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  1. Silverhooker
    Fell, stumpgrind and re-plant, a nice ornamental rowan with the yellow/white berries would be nice.
  2. Silverhooker
    No one is having a go at you, we’ve all made daft mistakes that we just about got away with, just trying to stop you doing anything silly and dangerous. I’ve learned loads from guys on this site the best tip was listen carefully to people who know what they are doing and keep safe.
  3. Silverhooker
    Thanks I’m going to try to be more fungi observant when I’m out and about from now on. Could anyone recommend a decent cheap field guide ?.
  4. Silverhooker
    Found this under some large beech, I haven’t a clue what it is !
  5. Silverhooker
    Had a 365 for a couple of seasons now, goes great no issues. I understand it can be fettled in to a 372 but I’ve never felt I needed it done. I just do wind blown not full on forestry.
  6. Silverhooker
    Have to agree with the mantra that "chainsaws don't take prisoners". Really wouldn't get to deep in to this sort of stuff on your own, best to take it to a local chap that knows what he is up to, my local repair chap is only too keen to give me a wee tutorial about what he is doing and I've learned loads from him. Saws are easy to replace, hands, eyes etc are much more difficult.
  7. Silverhooker
    I mostly do wind blown and also agree that a mix of saws are needed. I use a 440 with 13” bar for branches and a 365 with a 20” bar for most of the cutting and keep a spare 24” bar for oversized bits. A good bill hook, and a range of wedges axes and mauls help too.
  8. Silverhooker
    I've a couple of long and short log tongs, which i prefer to a pickeroon. I struggle with golfers elbow on the right and tennis elbow on the left and using tongs instead of having the impact from the pickeroon has helped. Just took a wee bit of practice with the tongs. My pickeroon was home made from an old broken axe handle with a coach bolt thru the end, bent to shape and ground to a point. local chap who taught me how to sharpen made it up for me.
  9. Silverhooker
    Took me ages to learn how to hand sharpen, have never used electric since, and you can do it out in the woods. I was taught by a local chap who taught me more in 1 hour than years of YouTube videos and manuals.
  10. Silverhooker
    I don't mill much, but what is the cc or power out put of the saw ? As an11. 5" bar will only be good for milling kindling ! I alway thought that big high torque saws with big bars was what was needed to mill.
  11. Silverhooker
    Have you seen “Fargo”.
  12. Silverhooker
    Soaked to the skin but no chance of a flood.
  13. Silverhooker
    Lashing all day I’ve been out unblocking drains !
  14. Silverhooker
    I use a mixture of Scots pine and sycamore, always find that mixing the species is best as on e will flare up and the other a more moderate burn which gets the big bits going. Never used leylandii as kindling just as logs but they burn lovely so imagine it makes good kindling.
  15. Silverhooker
    At a party a few years ago my dad ate half a bowl of popuri, you know the scented stuff in bowls, said it was the worst nibbles he had ever had !
  16. Silverhooker
    I burn loads of larch and agree it drys fast, like stubby said Leylandii is a top burner.
  17. Silverhooker
    I had one, it was great, really saved my back and stopped chain going in the dirt. Sadly it got nicked when my quad got stolen !
  18. Silverhooker
    Changed the old defender for a 9 year old Mitsubishi pick up this year, my tinnitus has gone and the trapped nerve in the right side of my neck has gone too ! Still, I do miss the landy camaraderie and next doors grand daughter misses climbing up on to the roof rack, they'er city folk relocated to the country and she thought that the back ladder and roof rack was a mobile climbing frame !
  19. Silverhooker
    In Cumbria your mate is referred to as “Marra” as in all right Marra !
  20. Silverhooker
    Sounds like someone has “borrowed” it and may not have told you and bent the bar. A bent bar will throw chains off, it’s happened to me more than once.
  21. Silverhooker
    I burn anything so long as it’s dry, mostly larch and Scots pine. Best to use a mix of hard and soft wood. Free is always best !
  22. Silverhooker
    Nice to hear that you got it going , I've a soft spot for little mittox saws.
  23. Silverhooker
    I agree with that I would get it felled and re-plant a more suitable species.
  24. Silverhooker
    BREXIT now there is a word I haven't heard for ages.... what did it mean again ??
  25. Silverhooker
    Nice one

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