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Anyone else used the Husky 545?

It just needs to be more branded - Martin a little slow on the uptake. But only by an eight mile wide tad. You have to do your time sheets - I once worked with someone like Simon. Now I can read this and feel better about her attitude to life, the universe and paperwork. Justin's Floodlight - one wonders how he finds his letter post. Maybe it just accumulates in the letterbox. Dear customer - it's 04:30 and I should be asleep but can't while I'm laughing this much.

Worked for cabinet maker in my teens, before a disgruntled ex-employee burnt the workshop down. Fifty years of collecting specimen wood the world over... gone in 24hrs. The different smells of drying timber, worked wood and bee wax; it has stayed with me.

Yep, I'm sure I could get one if I hurry. But I don't wish to make haste my waste. Thanks for the prompt replies so far. Perhaps a little more info should have been included in the initial post. Saw in this case to be used for mixture of duties. General coppice work, some felling, (various, as and when necessary) occasional firewood & charcoal processing.

"You can't see the wood for the trees." "If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise." "Choose only one master - Nature." "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" "The poetry of the earth is never dead." "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." "Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street." There's a few quotes; any help to you?

Anyone run a 353 and now running a 545? Your thoughts on the two saws please..? I know the differences on paper and I know there's hardly a new 353 to be had... but there are a few. I also now the 545 runs cleaner, (and I know some are bound to suggest a 550XP, as they're not much more). Price is broadly similar for the three.

Imo, another hooray-Henry wagon.

I've mentioned the lass I sometimes work with, (who has the habit of ramming her right hand at/onto the top of the chain-brake). And stated it's only a matter of time till she has an accident. Well she hits the brake at its top. So even after she's activated it, it's but one small distance to ripping through the palm of her glove, as her hand continues its progression past the brake. More likely perhaps on steep ground. The hazard of contacting the chain is still there, even if it's been halted by the brake.

Would certainly make each item more distinctive if nicked. It's the way forward me thinks. Puce striped Huskys and fluorescent starred Stihls.

I work alongside a slight lass who within the last year has gained her CS30+31. She uses the chain-brake when needed which is good. But the manner in which she does so makes me cringe. She has very short hands and I can only assume she has difficulty rotating her left hand far enough to activate the brake. So instead she uses her right hand; and makes a real point of drawing back her arm, then thrusting forward to ram the heel of the palm against the topmost part of the brake. It's only a matter of time before she misses the brake and rams her hand onto the chain.

That run's tall enough for a chandelier or troupe of acrobatic gerbils.

That a typo or a joke?

Emergent service worker - does that mean I'm nearly at the surface of the gloop or I've just got out of the private swimming pool? (Mind if we're talking top level health spa, it could be both at the same time.) Always considered myself to be 'working class' and proud of it. If it weren't for the hoi polloi, the aristos wouldn't have their standing. I am, we are, the foundation & pillars of society. Without us, all would fall, (or emigrate).

Are the runs to be connected to the hutches? If so, it would be handy to attach them with either hook 'n' hasps on both side or else hinged to one side and hasped on the other side. The hutch should have access to both sides via vertical hinged frontages, joining in the middle is handy. This allows for the daily cleaning of the enclosed sleeping area and sheltered resting area. Many hutches have a static wire fronted door to the rest area. But since there are also going to be runs. It would help if the rest area had a way of partially closing entry into the hutch. This way, the run can be cleared/cleaned, without those cute critters running around your feet, (nibbling the shoe laces). I know people with larger gardens and rabbits, that never mow the grass. They just have a simple rabbit run or two. These are made of batten & rabbit mesh: http://www.boddingtons-ltd.com/acatalog/Rabbit-Fencing-Wire-Netting-Mesh.html?gclid=CLCD8_mNuLYCFcjKtAodkVMAnw approx. 450mm high x 2m square per rabbit or pair thereof. And as the grass is nibbled down to the desired grass length, the runs are gently moved to the next bit of garden. Being only a couple of metres in size, enables the runs to be picked up a few cm. off the ground and moved, while the rabbit/s hop along inside. The run's weight is enough to prevent them being lifted by the grazing balls of fluff, yet light enough to easily be moved by one adult or two young children. And because of the squat dimensions and mesh top & sides, very windy days are not a problem. And when the garden is pristine and the cute bunnies big enough. Some of the owners and bunnies have a meal together; but some leave the table a little fatter and some a lot thinner. (This didn't happen when the children were very young, as the nibblers had names.)

You breaking out of somewhere or breaking into somewhere? Or is the 16:30 from Paddington going to be delayed?

My goodness, there's two of us. Better not go hang gliding together and BASE would be a bit more hairy.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll check those out. Does anyone have opinions on how tough the 'Dynamic' range is? Would still be interested to know if cs trousers can be shortened.

I was interested in the 'Stihl Hi-flex' ad and checked out the size on Stihl's website. Now the waist would be good for me but the leg length is far to long. My problem is that while being short, I have a somewhat rotund physique. So not wanting to be standing on/tripping over yet another overlong trouser; is it possible to shorten chainsaw trousers? One presumes the need for a heavy duty sewing machine, like a sail maker would use. Or is sticking with chaps my only option, if I want a good fit?

It's nice to be able to turn it down and just take the chill off the room. But if it's not running at optimum temp., there's bound to be a greater buildup of crud.

Yep. All too easy a thing to do. Once had a friend who after totally rebuilding his Maico motocross bike, discovered he had a washer left over. He checked all the outer nuts and everything seemed good. Assuming he'd just found a washer from elsewhere in his place, he went ahead and cranked it over. Still everything seemed good. The weekend came and as he'd paid for entry in a local club meet, he decided a race or three was in order. The bike made it off the line but didn't finish the first lap. On stripping the engine, he discovered the identity of that 'spare' washer. It was a shim in the gearbox.

Don't know where the timber is going. But in the upper vales and 'Heads of the Valleys' area, arb teams seem to have a cut everything policy. In the months since Christmas, many hundreds of trees have been felled. Mature and saplings alike, on common land and public land alike. There seems to be nowhere where there aren't massed heaps of chip. Even lines of roadside Poplar are being felled.

Well that was an education. Took a while but read entire thread from original post through to current end. I've learned a bit, forgotten much and didn't understand some. But all in all, well worth the time to have got through it. It has to be said, that there certainly are some very knowledgable folk around. I'd originally started through the thread in the hope of finding out, if particular saws of interest to me had a bad rep. I didn't actually find what I'd originally sort for; but soon got interested in the whole thing for its own reason for being. And I've enjoyed it too. [before someone asks. No, I'll keep the list of interested saws from this thread. It would be a shame to derail it at such an early point.]

Until now, I've not heard a bean about this organisation or its aims. Now I volunteer with a couple of groups who coppice. One the coppice work is done as and where among their various woodland. One has a large hillside woodland which is being put back to coppice and run on commercial basis by volunteers within local community. Both have been going for some years now and I know of a number of other similar groups. Non have even been approached or even aware of such. So I know they have to start somewhere but how come they're aiming for national status, when few people are aware of them. Or is this a professional body, aimed at fully commercial operators only?

... and how much?

"We only speak English or German" So not planning on exporting to China then. They're missing out a market there.