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Exactly the same as mine, the two 20 inch bars and chains were bought at the same time. His bar was bent by the log and I needed a longer bar so they are identical bar and chains I will wait till he come back to work on Wednesday hopefully with a new spike and will report back

I am beginning to think that iis the case! I did a visual check and they seemed ok but still a possibility As I said before I ruled out the bar and chain which is identical to the one on my 340. We changed them over and the 340 drove the other bar and chain perfectly well, so it is either the studs or the spikes, Since the spikes are slightly (not that obviously) damaged and the studs seem ok, I was asking the question here, can even a small amount of damage to the spikes cause this problem, I forgot to mention that in spite of his oiler system being checked and working, it takes very little time before his bar becomes very hot, which it does not when fitted to the 340.

Nor did I , hence my post here to find out if anyone else has had the same problem

We changed blades, so teeth, blade and sharpness cannot be the difference, nor can the way we hold the saw. Only just discovered the potential problem , so have not visited the saw shop to buy a new spike bar. Will report when fitted. I have a feeling that if the spikes are causing the saw to pull to one side, it will make the saw work harder and make it feel lacking in power. Only one way to find out!

Mind there is no metal in it

A friend and I run two chainsaws, his a Stihl MS391 and mine a Stihl MS340. They are both on the same 20 inch bars with the same chains Mine cuts like a goodun, his is awful. I sharpened both chains and could not figure out what was wrong with his. At 64 cc it the 391 should have out performed the 340 which is only 56cc. It also would not cut straight even when we changed the bars over. Had a better look today and discovered his chainsaw spike bar had been damaged. It was not obvious to casual observation but once pointed out it could easily be seen that a couple of teeth at the bottom were slightly bent and one had a broken tip. The saw had been damaged when a large log fell on it and bent the bar, but a replacement bar seemed to be all that was needed. I never thought these spikes could have so much influence on the performance. Anyone else had the same problem?

Having decided that I needed another set of Greens gang mowers for the yard, I had a look on fleabay and there was a set going for not a lot but it was up in Northumberland. I won the set and when I collected them they had been used to mow a cricket field! So the thought was there, but it soon went away.

Another of father’s favourites was “tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good” When I was young it sounded like nonsense , a double negative but I use it all the time now. Last time in the first Lockdown, when all was quiet and peaceful, no vapour trail overhead, no cars and you could really hear the birds singing. It was quite literally an ill wind that carried the virus, but there was some good ( like not having to gratuitously hug people!)

When I was young, father took me around the farm. " Look at that bird/flower/insect/tree" "I see it Dad, I see it!" " Boy , you see but you do not observe!" I have been known to use that phrase on many occasions!

Got one somewhere? Got one somewhere?!! You mean you have not used it for so long that you have forgotten where you left it! Shame on you, just the thing to be swinging in this lovely heat wave!

Think you are onto something there Stubby. Start a training camp for Olympic athletes. Big pile of logs and 2 week intense course for muscle build up, ideal for javelin, discus, weight lifting. I would choose the X27. You could charge for the training!

Just discovered this morning that it was not so clever to leave the Arbtrolley loaded like this over the weekend as the foam filled tyres went flat and I could not move it by hand to hitch onto the Mule again. Seems to have sorted themselves out after a bumpy trip. Boing! Boing! nearly lost some of the boards in the beginning!

Haha love it. If I remember correctly the backrest on the rear seats was basically just a piece of material attached to a bar that went across the back. That was on the mk1 version, which was truly minimalist, but in 1986 they introduced the FIRE engine version with proper seats and other improvements

Canada gosling sees mum take off and tries to pluck up courage for a first flight. Seems to be encouraged by siblings. Bit if an untidy crash landing and seems to be mocked by siblings Next time does a water landing which went well and seemed to gain applause from family

Climate control, wipers, headlights, stereo Cd and radio, power steering, four wheel drive, diesel, heated and electric adjustable seats and windows but no instruments hence the price of £250 for the MOT failure. Not many mowers have this spec!

We have that in the field next door. Ten acres of birdsfoot trefoil, clover, various grasses, fig buttercup, common sainfoin .Quite a few orchids, pyramid and common spotted and loads of bees and other insects This covers the old Saxon graveyard

I will continue.......... There is a duck pond in the next village which I have been passing for over fifty years with a warning sign for ducks and I have never yet seen a duck there. There is a sign on our main road "Danger Cyclists". Since cyclists are everywhere you may as well have a sign saying, danger lorries or danger cars. Then there is the sign with an elderly couple with walking sticks, "Danger old people" Any driver has to be aware of all potential hazards, there are mothers with prams, children playing, dogs and cats as well as deer and livestock. Why are there not signs for all of these and many more. Hedgehogs? Badgers? Muntjac, Foxes? Their carcasses seem to be the ones littering the verges. Then we have a village near here on the main road which starts with a 40mph limit and a speed camera but it only lasts for a few hundred yards which pass houses with hidden driveways right on the road, a garage and an old peoples home before it changes to 30 mph. What were they thinking? Traffic constantly pulling in and out of the garage. At the other end the same, the 30 limit stops and becomes 40 but as the years went buy there have been a lot of houses built going out of the village but nobody thought to move the signs to match. People do not drive at appropriate speeds I know but these signs are not going to deter that behaviour. Rant nearly over

If it wasn't for the bloody trees everywhere it would take half the time! Cut the bloody things down, who planted them anyway ? Oh yes I think I did........

Bloody hell, I had a panda in the early 90's. It was only 2wd with the900cc fire engine. Loved that car, brilliant in snow, cross fields, it would go anywhere. Got rid after 3 years though as the thing wouldn't start in the wet, changed everything, but still wouldn't start on a morning if it had been raining. I bought a brand new Panda 4x4 white in 1986 when they just brought out the FIRE engine version. £5000, really bought as a replacement for the farm Ford Escort Van which was the same price but had limited vision pulling out of our gateways and was hopeless off road. I had a set of Greens gang mowers that I used to pull with a Little Grey Fergie, which was sometimes cold and exposed in bad weather and I wondered if the little Panda could cope. It did easily. I thought that something must break on it due to this abuse and it was such a luxury to mow like this that I could not go back to the tractor. I had a heater, wipers, headlights for night work, radio stereo and best of all when I had friends to stay I would ask them if they wanted to mow the lawns with me. The answer was obviously "no way" but I enticed them with a can of beer and the next time they came they asked if they could mow the lawns for me! A win win situation! So these Pandas kept coming up for sale in the local paper, not macho enough for men and too complicated for women so they were going for between £50 and£150 so I kept buying them since we have a spare barn. When my parents were alive they had one each for going around the farm. They loved them as they were a bit higher and easy for them to enter and depart and simple to use. A bloke in the village had a Volvo XC70 which had failed its MOT because the instrument panel had packed up. The cost of replacing everything was well over£1000 so he was about to scrap it but let me have it for £250. Diesel, auto, aircon, 4x4, electric seats, power steering. I bought another set of Greens for it for the farmyard area so I now have about four acres to mow incomplete comfort in about an hour. The way the grass has been growing recently it has been a godsend

Both Sisley, worth not a lot when I bought them in the 1990s but becoming a collector’s car now!

Eleven years on! Put the orange bars into the slots in the horizontal position and transported eleven 3/8” sheets of 4’x8’ behind the Mule. So easy and the Mule had no trouble at all on the one in seven hills.

Managed to fill the 72 cubic foot box which is about 2 cubic metres in 34 minutes with a couple of holdups the straight lengths of Sycamore have been drawn up into 70 foot tall branchless stems about ten inches in diameter. Perfect for the Palax Combi 600. If I could be bothered to grade the timber and had an extra helper and a newly sharpened circular saw I think I could break the 20 minute barrier if everything worked as it should! Sycamore on the dodgy ( but effective) log deck and oak in the third picture.

Sorry, I did mean English

I am fairly ashamed to be British when I hear that certain element booing every time the Danes had the ball, I was appalled by the booing during the Danish National anthem and the laser was unforgivable. there must be enough cameras around to find the culprit. They need to make some rules for this behaviour. If you ordered the stadium to be cleared every time it happened the crowd would soon control the idiots.