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National Minimum wage for employees over the age of 23 goes up to £10.42 per hour in April

Yes, if moored and is you main residence

On the assumption tenders are identical, as a tax payer, I would hope the council using my money would go for the most competitive price, rather than accepting a higher quote simply because one tender is from an approved contractor scheme and one is not. Or is the objective to join the scheme to up your prices knowing the council are instructed to favour members of the scheme, because that is what you are saying between the lines.

Can be expensive..... Mooring With Us in Staffordshire | Great Haywood Marina WWW.GREATHAYWOODMARINA.CO.UK At Great Haywood Marina, we have 200 secured berths in the stunning West Midlands countryside. With shared water points... ..and that's just to moor there. Then you have additional fees for pumping out, electric, water supply etc (that's just the fees to allow you to use those facilities..on top you have to pay for how much waste is removed plus the electric and water) Then your normal stuff like heating, insurance and a load of maintenance. Plus it's always decreasing in value unlike bricks and mortar. It's the water equivalent of a static caravan

I think £700- £800 mark. Anything more is a bit punchy. It's not rare, it's ten years old, it's an obsolete model, it may be clean for one of these, but still been used professionally so done some hours. I just don't see it more than that. Currently two on UK ebay....both on for £1100 buy it nows, which haven't sold, and one of those you can make an offer on, and still hasn't sold. Both been on for some time. Then there's this one on a buy it now for £950...again not sold and been on for some time: Sthil MS880 36” Chainsaw Heavy-Duty Perfect Condition WWW.EBAY.CO.UK <p>Sthil MS880 Chainsaw Heavy-Duty stihl ms 880 Chainsaw in excellent condition. </p><p>Well... Best guide is to watch a listing for one listed as an auction listing to get a better idea of worth...when one comes up in that format

Yes....indicative of the fact you had already answered the question posed by WILLC and I quoted what you had stated to him/her. Go back and you will see what I mean.

I hope you dont want to fell too close to the ground then?

'Now, if i take the bar off and loop the chain back on the sprocket and pull the chain back and forth, it is smooth as silk'

Muddy....I'm fresh out of pitches. Will a new chain suffice? 😇

Chain makes of the same size, pitch etc etc are interchangeable. Think of it like buying a new tyre for your car. Loads of different makes and compounds, but as long as you buy one the correct size to the original one you are replacing then all makes will fit. I am not quite sure what you are referring to with the issues with your chain. What I will ask though....has the chain recently been thrown off the bar? Is so, you will have burred a section of the internal drive links around the area that would have been located around the clutch sprocket. This will cause the chain to jam in that area in the bar groove when refitted. If you dont want to buy a new chain, then you will need to locate the burred drive links and file down the burring to make it safe to use. A chain that can jam in the bar groove will almost certainly come off again. If you want to check you have the correct chain to suit your sprockets, then remove the chain cover to expose the clutch sprocket and lay the chain around it without the bar fitted. You should be able to manually rotate the chain around the sprocket without it slipping or riding off. The drive teeth should locate correctly arould the corresponding teeth of the sprocket. Then do the same on the bar sprocket. Hold bar vertical off the saw with sprocket end uppermost in fron of you. Then fit the chain to the bar grove and sprocket tip...you should easily be able to manually rotate the chain around the bar and sprocket. The chain should remain in the sprocket tip teeth with no slip or lift.

On what basis did they decline to touch the saw? Was it because you didn't want them to fit a new cylinder?

On the ms211 are you referring to the bar stud that you are having issues with? If so, stihl produce an oversized thread repair stud, which simply cuts its own thread over the smaller one that has stripped.....providing you haven't boogered up what was left of it already trying to repair it with loctite etc Part number is easily on the 'net' just order it online or through your dealer. Stihl produce these bar repair studs for all plastic saws in their range. Here you go- stihl part number 1123 664 2405 Just take your bolts out, DONT DRILL out the holes as the above p/n are oversize and self tapping and are made to screw straight into the knackered holes. 5 minute job to fix with the above bolts.

Motor assembly I'm afraid

Motor bearings on the way out.

Yeah...job would be so much easier if it weren't for the customers ho ho

Got that clutch spring re fitted today so thanks to all. Put the coil spring over one of the shoes together with the centre hub, then clamped it in the vice so the top half was exposed. Managed to partially insert the second shoe under the spring and held that in place with mole grips....still in the vice. Then gently prised the remaining side of the second shoe under the spring. Job done. LIke you say, you need fingers like a bunch of sausages...which fortunately i have.....always a bonus....the wifes a bit wary of them tho .👍k

Hmmm....maybe. Like i said earlier igenerally don't say much. How about the classic ' may i have a new blade for my CHAINsaw?' 'Do you mean the bar....the long flat thing that sticks out the front of your CHAINsaw, or a CHAIN?' ' a new chain please' I' m not really being awkward, as i genuinely have had customers mean a bar, and if they come a long way to collect after we assumed its a chain they need and not a bar and we are out of stock, they arent too happy!

Yeah....I do understand. I don't like to preach, would rather advise and educate. Normally it's my weeked warriors that use the term stretch. I usually say something but don't dwell on it, but when they say will this oregon chain ive got from you stretch as bad as the chinese one on my screwfix piece of landfill, I then go into 'education' mode. 😇

Good man. Ho ho

Yup...i understand. But 'wear' and 'stretch' are completely different,

As i have above. Or are you seriously suggesting a chromed steel cutter and solid steel plate tie strap will stretch? You are mistaking 'stretch' for rivet wear 'bedding in on anew chain' or rivet and rivet hole wear in an older chain. You can see this for yourself particularly on a dry worn chain and it 'rattles' if you shake it off the machine. This is nothing more that wear....not stretch. Also the circumfrence of the bar and sprockets gradually wear....again giving the impression of strech in a chain. One of my pet hate mis advice 'stretch' is

Chains don't stretch. The rivets give and bed in quickly on a new chain so wise to check the tension after maybe half a dozen cuts on a new chain, but do it on a cold chain, not one that is still hot or warm as hot metal expands.....again another misconception of chain 'stretch' As a chain wears so do the rivets holding the links together and this will give the impression of chain stretch, but it is actually the rivets and rivet holes wearing. If you think about it...what you are saying it a solid cutter tooth or solid steel tie strap will 'stretch.....this is not the case. If the cutters and tie straps did strech then that would elongate the rivet holes and it would simply fall apart. Add into the equation the bar circumfrence wears down, as do the sprockets, then it may look as if a chain has stretched, but again this is not the case. Wear and strech are to completely different things...even though they may have similar looking results Been making and selling chains for near 25 years now and never come across genuine stretch in a chain.

Yes spud. More often than not I get same reaction, but sods law means I would rather that than not keep discarded parts and then the customer say ' I'm not sure about this repair, I want to see the old part' Then stating you don't have it to show only adds to the customers suspicions.

Thanks guys. I will pass this info on after the weekend. Appreciated. 👍