Haironyourchest

Thanks Treequip, Ive had it for over a month now, would be embarrassed to ask for replacement. Haven't really had time to get pissed off with it until now, and haven't used the bar yet. Do you think 2mm is out of norm? Ive no idea. Been flexing the bar around the curvature of my water tank. Its fairly springy. Should have posted this in "Chainsaws", sorry!

Brand new 28" Stihl ES Light bar, delivered by courier, took it home, next day took it out the box and eyed it and its got a wee bend going on. Put a straight edge on it and it looks like a 2mm belly. Is that normal, should I be annoyed, and should/could I straighten it? I have straightened regular bars with moderate success, but can the light bars take a bending? I tried very gently but....nothing.....don't want to risk damaging it. Or am I just being obsessive? Hope you're all having a great day - stay safe!

I wish I'd titled this thread "What does your avatar say about you?" or better - "What do other peoples avatars say about them?" So who has the all round grooviest avatar on Arbtalk? Voting for self not allowed....

As with all foot ware - try before you buy! I had Husqvarna branded wellies, they were too big for me, and extremely heavy, but metal soleplate, caps and I think metal up the front as well, plus kevlar, and excellent grip. They did spring a leak eventually. Others I know say the chainsaw wellies are the most comfortable wellies they ever had.

"Remove the Saw Of Shame! And attach the Saw Of Triumph!!"

Longest I've done is 2 hours to the job and two hours back the next day and camped overnight in a derelict house. We had to cut our way to the back door. I called dibs on the room with the two pallets in it. The boss got the concrete floor and also forgot to pack his extra blanket!!!

Well I just identified Kveldssanger's avatar, didn't look closely enough before - its Ygrassil the World Ash :thumb up:

Its a 21st century phenomenon. - How we mentally associate people with funny little pictures that somehow become that person and reflect their personality. If I ever met Felix IRL (in real life) I'd probably experience a moment of disconnect that he isn't a cartoon cat. Whenever I read posts by Eggs or Stubby, I hear a moped talking, or a spaniel. It weird, but feels natural.... So when our avatar is born, we're kind of stuck with it really, like genetics..... But do our avatars truly reflect who we are? That's what Im wondering this morning...is the choice of avatar an unconscious revelation of our primal core, or is it most times just a random drop and click?? I was just thinking that Leatherface from the Texas Chain Saw Massacre doesn't really represent me at all, Im nothing like him.....or maybe...I am? Would you feel betrayed if someone changed their avatar? Wouldn't it be like...if a mate had an overnight gender change and religious conversion and also changed his skin and hair colour... Yours, in confusion, Haironyourchest.

Im feeling aggro toward this guy just reading these reports. I'll bet good money that even if he was made to buy his own saw he wouldn't keep it sharp, just thrash it around inefficiently with a snarky smirk on his smirky face...grrrr I'd not let him near the saws period. If he's good at other stuff then let him do what he's born to do, save time and money and maybe prevent an injury. If he's sharpening he's not earning. If he's messing with a blunt saw he's not earning. Even if he could be tought to put an edge on a chain, how good is it really gonna be? A sub-optimal chain is as bad as blunt in my book. Over revving your saws, straining...I'd sack the goofball. On another note, I recently bought a stump vice and a couple of Stihl file holders that also do the rakers at the same time. Fantastic gadget! It actually makes it fun to sharpen.... P.S - If the muppet really whacks the nose off the ground, he's not gonna be able to shapen the chain with a file is he? If he rocks the chain, then its a grinder job, no? And if he treats a saw that way, how's he gonna respect a file?

I just tell myself that whenever I wake up sweating with their pitiful pleas for mercy echoing in my dreams..... (thats the trees....I'm talking about)

Or use it straight but only in situations where you will not have adequate air flow, like under dense bushes on a still day. Where there is a breeze, there's no point as the fumes will be carried away anyway and you might as well use regular petrol. I used to empty the saws at days end and run a bit of aspen through them to keep the carbs and lines in good nick but don't bother anymore....

Im not making it up! Sphincter-puckkering experience to watch, but the guy's been doing it for years and never had a slip. Still a bad habit though.

Carlos, if you mix it 50/50 with petrol you can achieve half the health benefits at a little more that half the price. Could be a good compromise, if the price of straight aspen is too high....Combine that deal with a modern strato engine and your talking 1/6 of the health hazards of old style 2-stroke usage.

Holding a cut branch and snedding the little twigs off it with the 200 in the other hand. Spinning chain up and down the stick several times whilst stick is rotated be the left hand, coming to within inches of the said hand. Chuck stick on pile and repeat. Not me, but seen it done.....

If its anything like their axes, splitting mauls, scissors etc, its a thing of beauty...love all their stuff - Go Fiskars!!

Ok folks....its Friday eve, three scotches under the belt, a fourth on hand and laptop on lap... Stumble on a review of the MS201 in a weird asian language. So I copy past into Google Translate just for the craic and it identifies it as Japanese. For some reason I got a massive kick out of reading this. I am a Japanophile anyway, but I really think this is cool! Hope Im not breaking any rules by copy-pasting it here, If so - Im sorry and will take myself off to bed without any tea........without further ado - :corkysm21: German steel company, will come out one after another good chainsaw. Chainsaw club, we were allowed to use the "MS201" of the latest model. Frankly "well-off!" And "excessive force because the cut is not necessary," it felt. The saw chain is the first place unnecessary force unnecessary if thorns properly, but what has also improved the sustainability of its sharpness, does not need much force. Na amazing me the latest model with admiration. However, never older (200 or 020) is also not a bad model. Also to have been still active in active service in the Association, it is what your existing models want even if much important. Although it is standard for when we introduce new models, environmentally friendly, reduce the burden on the body, we are emphasizing operational performance, cost performance, and design. That point, "MS201" I felt Na has both. In particular, since this time were used "MS201C-E" is with a virtual pump (primary pump depending on the manufacturer), pumped up is easy and engine start-up of the fuel is a breeze. This side is often those with the natural way in the model of the Japanese chainsaw manufacturer. However, for other performance, Japan's chainsaw manufacturers I'd want more caught up with the steel's development technology. It may be that you must learn to Steel's management philosophy. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the leader of the chainsaw industry. It is the most frequently adopted to have chainsaw manufacturers in our association. Well, in the way and forest volunteer activities that start the mountain work, and anyone who tries to introduce a steel company of chainsaws, First, we recommend that you buy "MS201" or "MS201C-E" (40 cm of the guide bar). Until harvesting wooden material of medium 径木 from small-diameter trees, you will play an active part anything almost. In the lightweight class, it is a model often loyal from amateur to professional. Stock also I think also that there is no problem to buy a "MS200" when it was I be cheaper if there is. Students who want a lightweight model even a little a powerless I think that it is better to buy a "MS192C-E" (35 cm of the guide bar). And to is enough if thinning of up to 30-40 cm in diameter, there are rather lightweight minute, often is also a good surface easier to work efficiently done by the branches pay. It is said to casual users, but since foreign casual users hard than do-it-yourself of Japan, there are durability enough. In forestry team of our association we have adopted one. If you stick a metal spike sold separately and is perfect. A little large trees and oak, many person the opportunity to kill a hardwood such as oak, "MS241C-M" (45 cm of the guide bar) or "MS261" (50 cm guide bar) would be optimal. Cutting speed horsepower is up will increase dramatically. Because the big tree does not increase the work efficiency even with small models of horsepower, more of this class will be less burden on the body. Since the weight naturally heavier than "MS201", it is not suitable for anyone who wants "MS201" is heavy, body class is using as a normal class in the forest industry. In any case, the chainsaw is mon of Nanbo using. Cost basis for those who align buy the model of a number also will not stay so. It is important to be able to harvesting timber material the trees as much as possible variety of 径級 in one of the models. Diameter of up to twice the guide bar by technology it is possible to kill to safety. It is, who have a "MS192C-E" is, buy models then the "MS241C-M" and "MS261" called. If you have a "MS201", I think further a good choice to keep up adding to buy something, "MS362" above. The chainsaw club, you can actually use, including the chainsaw of various manufacturers Steel's chainsaw. Class There are also various. By all means, on top of your participation, please try.

Boggles is right... he's a legend! Rock On Jon!

Not for $1,000 a log, but what might just work is "Bespoke Firewood - premium old growth hardwood logs cut to your specification, length and thickness personally crafted to fit your stove, open fireplace and patio brazier - no need to fight your logs ever again!

Just been reading the £20 Glasgow Tree Surgeon Ripoff thread, and learned that "Husqvarna Combi Can" is a euphamism for something, but nobody wants to say??? Anyway, my can has been ok, bought it in march. But I broke the oil spout, got it stuck in the oil-tank mouth of my 254 and wouldn't come out, tugged and the fecker pulled off. Upon close examination, one side of a small plastic flange had broken off, but there's enough there to hold it, if Im gentle with it , and its been working ok.

Thanks Woodbioma, watched that in the van yesterday on my phone on break, it made my day! Whish I'd thought of that!

Stereo mate, if you have some old weights lying around, go pump some iron, or have a wee run around the farm. Kick start the metabolism and generate some endorphins. String up a sack o sawdust and beat the crap out of it. Its gonna be good!

Change is the only constant. It affects tectonic plates and human tribal populations. Its stressful. Our ancestors migrated and caused stress to the people who were living in the places they migrated to. Now people are migrating to where we live and causing us stress. And who can blame them? Our governments ("our" referring to the west - the first world) are cowardly. They are cowardly because we collectively craved an unsustainable system and created the current state with our votes, not in one election, but over decades of trending. The government is derived from the people and represents the collective will of the people, whether the people realise it of not. Too bad for those of us who are not "collective" enough. The other thing that bugs me, is the constant belabouring of the less than $2.00 a day thing. How much less? $1.95 ?? Just tell me the average daily wage. Lets assume its $1.50 - in a third world economy that should buy you the same weight of rice as £15.00 or €15.00 will in the first world. So the actual wage is £€ 90.00 a week (no Saturdays off) or possibly more. Yes its still peanuts if your raising a family on it, but feck it its not far off what I make a week, spread out over a year. Naturally, those guys be working 12 hour days for their $1.50/$15.00, whereas I would be working 1.... Dunno how I feel about it really. Theres a lot of slack-arses in the USA and all the west really, benefits dossers and that. Send em all to the gulag I say! Work the chip fat off em, and send em to bed early without any drugs. Don't like it? Well...that's a paddlin' Or better yet, send the middle east and africa a present. We'll trade you one for one......

I smoked from 14 to 30. 10-15 rollies a day. Started by filching Grandad's cigarillos then bought a pipe! Got into cigs after finding a pack of silk cut on the road... Been smoke free four years, just felt like enough was enough one day and quit. No cravings, no withdrawals. Not a puff since. For me it was all in the mind, and when I made up my mind that I didn't want it anymore, it was easy. Maybe for some its a proper chemical dependancy, who knows? After being clean for four year I tried a nicotine gum. It was like doing a line of white powder (I imagine) - was really tired at work, depressed, etc, five minutes later I was flying, mind focused, sociable. Lasted an hour. Pure nicotine in medical doses is a safe drug, as most of us know by now. I does not cause cancer, obviously thats caused by the tar and monoxide etc. It does temporarily narrow the blood vessels though. There is evidence that it has some power to protect against parkensonian type neurodegenerative conditions and altzhymers. Its widely used by athletes and fitness freaks as a pre-workouot stimulant!!!! So I have been popping on average one 2mg gum once every two days, treating it as a coffee-level pick me up, and not abusing it.

Well, most of the homeless I have met have been very nice...a lot of my clients keep one around the place. I think its very charitable and always go the extra mile for them.

In all honesty its a nebulous question and can only prompt nebulous answers. When everything just falls into place, machines behave, no mud, no rain, no midges. Client is delighted with the result, the price and their new pile of hardwood logs. You feel like the A-Team....light a fat cigar and say "I love it when a plan comes together!"....(tried it once but it made me ill)....