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Yippee totally agree, just didn’t know how generic they were.

Was round helping a friend last week, as we finished up he said he had an old chainsaw in a few bits in a poly bag, that hadn’t been used for a few years and would I like it. Well of course I would it would be rude not to take it. An Efco MT3700 lurked inside. Brought it home and stripped out the carb the diaphragms which were crispy so got a generic repair kit and a spark plug, changed them today, Put the main body back together, few squeezes of the primer bulb, 1/2 dozen pulls and it sparks into life. Runs quite well. Was going to but the bar and chain on and give it a wee sharpen then a proper test, alas it was not to be as the chain tensioner screw is missing. How generic are these screws, I can find lots of generic tensioner screws on Amazon and eBay for about £6, but when I google the model number and part I only found a couple of places, one in USA and one in Europe that were wanting £25 inc postage to UK, for a wee homeowner saw I don’t think that is worth it. Is it my google skills that are letting me down or will one of the generic screw fit. Ta folks.

My Avatar is the result of an angle grinder disk get nipped in the cut and kicking out leaving a gash at the side of my knee. I use angle grinders a lot that that has been my only injury so far, touching wood.

If it is the smell I am thinking of, it reminds me of cigar boxes from the 70’s. 😀And don’t listen to them, it is a fantastic firewood if it’s free😀

I concerned for the person in the background who has by the looks of it been hung, you are wearing meat processing gloves, this is beginning to look like a scene from Fargo😀

I’m a Charnwood fan, made in UK.

Posted a pic of this before, made from and old sleeper and some old fence stabs. Only use it when I have loads of limbs like that to cut, usually cut the limb with it sitting on top of other chopped logs.

Unless it’s a horrendous recovery to get it to where you are processing it then it is well worth the effort. As I said I burn a lot of willow and it has certainly kept me warm for many a year.

Sycamore is a very good fire wood, I burn a lot of it, by coincidence I also burn a lot of willow, not as good but because the price is right (free) they are both fantastic. Of course split and stack and leave for a year to dry out.

I’m not a professional chainsaw user but have been regularly using one for over 20 years, to me that chain is too tight oil looks good. But is it bar oil it looks more like old engine oil.😀

Them chain teeth look blunt when I zoom in

Is the chain too tight? is the oiler working? Hold the nose of the bar close to something clean, rev it and see if you get a spray of oil mark against the said clean log or bit of paper etc. Is the chain nice and sharp, if not it will overheat in the cut and just make some sawdust instead of nice shavings.

I lost the top of my thumb as a teenager with an axe and my nephew lost the top of one of his fingers when he was a young lad due to an incident with a heavy door so whenever we see each other we take great delight in saying “high 4 1/2” to each other, oh the little things in life that make you smile.

That’s going to nip, speedy recovery

If it is that far gone then it sounds like it has become one with nature anyway especially at the bottom of your pile, perhaps if anything just lift / wrestle the top uncomposted stuff of the top to burn. As said hard to tell without a pic.

Nowt more than a pair of gloves, you know we are right, don’t just torch the pile it either needs left for nature or moved.

I regularly leave piles of brash, some of them get left to the nature gods some of them I burn depending on location. The burn ones are usually left about 6 to 12 months to dry out. As mentioned in the thread I start a fire about 2 meters away from the brash pile usually on an old pallet and just hand ball the stuff across, my brash piles are big but you can rattle through them in a couple of hours, the worst bit is the smoke chasing you around trying to sting your eyes. PS don’t wear your good fleece as it will be covered in spark holes by the end of it. We have hedgehogs and there is no way I would just torch one of the piles without moving it.

Look at it as a brunch, so you can go light on your real lunch, I was and still am happy for food to be put down in front of me, and that brekkie did look good😀

Look forward to your review of that welder, my brother is looking for a new welder.

Pottering about with my chimney pot, went up to clear a blockage in the chimney, went to take of the bird guard and the pot broke away about 50mm from base quite a neat break right round, lucky I had a tube of anchor resin so cleared the blockage, wee wire brush round the break, bead of resin , stick pot back together and jobs a good un. Will order a new pot and fit in the summer as there was a few hairline cracks in the pot.

Doing a good job there

I have just got a pair of riggers boots of the shelf in my workshop that have been there for a couple of years, still in box, never opened them, stuck my nail in the sole and it was like chewing gum. So thanks to this thread I have a bit space on my shelf, but not impressed I have just chucked an unworn pair of boots into the bin, what a waste.

Steve’s small engines on YouTube is not a bad starting point for chainsaw stuff

I burn a lot of goat willow, it’s free, so it’s great fire wood.