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What a lot of tosh so I have a stihl chainsaw and have had the handover by the dealer and now I can't buy an air filter without another safety lecture? Or am I missing something?

Finding the spindle in flower in our wood. Sorry about the poor photos.

Great PR from Stihl piss off your regular repeat order customers. Mind you domestic market is probably much larger than the pro.

Wonder if the Belgian Air Force have a 'you break it you pay for it' in their employment conditions!

Was just about to ask the same question as saw it on birch in wood yesterday. thanks for the interesting info.

So how many of you would feel OK if next time you visited the dentist the guy said that he'd bought some gear off a certain auction site and he'd watched others doing it and the training's all crap anyway so nothing to worry about who needs certificates. Yeah right f***ing big strides down the road! I learn useful things on here to add to my knowledge and experience and learnt some new skills on my training course but as much as anything I feel good that I've tried to improve my skills. Why not have some pride in having your tickets and being a professional? Right tin hat time I think lol.

From PUWER While the ACOPs are not law, they were made under section 16 of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSW Act) and so have a special status, as outlined in the introduction to the PUWER ACOP: 'Following the guidance is not compulsory and you are free to take other action. But if you do follow the guidance you will normally be doing enough to comply with the law. Health and safety inspectors seek to secure compliance with the law and may refer to this guidance as illustrating good practice So if you don't follow the code of practice then you would have to convince an inspector that what you do is as good as or better. Good luck with that one! Over and out.

PUWER Approved Code of Practice top of page 34 and if you don't follow that then you had better be able to show an extremely good reason why not. Had dealings with HSE when young and green a discussion was ended with the words "Either do it my way or I issue an immediate prohibition notice" Code of Practice not technically law but issued under HSAW Act so basically as good as.

No if you have not been trained you will be in breach of Health and Safety at Work Act and also PUWER. Quite clear on the HSE site I linked in my previous post and the use of chainsaws leaflet you can download from that site.

The definitive word from HSE - as Dirty Harry said do you feel lucky? http://www.hse.gov.uk/treework/safety-topics/chainsaw-operator.htm

Our woodland is a PAWS with mainly Norway and corsican but with a lot of Elm and Ash. Don't fell much above 450mm max. and that's rare, mainly 200 to 300mm. I run a husky 450e and stihl 251 both with 16" bars plus a stihl 026 with an 18" bar for the bigger stuff, never needed anything bigger. My instructor when I trained advised keeping saw and bar as small as possible otherwise you were lugging weight around for the sake of it. My saws go through dead Elm of 200mm in seconds and not new chains. We have 129 acres and I manage it single handed other than boss lady helping with bonfires, planting and sedge grass mowing. Have to say sooooo lucky to have escaped from manufacturing management to a life in the wood even if only part time.

Pity it didn't fall a bit straighter - a mangled chipper and truck would have been karma.

Will take some more pictures over the next day or two thanks

On an old Elm stump not up on fungi so don't know what it is not seen it before in the wood

Concentrate on the arb and forestry first and get some practical experience as well. Brexit may well affect where you can work anyway. If you learn a language now it will probably be the wrong one for you in two or three years time. Pick up the basics easily enough but the technical terms are the hard part. Japan is a fascinating country to visit but I found the people very polite but totally ignored any requests for information etc. Also English not widely spoken or understood. Plus still a male dominated society! Good luck with it all and I hope you live your dreams.

B) MS 661 C-M Only a rough guess of course, think that I'll enter two more times with the other saws just in case.

NFU do insurance for our farm buildings some of which are just pole barns with corrugated sheeting.

Mine is an 09 rising 150k lots of dings and dents but hardly any rust. Drive shaft oil seal only repair needed - so just your luck by the sound of things. Will probably go bang tomorrow! LOL

Main thing is to make sure any PPE you use is comfortable, suitable for use and you use it! Also no gloves or other PPE will offer full protection. Most important thing is training in safe use and operation of a chainsaw, they are potentially lethal and even pros have been seriously injured or even been killed by them, recent post on here about a climber killed working with a chainsaw. Don't assume 'just cutting a bit of firewood' makes it any safer, saw chain at full power is going at over 17 metres per second. Presume you have other PPE as well? Cringe when I see people using saws in trainers, jeans and no face/eye protection. My advice is go and have a look at a choice as like the other guys have said some gloves are awful on grip I had some Oregon's that looked similar - grip was awful, kicking around in the garage somewhere now. HSE chainsaw use link http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg317.pdf

Have you checked vent hole in oil cap is not clogged? If that's OK and oil passages are definitely clear then there is a fault so return it to Screwfix. Had an air leak develop on one of the Titan petrol hedge cutters replaced no problem or hassle. Don't forget it's a 24 month warranty.

For info now working fine on Android which it wasn't until tried it today

Can you imagine the numbers of log goblins would grow exponentially ☺ Fighting in the woods and fields over the last fallen twig - its all free wood guv honest! We'll probably end up with an approved dry firewood sellers registered scheme

Amazing what you can do with photoshop looks as if she's standing in 'real' sunlight or maybe the photographer had a superb lighting setup. Completely blocking the light? Er not quite I think.

2 for me had to take both power units off as working in our wood next to well used bridleway while I went and got bowsaw which kept jamming like a bastard in the lovely green sappy wood sweating like the proverbial by the time I got one free.