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They look like the callipers worn by a young forest gump.
Hats off for having a crack at it but they look like torture to wear. Buy a nice set of aluminium ones , only about £250 and will last forever whilst being a heck of a lot comfier.

Making your own harness sounds dodgy. I’d give that a miss and just buy one , stay safe.

Quality saw. Ports very well with big gains. Under tuned from factory.

I guess it has less perceived uses. Bit of furniture making but not good outdoors etc. Etc.

A 3m x 1m x 75mm slab of air/kiln dried,
English grown, with mad colours and patterns.
I sold one recently that size for £600 and I’m cheap. (It was 5” thick and air dried).

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Cut it in two.
One 3m and one 2.6m
3” thick slabs
Get a miller in for two+ days.
Cost approx £800-£1200
You will have to move the big heavy slabs,
Store them with 1” sticks every 14-16”.
In a dry barn.
You should get £200-600 a board when dry, and you will get at least 12-16 boards.
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About 15 or more years ago I decided the ivy "fan" on my house was getting out of hand, so I cut it off at the base. I tried pulling tendrils off but it gripped hard to the brick and mortar came away with it.
 
Today I pulled this other bit, it's still grippy to the brick and pulling mortar even though the stems are worm eaten and nearly rotted to dust.

My customer these last few days is causing me a few headaches. Wealthy family, dad must be in his 80’s and still appears to be the holder of the purse strings. Clearly been an active and involved fella on his land but now not capable. Son who is in his 40’s is an absolutely lovely chap but has no idea what he wants doing with his woods. They’ve had me hoovering up and sorting out some windblow that’s been down for 4 years. Some decent sized larch mainly. But the spec changes almost hourly 🤦🏼‍♂️ First I was to process and extract windblow. Next they decided they wanted some for milling (!) so I had to grade off (!) the best stuff for that, the rest they’ll keep as firewood. Then they wanted “a wagon load” of saw logs to sell?! From where, I have no idea! I have had to start felling some heavily leaning Larch just to try and make up a wagon load for them to recoup some money. It’s ran on from one day initially (they thought I could do it in a day obviously) to three days now, and I’m being paid to fell these Larch to make up a wagon load to ultimately reduce the cost of me being there..... it’s backwards! But I’ve been honest, told them my thoughts and at the end of the day, I’m doing what they ask. 
 
Sometimes you can’t win. Or you can win. Or maybe it was a draw..... 🧐

Nice tree, but I hate deadwooding, gutty, hard work, and there’s always that bit you missed!

Dead wood removal on this huge Oak today. The crown was quite epic. Yes it’s one tree in the first 3 pictures. The other in the background was In poor shape and I gave that a monolith hair cut last week.
Will pop back and measure today’s beast. Around the 95- 100ft mark I’d say. The stump is vast. I would say around 9ft across. Used the DMM captains hook today which turned out to be a handy purchase for sure.

Any of the Hedge layers on here happen to know who is laying the hedge in Compton village ,Surrey , just near Honey Brothers. ??

Just saws and climbing PPE initially, but sounds like I'm still selling myself short somewhat at that.

Instruments of torture .  Get some proper boots .

If it makes any of you feel better I'm trying to get onto courses for my climbing tickets at the moment and every training provider you ring is fully booked for months in advance, it seems everyone out of work due to Covid has decided now is the time to realise an ambition to become a tree surgeon so there's likely to be lots of fresh blood bolstering the ranks this year I'd say.
 
I'm planning on getting all my own kit and offering my services to all the local firms and one/two man bands I know, but unsure how to price a days labour given I'm going to be slow and green starting out climbing. I've been using a ground saw for years though and have other skills to bring to the table (driving, towing, machines and mechanics) so I'm hovering around the £90 a day mark at the moment which looks almost too cheap given some of the comments here. 

Cheers for the suggestions guys, managed to get the last bit I  needed from eBay Italy which got here in a couple of days, rather than nearly a month for the backorder from Japan!
 
I've now got a duplicate sprocket cover for a Cs-350tes if anyone needs one. 
 
 

Some handy advice re carb settings on here.
2511 ( spud exhaust mod ) is a wonderful tool.
The carb is a fickle thing and requires regular tweaks.
Mine is running flat atm so need to take a look again.
When they are really zipping it’s surprising how much the full size top handles sit in the van all day

Thats a whole load of faffing around and well outdated! You'd probably want to throw a prusik round the rope and add a fig8

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They all are still built to the exactly same standards - 3510 is partly a replacement for 15 year old 352 with far better features.
As for pro line up it is not shrinking but expanding so from “few models left” it has already added 7310. More to come.

A couple of years later the Acid House scene started and then the rave scene and I said goodbye to drink and moved on to recreational delights up until 1996 when I discovered Arboriculture and I left the partying scene for good.Oddly enough those days were easy to say goodbye to and had no effect on my life in fact I rather enjoyed them.

Very cheap. Those figures wouldn’t add up for me.
Gotta be looking 800 plus vat for 3 man team if on day rate.
I’m amazed at regional variations in price.

High turnover on staff it seems. The outfit that worked on the boundary of our field were utter garbage. I can imagine people would want to work for them too long

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7310 621 and 501 is a cracking line up. Great saws.

The names a give away but Hilux are great.
You will find their used prices are stronger than the others so you will be looking at an older truck. For your money a tidy mk6 could be found. That will be everything you need. Ultra reliable. I’ve done a few mods with my hilux and it’s such a good do it all car.
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The 3.0 ranger old shape is also a great vehicle. You’ll find a nice wild track model for your upper budget.

The curve ball is old Isuzu rodeo 3.0. Like the old ranger a little lower on ground clearance but a great truck none the less.

You won’t go wrong if you find a good one of any of these.

Why didn’t you get a splitter for the back of the tractor? much more powerful.