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You can't make chainsaw safer. Can't be done. The inertial chain break and, I would argue, vibration damping, are the practical limit. Any other safety features only retard the utility of the machine, which causes frustration and leads to unsafer work style, wiping out the gains. You can make the chain a bit safer, but at the expense of utility. The safety margin with modern saws is 10% saw 90% user.

Another way you could do it is weigh a cubic meter of logs, as prepped for sale. Then establish the weight of a 10cm x 10cm cube if the same wood. Average of several samples. Then from this you can extrapolate the weight of a solid cubic meter of that wood. Then subtract the first figure from this and you have the difference in wight from solid to stacked. What you can do with this, I don't know....

I'll trade you a pair of kevlar jeans and a Florabest 55cc for the 660. Will throw in a helmet as well.

You're gonna wanna head on down to your local outdoor equipment place and try on a few pairs. Chainsaw pants are heavy, work better with elasticated braces.

I pull them off. Thought everyone did?

Let us consider the mechanics of the inertial chain break: If we open it up (goggles!) we find that different makes/models have the assemblage constructed in different ways. Whether one way is better who knows, but they all follow the same principle - a spring keeps a trigger cam primed in the "open" position. A tiny bit of pressure on the plastic break handle, rotates this trigger cam to the closed position and allows the spring to "fire" pulling the break band tight around the clutch drum. This action requires the whole mechanism to move freely, without undue friction. Build up of wood dust and oil can gum up the works. So it's essential to regularly clean out the mechanism and lube it with silicone spray. Also consider taping a weight to the top of the break handle, like a bit of lead flashing. This will increase the inertia and make it more likely to trigger in a kickback.

Run HP Ultra. And never worry again.

Also, are we talking about air between the logs? Or air incorporated in the molecular structure of the wood itself? Or both? If it's air between, I would place the logs in a cage and forcibly submerse them in a known volume of water. The water level will then rise, and thus the volume of the logs themselves can he extrapolated. Now subtract this figure from the approximate volume of the stacked logs (1.6 cubic meters) and you have the air volume.

Is there a multiple choice answer option?

Let's Go Brandon! 😀🇺🇸

There was a time, don't know if it's still the case, that Germans automatically qualified for a sub 7 tonne truck when they passed their car test... valid in Ireland, though some had never seen the inside of a truck can.

An American friend told me there were three settlements in the new world, of the very first settlers. They established themselves some days journey apart and each group of settlers adhered to a different social ethic. Kind of experiments in communal living, with no safety net. One group was firmly about private ownership, another owned everything in common, and I forget the third. Upshot was, the communists starved.

No, it's the wee bottle that comes with the saw... It's a gimmick. If you're going to be using so little fuel that a 1lt bottle would actually be useful, then you would be better off with 5lt of Aspen (red). It doesn't go off.

Yup. Brilliant series shows how and why. Six spoiled Brits work sweatshop jobs in Asia. This was the tuna one. Other episodes they work on a prawn farm, plant rice, sew blouses etc. The only one who could really hack the pressure was a young farmer guy. Enjoyed gutting fish with the lads in a slum shack over a sewer in Bancock so much he stayed the night and worked another shift the next day! All for a pound, or something...

Nah. You've just been put firmly back in your place by the elite club of plutocrats that rule you (all of us) by consent. Subjects. Subject to their will. Brexit freaked them out, bit on the spicy side for the globalist banking cartel's taste, so it was. Smacked of a peasant's revolt. They co-opted Brexit like they do everything else. The whole world is suffering transport shortages, it's by design. Covid response, if not release, was by design. These people are the most intelligent, cunning and amoral on the planet. I've quit trying to predict the next move or the reasons for the current move, but the general plan is clear. Make humanity suffer until they beg for slavery. Make us accept defeat and the loss of our dreams. Energy rationing, socialist style work allocation, demographic control (eugenics). Ten year plan, fifteen, doesn't matter. Look how they changed the world in 2. They crated an unsustainable system and they're trying to save it from collapse.

What happens indeed? Hope we find out. Stop feeding the beast. Starve the government into oblivion. No more fascist rainbow police - local elected sherrifs and Jonny on the spot, if there's trouble, the lads'll deal with it. No more Facebook and plastic rubbish. Survival of the fittest.

The whole monetary system is so screwed up it's becoming irrelevant anyway. Fake money, fake value. A European dole bum is "worth" a hundred times more to the global economy than a productive African farmer/miner etc. When humanity figured out how to produce food for thousands of mouths with one man's labour, the whole foundation started to slide. We attribute value wrongly because 99.9% of our "needs" are actually "wants". Why is a dollar worth more than a peso? Because it buys a bigger Mac & Fries? Because you might get bombed if you disagree? Fertile soil, fertile women, fresh water, and manly men with better weapons than the other guys - that's the only true value. **************** it, roll on judgement day.

Everybody pays taxes. 24% on everything we buy, pretty much. Carbon taxes on fuel, council taxes, fag taxes, booze taxes, etc etc... What do you say to those who don't earn enough to incur an income tax liability yet pay their minimal social insurance? They get the benefits of a pension, disability allowance, dole possibly, etc?

This is how people used to live, and still do, in rural places other than the West. Back then it was extended families though. The modern iteration is "family by choice" I suppose. It's really the only sustainable way human beings can live, in the long run. Our personal exclusivity has only been a thing for the last couple of generations, and it's only getting worse. Great respect for the lifestyle, but most of us wouldn't he able to hack it, even if we were attracted to it. Everyone involved has to possess a high level of individual maturity, either that, or submit to a cult like mentality of some sort, like the Amish, where the rules and regulations are more stringent than the wider society... Wouldn't he my cup if tea, but the day might come when we all find ourselves living communally just to survive (the survivors, of whatever it is that does for our civilization, that is)...

Yeah sorry, I was a bit unclear- it wasn't bending against that tree in the vid, it was a different tree later, on the ground and wedged in with other trees. The tree had been felled some years ago and I tried to lift the butt end with the spike, just to see what would happen. The spike being a sticky-outey thing, the load on the box was changed from near veritcal to 45 degrees or thereabouts. But I agree the 35mm box is too thin/narrow, generally. It's just what I had to hand, scrap from another job. Thanks for watching!

Good on you bud. I went the same route. Never have paid rent. Its all about getting along with the neighbors, location, location location. And that said, during the boom guys were whacking up spec houses willy nilly without planning and greasing palms for retention later.

Well, she's done and put to work. First test video. Tree hung up though... I've no doubt it will be just the ticket from time to time. I did try the foot spike, to lift a serious butt end later, rest of the tree was lodged with others in a heap, there was no chance of it budging...gave it some crankage and the foot end started flexing! Backed off and it flexed back straight again. So, as I expected, the box tube is the weak part.

Well, sounds like you're all good on the maintenance front 👍 Aspen is good for machines that sit idle in the shed for long periods but are needed at a moments notice for small jobs. You can leave it in, no need to drain or run dry, just shake the tool to disperse the included (colourless) oil. If you already have a saw attachment for your combi system why not just use that? You can buck logs with it, if you're only doing a few, from time to time. Safer. Less stooping as well.

You probably tried the previous gen Florabest saw, clamshell build. They were supposedly rubbish, seen plenty of non runners cluttering up people's sheds. The new ones are all metal body, 55cc 18" bar. Bar and chain alone is worth 40-50 quid... Agree about getting work done on them etc, forget it. Not financially viable anyway, even assuming parts could be got. Things like replacement air filters are available though, and probably enough of them lying in parts piles to scavenge clutch covers, fuel caps, carbs etc.

Yeah, some are garbage. The Lidl ones are ok. As long as the chainbreak works and the chain tensioner works, that's as safe as any saw can be (and fuel cap doesn't leak, obviously). Where casual users go wrong is maintenance. You got to use Aspen or good fresh petrol and really good 2-stroke oil (HP Ultra). Clean out the clutch area after use. Emty tank and idle the carb dry after use. Know how to clean air filter without letting crap fall in the carb intake. Learn to tention chain properly, file chain properly, etc etc etc. There's so much more to keeping a saw in running order than a strimmer or similar.