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Plug size would be best - easy to sell and potentially post. Nice little gift for someone

I reckon they'd make more money selling seedlings. Would make nice little Christmas trees!

Someone was bound to say hornbeam eventually anyway... just thought this was a nice example of two trees living in very close proximity to each other. A mixed tree marriage if you like...

Think father in law has a decent strimmer which I can borrow if needs be (they live with us!) I might try 2.4mm line but if not I'll get rid

Yes. Definitely Oregon but a cheaper model

No, just snaps together. Yours must be a less domestic product.

You haven't met my missus:D

Glad to help you vent! .Found out the head does come apart just by pulling and inside is just 2 fencing Gripples (branded as such). Resorted to using my Stihl brush slasher hand tool thing to clear some brambles for my hammock where I'll be sleeping tonight

Don't think there are any screws!

I did leave a tail - that sheared off too! Nothing left to grab it with...

It was labelled as for a bent shaft strimmer: [ame=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GGFA8SM/ref=pe_385721_37986871_TE_item]Oregon Jet-Fit 552697 30 CC Universal Easy-Load Trimmer Head for Bent Shaft with Red Round Line: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools[/ame] but I will have a look and see which way it rotates. Is it worth shelling out for expensive trimmer line or is there a cheaper alternative?

I have a Mountfield flexible shaft strimmer and unlike sandspider, it starts and runs fine. I got really frustrated with the crappy bump head so on recommendation here, I bought an Oregon Jet-Fit. The problem I now have is that the line snaps after about 20 seconds of use - I'm trying to trim a mixture of brambles, rushes and grass. The line I'm using is 2mm nylon (the packet says "Quality Professional" so it must be good stuff ). It's also snapped flush with the head and I can't extract it to fit any more. Any clues here? Is 2mm line not up to the job? The head says it will take up to 2.4mm so would that be worth a try or should I be investing in something that can take a blade?

Can you not winch the tree down the slope before cutting it?

Frankly it's more useful than my chainsaw at the moment

Can offer you Cross In Hand, TN21

That should rival a Land Rover in terms of reliability and build quality

I didn't think this was that kind of forum, lucky fellow

George Rose have lost a few of their workshop staff and can't find replacements so unable to service the hire equipment now. They'll be keeping the shop and expanding welding supplies as well as their gas business

A lot of it is dry leylandii bur there's a lot of sycamore, plane and oak going in there some of which is still green. Will be a nice mix when we come to burn it in a few years. Moving the logs in the centre onto a pallet didn't take long and I've put a piece of old chestnut fencing across to tie the outer skin to the centre a bit. Should get plenty of air even inside as it's only one layer thick. Looks cool anyway

Sadly not but I do have a lot of logs to move and if one had someone helping to bring barrows of logs, stacking them doesn't actually take a huge amount of time

Thinking now before I get to far of clearing the heaped logs from the middle and putting a pallet inside. I can then build a smaller one or just a stack on the pallet with the odd beam to the main outer shell to give it strength. Should give more air inside

I'm spoilt for firewood but have been running out of places to stack the split logs so they tend to lie in untidy heaps in the grass getting wet and covered in slugs until I can find somewhere to put them. Decided to build a Holzhausen instead and was going to do it near to the piles of unprocessed arb waste (that members here have very kindly given me) but my wife suggested we build it close to the house. Marked out a circle with logs: After a lot of to-ing and fro-ing with wheelbarrows I ended up with this: and finally this: I've now run out of split logs but the floor on my other log store is now clear and the backlog pile is shrinking. At least now we can hire in a splitter and get a load done and split whilst the weather is warm. The middle needs to be filled with logs and it will eventually be about twice that height at least. Dog can't nick them now either (he tends to pick them up and drop them in the long grass ready for discovery by the mower )

Visited the Mary Rose yesterday and they have a load of Tudor birch logs that were on board and preserved by the silt. I'm guessing they've probably dried out a bit since coming up in the 80's but it's the only Tudor firewood in existence

Magnets seem good in the flywheel. I'd have thought putting the coil pack and plug from the MS211 would give me a spark but doesn't seem to.

Still no joy. Put the coil and plug from an MS211 in and it still wouldn't start. Tried my spark plug in the other saw and it wouldn't go. Will change my plug but still don't reckon it would work. Baffling.