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I have a McCulloch saw that forever loosened on the bar nuts and every time I pulled them up tight enough to stop it slipping and chucking the chain I snapped the studs off. They were 6mm and as soft as you like.

Got fed up with that so took out the studs, drilled and tapped to 8mm, fitted hi tensile studs, drilled out other holes to suit and then spent quite a long time filing out the holes on the spur - drills wouldn't touch it.

Anyway apart from the fact that it stopped recently when the fuel pipe disintegrated it all works okay and because it's fairly light, has a 20" bar and cuts well I quite like using it. I have bigger and smaller Stihl saws as well but this one has a place.

Just what the industry needs. Innovative thinking!

Access on a single rope with the ZIGZAG

From the Petzl site just now.

Access on a single rope with the ZIGZAG - Petzl

And whatever happened to Hydrogen cells as a fuel source?

As for taxing wood, Hollande has been trying to find ways to excessively tax people with second homes in France, one of which has just been ruled illegal by the EU. Hooray for the EU and hurry up the next French Elections. At least Sarkozy was amusing!

Basically the only problem the world has is that there are too many people on it.

Don't have a big shot, I live in England.

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What? Explain please:thumbup:

How high do you reckon to be able to throw a bag, and what sort of height is achievable with a big shot?

Magnificent!

Good luck with that. Maritime pines are like a 20-30m stick with loads of residual dead branch stems up the stick and an umbrella at the top with the cones on. Fell it and pick the cones up afterwards.

Over the last year I have felled 26 Maritime Pines on my property in France. The soil is sandy and the wind blows really hard so they either lean over after the gale or, if they don't snap off in the wind, they fall over and drag up a huge root mat which is a real pain to get rid of.

When I was at school in the fifties we used to have an adder in an aquarium tank at the back of the classroom.

If you put a ruler in it would take no notice but if you put your hand anywhere near it would strike. We were pretty good at moving fast then!

There wasn't any HSE to interfere with our fun in those days. Adders were fairly common on Hackney Marshes at that time and pretty easy to catch.

We also had a form member who came to school quite often with his pet Python wrapped around his waist under his shirt. Happy days.

Smiles go a long way to making the day more pleasant, for you as well as them.

I listened to a gardening programme some months ago and the expert was asked about odd trees dying in a Leylandii hedge. His advice was that unless you left the width and height both to a minimum of 7 feet Leylandii will die back.

Any truth in that?

When Spud's predictions come to reality he can slide down the rope at the back of the tree. The damage to the dumper might be more than the job is worth - that's his real problem

tanks very much chaps, i'll try the cable tie method and report back. K

Or use the Stihl tool made for the purpose.

There is a very old adage in business that says " If you get all that you quote for, you are too cheap!"

Ultra-sonic cleaners with suitable fluid are wonderful. I used to service Scuba regulators that are often encrusted with all sorts of crud. They come out clean as a whistle. Quick blast with an air line and Bob's your uncle.

Working in the water is hazardous. Any cut can be infected with Weils disease, (leptospirosis) which is not nice at all and can be fatal.

When using the HAAS which is the best way to descend?

I note that just using a friction hitch is not considered safe so is it a choice between a figure of 8 or Ddrt?

I realise that using a Zig-Zag or a Hitchhiker with a friction hitch is okay but for us simple souls without either, which way is best?

When I said I had dropped one tree on to another in order to push one that was leaning towards a road the other way, having cut it on the skew as it were, I was told it was dangerous.

No one congratulated me!

That's life I suppose.

My mistake, thought the OP was talking about big saws; note to self, read posts more thoroughly before commenting.....

He was talking about heavy saws - hence the title. Top handled saws are easy to carry up slung from the harness.

:lol:

They won't be using ".co.uk" anyway

"...........i have reported those dealers to Stihl. If they persist then they will have their dealership taken away from them. "

 

Might be a blessing in disguise judging by Stihl's current products and attitude.

They'll all be selling Echo and Husky then, which I seem to see more of in dealers than Stihl, of late. Wonder why!

Good. That's what I do but didn't seem to be what some others do.

Is there any good reason why you can't climb the tree without the weight of the saw and then bring it up on either the climbing rope or another taken for the purpose?

Just wondering

Guessing a form for "deviation from" the existing contract?

A very good idea.

Sounds like that, but no. It's the standard form for every quotation which in French Law forms a contract between the contractor and the client.

I go to France regularly with chainsaws, axes, silky, tomahawk etc. in the car. If stopped I tell them what's in the car and they always say okay.

If you have any long-bladed weapons or tools they will want to be assured that they are out of quick reach i.e. in the bottom of the boot or by the spare wheel or somewhere inaccessible.