AJStrees

You certainly can never have too many saws. Some people just don’t seem to understand that.... 👍🤣

I started milling with my 2007 365 with a 36" lo pro bar and chain. If you go lo pro 36" bar you will be able to go to the maximum size of your mill. It doesn't matter if some of the bar is sticking out the end of the mill. Another thing to consider is that not all bar lengths are the same. so for instance the total length of a 36" lo pro bar is different than the total length of a 36" Stihl rollomatic bar or husky bars. GB bars have different total lengths to other manufacturers. check with @Rob D on the sprocket and chain/bars. You will however probably find soon enough that you will want a bigger saw and bigger bar and bigger mill. But if you start with what you have got and learn the trade, you will get good at it before investing too much money in it. Lo pro produces a nice smooth cut and as long as you keep your cutters nice and sharp it will get you through a lot of timber. Saying that, I now mill with an 881 and .404 chain generally about 42" bar for most of what I mill up. 👍

Wet all week by recent forecast. 😥

Mini electric quad and wee chipper out doing some clearing round the Orchard.

Wet now! 🥶

Looks good 👍

Can't you hire one of those post knockers for the back of the tractor or machine? In your soil I would imagine they would work fine. Never used one myself but to do 150 posts I would have thought machine would be the best option. Lumag do post hole borer or hand post driver for small money.

Yep but of snow over night.

Nice! 👍

Where did you take it? 👍

Well I would say wrong tree in the wrong place really. Of course saving trees is very good to do, however unfortunately conifers like that have been planted endlessly without an idea of how large the tree will be in the future and what root damage may or may not occur. If you need your driveway to remain where it is and cannot move where you park your car, then tree removal and stump grinding might be the best option. Those trees grow to massive sizes and the roots will not get any smaller and over time will cause more and more damage to brickwork, concrete, etc... IMHO. 👍 I am not expert but that is what I would say.

Not used one but the spec on them looks good. I want the battery version for pruning. 👍

Not looking good. Potentially could have been fine in a more sheltered spot to be fair. Have had similar this year with younger ones. Whereas one is a protected bed is looking good. So probably an unfortunate.

Quite mild for a cold day. Bit of rain and snow on the way......

I have a lot of wisteria to trim back every year. Its about 4 or more metres high up the side of a building. To be fair the least time consuming way to do it is on a ladder and secateurs. I have the ARS long reach secateurs and they are great and very light weight, however you then spend more time getting hold of what you want to cut and it gets a little bit annoying after the 100th cut. Therefore I just do the tripod ladder and secateurs. Pole saw as others have said will be too harsh on small cuts like that and will tear more than cut small branches. @Stere makes a good point about lowering your pollards so you don't have to get up so high. That might be the game changer. 👍

A few of the birds on the pond the other day. 👍

I think you will find garden birds are mostly what you are seeing. Woodland birds differ and the different habitats in different parts of the country get different birds. I get lots and lots of dunnocks, sparrows come by occasionally and jackdaws, but that is close to woodland area. But by the pond I get grey wagtails and woodpeckers, etc... a lot of the wild birds are pretty shy. If you look in the right places you will find tree creepers, goldcrests, greenfinch, goldfinch and a host of other birds, but they won't come for bird food too much as they like to eat other things in their natural habitat. On a different note. A male kestrel came swooping in today and picked up a worm off the path. That's what I see. Occasionally great spotted wood peckers come in for the feeders. 👍

Lovely 👍

Teeth look a bit hammered as said above. Also that file may or may not be doing the job. Get a new file for about £1.50 and then give those teeth a really good going over. 👍 Hope the resurrection goes well. Sounds like a fun project.

Well could be WRC would have to see scales or what have you. Or is it crypto japo?

Did a bit more on the oak. Onto the next section.

Crikey. I guess there’s two of us out there. Nah definitely not me. 👍

Overall it works pretty well once you are used to it. No never been to the Balloon pub mate. 👍

Yep it’s the safety cut out. Bit tedious if you hit it as you feed stuff in. But otherwise it chips up good 👍 I suppose one could easily disconnect the safety option, but that would defeat having safety on it 😂

Crikey 👍