CJM

£120-150

It's an old saw but hasn't seen much work I've pulled the filter cover and it's pretty clean underneath, got great compression as in it nearly breaks your wrist trying to start it and runs very well, I think the lad wants around £300but don't quote me on that

I know a lad up here is selling a husky 281 in decent Nick if your interested

A 365 is basically a 372 check youtube if it was me personally is square up a 461 and a 576 and if I was gong to choose I'd choose the 576 which I will do in a few months time only because my best mate has a 461 and I want a 576 just to try and out do him

I was always under the impression that if the kit is in daily use and it manages to exceed its maximum age that the manufacturer has set then it's up to the loler inspector to either keep it in service or withdraw it

If I jumped straight into the industry I honestly wouldn't have any idea how to price a job but fortunately I've being doing this a long time so I can kind of get if right, sometimes I drop a ball and sometimes different circumstances can make the job seem tight (weather, being let down,machine breakages, and the unknown in the stem) I remember when I first started out and my boss was taking around £400 a day and he had two crews out I thought he was making a fortune but once you get a sensible head on you he wasn't really. You price yourself on time and how much out goings you have. If you get the job done an hour early the bonus is you get to go home early if you do the job a day early you've made yourself a days bonus it's really that simple figure your daily outgoings and figure out how much you want paying per hour and estimate accordingly. I hope you do well but I don't mean to be offensive this is the basics of starting out you should have this business plan before you even purchase a chainsaw. Good luck

The petzl ones aren't to bad quite hard wearing and if you need to trek about it fits just like a backpack that's what we use but in all honesty those deployment bags are the best, cheap heard wearing and can wear it like a back pack if needed. Theirs nothing more annoying than needing something thats in the bottom of this Petzl bag and then having to remove most of my kit to get it

Most people think NPTC certs are more important than an actual education in arboriculture which I find a shame, I also feel NPTC needs a shake up its far to easy to become competent when the sad fact is they're far from it. I would like to see 4 days collage and one day's work experience then you can intergrate working and learning throughout you're collage course. I understand some students already do this but if it was part of the criteria I feel collages would produce a far better arborist at the end of the course.

That would be my main fear of buying a makita/dolmar

Have you had to replace any parts on it if so was it a ball ache, just asking as 9/10 if something beaks on my huskys or stihl I can get parts from the dealers straight away. I don't mind wating for the units parts it's bars and sprockets wouldn't like waiting for

Don't want to hijack the thread but I was thinking of getting a 576 or 372 but looking on the web I found a makita dcs9010 (90cc) for just a little more anyone have experience of this saw? What the reliability like and off the shelf parts fit as in bars chains sprockets or do these need to be makita/dolmar ordered in? I know I'm being a bit of a snob but I'd prefer the dolmar equivalent

I've got a real one this year, only because I knocked the top out of a few Norway spruce so I picked the best top and now its sitting in my living room Edit I had to do some silky modifications to the base of the tree and get my wife to pass me bits of brash and log through the front window so I could chuck it in the van, but it's nothing a good Dyson can't sort out

Lad I work with has one its a belting saw no issues so far and it gets used all the time

Nice and simple I like it

I wouldn't like to run a 30 inch bar on a 362 it can just about cope with a 20in but each to their own I suppose

It's true and I won a 200t on eBay for penny's just so I could reminisce and fiddle with it, it has carb issues but so what its not my main saw

1stella + another stella = confusion

How much to run them on red?

I'll correct you the current 201 is decent the old ones were terrible

That's it I'll go it my own as in chipper/van one day but not freelance climbing.I was offered a great position I could not refuse. I was also coded for powerlines which is a handy thing to have you'll always get subbied in on shutdowns and do a bit HV/LV maintance work

Because I don't have to run saws replace climbing kit get said kit inspected every 6 months buy PPE and lose out when I need To take a holiday. I remember back in the day around 10 years ago subby climbing was the in thing now I can't even tell you who is a freelance climber up here

I priced for travel and I know most companies around here so I know what they want out of you a day so I priced accordingly

£120-170 that's up north I must add

It was about being booked up if I had 8 weeks solid work I was having to turn other companies down that made me afraid that I would single myself out to 1 or 2 companies and if work went slack for them I'd have no work. I know the logical thing to do would of been only take on a few days and leave a few open but when it comes to money we need it to pay bills and treat the kids so I had to book my self up. I'm far better off financially now than I was a freelance climber, Just for the record I was charging proper climber rates

I wouldn't say zero stress I was more stressed when I was a freelance climber than being employed. Don't want to put a downer on the op but being employed is far better than being a freelance climber, I make about 30% less being employed but I have holidays sick pay and security PPE provided also someone pays my tax and NI, I'm quite luck as I've got a company vehicle so I have no fuel costs. Like Steve has said you have upsides but unless I was really sick Of my job I may consider freelance climbing again, just for the record I always had 5 days work in and was usually booked up for a month or 2 at a time Just a quick edit if I was do go self employed again I wouldn't be climbing for people I'd set up properly myself