dot in the distance and he's been picked up and floated backwards into the middle of a massive puddle. His car's conked out, he's miles from home and he's soaking wet. And then the final cherry on the cake is some little gobshites strip his car. The exact same thing happended to my mother in law in her Micra..... except no one nicked her wheels......!

I might start badgering you for information....!

I keep looking at them all, but I can't bring myself to take any of them up. The cost of wearing parts concerns me. The fact that impending failures can be well hidden is a niggle. The cost is a problem. But mostly I just love the feel of a tied bit of rope.... If I was going to go for any it would be the Unicender.... But I reckon I'll be friction hitch till I die man.....

Oh now that's done it.... SOLD!!!

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Keep us posted then. Sounds like an exciting adventure. I still have this move in the back of my mind. If Labour get in at the next election and it keeps bloiody raining I'm out of here!

Welcome Paul. I'll start by saying... you lucky sod.... I can't really give you any specific advice re forwarding equipment, although I will say it does depend how big the timber you're moving actually is. A little Kubota on decent tyres with a small ATV forwarding trailer on wide tyres might be good enough for you, unless the ground is wet. You need to make a list of all the other potential jobs you will have for the equipment on the property and make sure you get the most versatile piece of equipment you can. For instance, a dedicated 8x8 mini forwarder would be great in your woods, but no good for topping pasture. You might be better off looking around for an Alpine tractor rather than a Kubota. They're still small but have more power and are designed for use on steep slopes. They're also far easier to come by on the continent than the UK so you should have rich pickings. Brands like Goldoni, Carraro, Aebi are a good starting point.... Do be careful though if you haven't really done much felling before. Make sure you know what you're doing when it comes to felling trees, what if one becomes hung up in a neighbouring tree, and where is the compression and tension in a felled tree etc.....? Last thing we want to read about is an Englishman killed by a falling tree in France.... If you haven't already done so I'd strongly advise you to get some proper training. Although it is perfectly legal and easy to go out and buy a saw and cut down trees, it can be a dangerous activity if you don't know what you're doing! Good luck with it. Oh, and we love photos, so let's have some of your new property! Simon

That's a beautiful thing......!

Then what would be the point of living.. Kill me now!!

Just to make you feel better Rich, I get where you're coming from. Any peer controlled system is as likely to encourage abuse as even handedness. I think AT is perfect just the way it is. But then I also downgrade my Microsoft office software to the 2003 version...... That said, whatever Steve chooses will be fine by me.... I'm not overly concerned to be honest, I don't have to give or count points if I choose not to.....

Let me know please mate, I've got a basket of stuff waiting! Thanks

Cheers Justin.... How much are they?

Christmas is coming and I want to get my kids a harness each, my little boy is 6 and my daughter 11. Both are at the top of their classes size wise. Obviously it needs to be suitable for tree climbing but a cursory search throws up only rock climbing harnesses. I quite like the look (and price!) of the Edelrid Finn harness. Anyone else have any other suggestions or experience of the Edelrid? Cheers Simon

Oh good god, I'm going to start hyperventilating.........

It could conceivably actually be 2400 rpm, depends how it calculates revs from sparks......

Oo jinks!!

If we're having a thanks button, can we have a like button as well.....?!

I'm going to imagine big hard blokes getting over sensitive about that now! Oh, and thanks for that!

Not on my bench stictly speaking [that's covered in 'T' saws at the moment ] but my boss has an MS240 which he ran on a home brew 2 stroke mix of petrol and 20w50 engine oil.... needless to say it's shot.... He was convinced it wasn't because it runs, but it's a gutless POS and sounds like a bag of nails.... compression tested it last night for him..... 60 psi... He's already bought a pot & piston from GHS for it [not a great one though I must say], so I took it apart to force him to fit it!!

Very nice , bit out of my price range unfortunately [and Chelmsford's a bit of a trek for me!] Interesting... I've seen these things advertised but never really considered one.... might look into it...

Not what you said the first time!!! 'Threads by user' shows all the threads you've started, 'posts by user' shows all your posts, including multiple posts in the same thread... What you can have in other fora [!] - and here too apparently if we wanted if Steve's cryptic comment is anything to go by - is a list of only the threads you have posted in, shown bold if your post has received a reply... As Alec says, it saves the problem of forgetting what the name of a thread you've been posting in for a start...