Macpherson

I can't really be bothered getting into anything with you, but I can't let you get away with trying to belittle me by saying I posted BS. I kinda always try to fully check stuff before posting and did as much as I could to find out whether it was real or AI, as did my Sister and another friend, and between us the best we could find was that it may have been at a meeting somewhere in Perthshire. I see that it's being discussed on FB which I don't subscribe to, so can't verify. So it would seem that either it's phone footage of a real meeting, or it's fake... to me having watched it several times I'd say that it looks like a typical group of Pseudo political vankers having the usual confrontational interactions that gets nothing done but shows them up for what they are... Don't get me wrong, nether am I aligned in any way with the ' The Scottish Family party ' but I doubt that they're paedo's.... unlike the other family.. I'll just leave it at that, except to say you've been swamping this arborists forum with your opinions on everything for quite a long time now, and I'm quite sure that your incessant input of stuff not related in any way to trees and wood has led to many experienced members with much to share walking away from this forum, a mine of information which should not be lost !! I guess you vote SNP.

Saying as how you mention it, Have you see this... Fairly sure it's not AI. The guy asking the question is Richard Lucas a former teacher and leader of the Scottish family party.

I've had many pairs of Meindl boots over the years and although I've always found them super comfy you do have to take this problem into consideration particularly if buying second hand boots online. The problem is age related breakdown and decay of the PU sub-sole as in your pics, and it's not only Meindl but other brands... in fact any boot with a PU sub-sole. My guess is that although you bought them new, to get to that stage in only months that in fact they were really quite old when you bought them...maybe even when Gustharts bought them. IME the Achilles heel of boots like these is the PU sub-sole that over time crumbles into dust. You could complain to Meindl, but maybe it would be better if Gustharts did this, if they sell a lot of these boots they must be aware of the problem. I have had a brand new S/H pair resoled but they were done at the Meindl repair shop in Germany, about £120 but I don't expect that that would be very acceptable if you paid £300 for them 7 months ago and they're falling apart. I know for a fact that you just bought old stock. cheers.

Fair enough, I guess I'm a bit older than you and I just don't like manufactured music. 👍

How the mighty fall.. He's now on telly here advertising cat food.. never liked boy bands of any kind anyway.🤮

Yep, I'm retired now so my saws are only for personal use but I could really do with another battery, I know that the 500s would do my saw which I've had for 6 years but at £350 I'm swithering although at some point I'll need to bite the bullet. As you'll know the key to the efficiency of these saws is making sure the chain is always razor sharp and I've gotta say that I get a real buzz falling a big tree with what many think is a toy.... while they watch🙄 I don't know if your saw is the same in design as mine, but I've found that a definite potential trouble spot is that woodchip makes it's way into the inside of the sprocket/ brake so whenever I've got the cover off for cleaning I pop the E-clip and always find chip under the drum and I don't imagine that the oil pump gears are very robust so well worth doing. Cheers.

I have Goat Willow all around me on wild land, It's a total menace if you let that get established you'll be dealing with the problem for the rest of your life particularly in a city garden, once it gets established it'll put out runners everywhere. I don't think it would undermine your footings, but the fool is going to regret planting it in his garden once it starts to spread. If you don't want to poison it atm just wait until it shows up on your side of the fence and then hit it with Roundup 450 and that should kill the whole root system of that tree. You could also try watering his trees with extremely salty water... when he's not in😁

Yep agreed, I just checked the current price and I doubt if I even consider either the 220 or the 300 at todays prices, but the 220 Is my go to saw for firewood, although I'm also liking my ancient Husky 154 at the moment. I'm curious to know what the battery life is like on your saw with the 300 battery, I get about half an hour blocking up typical birch, but easy all afternoon if just randomly clearing small scrub as the OP requires. I did also recommend the Makita😉 cheers.

5G does not get through trees very well, or the coming 6G is even worse at this, so the BS about the trees roots damaging pavements in places like Sheffield etc is just that. On the one hand they love trees and on the other they hate them for preventing us from being exposed to their shit... imo only obviously.

Hi, I'd suggest putting the carb in an ultrasonic cleaner but not in the hot water, put the carb body in a jam jar with celly thinners and put that into the hot water obviously with the lid loose, and that might well remove any varnish that's built up in the tiny holes under any Welsh washers due to shyte fuel. Of course you may already know this trick but if not you can do this with any solvent that you like without getting your US cleaner manky every time, and the thing about doing it this way is that you get to see any debris in the jar particularly if the carb already looked clean. Almost forgetting the title of your post I have a Stihl msa 220 which is great although now much more expensive than the £500 with battery and charger that I paid for mine 6 years ago. Depending on usage you may require 2 batteries but generally I can get away with 1. The other saw that I've experience of is the Makita 36v [ 2 x 18v batteries ] it's fairly good particularly if you already have the batteries and charger. In my opinion stay away from the 1/4" picco chain as it's a pain in the effin ass. Cheers.

No, Jonny said " and I hope all your doughnuts turn out like fanny's " at the end of the show.😁

Personally for thread repair in general I see a Helicoil as the proper engineering solution for stripped threads, and some of the top engine builders use them as standard in alloy cases in new engines. But I agree that with a short reach sparkplug with only 4 or 5 threads a Timesert is probably a better solution for most folk that don't have the correct tooling or experience. Without trying to blow my own trumpet over my working life I repaired thousands of damaged threads and I can say that I detested finding Timeserts in casing threads of an engine that I was repairing for every possible reason.

Yeah, aged 14 I got out blind bearings in motorcycles by sticking the case in my mum's oven at full whack until they just fell out... but as you say , sometimes the case needed thumped on a plank 👍

Hi, I think both, I think you can inject it into the holes... I've only done this once to a chair which was easy but I guess with something much bigger I guess you could spray it. Being no expert, I think if I had serious woodworm in my house for example I would be tempted to buy a pukka woodworm treatment or if it was bad enough call in a professional. Cheers.

Hi, I just paint or spray it on before before stacking the slabs to season, + painting the ends with2 coats of SBR. I suppose usually the milled wood would have dried a bit on the surface, I'm no expert... I'm just winging it but it definitely helps to prevent Blue stain and it's cheap and non toxic to mammals.