R Haigh

The only real benefit I could imagine is the quietness which would make communication with the lads on the ground much easier but there a lot of money still and lithium battery's don't normally have a massive life cycle. I'll stick to a saw that I can service and adjust myself, plus I like the scream my ms200 makes and I like the smell of burning 2 stroke, reminds me of my motorbike days lol

I only use long reach hedge trimmers when I can't reach with my husqvarna 325HD trimmers, I find the long reach too heavy and unbalanced to do a proper tidy job, Stihl HS81 with a 30" cutter are a good hedge trimmer as well but I prefer the husqvarna, I've had Tanaka before and they were very reliable but can't cut the thickness of the stihl or husky pro models

I run out of chain oil on a job a few week ago so I nipped to the shop and bought some veg oil,it did the job but was a bit messy on the saws, my mate has been doing tree work over 20 years and has never used chain oil ever, he always uses cheap supermarket engine oil. I bought some chain oil from northern arb recently and it just looked like waste veg oil, but I can't remember if it was Oregon or husqvarna oil

Think my double cab transit tipper weighs around 2.5 ton with just the saws and blower in etc, it would be hard graft trying to keep it within the law, if I had a license for it I,d rather use a 7.5 ton truck

Just too had the Honda HR was really heavy, but was over 20 year old and still going strong

I've got an hilux but don't use it for work because I've got a transit double cab tipper, all my work is private/domestic and the transit is never big enough for most jobs so I couldn't imagine the amount of trips I'd be doing back and forth to the yard in the hilux.

I've got the Viking MB4 RTP and the MB650VM and I don't rate either, very underpowered in standard form as they don't rev high enough for long or rough grass, I put a stronger Spring on both to hold the revs higher and that helped a bit but neither are a patch on my previous Honda HR536 and John Deere JS63.

It only shreds onto the floor but I've adapted a dustbin to slot under it

That's the bigger material if I change the plate (which takes less than 30 seconds) I can make much smaller chip. These machines love conifer having a hydraulic roller feed and 24 blades.

I have 2 different grading plates for mine, one has smaller holes so the material is very similar in the size to normal chip and the other has much bigger holes so the material that comes out is larger and more twiggy.

I've got an eliet prof 4 with hydraulic roller, brilliant little shredder on anything upto 3"

My Dad has used his 242 every day for the last 18 year or so he loves it

I once run a 441 on a 25" bar and thought it coped well, I normally use a 660 but it was in for repair at the time.

It looks like dog piss marks, or fuel spillage ?

Sycamore usually splits very easy but I had some very Knarly rings in the yard last year from a big butt and they were a nightmare with a 30 ton splitter, every bit of the grain was twisted and I was constantly getting the blade stuck in them and having to hit them with a maul just to get them off the blade, this was only the butt and mainly where big side arms have been the rest of the tree split easy