Peter 1955
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That's one of the most frightening things I've ever read on here! I'm now envisaging a future where we're forced to use electric vehicles, but they can only be charged two days a week, due to a shortage of electricity! Bring on Hydrogen powered vehicles, I say.
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Had one like that years ago. While cutting a big, wide hedge, next door asked if I could cut his side as well. I replied I couldn't reach, but would cheerfully come round and do it, if he crossed my palm with silver. He replied that he wasn't thinking of paying. I replied that I wasn't thinking of cutting it for that price. I later heard that he'd driven twenty plus miles each way to borrow a cutter from a relative, cut it himself, and then driven twenty miles each way to return it. Bargain. 😁
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I have a Makita corded, and it's cut more timber so far that some petrol ones do in a lifetime. Can't fault it. I agree entirely with that.
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I'd say it's a fail at Maths. 120v x 13amps = 1560 watts. 750 watts equal 1 Horsepower. Thus, it's a whisker over two horsepower, at a full 13amps. As it says " peak", presumably that's achieved in the picosecond before the fuse pops. 😉😄
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If the blurb is to be believed ( if ) that's putting it around the power of a 60cc Stihl. Somewhat awesome, especially for sub £70! I'm more than a little sceptical, shall we say. You'd need to run it from a 16amp ceeform, and I don't see many of these on some business premises, let alone domestic. Seventy quid for the saw, and two hundred plus for a sparky to wire in a socket for it? Yeah right. Methinks the old six inch nail fuse might be making an appearance,
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Apologies that I can't continue with the same quality of puns, but in the next village to me, someone had a new lawn laid with turf, and next morning, it wasn't there any more!
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Dunno about returning or rejecting it. As a Tyke, my preferred course of action would be to ask those pesky folk from the wrong side of the Pennines, for a hefty discount, to assuage my hurt feelings for not having a brand new item to play with. Then I'd get the file out 😉 Win, win in my book.
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In my personal experience, they're one of the best to deal with. I use them a great deal for all manner of things, mainly for my other job. A little tip, if your order isn't big, expensive, or heavy, add an aerosol canister to the order. Royal Mail can't deliver these, so UPS bring it, usually next day. My last two orders have arrived next day, despite being advised as a day later.
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I think nowadays, battery saws have a place, without a doubt. However, until major leaps forward in battery technology happen, there's also a need for petrol saws. I wouldn't be without my battery saw now, neither would I rely on one exclusively.
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My brother the mechanic suggests " driving it like you stole it" for a week before the test. Even when I was doing long runs with mine, the six speed box means it's doing less than 2,000 revs at motorway speeds.
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Nah, only handbags so far. 😉 I'm amazed at what my little Husky blower can do/ can be used for. Apparently though, the backpack models are another league completely, so I've been told.
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A long time ago I was warned not to use the Bio oil if saws were left unused for any length of time. Another happy Synth plus user here, my son too.
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While your definition is undoubtedly accurate, I would never have regarded it thus, until you pointed it out. I would have regarded it as a resource, a source of information ( cos so many of the posters on here know what they're talking about, ), a source of help, and a marketplace. Re Social Media, there is of course the inevitable banter, badinage, jests, japes, jokes, toys being thrown out of prams, and handbags at twenty paces. ( I think I can get away with the last one, cos I'm not a soccer pundit). All human life is here, long may it continue.
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No idea about anything self sharpening, but I have an old Makita corded, which has been magnificent. No other word for it. After years of hard work, other than the inevitable chains and sprocket replacement, it's still doing its job. If and when it gets replaced, it will be a similar model. As far as I'm concerned, if you're within easy reach of 240v, electric beats petrol every time, as long as you're cutting diameters below say 15"
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If it isn't illegal, it certainly ought to be! The thought of bits flying off at high velocity worries me somewhat. I've had cheap chisel blades lose teeth, and stopped using thhem for that reason. The EIA blades will cope with everything you describe, and the beauty is that they will even cut grass reasonably effectively.
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Can't help thinking he had a lot of bits left over when he put it together. ? This blade is effectively the same, and gets a lot of use from me. Very versatile. I'm only an an enthusiastic amateur, but my saws are what I have now. Makita 12" battery saw ( love it to bits) Stihl 250 ( The 023 it replaced was twice the saw. Still might rebuild it after what I've seen on here). Stihl 038. Like me, it's getting on a bit.
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This one. I have it, and it's a brute. Its little sister is no slouch either. Get the biggest capacity batteries you can, it makes so much difference.
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There's no one-size-fits-all answer. That's why there are so many options, axes, splitting mauls with varying profiles, wedges, grenades ( bloody useless, I had one), and powered splitters, to name but a few. I wouldn't be without a powered splitter now, but wouldn't look at anything with less than six or seven tons of force. Sadly, due to changed circumstances, I no longer have access to the one machine which dealt with almost any gnarly, twisted awkward log presented to it, and turned out a tidy, straight, even sized product. A big sawbench. Still miss mine.
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Don't much fancy replacing all my 18v/36v tools with new 40v. Be nice if the new batteries were backwards compatible somehow, step down circuitry or something, but I can't see it happening.
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I cannot fault that logic. I'm laughing and wincing at the same time here. ?
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Time spent sharpening any cutting tool is never wasted time. Never.
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Could have been worse, he could have been watching that Austrian lad. He often makes a pigs ear of his jobs. Am I reading correctly that it has a diameter of around 8-9 inches? It's not the biggest tree I've ever seen. Only advice I would give is that cutting it 4ft from the floor is 4ft less leverage for your rope. Leverage is your friend, get as much as you possibly can. Archimedes may have been an old bloke from way back, but he's still right.
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Absolutely correct. The fastest way to wreck bags is to do just that. I don't know of any with reinforced bottoms, but would be interested to know if they do exist.
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Looking for good bypass loppers for shrub, fruit, vines tree, jobbing
Peter 1955 replied to FrankE's topic in General chat
Fiskars get my vote. Good compromise between price and quality. -
That's what I used to do for a long time. As long as the moisture isn't excessive, it's a transparent method. Obviously merchants can point to a bag and say there's no disputing what you're buying, if they're selling a ( fairly ) constant size of log, especially if they're not too big. Most customers are likely to want logs that require no further splitting or cutting, so that's another scenario which is transparent. It's only people like me who want a non standard commodity who upset the applecart. It was ever thus. ?
