openspaceman

we could do with an "I agree" button

I really cannot see any route a clutch spring could take to stop the engine running other than jamming something in the chain case area. As with all these saws that run for a little lime then stop my first look would be through the exhaust port to look and the piston and rings, if they are good then we can start with swapping the spark plug and move on from there.

Or carefully dismantle enough for a stunt fell, 200ft loblolly doesn't seem like UK.

probably conifer aphid or spider mite .

Check with your local FC private woodlands officer, ours said if 50% of the crown dead and within a tree length of a road or public right of way then we could fell with no licence application.

I'ts probably dependent on browser. On firefox I just right click on the video and choose "save as", accept the prompted title and then replay it from the download.

Wrong gauge chain for the slot can cause the same problem in chainsaws

If it's on your own property then burning a stump out over a few days is okay. I made a stump burning device in 1976 and it was very effective but frightening. The main feature was a hoover motor blowing and burning from under the stump and using the exhaust heat to preheat incoming air. As the stump comes up to pyrolysis temperature the fire really takes off and it sounds like a jet engine. Basically it was a fire risk and un insurable. Well it's your decision but it gives you the opportunity to chase out all the stump till you can just dig the laterals out where a commercial firm may just take the stump out to 10" below soil level and cover with soil and grindings. I tend to spend a lot of time raking the grindings out to see where I am going (I wonder if attaching a leaf sucker hose through the top guard would be effective). Over the years I used a number of grinders from tractor mounted (Myers Sherman on MF165) through pedestrian controlled but self propelled Dosko and Vermeer 252 up to a 75hp Carlton but not regularly just stand in for other operators. I also regularly drove 22 tonne tracked and 12 tonne wheeled mulchers. What I learned is the smaller the machine the more important to keep it sharp, so I sharpen on the machine with a diamond disk in an angle grinder. I took a leaf out of @Ty Korrigan's book and spent a lot of time preparing my first stump with the little machine in order to cut out as much clean wood and only engage soil when necesary. As I say I only have about 10 hours on the machine, it shook a lot of bolts loose in that time so loctite and a set of spanners is necessary. Those first two roots in the picture and video save me £800 between them and put 6 of those hours on the machine. I wouldn't consider it for commercial work other than something to send out on small jobs with a felling crew like @aspenarb advised when he bought one.

It's not often that I disagree with you Dan but in this case I do. Okay so the big ones will take a while but I've done 6 15" hardwood in a morning for my niece, the 3ft ones I did took best part of a day each but only added about 3 hours on the machine each and access for a bigger machine would have been an issue. I have only put 10 hours on the machine but it stands me in at next to nothing in terms of savings on having someone in. Also the OP says the work is ongoing, so not as if a contractor could hit them all on the same day. It is a pig to use compared with a self propelled machine as it bounces away from the stump where the old firm's vermeer could be held in the cut. I do find it necessary to sharpen the cutters on the machine or it gets very long winded. Of course time isn't much of an issue for me as I am retired. VID-20220407-WA0000.mp4

Yes exactly that, I doubt any here think other than you both did good in rescuing the birds.

She was expert witness in prosecutions of people who had taken eggs from the wild and then claimed they were offspring of legally held parents.

Be wary because there are issues in "owning" one taken from the wild. The daughter of one of my clients was involved in sampling DNA of captive raptors to prove if they were from wild stock.

It looks like the trees grew on a bank and have been coppiced, or possibly laid, in the past. The old cut stems have now rotted and hollowed out the stools. As the trees are a lot taller now the leverage they now have acting on the stool means they are liable to fall. @Gimlet and @gary112 may have some advice

Do you think he is imprinted on you and might have problems in the wild?

I think that's why dog shit attracts them

I haven't seen one for a good few years and then it was on a ride withing 200 metres of a car park used by dog walkers

Even the tipping up and down bit? Only time I had such a problem the choke wouldn't set unless the saw was pointing bar up. Eventually I checked it out and it was the screw holding the butterfly had come loose so the butterfly was jamming the choke tube when below horizontal.

It probably still is the easiest and less prone to mistakes. Oil the spinner anvil well and really wind the take up handle hard. I would do repairs in the field before I had the sense to carry spare chains and buy the chain making kit for home. A hammer and punch and anvil with a selection of slots to remove the broken tie strap and then a flat piece of steel to rest the preset on and an initial heavy blow on the rivet followed by shaping with a ball pein hammer. Keeping everything level to not bent the preset or ti estrap is essential. I suppose a sett with a hole say 0.5mm too short to put over the rivet would initially compress the rivet better, the shoulder then ensuring the tie strap is firmly against the preset rivet shoulder, before finishing with a domed one.

I think I agree but need to clarify your naming convention. The preset is a tie strap with the rivets already set in it, the loop is closed and a second tie strap is then place over the rivets and the rivet is spun. If the rivet is first forced hard then the new tie strap is fixed securely to the rivet, with the rivet now fully expended into the tie strap hole and the increased friction between the rivet shoulder and tie strap adds strength, it also reduces any play. I wonder if there is play then the one of the tie straps can flex. This flexing could fatigue and snap the tie strap in the middle, the extra stress then straining the weakest part of the remaining tie strap at the rivet??

He hasn't been back this month and may not realise how rude you consider him eh @keptenjim

@bmp01 I can't comment on milling as I didn't do hardly any with a chain but it strikes me cutting down the grain is harsher than across. Which order did the tie straps break? I generally noticed the problem of one side failing before the lot let go. When I did break chains it was almost always at the joining link and I put this down to lack of support as the rivet was spun. Also the factory riveters really thump the rivet as it is spun whereas the manual spinners spread the rivet head without that much pressure, I hope @nepia doesn't come across this problem with my recent efforts.

Are we all on Wellingtonia?

Why so low? I would expect a yield class of 4-8M3/Ha/Yr and it's just over a hectare so in 30 years there could be 120+m3 standing, half of that as thinning.

I was having a problem parsing that, clever and cleaver. The box splitter is marvelous Bill

looks like elm disease has done for it. It may shoot from the stump if cut back