Mik the Miller

Difficult to tell if they have gone but thier accounts for 2021 show a loss of £771K, and debts of £2.5Mill £1.75Mill they owe to themselves *FR Jones and Son (Holdings) Limited, who also posted a loss of £82K. Their accounts for year ending Dec 2022 are due until Sept 2023. They could have gone 'poof' which is why ChainsawBars is advertising like a cat on a hot tin roof ... ? They could be just 'restructuring'. They may rise from the ashes as 'JR and E Jones Limited' ?

Pistons in back to front ...

Probably, it is a Husqvarna 😁

Not English as a first language that's for sure.

I have a sneaky feeling it takes a bit more than an extra hole or two in the exhaust and a wee twiddle of the mixture screws to get more power from a 121cc stroker

Yes, best not to die with more than £325,000.00 in assets and cash. You can give away £3000 a year to anyone you choose in the 7 years before you die ... tax free You can give away/gift any amount 7 years before your death ... tax free Keep records... I am not a tax lawyer but have recently suffered from parents death.

Then you need to go and live in a bankrupt country. Sudan perhaps, any of the middle or Western Africa nations. Perhaps somewhere less dangerous like Argentina, Lebanon maybe, i'm sure that paying no tax will bring you great personal joy and benefit 😁

16" is max IMO

It's weird being the same age as old people.

Newspaper, twigs, sticks and 2" square logs (affectionatly called number two's) with a couple of logs on top. Lit with a match. Open primary and secondary air, shut the door and get a cuppa. 20 mins later close it down to a simmer. I worries me putting combustable hydrocarbon in a closed box ...

@Ontario Firewood Resource there is a lot said about Tesla in your video that isn't correct. He didn't figure out/invent AC, he studied it at school.... Alternating current was developed in principle by Michael Faraday and in practice by Hippolyte Pixii in the early 19th century. Practical devices employing AC in the medical world were developed before Tesla was even born. Contemporaries of Tesla working for George Westinghouse developed practical methods of distributing AC power from power plants before Tesla came to work for Westinghouse. Tesla himself actually studied the use of AC in college When working for Westinghouse he led a partnership with GM to install the AC generators @ Niagra Falls, creating the first modern power station.

Excellent solution... i'd have gone for a thicker plate, if you run the stove at full chat the chequer plate may not last more than 1 season. Well done HOP Engineering ...

Is this the M-Tronic version ? If it is, apply choke and chain brake start the saw and leave it running (brake on) for around 30 seconds, don't touch the throttle, then take off the brake, squeeze the trigger (to full throttle) and hold it running flat out for another 30 seconds (you will hear the saw change note a couple of times), when the engine speed drops noticeably, release the throttle and wait for the engine speed to get back to a normal idle. Switch off the saw and it's done. This causes the 'electonics' to reset.

My new (eco Stovax) stove is the same. I went from a cast iron box with a grate to a large glass doored, brick lined, designed steel box with secondary airwash and tertiary air thats much more efficient and fills the room with smoke and ash at every oppertunity. I think these new stoves are designed by bright young university graduates with no experience or real clue on the practticality of how a fire actually works. I've had two seasons and i'm just getting used to it now but compared to the old stove it's a bitch to light and (like yours) smokes. My issue is not only is there a small gap for the smoke to evacuate but also the door goes to within 15mm of the top, so you open the door and the room fills with fine particles of ash. Topping up is a no-no, you basically have to wait until all the fuel has been used before adding more. The old stove had a good 75mm 'lip' above the doors with air baffles at the top and below the grate, you could also leave the door slightly ajar to get the stove roaring, this new design may be more efficient but in practical usage it's crap.

Brilliant ....

Let me guess ... It's you

Would he be interested in selling it and where is it (i'm in Scotland so if you are t'other end of the country this is probably the most important question) ?

For an occasional use bar, this from Rotatech is fine. It's not as heavy/rigid/hard as some of the other brands available but it's not crap either. As long as you are carefull and the chain is well oiled, for less than £45 it's a really usefull bar. Rotatech .404, 25" for 880 chainsaw

I have an 880 with a 25" bar (also a 48 and 72 I use on the Alaskan). The 880 loves the 25" and just falls through oak and beech boughs. It's not the sort of combo you want to swing about for more than an hour or two but it works perfectly and feels reasonably well balanced. I run an 8 tooth (404) rim sprocket from Kevlargaffs (on eBay) which speeds the chain up a bit. Current wisdom is to use a smaller (narrower kerf) chain but I like the way a sharp full chisel in 404 cuts. it's solid. I can see the wisdom on a mill but for bucking and making hinge cuts I like the wider cut when using a wedge.

People are good at running businesses, others make good employees and others are a waste of oxygen, Without a huge amount of time and effort you can't teach the later to even be a good employee. People either have a 'sense' or they don't. Every job is different, a hedge, a tree, a widow maker, they are all a hedge, a tree, a detached hanging limb, same, but different. The senses are honed when things go wrong, you learn by your mistakes, those with lots of the 'sense' often see the mistake before its made, the good employee seeing it happening and communicating, the waste of space watches things go wrong happy in the knowledge that he/she turned up this morning so he/she is getting paid and someone else forked-up. The mistake is thinking you can teach sense ... Fortunately (for Henri) there are more people that think they can be taught it ...

Not as big as most, but a great grass cutter