Will C

You Sir are a gentleman

Does the hedgerow regulations cover anything like this? Ask the council to provide a full survey inc environmental study into the wildlife damage and the amenity value of the hedge. Bet the tree officer wouldn't let you take it out if he wanted to. With people like that in power were in big trouble!

Looking at getting a pair for one of our blokes. Are they a fairly standard fit or do you need a size bigger than normal? Do they seem to wear and last OK? Our man they are for is mainly a groundy but climbs occasionally. Cheers all.

We ordered spare set of blades with ours. We use our local machine shop to sharpen ours but we are limited by being geographically challenged On the north island though you should have a number of options many companies do a mail order service but I can't comment on there service

When working in the woods I can get a 441 with a spare bar and chain, wedges, hammer and my dinner in a army burgen rucksack. I used to then carry fuel can and felling bar but you may not need that much gear and looking at a smaller saw. Could be worth a look as there cheap and well built. Good luck in your hunt.

We use the basic model stihl one for tree work and milling with a alaskan mill

Nice stick if you weren't across the water I would be tempted to make you a bid

Unless you feed it Kaskara it will prob grow back, I've seen willow shrug off roundup before now! That Kaskara seems to sort most woody and broad leaf stuff I've tried it on

If it's now a collectors item I've got 2 new drums in the unit. Open to bids, please bear in mind there now a collectors item and worth a big premium On a serious note what a load of tosh. It was cleaver marketing on there part but I couldn't care what pic it's got on, it was brought as it's cheaper than the other brands available on the day I needed some. Reckon I might go and get some stihl calendars as they will be pulled next and worth money I wish I had time to worry about such trivial crap as what sticker is on my chain oil

I'm 5ft10 and weight 12.5stone at mo but normally average 12 st I climb most days. Oh and I'm 33 with a 34 waist needs a belt but 32 is being hopeful:laugh1:

Exclent:lol:

Weaver cubes come with a sitting tenant tangle fairy installed as standard:laugh1: I reckon I've got a whole family in mine, if your short I could send you my fairyies:001_tongue:

I'm with you on this one:laugh1: I've no idea what happens to them, I reckon the homeless tree fairyies make nests in mine! I pack it away carefully and next day it's in a right state

Good trucks I drove one as a yoooof delivering pianos. Watching this with interest, been wondering about up grading our 3.5t canter which is down rated from 5.5t and does mid 20s/gal towing a first st6 and regularly not wanting to see a weigh bridge to a heavier truck that need not be so shy of being weighed:laugh1:

I've just started wearing plugs instead of muffs on my climbing lid. Using 3m ones on a cord that are tied to my lid. They are 33snr I think. Brilliant for saws but not so good with the chipper, quite but it seems to be the tone of the chipper that there not good with rather than the loudness? From a climbing point of view there great with googles and no stuff sticking out of the lid to get caught on stuff:thumbup: I'm as bad as the next man when it comes to hearing and tinnitus so it's just a case of stopping it getting worse rather than preventing it

I was thinking the rope runner because it can be used double rope as well so it's one bit of kit covering all options with out carrying a load of gear in the tree

Are they ce marked now so we can loler them? Very interested in trying one out but not going to spend the money if I can't keep the paper work right

I'm looking to come over to srt. At the moment I'm climbing dirt on the lock jack. Thinking about the rope runner but I can't find them for sale in this country? Does that mean they aren't ce marked yet or I just that I've missed them for sale? If threre not ce marked then it's a no go for loler

After I replied to this Wednesday our local man from redwood was on the phone first thing yesterday morning, we have been promised that our machine will be taken in and sorted. I would like to think you have had a similar response, good luck with it bud.

No he is not alone! Our paint work is crap, it has been in to be repainted, by the looks of it with a bog brush in a dusty yard over the top of the flakey paint and rust! After I said it wasn't good enough I was told it wasn't viable for redwood to repaint the whole machine but they would do us a very good deal when we changed it, we looked at the Arb show and another dealer offered us over 2k more than redwood to trade it in! Good deal my arse Ours cuts out at times for no reason, never did get a call back! I changed fuel filter but no change, normally when working hard, reminds me to ring again and waste a little more time Our top feed roller also slipped over at about a 100 hours, when I spoke to the workshop I was asked if I had a tool box? When I said yes I was told "sort it then" and was promptly hung up on. Our drawbar also came lose and I had to tighten it, not a big deal and to be expected if I had brought a 5k pile of c@@p from China but on a machine that is claimed to be well built??? Ours is still under 200 hours:thumbdown: could understand it if it was 2000 plus hours and second hand As soon as It is viable to it's going and I WILL NOT be buying another one or dealing with red wood if I can help it.

Make sure you send in all the records in of first use it makes the job easier, an easier job is a happy examiner which is a good thing, I've sent kits back untested for no paperwork and no I'd markings!

Having had to claim on my pl insurance once from tree work, also as a loler examiner I wouldn't consider having any one on site with out having there gear tested, if my gear wasn't tested when I needed my insurance I would be out of business now. Also as a examiner I may go outside of the guidelines given by the manufacturer of equipment with regards to service life in some instances, but you need to remember that the day someone gets hurt I have to be able to stand in court and justify my decision. So you need to give the examiner the space to pass or fail a piece of kit as they see fit as it could be there house/business/reputation on the line. Just stop and think you wouldn't go to work with out your pl and employers libality insurance so why make it invalid by not getting you gear tested, it's not expensive in the grand scheme of things!

cant beat them, cumbersome horrible things but I would never be with out it, got me out of a muddle on a number of occasions.

ive got a older one with the carb on, now 5 years old and still earning me money ;-) We have had no probs with other electronic stihl saws and will replace the 441 with another electronic one when this one goes, unless I send this one to spud ;-)

Cheers lads I thought that was the case but didn't want to waste a lot of time