Mother Theresa

It’s a solid Sugi bar, £65 I wish...  without other opinions the pictured sprocket will go back on until the chain is kaput.

So I have a part worn chain on it, probably a third of the way through its life so do I swap the sprocket with a new one (with the part-worn chain) or wait for the death of the chain and swap both. It's a 25" chain so not keen just to toss it.

I have one that gets used a couple of times a year only, always starts easily (aspen in the tank) and on a 12" bar is potent enough.

Just a quickie I hope: is this sprocket ...

A) Totally knackered

B) About to turn

C) Got at least another chain in it 

D) Barely run in?

Thanks in advance

MT.

I had an issue with a 251, if stored on its side with bar down then no leak, any other way then a gentle weep. Out of warranty so not worth following up for me.

I can’t see how to do a PN on this site.

Here are two thirds of the trunk. This is in Clare so the very south western corner of Suffolk. I can get my pickup within a few feet of it if that helps.

My father has had a large black poplar come down. It’s in south Suffolk. At its widest it is 40” (hand measured, not tape measured). Would anyone be interested in it? I’ve taken the branches but the trunk is just lying on the ground, access is reasonable. There not much black poplar around so I have no idea if it is a wood worth milling.

MT 

The best advice I got (and I am in the same boat as you - keen amateur with 4.5 acres of ancient woodland) was to begin with only go with one tank of fuel as you make mistakes when you are tired and you shouldn't get too tired with just that. I now go with three saws but no extra fuel for them. I don't earn doing this so when tired I can just go home and come back another day - all limbs intact.

Second hand MS 261 is my main saw and it's fab and does 80% of the work.

On 25/02/2021 at 18:57, gary112 said:

Got the old Mastiff going today,love the old JAP engines 

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I use a '64 Matador every week still so older than I am - just. I have to use a cordless drill to start miine though as the kick start cog has worn through but no biggie.

I bought the knock off .325" version having got a genuine one at 3/8"". Whoever made it didn't understand the mechanics of how it worked so although the file fitted in the holes correctly it wasn't set to the correct tooth distance - it might have been right to a non-.325" chain but that wasn't the point. Anyway, straight in the bin and a genuine 4.8mm and 4.2mm ones bought and all is well with the world again.

I used a 4mm file instead of a 4.8mm on one of my chains for a while and it cut beautifully, it just blunted more quickly - no biggie really.

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261

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which is all I have anyway - though I think I could be really good friends with a 500i.

Strewth  ,that is much cheaper than I was expecting - even with postage. I’ve got one for my 30”-er too.

So I've bought a couple of Sugihara bars (18 and 25") and very nice they are too but they arrive in a cardboard sleeve and though not a pro I do a lot (OK, some) work for friends and family so they get tossed into the back of the pick-up and generally knocked around. What do you guys use to protect the chain from wheel-barrow rims, other saws, etc when moving them around? There are plenty of 18" scabbards on the bay but 25"+ is just not there.

Or do you just wrap them in hessian?

MT

Please see my post in 'Homeowners questions' to see the problem and contact me if you are interested.

Thanks.

Any one on here local to south Suffolk? I have learned lots from the site and would like to give something back - it's my father's tree not mine.

First picture looks pretty idyllic, a Black Poplar on the south side of the river Stour (with swans and ubiquitous Labrador).

The next two pictures show an alarming crack that has opened up between the rightmost trunk and the other three. The gaping crack is just a close up of the other one.

The bridge that you can see is hand made and the owner (and maker) does not want to have to redo it.

Is it as bad as it looks? Thank-you in advance.

Though no stranger to the foil, not on this occasion.

I liked my 181, as long as the blade was sharp it would get through anything eventually and was as light as you wish. Anyway it sits under my workbench if you are in the area.

If you’re in South Suffolk on your travels I have a dead 181 (scored piston and cylinder) which you can have for a small fee. Was working fine until it suddenly wasn’t so carb was fine.

According to the forestry commission site everything I have done so far is wrong!

Ordered!

Nope, just a private sale from someone who moved away many years ago and just held onto this patch of woodland - but then needed the cash and as I live next to it offered it to me.

Can you recommend me something to read?

Then leave it well alone is what I shall do. Thank-you. 
 

Back to clearing up all the fallen stuff then now the snow has stopped falling.
 

MT.