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Problem solved, I got a new sprocket and clutch, the shop only had them for a 550 though. Sadly, they didn't fit on my 345, so I had to get the rest of the 550 to go with it. I have new parts for the 345 ordered, I'll hopefully patch up the old girl soon enough. It's 600g lighter than the 550, so I'll probably keep it as an up-the-tree bigger saw.

Will do, cheers.

20250209_204558.mp4 20250209_205741.mp4 Hm, very annoying. Clutch and sprocket off, nothing visibily damaged or dirtied (to my inexperienced eye, at least!). Idles fine with no bar, but cuts out straight away with bar and chain added.

The last one is the first one, and a few in the middle as well I think. Big fat brown apical bud, horse chestnut.

Don't you oppress me!

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Ehh, definitely not all in agreement... I think it's great that you grumpy old sods have something to complain about, but the same kind of advances in medical science that brought us revelations like, I dunno, the discovery of bacteria, or an understanding of the different blood types, or the building blocks of our DNA... that whole sort of thing... that kind of science now tells us that while, yes, most of us are born with a clearly-defined set of both genitals and sexual predilections, the fact is that both sexuality and our own sense of gender is not binary, and is in fact more of a spectrum. Once again: most of us are lucky that our own place on the bisexuality spectrum is heavily skewed 99% one way rather than the other, but all that means is maybe you haven't met the right Thai lady boy that does it for you yet, not that the right one doesn't exist. The same is true of our own sense of gender... most of us are unbelievably lucky to have such a concrete idea that our gender matches our genitals. I know I'm flipping thrilled that I have it so easy. But that's not to say that, in all the complicated wiring that goes on in our brains, sometimes a few of the connections don't always match up. It's nothing new, and it isn't unique to only the human race... it's been observed across all species for thousands of years... all that changes is human society's reception of the people it affects. We seemed to be on an upswing for a while there, but it looks like we've been knocked down a rung or two on the empathetical ladder. All this to say... you grumpy old farts crowing about the teenagers with pink hair sound as ridiculous as someone at the start of the 1900s whinging about the unnecessary labels given to their blood type... "I'm not some A-rhesus-f*cking-negative nancy, there's only one blood type, and it's red!" Ach, whatever. It affects me approximately this much (I'm holding my thumb and index finger together, see?), about as much as it does every single one of you, but at least it doesn't keep me awake at night, gnashing my teeth that some tomboy was allowed to have a shit behind a locked door with a picture of a stickman on it.

I took the nest with me, I'll inspect it for melt when I get home. It was like a soft and cheap accessory cord rather than a builder's string or polyprop, but sadly, definitely not rafia or hemp or something. Is it the sort of thing that can be fixed with removal of parts and cleaning, or full replacement of some pieces? I don't make any claims to my ability beyond basic maintenance, I might have to watch a bit of youtube on how to remove clutch! I've not done it since 2017 on my CS30...

I'm going to pull this thread up again as the Husky 345 workshop thread. Could we rename it maybe? The title is misleading. Clearing ground around a new build on Thursday, lots of debris. I was so careful to avoid the mess of barbed wire, rebar, plasterer's corners, etc... but I managed to bite an invisible tangle of builder's string while removing coppiced growth of an old sycamore. Wrapped around the sprocket, saw stops dead. I took the clutch cover off, bar and chain off, clear the tangle completely and put it back together, but then the chain moves with each tug of the pull cord, starts and runs at full rev with finger on the trigger, but then dies straight away with finger off the trigger. I got home and took it all off again, poked around behind the clutch and sprocket a bit, then put the cover back on with no bar, no chain... and she idled okay. But then with bar and chain on again, same story... pull cord moves the chain, runs at full rev, dies straight away. Where to go from here? Other than investing in a new 550, which has been on the cards for a while now, but I'd still like to get this one going again. It's a great little saw, doesn't owe me a penny.

Of course people will be up on their soapbox on this topic, bleach and every one of us has a strong opinion about it.

Might have done the same thing with our collie pup, he still isn't convinced of the joys of water either. Probably just needs throwing in a few dozen more times though, so he can get comfortable with it.

Sure is. I've found if you put a pillar or plinth under each end, just before each anchor, you can flatten it quite well. Concrete block, chair, ladder, etc.

Felt inspired to get ours out on the bank holiday Monday. It's still as hard as I remember, but at least the kids had fun. Lidl ratchet straps is a great idea. How much pull can they take?

That's it, really. Big sick, ie major bleed or heart attack, unless you've got your rescue climber in the tree with you at the time, they won't get to you quick enough unless they are a pretty good climber... in which case, I guess they'd probably be up the tree instead of you anyway. Little sick, ie non-major bleed, broken tibia, chronic loneliness etc, you can probably (hopefully...) self-rescue quicker than yer man down on the ground still strapping his spikes on. Not taking into account things like CPR or suspension trauma, where every second counts... but realistically, those are probably seconds you don't have. Well, that's a cheerful lunchtime thought.

Trump wants to make himself crystal clear on this point.

There's something to be said for the redundancy of having two loops right up at the sharp end of the system, even on a single line.

There are four different and distinct bowlines, and all of them are a bowline.

That's French kilos, they are only half the weight of our superior British kilos.

Yep, that'd add some friction all right!

Tie off the piece, remove slack through the ID, lock off, snip piece, lower away.

God I love threads like this. As someone with a lot of time logged handling 100kg-200kg loads on a Petzl ID (slow, careful, considerate handling... nothing bouncy...), I'd like someone more experienced to tell me why an ID is an inappropriate choice for any climber-controlled friction in an arb context, assuming obedience to all SWL. I never have, you understand, but I use them all the time in my other life, and I wonder how applicable one would be in parts of my work.

Morning. My wife has left me (for a week, to go skiing with her school, she's a teacher). About to traumatise the children watching Watership Down for the first time. They need to learn that life isn't always rainbows and gummi bears.

I'd like to subscribe to your mailing list and become a ground floor investor. Do you take Revolut?

The what, grandad?