claudie345

I have horses and cannot afford a tractor with topper just trying to find a cheap solution to topping the field myself without paying the local farmer

Hi all, Just wanted to try and get a picture of what people mainly run these days, I'll go first - climbing still with the old faithfull 200T, MEWP work with 200T or Stihl 261 (nice and light), ground work and regular felling work with Stihl 362 and large felling with Stihl 660, I;m afraid I'm not a big Husky fan after my last 346XP crank broke. Look forward to seeing whats in your toy box.

Has anyone had any experience of a tow along petrol grass cutter, behind a 4x4 or quad, even better anyone got or know of a second hand one for sale? Cheers

Love mine to bits, it an 07 plate with massive mud tyres, no problems until recently when it went in to limp mode one moening on the way to work, mechanic suggested that it could be the injectors, which unfortunatley are electronic and would have cost about £2000.00 but thankfully turned out to simply need a new fuel filter. The joys of a modern common rail engine? Good luck with your in low range I find it really good in mud, but struggles with my plant trailer and Jensen track chipper.

Yes you must use 3 way not screw gate, I have always used ISC and DMM, but am just starting to use rock exotica and they seem really nice just the gate operate towards you not away, but not really a concern from a mewp, as one clipped in that's it until you get out. Probably looking arounf £15.00 per clip.

Hey guys, was looking for the axe throwing on Saturday at Shipbourne - could not find it, were you rained off, ended up doing the three peaks tree climb a few time to help raise money for help the heroes. Still a good day but just wondered of the ax throwing happened on the Friday instead?

I've got 2 the tree flex which I use for spike work as its so light feels like its nbot even there and designed to be work very low. and cresto sky belt for rope work were I hanging for a while as the treeflex is a bit of a ball breaker when henging.

Really impressed by your mini machine - what make?

Andy assessed me, pretty easy going guy who did you train with? has he still got that old landcruiser?

NO. Get qualified work your ass off starting as the bitch and work your way up like everyone else, you need way more than just a chipper and a few tickets, main factor for me to take someone on is their general attitude and enthusiasm towards work (good fitness helps too), go and prove yourself - good luck!

I agree with turkey doesnt burn great but anything burns if its dry enough.

I had a similar thing, the wife wanted a chainsaw for the garden (dangerous - I know!) so I got her one of the new Stihl battery powered saws and actually I am quite impressed, she logs up to 8inch with no real problem, not as fast as a real saw but does the job fine and no cables running about, full charge in under an hour, but worth going for the more expensive battery.

Never heard of the 311, but for smaller stuff I use the MS260 which runs really well with a 15inch bar plenty of power if just working small trees or logging, and for larger trees I have a 362 with an 18inch bar (once again really nice saw never backs off and fast for logging plenty of grunt) and if you have some bigish trees to sort out personally I use a 660 with 30inch bar, but if you just want one saw for everything I would be tempted to go for the 362 with a 15inch bar and chain and a second bar and chain at 20inch, should have it pretty well sorted then.

Hi I an on my second pair of Haix pro lite boots (gold) and I think they are great, really light and a good heel for irons, but not completley waterproof, maybe the goretex version would be OK, but I swear by them.