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Full wrap on the new to me 372 well chuffed with this buy/saw!!

As explained in the other thread I dont have a day rate per se however I have selected what I charge on avg per decent tree i.e it fills a day for 2 or 3 men with the kit you mentioned. Did some Connie bashing today 3 of us full day and the money was in the category I chose.

Did you get discount?

From memory I think mine has a cable to the top of the fuel pump with a spring and a adjusting rod, we have that many bits of kit though so let me check tomorrow and come back to you.

What’s your username?

Really easy morning yesterday clearing some laurels, it will continue next week to make way for a fence.

Anyone on it? What do you think of it?

If i remember ill post 1 tomorrow for you.

@swinny as a side note to their service, we ordered a part yesterday and asked for a bit of haste, it was delivered this morning!

Ours is a a528t so has 2 springs, yes its crazy to think they wear but when you consider the amount of use and hammer they take! http://www.dennisbarnfield.co.uk/ we get spares from here, ask for Richard he deals in Jensen for them.

Oh just to add when we removed the old springs you could bend them quite easily by hand, the new ones wouldn’t budge!

The springs and roller bearing are supposed to be changed every 500 hours, we have just done ours at a cost of roughly £180 and the difference is staggering. We also gave the top roller a grind when it was out and the bottom roller a touch up with the dremmel in situ.

Is this a trick thread to show us how good your house is?! Wow!!

If it is your only chipper I personally would invest in a tracked and stick it on a trailer, it’s a tow behind on the trailer and they open up so many more jobs off the trailer.

It’s all about merino wool! Be it socks or base layers merino wool socks in a good goretex boot will keep you dry and sweat free.

Silky where you been? This place isn’t quite the same without your updates/adventures!

What did you not like about it Steve?

What’s skiing in Czech like?

I don’t have a day rate I work out how long jobs take and put a value on my time per the job after all there’s only so much someone will pay to prune an apple tree or remove a small prunus etc. Some days ill do 3 jobs that will far exceed a day rate of say £6-700 other days 1 job may work to that price others I may do small jobs over half a day and be under a day rate price but over the year it works out. I dont care care what others do or charge I only care about what I do and charge and sometimes it’s funny in the sense that customers get a feel for you as you do them when pricing and 9 times out of 10 I’m told your not as cheap as other prices we have been quoted but when can you do the job. Lastly I understand that people know what it costs them to operate for a day and they won’t operate for a penny less and they usually make the same every day BUT it also costs them more by not going out at all. I find reputation normally dictates who gets the job not price.

Haha already told him I’ll run it a few month and then it’s coming to him for a service and port!

Found and purchased a 372xp 2005 on Thursday it turned up on friday, very clean had little use. Runs and sounds very crisp and cuts excellent I’ll give it a proper run next week. The guy I bought it off seems a good bloke and as a side note if anyone is interested he has a 2003 372xp/g for sale.

Absolutely, saw one in action the other day, I’ll get a video up later when I get time.

Yes they do, yes the 28 degrees is a strange one! Out of interest how how many people use a guide when filing?

Bats?!

Does anyone have one they’d like to sell?