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Just by eye. The thing I try to point out to people is that a sharp edge or point does not reflect light, it has no width so cannot reflect. If you study your picture the near tooth that is in focus has a reflection all round the cutting edge and a more pronounced score on the nearside top plate. The top plates should be self cleaning most of the time but if the cutters on one side are blunt they will cause far more friction as the chain is pushed over in the bar and heats up. When felling ( I don't do chainsaw milling) the two woods that tend to cause a bit of a build up are douglas and ash.

The above chain is blunt

I'm glad you qualified that training remark Marcus 😉.

PM me details and I'll see about visiting.

Well we seem to be singing from the same song sheet, I too have tried but am by no means a good advocate. Try posting this part of the thread to Ramblers Volunteering. My chainsaw qualifications are just over 5 years since my last refresher and include fellinng big trees, using a chainsaw from a harness plus I have a few FMO certificates, including once being an assessor on that scheme. As I did not have NPTC brushcutter, despite having in house training in 1974 , Ramblers sent me on a one day course and subsequently have only allowed me to use the battery strimmer on two 1/2 hour stints. I think the main issue is likely to be public liability insurance and risk assessment-method statement. I'm fairly confident either of the businesses where I last worked would sponsor me under their insurance, especially if they got a bit of kudos for it.

I don't know how far away from me but I have a set of strimmer, chainsaw,hedgecutter tools from a ryobi combi which I am told can be fitted to Stihl engine units you are welcome to.

blocked radiator or faulty temperature sensor?

Not that I've seen, or heard, deathwatch beetle and they do look a bit similar from googling but seem to prefer very old oak that has also been degraded by a specific fungus. Is the building oak framed? Whenever I have had ash logs they have inevitably been bored to some extent in my store.

You have every right to remove an obstruction but using power tools is questionable without the land owner's permission. I am a voluntary path warden within our highway authority scheme and am allowed to cut vegetation up to 50mm diameter to the whole path width (and this can be difficult to decide even with the definitive path statement) with hand tools but hooks are not allowed for safety reasons. Silky and secateurs are about all I can use. I also join groups from the Ramblers under the supervision of the HA's officer for larger tasks but the only power tool we are allowed is a stihl battery backpack trimmer, which is quite effective. It's amazingly frustrating when one is used to power tools and the HA man, an ex copper, is wary of annoying landowner's, who often purposely allow the PRoWs to become difficult to use. I did approach one local farmer and he agreed to let me use a hedgecutter and brushcutter under his farm insurance but after discussing this with another Rambler I received a letter from the HA warning me not to represent myself as a volunteer for the HA (I had not) as I did not have a lookout, was working alone and no warning signs in place (the paths were completely impassable with bramble and mugwort so no fear of meeting people). IMO it does need some robust action to address this loss of access to the PRoW network as often in the south east the councils favour the landowners.

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Which is why pubs and small shops never say that they will be moving on, first you know is when you see new people behind the bar or counter.

Most eucalyptus coppice freely and can be stored after a couple of years. In fact I believe they have such a trait in order to survive flash fires when young. One grown as maidens seem to outgrow their roots and are not so wind firm.

Probably better see if @Jase hutch has his ears on

Well the median age is 41 so it may be the younger generation have more sense than doing hard graft or sitting in a lorry and ending up heart trouble.

Apply it to a root that needs composting, a few crystals in a 13mm hole plugged with a twig if it's big enough, or as a spray on foliage or are you being obtuse?

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composting them in situ with ammonium sulfamate is more eco friendly 😉

Good to see you back. I had no trouble with plain OSR but I mostly used 60cc saw and 18" bars. The bars possibly wore a bit more. The major problem as I did less and less saw work was what happened in storage, mice attacked the plastic to get at the oil and all vege oils "dry" by oxidation, this is why oil paints harden. Apart from gumming up the running gear any oily sawdust that gets on the cooling fins sets and becomes a big problem if the saw gets too hot. I reverted to mineral oil but would happily use OSR again if filling up several times a day, just switch to mineral oil and clean up before storage. I have never used Stihl bio oil, is it an emulsion?

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Yes and this welfare facility must be made clear when the job is booked. Always take boots off and brush sawdust off your clothing first. Bosses are the ones in the dark ages for not making sure facilities are provided.

Where's the fun in that?😀 I've added it to my heap of "handy" items, right on top of the vacuum powered fume hood made from a two tier display shelf and pallet wrap for housing my stump grinder tooth sharpening two wheel grinder which I made last week.

90 quid gave me a bit of incentive to see what I had lying around, a bit of beech and two screws, a random length of nichrome wire and a flat tractor battery plus 15 minutes fiddling around. Scuse the crap video difficult to do one handed but you can see the ratchet strap I cut as proof of concept. It really needs a spring to tension the wire, as it goes slack as it heats up, and a bit of tuning to get the resistance right so it runs a tad hotter. VID-20210816-WA0002.mp4 Mark2 with spring tension

I'm sorry it has been 6 years since I used a Forst and even then I only went out on a few occasions and never had problems so didn't see any changes.

Assuming it is the same as the tr6: P2 shows the state of all the safety switches p3 is stress control p4 is pre heat settings I think the pdf manual is online but I can email the tr6 one if you private message an address

Ah but my tongue in cheek point was about whether a self supply of arb waste for burning yourself could come under the definition of "sale" in the regulation as it was a benefit in kind.