justin131

wish id thought of that bt are down there fixing it right now god knows how much its goin to cost

taking the top off an overly stressed branch when I made my back cut the branch sat back much farther than I thought it would bringing the butt of the limb right over the line before it dropped . this is my second phone line be interested to see what the average is. so how many have you broken ?

cheers i'll give them a call

dropped a tree on a fairly new echo 620 sx the other day:blushing: saws fine apart from the top handle and the front hand guard that activates the break. wasn't that small of a tree either shows haw tough these saw really are. anyway want to fix it asap because the saw belongs to the place I work but can't find the parts anywhere. does anyone know where I can buy ? thanks

bought a Sirius rigging rope recently and after a couple of uses the core disappeared into the sleeve at one end. is this going to effect the rope in any serious way? would also like to bye a new rope with less stretch, what would people recommend a tighter weave with less movement between the core and the sleeve. thanks for any info

meteor look good i'll give them a try. does anyone know if a 54mm will fit a 064 without having to modify the crankcase?

looking for some advice on replacing the pot and piston in a 064 I got recently. came with a cheap chinese one didn,t last long. are there any good after market parts? would it be a lot more work to increase the bore? cheers

need to do an ivy strip on some trees in an a.o.n.b it needs to get done asap. I don't really know what kind of restrictions there are around this, obviously if there are nesting birds I cant do anything. my question is do I need permission, are there any restrictions on what time of year I can do this etc. thanks

oh I see you need branch bits, its still a bit green only 3 month felled. i could have a look through the piles if you like and see what I come up with.

got tons of the stuff all kinda size. did you want bits with knots or are you just willing to tolerate them because I could probably find enough clean bits

could send you some elm if you pay for the postage

have some lovely boards here in dover but might be a bit far

cheers thanks that's what I thought

looking to get a 90cc saw but don't want to pay to much. the jonsered 2188 seems like a good option but can't find it anywhere but the u.s. does anyone know where I can buy one in the uk or e.u only other option I can think of is Makita and I've owned 3 and will never buy another. any help much appreciated

i'll just ask the question even if it makes me look a bit stupid. what exactly is a freelance climber? what I did was work for a firm in a lead climber position but the guy had to book me in advance, I also worked for other firms mainly when they had to much work and not enough people, organized my own jobs as well. is there something im missing here?

no worked for a couple charged between £120 to £150 a day he just wanted me to take on anything he had coming in. just didn't turn out to be enough even with my own work and the odd job from other firms

echo's are great saws for the price don't know about the 390 but i run a 360 top handle and 620sx both great saws a little heavy but great runners with good power.

sorry id read half way through this thread when I wrote this didn't realise the subject had change so much. so ignore the last post keep on arguing

i agree that freelance work is a hard way to make a living. about 3 month after starting into climbing i left the a paye job a took up freelance, when i went to talk to the guy about this job opportunity i asked him how much work he could give me and he answered how long is a piece of string. it was a small business just me a groundy and a chipper. after a few month he started to run out of work for me things got fairly bad as i had no savings, in the end i had admit defeat to take on a full time job. i will say this for my time spent as a freelance climber, i got to work on trees i never would have been able to in my first job (all the really difficult job got subed out to firms with better equipment) i'm a much better climber than i ever would have been if id stayed in normal employment. so umless you have an end game like running your own crew it probably not a good route to go down. but if your new to climbing it might be a good way to get some valuable experience. when your a freelance climber theres no one fall back on its all up to you to get those difficult jobs done on time. so in all one of the best thing i ever did but probably wont go back to it, i'm happy enough with the odd bit of private work on the weekend.

5'11'' around 12 stone now i'm doing climbing work but was almost 14stone when I was doing forestry

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helmet for scale. these are a few bits we have lying around.

cheers ian talk soon:001_smile: