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Likewise. But I am the age that I am. Never seen the point in trying to look older when I was younger. And don't see the point in trying to look younger now. I have close friends who are 25yrs. my junior and some who are near 35yrs. my senior. The older ones may be gone before me; the younger ones may remember me. But I was born, will have lived and someday I will be no more.

Beech a bit pink if that may any sense. So Sycamore for me too.

Who was the courier? I'll make sure I don't use them.

Pull the plug and inspect its condition. Clean the air filter. Pull the muffler to peek inside the pot. Tip the fuel from the tank and refill with fresh premix.

Thanks for a link, that was well worth watching.

Never thought of an indicator dye; I'll remember that one. Burners take ages, unless you're doing a very very small patch.

Started sunny with a cool breeze and now it's sunny with no breeze. It was warm and now it's hot.

No cure for that. Perhaps it's time you moved to Eastbourne and took up knitting.

Can't remember what it's called but it's a metal frame with a carry handle. It's got arms that attach to an Aspen 5L can on one side and one of their bar oil cans on the other. Plus a place for a scrench & files.

The Husky ones leak if the spout is no affixed dead plumb. The Stihl ones can dribble. Also, I know someone who recently changed from a Husky combi to a Stihl can and raved about how good it was, just two weeks late he managed to whack the can's open neck, (don't know how he did it) splitting it in two places. Never known anyone split a Husky combi, (unless it was run over by a Landy/tractor). Sure it looks snazzy. But only use in the field will tell if the new Husky can is any better than the old one. Suppose you could swap to Aspen and use one of their hold-it-all gizmos.

Nice but not the type of thing you'd want to meet in a UK country lane.

Cooler but still boiling.

Sometimes it's good to be under cover but maybe not at the moment.

With all this nice weather, it could well take a couple of hours. During school & bank holidays, the same trip could take half a day; and you lose the will to live, as you approach Compston Rd area and the inevitable queue between Brockhole to Cook Corner.

Day before yesterday - very hot and sunny with little breeze; spent it boating & paddling. Yesterday - very hot and sunny, with high thin cloud and constant cooling breeze; spent it boating & swimming. Today - very hot and sunny, no breeze; spending it trimming a copper beech hedge and something else will happen I'm sure.

David Dobedoe asked for a dealer in the Kendal to Penrith area. Hodge said there wasn't a place. So I assumed 'A.F. and G' had ceased supply. I didn't mean to knock Robin, just assumed Hodge would know if they were still supplying.

As I don't cut every day, 5L cans suit me. I tend to buy 4-6 5L cans at a time but then decant 2-4L, (depending on the day) into a Husky combi. I don't see the point in carrying more weight than need be.

Perhaps the chain is gold plated.

So 'Ambleside Forest and Garden' no longer stocking it? That's a shame; Robin may be seeing less of me, not that he saw me a lot before.

Maybe in your case Treequip, the coatings do not add up. The figures I produced were correct for generalisation. So some aspects and or benefits may not apply in a given situation, (such as your) but are worth a ponder.

What are you going to do with it and how much of it are you intending to do? Do you need a workhorse or something for the weekends? (No tittering in the back rows ease.)

Not including postage or trip/s to your local shop to pick up enough 2-stroke oil to make 25Ltrs. of premix; and if you only use the standard red Stihl not HP Super or HP Ultra or Husky LS, you can add at least 8.2p per litre of premixed fuel. Add to that saw manufacturers recommend a 98 octane fuel for mixing and considering the national average price for 98' at the pumps at the moment, is 138.86p per litre. Now add 8.2p of oil per litre and an average litre of premix is 147.06p x 25 = £36.765. Oil price derived from price of red Stihl 10L £41.00inc. VAT but not del. from FR Jones on 21.06.14. For a truer final cost for normal premix. You'd have to factor in how much fuel your vehicle would use to and fro the petrol station to collect 25Ltrs. of fuel; and add the general running costs by vehicle per mile; and add your hourly pay rate to collect 25Ltrs. of petrol; and add your hourly pay rate to mix five times 5Ltrs.; and maybe add the extra hourly pay rate for having to shake your premix combi can at the start of each day. Compare all that to making a phone call, having Aspen2 delivered to your door, knowing the stuff will remain stable for the duration and not having to worry about an inattentive groundie getting the wrong premix ratio. Now consider both the health & environmental benefits of using Aspen fuels... and the deal doesn't seem that bad.

As far as I'm aware, that is not the case with Aspen. It is stable for five years from time of manufacture. But how many people keep their fuel for that long one wonders.

Can't comment on the Haix but the Meindl are great. Comfy yet can be worn all day without over heating and waterproof. Flexible enough to be able to drive in, yet tough enough in the scrub.

Is the OP suggesting that ticketed arb types don't have accidents? Fortunately, I know very few ticketed arb types that have had a notifiable accident, be they serious or minor in nature. But they do have accidents; and some where bones get broken or worse. Ok with hind sight it's easy to say, get some training or hire someone else to do the job, who has been trained. And yes I agree the fellow in the vid showed an unawareness of what might happen and subsequently did happen. But there have been threads on 'Arbtalk' with notifications that this or that arborist somewhere in the world has been injured. We, (in general) express our thoughts of what might have happened and express our well wishes and or sympathy. But those cases demonstrate, that training and good luck don't always go hand in hand. If only that were so...