sicoopey

Looks like the powers that be have extended the 'Avian flu Prevention Zone' to the 28th February.

Yep, got my CS30 and other training in the pipeline, and have all sorts of feelers out. Just trying to weigh up if I can manage self employed in the South East, after a relatively 'safe' ten years in the health service. At least I don't have a mortgage but I do have debts to pay and a dog to feed. Anyway, gotta go to work now.

Nice thread. Congratulations. Inspiring too for this 45 year old looking to get out from under the NHS.

Yeah, I agree but we haven't settled up yet so that, IMO, is still to be decided. Thanks again to everyone for chiming in. That's a lot of useful information for me to digest and use in the future.

Nope. I'm going to ask very shortly. Before settling up. I'm just a bit confused that the chain catcher wasn't picked up on or mentioned really. Maybe it's just par for the course… Thanks for all your replies Simon

Hello, First proper post here, so be gentle. I am very new to this but I completed my CS30 this week and learned quite a lot. One thing that came to light was the state of my chainsaw. Before using the saw, and going on the course, I had it serviced by a garden machinery firm that does that sort of thing but lo and behold a fair few things were not flagged up and I was unable to use the saw for the cross cutting. So if you sent your saw to be serviced would you expect it to come back with an old and worn out guide bar, a worn sprocket with obvious wear marks - like 2mm maybe?!, a chain with no identifying brand probably off the interwebz, the old spark plug and a broken, ineffective chain catcher? Should these things at least have been flagged up, or is it all down to the user to know w t f they are doing? Thanks a lot in advance