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Anybody use a ms231 16 inch bar had that recommended buy the dealer.

After a very busy few weeks iv been looking around and I think iv narrowed it down to a husky 435 a stihl ms181 or 211 or a mcculloch cs410 elite which is basically at husky 435 anyway it seems. I looked at dolmar/makita and echos but the dealers for husky stihl are closer and I allready buy from them for other stuff. A friend of mine who runs sthil top handles and a 660 and a husky 560 recommended husky as being a more powerful saw for the size and price bracket. I don't think I need to go to big as most of my stuff is hedge row size to small willow/ash coppicing so 8 to 10 inches max the ms170 will do it but gets bogged down in the bigger stuff. Any thoughts on which is best from husqvarna, stihl or mcculloch?

I'm living on a farm with lots of large tree hedging over grown ponds and a little woodland. I currently have a sthil 038 farm boss and a sthil ms170 I picked up cheap nearly new. Both great saws but the 170 can be a little under powered with the 12 inch bar so I'm reluctant to put a longer bar on and the 038 is so heavy your knackered just carrying it about but very handy when the power is needed and it's got a 20 inch bar. Mostly I'm doing coppicing and fire wood so I'm looking for something in the middle about a 16 inch bar maybe but gutsy. Not particularly fussed about the brand obviously 'm used to a sthil but iv got friends who love their husqvarnas too. Iv also seen the larger mcculloch saws are very similar to the husqvarna but cheaper but that might mean they are rubbish iv not seen one of them in use or up close. What saw would you recommend?

We bag up green wood chip in large gravel/sand bags and put is somewhere away from anything flammable they naturally heat and steam if it's a chilly day. After a couple of weeks it's cooked itself dry we then leave it another year coverd up and then it burns great shovel or in on a hot fire really belts the heat out. Watch it doesn't get so hot it catches fire in the first few weeks when it's still green.

All wellies seem to be cold heavy and stiff except for the muck boots but they have split within 6 months use. I wear leather work boots in the summer months as I don't use the saws then anyway. I tend to live in wellies all winter as the yards are muddy and wet with deep puddles also we live on heavy clay soil so it gets pretty sticky. The hunter 3000s look interesting have to see if I can find a stockest to try them. I've got a stihl dealer a couple of miles away but I'm struggling to find anywhere that actually stocks the husky boots in a shop. Ive had the older style thermo Dunlop's before fantastic boots but I can't drive my tractors in them just not enough room on a 1976 David brown for big boots.

I'm a farmer doing things the old way none if that posh gps stuff or tractor cabs with doors. I'm needing new wellies for the winter months Dunlop's fall to bits as do muck boots so I'm looking at the chainsaw wellies as I do a lot of hedging coppicing and felling through winter months. What are the best ones to get? If been reading on here and else where that wellies are the devils work and all of that but when your ankle deep in cow s**t or wading through ditches to coppice that awkward willow that just doesn't want to do what you want it to wellies are a must. Looking at the Huskys, Sthil and the Englebert Strauss ones which are the best ones to get for comfort and durability?