Andrew McEwan

Even if the lines look fine, if they are old probably worth changing to rule out small cracks you may have missed. Re. carbs last one I did it was cack on the ends of the needles, so had to remove the plastic guards to get a flat head screwdriver on them, to get them out. Hope you get it sorted.

Good luck, my elbows hurt thinking about it!

Then buy one of these

beastmaker.co.uk - beastmaker

It's great, have you thought of further north once you find your feet? Much cheaper housing, and more chance of decent snow so you can enjoy winter (will need a non arb winter job). Allow some time in your week to get into SFI if it's still going, (free govt swedish lessons). Short days are much easier when any light there is is bouncing off snow, rather than UK style grey and wet, which goes for much of southern Sweden. If you are freelance speak to all the local forestry companies, even if just for contacts for dogsbody re-spacing work, as will likely open up other (arb) jobs and you'll learn a lot.

If you aren't already get trained up on windblow, and efficient bog standard conifer felling/snedding, as many small pockets of urban woodland.

good luck, and start on the swedish early

Check out ADAC, they use the AA in the UK anyway. Europe wide cover, no restriction on vehicle age for euro travel, my last bill was ~£80 I think, only downside is speed of long distance recovery, you get taken to garage and stuck in a hotel before they do a longer recovery if I remember correctly.

What d'you mean Tony, surely monitoring a fallen tree and organising a celebration of it's life is what you'd spend your budget on, rather than any works to prolong an amazing tree's life. If that berkotoday report is correct what a classic load of NT drivel.

Sad news, I wonder how many of us have the same photo as David's second one.

Hi Chris, from another lurker/infrequent poster! Probably loads of others like myself enjoy the thread and photos, keep it up.

Great watch, really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

Yes, not huge quantities for myself but I'm sure there must be potential, big catchment etc.

From what I can see in the photos it doesn't look like it to me.

This is handy to have in the car if you haven't already seen it

http://http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/FCPH-ADD_photoID.pdf/$FILE/FCPH-ADD_photoID.pdf

Nice vid, any sign of Dothistroma up there (crown looked perhaps a bit thin)?

Dr. Julian Saunders :: Dodgy Elbows

Give this a read, and try appropriate exercises. Worked for me years ago while full time climbing, and trying to train a lot for rock climbing at the same time (bad idea). PDF has been sent round loads of mates, and has helped all of them, especially the eccentric wrist curls. Give them time as it feels as if you are doing almost nothing to start with, form is key. My elbows still play up occasionally and it just takes a bit of time back on the eccentric curls and they quieten right down. Good luck

I keep an old samsung solid b2100 on a £5/month contract as backup, often find it has signal when the smartphone doesn't (despite being same network).

Have you tried the Husqvarna combi gauges Tim? Good for maintaining angles through the life of the chain.

Remember there is an MBS established by a manufacturer destructively testing a percentage of a batch of krabs etc, and an MBS established by testing a much lower percentage. Certain companies cost save this way, worth a ponder.

Sounds messy GG, the injury I saw was ~15 years ago, certainly focused the rest of us.

Seen an injury caused from a kickback whilst snedding (undersweep) that ended up in the back of the guys leg, also inertia brake failure I would have thought.

http://http://www.drjuliansaunders.com/resources/feature_articles/dodgy_elbows/

Saunders knows his stuff, took a while but the exercises completely cleared my tennis elbow. Can be tricky to get the right form for them to work, but persevere, no injections or straps needed