Dan Maynard

Playing superman ...

30 seconds learning to sharpen.

Sounds like you need to get the clutch off and checked, and check drum bearing. The chain brake can feg up with sawdust too, that's in the side cover but I don't think that would be affected by chain.

Cs30 is usually classroom with some benches. Clean your saw first. I didn't think I'd learn much when I did CS30, but I did.

Yes it does, keep the revs up and feed it in and it cuts well. It's a smaller saw, lighter, and quicker on the revs than a 461, less of a torque monster. Because its so much smaller it's much easier to move round and easier in the tree. Maybe if you have a lot of big felling to do you'd be better just putting a 20" on your 460, that will obviously slog through anything no matter how hard you push.

Got a 20" light bar on my MS400, good strong saw, I'd also have one over the 562xp.

That explains the ex-hire saws for sale all around the place, I bought a PS6000i off shavey with a 20" bar.

Wheel clamp or towbar lock? Their lock hardware looks nice but the security chain not so impressive, 13mm is a bit thin. These guys go a lot thicker Security Chains from SecurityForBikes, by Pragmasis SECURITYFORBIKES.COM

I've heard tell of a chipper nicked with someone hanging out the open boot of a hatchback car hanging on to the towbar, so may not even bother removing the hitchlock. Ideally it slows them down though.

This is what I thought, I'm sure all boxes ticked but ideally we should also learn a lot from the tales and chat that happen in between the essential training, and I'm less sure about that.

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a chat and see what's what.

I was thinking that but can't see them in the photo.

Well I had one ride in a Tesla, really really quick when he put his foot down - but that makes the battery flat so he actually drove 99% of the time at a careful 67mph. So probably will tow 3.5t but not very far, especially if there are hills. I don't know the answer, I had my Defender professionally waxoyled and it's only done 75k so hopefully that's got as many years in it as I have doing tree work.

Not far from Cambridge, near the border with Northamptonshire. There's a newish centre near Kettering called VMT, it's very tempting to do the course near enough to not stay away.

Do you mean at home or while out working? For my trailer I looked at the motorcycle world and bought ground anchor and 19mm chain, this is too thick for bolt cutters so will need grinding off. The anchor is under the trailer so you can't sledgehammer the lock. The other type of security product is from caravans, concrete in posts or locks. The best wheel clamp I've got is Bulldog but it's a heavy beast to use, in the end though it needs to be thick steel else it will be too quick to cut off. Tracker too, there's a fair chance if it gets nicked it will be dumped in a layby for a couple of days to see if it has a tracker - in which case if you don't have a tracker you won't find it. Ideally I think you have to layer the security so it takes a while to nick, and hopefully the delay puts them off. Finally, my experience of having things nicked is I ended up buying expensive security products in the end anyway and the one thing I wish is I'd spent more on security in the first place.

In addition to the ground chain and wheel clamp I put a huge pile of logs in front of my trailer while we went on holiday. It worked, as in trailer still there. Trouble is it took me half an hour to shift them yesterday to get the trailer out.

I'd have thought that would come out with a stud extractor? Doesn't have much to tighten up against and shouldn't be rusty.

Nah he'll just hide all the brash behind those bushes.

Just double checked dolmar.de , sales of Dolmar brand have been discontinued in Germany and it redirects to makita.de Same blurb then about focus on electric equipment.

Looking myself at the moment, plenty around as you say. Just need to ask providers sometimes when their next one is scheduled.

A stainless steel Tesla........

I always try to remember to ask if they want me to quote on stump grinding as well. Say the cheapest thing is to put a plant pot on, so not too much of a sales pitch, but it makes it nice and clear what we're doing and half the time sell a nice extra.

I've got an M500, ended up cutting the bearings off with a grinder as I couldn't get in behind to pull and one had broken up anyway. I don't know if you have the same belt cover as me but I would have mounted the right hand bearing so the grease nipple was easier to get to if I did it again, but I'm not taking it all apart to change that. Pretty sure belt pulley was taperlock so take the screws out and insert one into the spare hole to split. If you Google there are plenty of instructions and videos on taperlock. Other than that it's all pretty basic mechanics so I don't think you can go far wrong. Post a pic if you get stuck.

Yes I think it's a similar solenoid. Plug is first thing I would always do, so cheap and easy. Fuel filter likewise, couple of quid, worth doing just to eliminate them from your investigation. Quite often plug is enough.

I did mine with a 16" bar, used to be difficult to get a 15" on Stihl so hopefully they'd still have a bit of leeway.