flatyre

irony: discussing killing trees on a tree surgery forum:thumbup: But seriously we deal with unwelcome trees every day:confused1: just food for thought.

love it!

Thanks Rob, meant to ask for a price for a 16" .325 suki bar and suitable chain for an Echo 501, pm me if you get a chance. many thanks.

I find cutting and then having to clear up behind myself quite soul destroying these days. On very very small jobs perhaps I can about manage

 

 

This is the worst part about working on my own for me(landscaping and firewood). It's knowing that every single part of the job has to be done by me- every barrow of stuff, every cut, shovel, tying down, gate opening and closing!

If I don't do it it's not happening, end of story.

The benefits are obvious, no stressing that some one is costing you money by not getting things done at the speed you would expect, no one moaning about this or that, no worries about being able to pay someone on exactly a Friday regardless of the jobs payment schedule.

This! i'll take physical stress over mental stress any day. When I think i'm pushing myself too far I simply offload a few jobs to someone else, a lot easier than offloading a head full of stress.

i'm a sole trader running a small one man band, mainly heavy gardening work, not a qualified tree surgeon. I do get offered quite a bit of tree work though. Luckily a friend of mine is a co-owner of a local tree firm, fully qualified and insured. So I pass on any tree work to them and in return I get an equal share of the profits for dragging brash. I also arrange the tip site, power line shutdowns etc. In return they bring me in as a brash dragger as and when they need a spare set of hands, again just for brash dragging and the like. Its a simple setup and works well, key is getting in with a good firm and proving your worth.

will have to give him a tutorial on chain sharpening and letting the saw do the work! much appreciated:thumbup:

if he's using force to get the saw through the wood its not sharp anyway.

I would say it wasn't the sharpest chain when I tried it, but it was sharp enough to produce chip rather than dust. He's asked me to source a new bar and chain so I'm thinking Rob D is the man for that, but I think it might be his cutting technique as much as his chain sharpening that needs looking into otherwise the same thing might happen again. Could it be too much lateral movement creating stress on the bar and chain because he isn't using the dogs to keep everything nicely in line?

will try to get some photos when I see him again, its a four month old echo 501 but my mate isn't a tree surgeon, he only bought it for processing up firewood for himself. Did watch him the other day as he was demonstrating the saws behaviour and he doesn't use the dogs but rather brute force (he's a big guy). If he had sharpened the saw poorly so it cut in a curve then used his might to pressure the saw into cutting straight, would that cause the drive links to eat into one side of the groove?

thanks for the advice folks, I think both sides of the bar groove are the same height, but the top right and bottom left walls of the chain groove are thinner at the base, flipping the bar did nothing to help and when I ran the saw the chain seemed to be speed wobbling from side to side as it ran along the bar. Think its a case of new bar and chain but would be good to know what caused it.

hey folks a mate asked me to look at his chainsaw as it was cutting in a curve. Its also burning one side of the bar groove, but not the other, poorly sharpened or something else? also is the bar and chain salvageable or best to dump them?

Eh? Any courier would take the Saw in the mail for a few quid. What an excuse.

About £20 each saw each way.

solitaire xey oseys, I always loose:confused1:

could of done with that this afternoon on Dora's privit hedge..

chinese torture holding those edge cutters at shoulder height..

long or short reach?

I threw my short reach cutters into the shed years ago and haven't used them since, long reach all the way and a strimmer harness for those all day jobs:thumbup1:

it makes Chinese copies look good. This is another interesting ebay special...

Stihl ms461 chainsaw

Not sure why you'd need a camouflaged chainsaw. Maybe it has a silent exhaust too.

my missus doesn't get it, the more crap I trail through the house the harder I worked, and the more money she has to spend on shoes:confused1:

have you changed the bar or chain lately? I put a new bar and chain on my 560. Oregon chain on Husky bar DL's were fractionally too wide for the bar groove. Chain fitted but just too much friction over 72 DL's and saw would stall when chain brake was released, just a thought!

now if you could attach a dumpy bag under the cutter head:thumbup:

It's usually Stock doves who nest in sheds , but the effect is much the same.

 

sent from my phone but never in work time.

you are right, they sort of look like the wood pigeons nesting in the sycamore at home but on reflexion, much smaller. True story, last year the local crows were paying a bit too much attention to the wood pigeons nest, heard this commotion one evening and ran out to see what was going on, there in the garden directly below the pigeon nest was a large dead crow and sitting on the lowest branch of the tree was the male wood pigeon (big son of a gun) with a beak full of crow feathers. Killed the crow stone dead!

Education is a gamble, an investment with risks, if you don't pull your weight, spend more time out living the student lifestyle when you should be studying, you're wasting your time and the tax payers money, this whole thing about student loans and only paying them back in dribs and drabs when you land a high enough paying job is wrong. Students should be made to pay it back as soon as they finish their education regardless of what they earn. More incentive to make their privileged opportunity a success.

not a top handle but a lot of saw for little money...........

HUSQVARNA PETROL CHAINSAW - MODEL 395XP, SPARE OR REPAIR, 18" BAR | eBay

I'll give them two weeks then they're gone ready or not.

If Spud was a bit closer I'd send him every saw I own!

Lift it off the shelf, scratch my head, put it back on the shelf. Just can't get the time to sit down and get it done.

got a pair of wood pigeons in the shed and they're crapping all over the place, going to fix some anti bird spikes to the rafters and ledges but don't want to evict them if they have a young one about. Have a pair back at the house with a young one who is still finding his feet, just wondering how long before the nest is vacant?

have a load of Lime tree to process, does it go into the hard or softwood pile? Also have a few Eucalyptus to do, I know its regarded as great burner but is it hard or soft wood?