AJStrees

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Started on a decent sized oak today. Haven’t got the 881 out yet. Gonna do the main stick with it. Used a 48” lo pro bar and Chinese 660 to get through the crotch section. About 5’ long and 50” wide at the widest point. Did a few 3” slabs and the rest just over 2.5”.

You can get longer mill sections from rob D for the mill, getting you up to a 48” bar with those. For not much money. You won’t need an extra oiler with the 076 I wouldn’t have thought. Probably don’t need skip chain on a 46” bar IMHO. Longer yes but not 46”. You can get a 46” bar for the mill and get through lots more wood or go even bigger. Check out the website and see what options you like.

Get a bigger mill so you can mill the full width you need.

Yes cheers mate, will have to get all the kit set up and running and post some pics. [emoji106]

That’s true Gary, but it’s been on the list for a while to be fair. I’ve upgraded to a 64” bar and bigger mill. Bought it in small chunks. But in fairness the 92cc saw I got from Rob D does a great job milling. Just can’t mill up big oaks with a 48” bar. Got 3 or 4 oaks down in our woodlands which will need milling up. [emoji106]

After using a mates 880 for a few months I was hooked for milling. So didn’t need an excuse. [emoji106]

Got mine last week. Going to get a lot of milling done with it.

I couldn't help you with selling a stick like that. However if you milled it yourself, you would probably be able to get some money for the slabs once milled. There might be someone on here that needs some big beech. By the looks of it, that would probably have some pretty nice colouring going on inside there.

I use a 48" lo pro bar for milling with a 660. I think that is as big as you are gonna get on that. I've milled some fairly big stuff with that bar. Others may have more experience. But Rob D at www.chainsawbars.co.uk has the answers.

Indeed. Seems they take no notice of him.....

Been busy on the pond and Mr Heron happened along the way.

Very nice indeed. How much are you charging? I can’t buy any, but someone will, looks great.

Bit old but like the colour

Nice trees though.

Looks a bit posh.

Agreed, get rid of the grass and do some mulch around the base of the trees if you can. You don't want to go about tip pruning the branches really because that takes the flex out of the branch which defeats the point in fruit trees as you want the branches to be weighted down by the fruit, so to speak. You want to select the main branches you want to keep and then keep those as the dominating scaffolds of the tree. Take out any additional branching so you have an open centre and keep it that way. Key is an open centre. You don't want central leaders you want to keep the tree to a comfortable height so you can keep pruning it and getting the best fruit the tree can give. I am guessing you are talking apples based on the rootstock you mention? You want to take out any branches that are growing inwards rather than outwards. You can do about 3 main cuts a year and some smaller cuts to finish off. Don't go overboard in one season. Stone fruit should be pruned in early/mid summer. Hope that helps.

absolutely. It went through like a hot knife through butter.

I’ve sold it on now, but I found this.

Milling some more chestnut for posts.

Dragonflies and damselflies are similar, both belonging to the Odonata subspecies of insects. More than 5,000 species of these insects exist, with dragonflies being more common than damselflies, according to Insect Identification.

Damselflies have wings that are both the same size and shape, which taper where they attach to the body. Dragonflies, however, have different shaped fore and hind wings. Their hind wings are much broader and don't taper so much where they attach to the body, giving them more of a plane look.

I use Aspen 2 or the Husky equivalent. It works well on all of my small engines. Aspen 2 seems to be a very good mix and all saws seem to like using it. don't use anything else with the small engines these days its miles better than 2 stroke mixes on all fronts IMHO.

Here's a few from later in summer. Broad bodied chaser is probably my favourite looking dragonfly.